Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pair of weeks agone I wrote nigh a 3D WebGL visualization of Europe's population called 3D Global Human Settlement. This 3D model uses information from the European Commission's Global Human Settlement Layer, to present the population of Europe equally peaks too troughs, where tiptop represents population density.
Since I wrote nigh this 3D map Alasdair Rae, of the University of Sheffield, has been exploring population density inward Europe inward much to a greater extent than detail. In Think your soil is crowded? These maps divulge the truth nigh population density across Europe Rae has mapped Eurostat’s population density grid information for 2011. This map visualizes the population density inward each foursquare kilometer inward Europe.
He has also created a tabular array which shows the population density of each European country. This tabular array includes a column showing how many people inward each soil alive inward the the most densely populated i foursquare kilometer of that country. By comparing this figure for each soil you lot tin come across where the most densely populated foursquare kilometers are inward Europe. In Barcelona to a greater extent than than 53,000 people inhabit a unmarried 1km². This is the most densely populated surface area inward Europe. Paris has the instant most densely populated km², amongst a 1km² containing to a greater extent than than 50,000 people.
Alasdair Rae's article includes a brief give-and-take of some of the most densely populated areas exterior of Europe. He also links to Duncan Smith's interactive map of World Population Density. Another interactive map which shows worldwide population information is SEDAC Population Estimator (GPWv4). This interactive map uses NASA's public Observing System Data too Information System (EOSDIS) information to present where the world's population lives.
The SEDAC Population Estimator map includes a tool to draw an surface area on the map to come across an guess of the population that alive there. You tin hence draw a foursquare kilometer on the map to brand your ain comparisons amongst Alasdair's most densely populated foursquare kilometers inward Europe. For example, I drew a foursquare kilometer at random inward Dhaka, People's Republic of Bangladesh too the map gave me a population guess of 107,804. This is over twice equally many people equally the 52,000 people living inward Europe's most densely populated 1km² inward Barcelona.
