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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity
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Isn't Africa rather thinly populated in general, or do i remember that wrong?
Edit: just checked, Niger has 23 people/km², while germany has 230 pp/km².
Yeah, Niger is desert, basically. There's a bit of sahel at one end, and of course oases, but it's not a populous place, because of course it isn't.
1/10 of German density is actually impressive as hell, and probably why they're poor even by African standards. Australia might be a better geographic parallel, at 3.7.
If you look at Nigeria, the story is different, and some of the small West African states are going to be even more crowded. Africa as a whole is probably comparable to the next (edit: major) continent. You're averaging over a lot of very different places, once you get to that scale.
that ok, i understand. but how do you explain that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has 48 pp/km²? that one is surely no desert.
these are all central africa, surely no sahara desert there.
again, germany, 230 pp/km² for comparison.
As you can see on your map, Germany is actually really dense, not typical. Europe has had an easy few centuries, and that, alongside the UK, is the densest part of Europe. If you pick a random patch of civilisation-friendly terrain, it has a greater than 50% chance to be yellow, which is like the empty central parts of Spain.
Looking over the list on Wikipedia, Germany is number 63 out of 245. What's ahead of it is mostly island and city states, with a few other major nations in the mix.
CAR is pretty empty, and that might be down to jungle. Why the jungle would be hard to live in, once you cut down a few trees, is unclear to me as a Canadian (maybe poor soil?). Plus, there are populous jungle regions, like in SE Asia. But, there definitely is a pattern.
DRC south of it is mostly yellow, and to the south-east you hit the dense African Great Lakes region. The white patch in southern Africa is the Kalahari, another desert.
Thanks! Hopefully people can pick out the Sahara themselves, while the red blob in west Africa would be mostly Nigeria.
Same story in both of the Americas, at least. Few people live in the Canadian arctic or the Amazon, plenty live in the New York or Sao Paolo area.
Asia has those mega-population spots, but the empty part is also bigger. With it sitting in front of me the mega-population spots still probably win. Non-Russia Europe is the same size and rough shape as India, but as a "continent" it's pretty dense. while Australia and of course Antarctica are emptier.