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Jul 20, 2022, 13 tweets

Population density thread because you and I both know you have nothing better to do.

Let's start with this cool way to visualize population density, by @undertheraedar. The height of each spike displays the population density in that location.

And some specifics by @VisualCap.

The US is pretty undense:

A reminder that almost all the people in China are in the southeast.

Southeast Asia. Java is off the hook.

No one is in Iceland

Or Australia

Northern India needs to chill

While we're in Bangladesh, there are an equal number of people in the red and blue regions [from Reddit user u/AndoMacster]

Also I figured this out once:

Because we're on a roll:

If we really wanted to get dense, we could fit everyone into NYC by standing tightly together

Fuck it

K bye

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