Belgium is the 10th most densely populated country with at least 8M citizens

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  1. > If you say that someone is dense, you mean that you think they are stupid and that they take a long time to understand simple things.

    Well, I’m not proud of us.

  2. There is something wrong tho, your image is not sorted by descending density (e.g., Israel with 380 is above Haiti with 401). Therefore, the image doesn’t support your statement (as is).

  3. This takes into account the full area but it should be based on inhabitable or inhabited area.

    For example Egypt has a population density in the low 100’s, but when you deduct uninhabited areas, it’s in the low thousands and has a higher density than Bangladesh here.

  4. I guess that explains why, whenever I’m waiting in line, I can always feel someone’s breath in my neck.

  5. Now compare with Flanders instead of the whole country and see us rising in the ranks :-p
    Density in Flanders just isn’t healthy

  6. It might not feel super dense because we’re not like Tokyo and there is still a lot of green and farmland. But you have to keep in mind that in Belgium you’re never more than 10-20 minutes away from a village or a town.

  7. 3.5% of egypt is actually livable, meaning you got 102.3M people living on 51.000km² that density means you got a density of 2k people per km².

    These graphs don’t hold a lot of information, so belgium BY FAR doesn’t have the same population pressure as do every single other one in this list. (even the netherlands)

  8. One of the reasons is because our country is just very small.
    As a comparison: in Shanghai almost 27million people live in one city. Hangzhou a middle sized city in China has more or less the same population of Belgium.

  9. That’s a strange addendum. It’s also the world’s most densely populated country with a population higher than 11.3, but lower than 14M

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