While it’s only for our village, safe to say there is going to be a lot of people as it involves each neighborhood unit.
This sounds like a fun activity, especially as it brings people together to share and celebrate. Can you explain what you mean by a "neighbourhood unit"? Is it something carnival-related only or is this how you actually divide the neighbourhood (like a prefecture in Japan)?
We were colonized by Japan so we partly inherited their governance system. Neighborhood unit was something we inherited from them. Back in the day they used Tonarigumi and Azazyookai which are the smallest unit of a neighborhood. Tonarigumi usually consist of let's say 10-15 houses while Azazyookai is a collective part of Tonarigumi. In the past, the function is to control the mass and easier collaboration with the higher ups. I think Japan loves hierarchy so that's why it all breaks down to the smallest unit.
These days we are still the same. After the neighborhood unit then there's neighborhood association, then there's hamlet, then there's village and it all goes up to the local district and so on.
In this case, prefectures is like our provinces and that is a massive area. We have like 40.67 million people just in our province. So, neighborhood units are really the smallest fraction of each government bodies 🤣but still a lot of people
Interesting! This does sound very Japanese with the meticulous attention to detail.
Holy smokes! I thought you lived in a small quaint little island surrounded by coconuts 🌴
Ours are loose neighborhoods with exciting names like the West end, the East side, North Shore, South Granville...haha. Vancouver proper (downtown) where I live has 662,000 people. The general area of metro Vancouver is made up of connected cities like Burnaby, Port Coquitlam, Surrey, and so on. This Greater Vancouver area has 2.6 million people. The province of British Columbia, where the city of Vancouver is located, is huge geographically but only has 5 million people, so the province is mostly mountains, forests, and water. We still have ways to go to reach 40 million inhabitants. :D
I wish haha but yeah, considering the country is 4th most populous in the world, those are rookie numbers. We have a lot of people here and the declining birthrate might be a good thing tbh. I think it's gonna take a long time before you can reach 40 million and you don't want that either, it's pretty much crowded and extremely dense
Canada as a whole has 40 million people, so we're small fry in comparison. :)