Countries With the Strangest Population Densities

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[Sanandaj_geo]

Also population density of Saudi Arabia doesn't make sense, because except west coast, rest of country is terrible for living but because of oil they have made cities like Riyadh and Dammam. Which you can see blue dots on middle of nowhere

[axelprino]

Buenos Aires is in fact so densely populated that about a third of Argentina's population lives in its metropolitan area, meanwhile other parts of the country are almost empty.

[FionaEm]

The centre of Australia is much more than 1000km from the coast. For example, it takes 3 1/2 hours to fly from Sydney to Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock). As for the town of Alice Springs, the closest coastal capital cities are Darwin and Adelaide - 1500km north and south respectively. Australia is much bigger than people think!

[PlaysRoblox]

"Yeah, quite an important banana." got me rolling on the floor💀😂

[Sanandaj_geo]

As Iranian, for long time I thought Iran is a low densely populated country with just 50 people per
square kilometers(world average), but later I found out actually so many countries, even some which have higher population such as 🇧🇷🇨🇩🇺🇲🇷🇺 have lower density

[xulapostasy]

Surprised he didn't mention Canada

[juanpedronardin]

In Argentina, Peru and Chile a third part of the entire country's population lives in the most populated metropolitan area (being all of them their respective capitals). Sounds extreme? Using the same equation, in Paraguay it's like 40% and in Uruguay it's the 50%. South America it's Super Capital City based.

[nilsp]

The fewer people, the more beautiful the place is. This should teach us something...

[luctremblay]

The population of Québec (8, 800, 000), a province of Canada, can roughly be divided in 3 thirds: north shore of St.Lawrence river, south shore of St.Lawrence river. I belong to the last thirds who live in the St.Lawrence river! Well, one of its islands, Montréal Island in my case.

[marusdod]

would be great to see how the population density changed over the last decades with the mass urbanization

[dansela]

Great video, but why do you keep referring to area as distance 😂

[bubatzierterbarbier]

Great vid, where did you get these population density maps from?

[joeyspears]

You are getting better at this dude keep it up.

[vitalsaxon_]

0:20 you asked "Would you rather live in Central London" but put a video of Isle of Dogs, which is part of East London

[karenpour]

You could have also talked about the Canadian territories. Nunavut is actually the least densely populated major country sub-division in the world (not considering Antarctica), even less densely populated than Greenland

[abbzalali]

You didn't explain why the banana in Europe has a high population density.

[AA-hgfk]

In regard the thumbnail image, no, it is not strange that most people would live near a huge river (in this case the Nile) when most of Egypt is otherwise desert that cannot support agriculture!

[maellecampion]

You could've also talked about:

- The USA. Did you know that if you drew a line straight through mainland USA with the two sides each having 50% of the country's land area, you'll see that about 80% of the population would live on the east side of the line. This is mainly because the east side is mostly flat and has more agriculture than the west side which consists of a lot of harsh deserts and mountains.

- Canada. Just like Australia, Canada is an enormous country but with a very small population density. Canada itself is bigger in size than the USA but has a smaller population than Spain. Most people in the country live near the US border. In fact, about half of Canada's population lives in the area between the cities of Windsor (opposite of the border from Detroit) and Quebec City. The main reason why almost all of Canada's population lives close to the US border is because of Canada's harsh cold environment in the northern part of the country.

- Russia. Russia's land is very different from two different sides. The two sides are separated by the Ural mountains. West of the urals is the European part of Russia and west of the urals is the Asian part of Russia. Asian part is also called Siberia. Despite Siberia taking up about 75% of Russia's landmass, 75% of Russia's population lives in the European part of the country. This is because the European part has a much milder climate and its land is more fertile than in Siberia. Siberia is like northern Canada, it has a very cold and harsh climate making it difficult to live there for a lot of people. For example, the coldest city in Siberia, called Yakutsk, generally reaches about -50C (or -58F) on a normal day in the month of January.

[adamh]

Do you have a link to that world population density map that we can look at for ourselves? It's fascinating

[XGenKaneShiroX]

At 4:53, that information is actually incorrect. China is currently the most populated country as of 2023, and it was confirmed by the CIA website that China has a couple crore more people than India. I am extremely surprised you haven’t mentioned Japan because Japan has a population density that is at least 10 times stranger than China’s density. Over 1 in 3 people of the entire Japanese population lives in only one city in Japan, and 1/3 of the entire GDP of Japan is located in only one city of the hundreds of cities that Japan has. Nearly half of the entire population of Japan lives in only a couple of cities. Japan has one of the most, if not the most, unevenly distributed populations.