population density
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Cities tended to have higher population density, which could increase the spread of diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
The country’s east is heavily urbanized, with a population density about 50 times that of Arctic Scandinavia and Finland, where every square mile houses on average five people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
The city's population density is more than 7,100 people per square kilometre of land, on par with packed metropolises like Tokyo.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Census figures from 2021 show that population density in the area around Clonavon Terrace was approximately 51 times the Northern Ireland average, and four times the average for Ballymena as a whole.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Kroeber cut back the tally still further, to 900,000—a population density of less than one person for every six square miles.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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