GoKawiilVisualization maps IPv4 address allocations as if they were national land area
A new data visualization reassigns country sizes based on each nation's share of global IPv4 address space rather than physical geography, using October 2026 figures from the IP Trust geolocation database. The method scales each country's area to (its IPv4 count ÷ world IPv4 total) × world land area, drawing outlines from the 1:110m Natural Earth map and excluding Antarctica and roughly 70 small territories too small to render at that resolution.
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The map illustrates how unevenly IPv4 addresses are distributed relative to population and physical territory, a legacy of early internet allocation policies that favored certain countries. By visualizing address scarcity this way, the project could make an abstract technical resource more tangible for general audiences, though the exclusion of small but address-dense territories like Hong Kong and Singapore means the picture is incomplete.
- The visualization resizes countries according to their share of global IPv4 addresses rather than land area.
- Data is sourced from the IP Trust geolocation database as of October 2026, mapped onto Natural Earth's 1:110m outlines.
- About 70 small territories holding roughly 52 million addresses, including Hong Kong, Singapore and Mauritius, are omitted due to map resolution limits.
Source: iptrust.co, 2026-10-29
Published there as: “If IPv4 Were Land”
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