Countries With the Strangest Population Densities 

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

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.

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!

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2:21 ITS SQUIDWARD

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

Surprised he didn't mention Canada

Some more entries: Cameroon, the highest population density is found in the rural Mandara mountains, quite far away from the next town called Maroua. The capital Yaounde is located in the middle of a jungle with no major cities nearby. There are only a few villages along the road to the second biggest city Douala. Namibia, quite similar, the only region with high population density is a tiny speck of land near the Angolian border. All other regions are almost empty, so is also the area around the capital of Windhoek. The long Atlantic coast is nearly uninhabitated. Mongolia. Almost half of the country's population lives in the capital Ulaanbaatar which is situated in a rather unfortunate location in a narrow and elevated valley, experiencing harsh temperatures and a lot of air pollutionin winter as exhaust fumes can't escape the valley floor.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

the ending is kinda abrupt tho

Interesting video...❤

09:10 Kangerluk is actually on StreetView and there are a few other Greenlandic settlements on there. There's just a muddy track for the "main road"!

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!

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.

please stop calling areas distances

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Where is the mountain area in 0:45?

where do I find that population density map

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The only exception to a major Egyptian city that doesn't lie close to the Nile is Hurghada at the Red Sea coastline.

I find the same error in some of your videos: Square kilometer is the measurement for an area, not for a distance.

For Egyptians, the population is at the nile

As a Bangladeshi

The one about South America too that wasn't really mentioned is the undiscovered/undescribed/uncontacted (undecribed sounds a bit harsh but in the science world there's loads of undescribed species) tribes of people living in the Amazon and just South American in general if we are honest with ourselves that don't even know about the world around them and that's crazy to me. Honestly, because we don't know about them there could realistically be millions of people there that we don't even know their existence of because the known world of people fear the jungle and they really don't explore it and I think that's a huge anomaly in and of itself. Otherwise, I found this to be a very informative video and it definitely adds some places that I would love to visit, call me crazy but I want to visit the middle of Australia because there's a ton of different species of animals and plants that I would love to see that are only found there. Iceland would be cool too.

I live in the thumbnail lol

What about the most densely populated country in Central America ?

3:36 Perth is my city

You should say "covers an area of x square kms", not "stretches for a distance"

Lemme guess. Australia, Russia, Chile, Hong Kong, Namiibia, Suriname and ofc Egypt

Now that we can do so much work online, this might not be the case much longer.

Egypt's population is 110 million?! Last time I checked it was maybe 80 million. Damn, they got busy!

& most of Nigeria (which basically a quarter of Africa’s population lives) lives in the densely populated city of Lagos. That’s the biggest city in all of Africa & it has a ton of job opportunities so many Nigerians move there. It’s even been called that financial & entertainment capital of Africa.

Actually though. Sometimes places where not many people live are nicer, because only a few people know how to make it work and can therefore have it all to themselves. Places where a lot of people live, are actually often pretty rough. Because people are fighting for resources and need better infrastructure to achieve the same quality of life as in a less dense place with less.

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.

Nunavut is less densely populated than Greenland

Take a shot everytime he says Kilometers Squared

18 square kilometers is not the same as 18 kilometers squared

Wonder if anyone made lewd jokes about the bit at 2:30 😂

how the countries borders of the saahra are made ?? like is just sand there

Did this dude just get dumped by a girl from the Scottish Highlands?

7:22 I thought Iran had more population than Turkey

Hold on. People tend to live near necessary reasources!?!?! WHOA! That is really weird!!!! Thanks for your video ;P

I didn’t know I live in a blue banana 😯 coooooooool

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You need better maps...those used a bad ratio %.

It's hard to see how densly populated West Africa is bc just got South-East of that region and there's Gabon one of the most Sparsely populated countries in Africa.

This guys so geordie u can tell

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A "distance" of 7 million square kilometers? Dumb.

1) He is very wrong when he talks about kilometers squared. The Northern Territory for for example is 1.4m square kilometers. If it were 1.4m k squared it would be 1.4m X 1.4m = 1.96×10¹², which is much greater than the surface of Earth. 2) 3:21 stretches for a distance of around 1.4 million km squared. Terrible English! It doesn't 'stretch for a distance', it covers an area. 1.4 million km squared is NOT a distance. 3) 'most populated city/country etc.' is wrong, should be most 'populous'.

Main factor is water

0:49 Living in a tiny village in Norway is probably better then living in Cairo or Dhaka... Edit: Honestly you're heavily biased towards high density areas, completely failing to understand why life generally is better in rural areas. Rural areas in Greenland, Iceland or Norway has a lot to offer.

You said: "In the Scottish Highlands you'd be lucky to find an hourly bus". Me, someone who regularly travels by public transport in the Scottish Highlands/Islands, thinking: "Hourly buses, do they exist???". I'm more used to buses/trains running 3 or 4 times a day.

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Please stop pronouncing Oceania as Oceana.

superficial.

Id rather live in the Highlands than London, London is a shitehole.

1:20 *Miles

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Namibia is my world's favourite "empty" country

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Places with low population densities aren't great place to live. He says while showing an idyllic slice of Alpine heaven.

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Stretches for a distance of xx squared km? 9:53 That is not a distance, it is an area

Why would an investment banker care? I guess I can skip this video. :)

Lies

If you live in a densely populated place 👇

11:37 If 30 million people live in an area of 7 million km2, the population density would be ca 4.3 people per km2, not 0.2 Btw it’s called area, not distance

It’s not a surprise or weird that people want to live near water rather than in a desert, why say that it’s strange??

4:20 there are so many ppl in india that they're just spread everywhere

I'm living in a huge and over crowded country which is from Philippines Manila .

I live in the blue banana

If you exclude the micro states then Bangladesh is the densely populated country on earth. I guess you should have include this information in your video!!!

Can you please call the region just Sahara? You literally just calling that place 'desert desert'

That’s not a banana that’s something else

You are getting better at this dude keep it up.

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