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> Population density is a measure of urbanization

Population density is not a measure of urbanization.

A country with a single city of 1M and outside it a desert of 1M sq km has a population density of around 1 person per square kilometer.

A country with a single city of 1M and outside it a desert of 10M sq/km has a density of around 0.1 person per square km.

A 1sq km city state with 1M people have 1M people per sq km!

All 3 these countries are 100% urbanized (no one lives in the countryside) and have the same population yet population density varies by four orders of magnitude.

Sweden has a high level of urbanization and a low population density. Or put another way: most people live in few places BUT the areas where people don’t live are large.




It's not just that Israel is one of the most dense countries in the world.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

Tel Aviv is one of the most dense cities in the world.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/11/the-50-...




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