What Is France's Empty Diagonal ?? 🇫🇷🔥 #shorts #geography #france #maps #facts #funfacts #europe

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In this video we'll have a look on what is called the France's Empty Diagonal. Not many people know that one third of continental France is almost empty, and when I'm saying empty I refer to a population density of around 30 people on square kilometer which sounds really low comparing to France average population density of 120 people per square kilometers.
This has a lot of causes but two of them are the most important.
But we'll talk more about all of this in this video, so make sure you do not miss it.
Feel free to write your opinion about this in the commnets.
Hope you'll enjoy the video!
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One third of France’s territory is almost empty. But Why?
If we switch the map to the one representing the population density, you’ll quickly notice this corridor of low density, being nearly 1000 kilometers long, with the biggest city inside it being Clermont Ferrand with a population of 141,000 people.
This area known as France’s empty diagonal is bigger than the territories of Austria and Hungary combined.
For you to better understand, the average population density in France is 120 people per square kilometer, compared to only 30 people per square kilometer inside the diagonal.
The first reason for this, is that in the last centuries, France was rapidly urbanizing, with population starting to concentrate around the major cities like Lyon, Marseilles and Paris.
The second reason it’s the natural tendency of the people to live closer to the coastline. The both ends of this diagonal don’t have access to the sea, except for this small part near Spain. If we would rotate this diagonal with 90 degrees you’ll see that the situation would be far different. But

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[historic-vibes]

Spain population density problem is way bigger than this. Please make a video about it.

[Davidaal]

Austria and hungary combined
Me getting flashbacks

[joanlapeyra]

France has an empty diagonal. Spain has an empty donut.

[shibatok]

I think there are lots of positives for this empty diagonal: cheap housing and land, less crime, lot of room, being able to see the stars, quiet roads, many parking spaces, reduced stress and higher quality of life.

[samueljackson]

Austria?
Hungary?
Combined?
Good idea!

[marte]

Territory: Empty diagonal> hungary and austria
Population: Empty diagonal < austria
Empty diagonal < hungary

[zldsar]

The BIGGEST reason is that 25% of that area is a mountain chain and another 50% is either fields or forests 😂

[caxa_hefglbr]

Austria and Hungary: 😊
Austria-Hungary:☠️

[Critt_Ari]

That's mostly about how centralized france is. Like japan, korea and turkey, France also is centered around one msjor city that gets all the job done, which of course is Paris.

[stonesinmyblood]

Been throughout that area. It’s beautiful country with natural forests ♥️

[erwanmarie]

I m a Parisian, lived in London for 17 years, I m now in the empty diagonal, best decision in my life...

[nils]

As it’s called in French: “ La diagonale du vide”
Got one massive problem, lack of nurses/doctors, meaning that a lot of people can’t get access to healthcare

[Syaz]

"Austria and hungary combine"
Me:1913💀

[letthemknowme]

Every french high school student learns about this empty diagonal in geography class. We love to make fun of those who live in it.

[Floki]

And that is, for me, the most beautiful and friendly part of France. The people are nice even if you don't speak french perfectly.

[muxecoid]

By drawing arbitrary curves on a map you can find empty diagonals in every state.

[noe_pecqueux]

Hi !! I was born in Clermont Ferrand !!
A real pleasure to see my country explained in English 😅 (also we have a lot of mountain in this area, so people can't live there)

[jeschinstad]

30 people per square kilometer is empty. I'm Norwegian; our population density is 15 per square kilometer. Maybe that's why we're different? That we're on the other side of empty?

[MichaelSHartman]

So they have agricultural land including the Champagne, and Cognac regions. Typical urbanite, you think the only good regions are cities without considering your food sources.

[vasspee]

"It's bigger then austria and hungary combined"
The 1914 grandpa: