Population games

If you are the type of person who gets excited about finding out how many people actually live in that hole of a town you rode through on the train, this website will be very fun for you:

Major Cities and Agglomerations of the World

Here I was able to learn everything that is knowable about the documented population of Moldova; including the "fact" that the population of Lorina's hometown, Floresti, is about 13,600 today and was roughly 18,200 fifteen years ago. Apparently the figures on this site are based on census information, which means you can draw your own conclusions about their reliability. But it is fairly cool to be able to swipe your mouse pointer over a city and see the purported population pop up, especially since the site allows you to do this for all former Soviet countries and many others.