Unpopulated counties on the USA-3 map going into the 4th Age

[DekeYoungAtlanta]

USA-3 is rolling over to the 4th age this week. As of today there are:
1,521 total players
714 Players with 1 village, 124 with 2 villages, 89 with 3. 60 with 4, 58 with 5, 48 with 6, 55 with 7, 53 with 8, 19 with 9, 33 with 10, 27 wit 11, 13 with 12, 22 with 13, 24 with 14, 27 with 15, 17 with 16, 40 with 17, 25 with 18, 29 with 19, 19 with 20, 6 with 21, 6 with 22, 1 with 23, 2 with 24, 2 with 25, 1 with 26 none with 27 or 28, 1 with 29 and 6 with 30 villages.

This is a total of 7,784 villages on the USA-3 map.

At this time a little less than half of the counties in the game have villages. It was my understanding that how many unoccupied counties was a function of overall server population.

Is this the total number of players or total number of villages?
Is this a function of total number of villages vs. total number of open charters in existing populated counties?

I will try to get players from the recently closed World-5 and EU-2 servers to join USA-3. Maybe that will open up these counties.

- Deke