Valeriepieris circle

English

Etymology

    The concept was introduced by Reddit user u/valeriepieris in a post on r/MapPorn on May 5, 2013.[1]

    Noun

    Valeriepieris circle (plural Valeriepieris circles)

    1. (geography, neologism) A circle drawn over some geographic region containing over half of that region's population.
      • 2023 December 13, Rudy Arthur, “Valeriepieris Circles for Spatial Data Analysis”, in Geographical Analysis, volume 56, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Wiley-Blackwell, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 520:
        Figure 3. Valeriepieris circles for the continental United States between 2000 and 2020 overlayed on 2020 population data.

    Derived terms

    • VP circle (abbreviation)

    References

    1. ^ u/valeriepieris (5 May 2013), “After seeing a recent post about the population of Indonesia, this occurred to me [2048×1252]”, in Reddit‎[1], r/MapPorn, archived from the original on 13 June 2023

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