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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by carlosjobim on Sunday February 25, 2024 @09:52AM (#39501228)
Europe is much more densely populated than Africa.
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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by fulafel on Monday February 26, 2024 @02:48AM (#39508604)
It's interesting how wildly different numbers are offered for Europe's population density on high profile web sources.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/europe-phy... 188 persons/km2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe 72 p/km2

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula... 34 p/km2

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Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population by carlosjobim on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:42AM (#39510618)
I think it has to do with the inclusion/exclusion of Russia. I looked at your source Worldometers, and they included Russia as part of Eastern Europe.

I think that the inclusion/exclusion of Greenland could have a big effect as well.

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