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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
While it is difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from 3.8 million, as mentioned above, to 7 million people to a high of 18 million. The population of what is now the United States was nearly 2 million.
Not exactly empty.
The population of the United Kingdom in 1500 was 3 million.
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Estimates I've read say that the population of Canada before the Europeans came was probably in the 250,000-500,000 range.