Self made population density map of Belgium (and the Netherlands), every surface has 100.000 inhabitants, colour shows density

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1. Can you name the red and brown cities of Belgium? (the answers are here [https://i.redd.it/q65v9zl47d481.png](https://i.redd.it/q65v9zl47d481.png) )
   A different look on population density maps: every surface no matter what color has approximately 100.000 inhabitants and the color shows population density. You can count the areas the know the population of a city of metropolitan area.
   Method:The program I used was Paint pro version, I used based maps and overlaid them with population density maps
   Data:- https://www.citypopulation.de/, Google maps allows to measure distance and count surface and Wikipedia

   Ben zelf van Antwerpen

2. The reason of my dream to escape Antwerp for Luxemburg Province in one picture.

3. Wow, didn’t expect the region Turnhout/Oud-Turnhout/Beerse/Vosselaar to be so densely populated

4. Very cool. How did you decide where to demarcate the surfaces/areas? Is it based on town borders?

5. personally always preferred dot density maps for showing population. Just because i feel like it’s the best in showing just how clustered we really live. A map with regions is always going to be way more difficult to divide since chances are still that within a single region the population is still unequally distributed. You have to make the regions really small if you want to get that kind of precision (which will always be a balancing act). have never tried making a dot density map in arcgis yet though. but those are really cool.

6. I really like that you can see the different spatial planning in the Netherlands and Flanders. In the Netherlands, there are a lot of densily populated areas surrounded by non-densily populated areas, while Flanders is just basically one piece of moderate density population. Said otherwise: lintbebouwing Belgium, proper spatial planning in the Netherlands.