Re:Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
by nzealand on Sunday September 19, 2021 @04:22PM
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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-...
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.