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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by wongarsu on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:23AM (#32650856)
California is kind of unusual in that it consists almost exclusively of places that are either extremely dense or extremely empty [1]. Compare that e.g. to Germany [2], with 2.4 times the average population density but much more evenly spread out.

Pakistan is a bit of a mix of both: three quarters are pretty empty, but the population is spread somewhat evenly over the rest [3]

1: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/California-population-de...

2: https://i.redd.it/oz7m4lfy37b51.png

3: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8e/fb/11/8efb11c1d9cc698ddca2...

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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by bombcar on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:29AM (#32650945)
This is very important - local population density matters much more than some sort of "average" - if California ordered their army into Nevada and added it to their territory, the population density would drop from about 253 to about 154.

But nothing at all has changed!

Population density is only one aspect of "what it feels like to live somewhere" - local density, land usage, etc all play into it.

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Re:A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate ch... by 8bitsrule on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:09AM (#32658961)
In Mountain View, California (~Silicon Valley) the density is 6,700/sq mi.
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