Map of population density in Europe. Who else is going crazy with the amount of people on every square meter in Belgium?
Map of population density in Europe. Who else is going crazy with the amount of people on every square meter in Belgium?
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Did you know that if everyone would live in cities, nature would have much more breathing room (+ agriculture too), as the area needed per person in a city is much smaller than those living in the countryside? Much cheaper for the government as well.
I’m used to seeing pictures like this and thinking Belgium is exceptionally densely populated, but surprisingly there are actually quite a lot of countries that completely blow our figures out of the water. Even huge ones like India or Bangladesh.
In some instances population density doesn’t even tell you anything aside from how many national parks or nature reserves a country has. Australia’s population density is low as fuck but everyone’s still living packed together in a handful of cities.
You might also think that the population density in Flanders would be crazy high since the Belgian figure is being dragged down a fair bit by the Ardennes, but when looking on the level of the provinces, only Antwerp and Flemish Brabant end up more densely populated than the Netherlands in its entirety. That was surprising to me at least.
not me, pretty obvious all things considered tbh
Flanders is even denser than that – thanks to underpopulated Wallonia Belgium has a relatively normal population density
It’s square KM not meter and it isn’t so bad. Thing is other countries have huge places without people that we don’t have but in our cities and villages it’s actually a lot less than in other countries.
My Flemish SO. He watches documentaries taking place in Alaska every day lol.
If you’d see a map with regions on Europe you’d see that there are many regions of similar size with a comparable population density. For example the areas around big cities (Paris, London) but also for example the Ruhrgebied in Germany.
There’s nothing extraordinary about it. Belgium has such shitty urban planning that it starts feeling like it’s too much.
To some Belgium is 95% city.
All depends on your defitition of a city ofcourse
me
Move out of city… problem solved.
Yet I don’t feel like it’s crowded anywhere in Belgium I don’t understand how urban planners manage that
We always had high population desity since the year 900/1000, i would argue its easier now to find some peace and quiet then 100 years earlier
It’s our complete lack of urban planning. A lot of countries with more sensible urban planning will have denser populated town and city centres, but very sparsely populated country sides. Even most of our neighbouring countries are like that, you can drive on roads for quite a long time without seeing any houses, until you reach a town, and then the distinction between town and country side is quite clear.
In Belgium – especially in Flanders – you can’t go for more than a minute or two on any road and see some kind of housing. But then our towns and city centres are really quite small (even Brussels isn’t that big of a city). This creates this impression of there being people EVERYWHERE, and yeah there are, but still our population density is really not that high. We’re just really inefficiently using the space we have.
Try visiting a place that truly has a dense population. You’ll immediately understand the difference with Belgium.
That’s one of my major challenge, particularly in Brussels. I have the feeling that even in the forest and natural there is always someone passing by. I am an introvert and need solitude and quiet space to keep my stress down. I leave the country from time to time to seek comfort in places where there are no people around.