Geography & Earth
Basic

Population Density

People per unit area.

Formula

D=PAD = \frac{P}{A}

Variables

PPopulation
AArea

Example

1M people in 500 km² = 2000/km²

Did You Know?

Population density ranges from Mongolia's two people per square kilometre to Monaco's nearly twenty thousand.

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