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Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul combine extremely high densities with very high levels of prosperity. The highest density cities in the world are in South and South East Asia, such as Mumbai, Dhaka and Manila (note this depends how density is measured- see the Analysis page).īut these cities are more prosperous than neighbouring rural areas, and high densities can also be linked to affluence. Higher population densities are also more prevalent in the Global South, as in poorer countries transport infrastructure is less developed and housing used more intensively. Urban densities are linked to cultures of living, with regions like Latin America and East Asia noted for high density urban forms. Similar desakota patterns can be seen in Kolkata, Dhaka, Lahore and Beijing regions, and increasingly in several regions of Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria and surrounding Lake Victoria, though with much diversity in each case. McGee first used the term desakota ("village-city") in relation to the incredible form of Java in Indonesia, with the densities of urban hinterlands greatly exceeding Western cities but with activity patterns remaining dispersed and linked to agriculture. China has many, the largest being the Pearl River Delta region, and the Yangtze River Delta megaregion, both with around 50m population and growing significantly.Īnother related form of megaregion comes from areas of dense agriculture that begin to urbanise with loser patterns of small scale industry. The GHSL data shows how widespread urban megaregions have become. A classic example is the northeastern seaboard of the USA (click on links to focus the map), a megalopolis as Gottman termed it, stretching hundreds of miles from Washington to Boston, with around 55m people. In the early 20th century, geographers like Patrick Geddes observed how rail and road networks were allowing rapidly growing cities to fuse together into vast sprawling conurbations. Some introductory highlights are discussed here with links for further information. The dataset encourages understanding of the complex hierarchy of human settlement, rather than making simple rural-urban divisions. Integrating huge volumes of satellite data with national census data, the GHSL has applications for a wide range of research and policy related to urban growth, development and sustainability, and is available as open data. This exploratory map shows data from the fantastic Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produced by the European Commission. While the lowest population density is recorded by No income group available with a population density of only 24.4.Visualising Population Density Across the Globe If we devide the global population into income groups we can see that Lower-middle-income countries has the highest population density of 130.9 people per square kilometer. While the sub-region with lowest population density for the yearĪustralia/New Zealand with only 3.9 people/km². When devided into sub-subregions we can see that Southern Asia had the highest population density of 307.7 people per square kilometer.Ĭlosely followed by Caribbean with a population density of 198.5 people/km²,Īnd Western Europe with 179.1 people living per square kilometer. The geographic region with the highest population densityĪsia with a density of 148.7 people per square kilometer.Ĭlosely followed by Africa with a population density of 46.0 people/km²,Īnd Europe with 33.8 people living per square kilometer.
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□□ Greenland with 0.1 people per square kilometer.įollowed by □□ Falkland Islands (Malvinas) with a density of 0.3 people/km²,Īnd □□ Western Sahara with 2.1 people living per square kilometer, if said population is spread out evenly across its land mass. The country with the lowest annual population density □□ Monaco with a density of 24779.9 people per square kilometer.Ĭlosely followed by □□ China, Macao SAR with a population density of 21133.8 people/km²,Īnd □□ Singapore with 8652.8 people living per square kilometer, if spread out evenly.
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The country with the highest population density A population density of 60.1 (people/km²).