11mo ago

Global population density

Another website: http://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#6/37.545/16.556

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-density

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Great visual on how sparsely populated Australia is.
- I like how you can just about make out the shape of Australia's east and south coastlines.
  
  I’m not good at geography, but I’m going to pretend that that’s New Zealand and this is revenge for all the times NZ was left off the map.
  
  But not Canada at all. I figured it would be Australia that would be completely invisible, but nope, Canada.
India jfc
- India became the world's most populous country last April. I didn't even know that.
  
  Probably had been for a while as Chinese numbers aren't considered to be reliable
I'm in this picture, and I don't like it
- I don't think I am - and I do like it.
  
  How's that 8-day trip to ISS going?
Europe looks less dense than what I expected. And north Africa is way denser than I thought. Which puts the "migrant crisis" in perspective.
- The Pharaohs might be gone, but Egypt never stopped being a massive population center.
  
  I was more surprised by the northwest. from Casablanca to Algiers to Tunis.
- What you didn't say is how empty the Sahara is. Still refugees don't just stay there. I wonder why. /s
Dang, India needs to find a different hobby.
- Imagine what if it would be an Olympic sport? They'd probably take the gold if my ex wouldn't be competing.
I had no idea Port-au-Prince was so dense. It’s the ninth most densely populated city in the world and top in the Western Hemisphere.
Yet other map ignoring New Zealand.
/s
- I get your joke but isn't it there? Or is this part of Austria? It's hard to tell but I think New Zealand is there
  
  It's there. I'd argue Australia is worse off in this map.
Beautiful map!
Ray Tracing to make the data science look good.
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Holy shit i had no idea Ethiopia was so crowded. it's cool how you can see population swells around the Nile and Lake Victoria too. and the Mediterranean coast of course. and I guess Nigeria is just a good place to live??
This place acts like legends are illegal or something.
The Sahara looks pretty hostile here
- Western China too. I flew over it and it's like an endless mountainous wasteland.
This map looks good, but feels somewhat misleading. For me, it looks like India is home to about half of the world's population.
Still, very beautiful presentation.
- India has 17% of the world's population - on a scale like this image, that's not far off "about half"! It looks right to me.
Huh, I can read Canada. I call bullshit on the 2x2 thing, though. This is more like 10x10, otherwise you'd see a lot of smaller communities.
It's mostly not surprising, but laid out like that I wonder how long places out of the historical spotlight have been that populous. Ethiopia is quasi-historical enough we can be pretty sure it's long been a center, but the African Great Lakes? Who knows.
What was it?
c/mapswithoutnewzealand
Madrid is gone, reduced to ashes? And so is Barcelona? Weird
- They are there but hidden beyond North Africa spikes
  
  Pretty sure that if you can see Valencia and surroundings, you should be able to see Barcelona which is to its northeast, and that small central peak in the Iberian Peninsula looks to me to be close to Madrid, what is it then?
Let's take a moment to appreciate that almost every one of those billions of people was someone doing the dirty and the rest were turkey-bastered in :3
- Thanks for keeping us on topic, Chief. We almost stopped thinking about sex for a min.
  
  Humor is dead, huh.

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