If IPv4 Were Land

This visualization reimagines the world map by assigning each country land area in proportion to its share of locatable IPv4 addresses, rather than its share of the Earth’s land. It compares roughly 3.6 billion IPv4 addresses with about 135 million square kilometres of land outside Antarctica, letting users switch between the real-world map and the IPv4-based version. Colours show whether a country grows or shrinks, with categories ranging from gains of at least fourfold to reductions to a quarter or less. Tables identify the biggest gains and losses among countries meeting the display thresholds, and regional controls allow comparisons across the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania.

The calculation is straightforward: a country’s share of all counted IPv4 addresses is multiplied by the total land area. The map’s land areas come from Natural Earth’s 1:110 million-scale geometry, not official national figures, and Antarctica is excluded. The underlying address counts come from IP Trust’s geolocation database for October 2026. Around 70 small territories lack outlines at that map resolution and are omitted; together they account for about 52 million addresses, mostly in Hong Kong, Singapore and Mauritius. Countries are included in the tables only if they have at least 100,000 IPv4 addresses and 20,000 square kilometres of land.