Talk:List of countries by population density

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[edit] Baffin Island?

Sure, its a PART of one of Canada's Territories.. What about the whole territory of Nunavut that it a part of? That might be legitimate but shouldn't that territory then be removed from Canada's totals? and then likely Canada's other territories, NWT, Minnesota, and Yukon should be separated from the national calc?.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.247.232.99 (talk) 23:22, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abkhazia

The intro states: "The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories that are recognized by the United Nations. The list also includes but does not rank unrecognized but de facto independent countries." Despite this, the list includes and ranks the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia. Not sure that it should be included (or at least not ranked). To remedy ambiguities like this (e.g., Taiwan, below), I would support using only some sort of "official" list like ISO 3166-1 mentioned below. QVanillaQ (talk) 14:01, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Palestine

The figure for the population of Palestine is less than half a million. No matter what the criteria is for arriving at the correct number with the contentous political debates at hand, this number is obviously dubious. On wikipedia, and on many other sites, the West Bank is stated has having a population of well over 3 million and the Gaza Strip of over 1 million. With all of these previous valid comments, this article needs to be flagged, if not outright deleted, for it clearly does not achieve an encyclopedic-level of accuracy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.184.161.57 (talk) 00:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palestine's numbers are wrong

Using CIA Factbook data, I got a population of about 3.6 million and an area of 6,000 km^2. The UN data linked to gives about the same population density. Why does this table list Palestine as having a land area of 300 km^2 and only 400,000 inhabitants? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.39.240.68 (talk) 22:58, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ISO 3166-1 Code

It is said earlier in the talk article about St.Pierre and Miquelon that the basis for this list are the countries which have an ISO 3166 code. More correct would be: An ISO 3166-1 code. This is perhaps the most 'official' list of entities which should be called countries. This list today includes 244 countries. (Note: The list includes several non-independent entities as well as all independent states). If possible, I think this list (and others) should include these 244 countries and also rank them. Additional entities might be unranked. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 Antipoeten 22:09, 30 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Taiwan

Why is Taiwan listed as a country? (It is not that I am in favor or opposed to it being list I would just like to understand the criteria because it is my belief that under the criteria listed in the article it is not supposed to be listed.) Chico 00:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Miles2

perhaps if someone would put in square miles and people/mi2 that would be nice for us non-metric americans Soyseñorsnibbles (talk) 02:24, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Preferrably, you should convert to the metrical system and thus join civilization.
Jens Persson (213.67.64.22 23:45, 30 November 2007 (UTC))
I'm a young British male, which means I'm comfortable with both systems, but prefer km as a matter of principle. But if you want miles, maybe you could add the extra column. To convert km to miles, multiply by 1.6. So to convert km2 to miles2, multiply by 1.62 = 2.56. Easy, if a little tedious. Briefplan (talk) 16:33, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Oops, that should be divide, not multiply. Briefplan (talk) 16:36, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Area per person

Can a column showing average area per person be added? That makes it easier to appreciate how crowded a country is. Monaco, e.g., has about 40 sq meters per person (or, on average they stand about 6m apart). 70.68.70.186 (talk) 00:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jacked Up

Whats with like the japan and french cities on a countries list what what stupid —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.83.10 (talk) 09:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] population density on field

It should be added the population on field not whole national Area, likewise we donot need desert or lake, mountains where people donot live. In which list we may know which counties are busy and therefore people can estimate the speed of epidemic disease and economy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neoper (talk • contribs) 14:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Send the Navy...

It looks like the Argentinians have taken over the Falkland Islands.  ;)

Actually there are three issues; they're called the Malvinas Islands here, they're listed with the Argentinian flag, and they're listed with (Argentina) in parentheses. Based on the column heading I'm not sure the last is wrong for the table. Wnt (talk) 05:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Monaco data

How come the data for Monaco are completely different from the Monaco article? Aside from the area difference, the Monaco article states that the population is 32,671 (2007 estimate), but in this article, the estimate for July 2005 is 35,253, which is even larger than the 2007 estimate. There must be something wrong here.--207.112.69.250 (talk) 00:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unranking non-sovereign entities

Wikipedia lists of countries articles don't usually rank non-sovereign entities. Is it ok if I redo the rankings to only rank sovereign entities? If I get no reply I will be bold. ☆ CieloEstrellado 15:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

If the non-sovereign countries figures are already included as part of another (sovereign) country, then do not rank them. If they are not included, then they should be ranked and listed separately. For example, does the Denmark figure include Greenland? If it does, don't rank Greenland. If it doesn't, then Greenland should be ranked separately. --Polaron | Talk 01:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
But shouldn't we just follow the List of Countries? Also, it seems very strange to just throw together the Denmark and Greenland figures, as they are so different places, population density wise. sephia karta 13:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Isle fo Man

Its not in the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.223.46 (talk) 13:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Transnistria

Transnistria is oficially part of moldavia. So it should not be ranked. I don't know whether moldavian numbers include transnistria. But, as the density is compareable to moldova and it's territory is adjacent to the rest of moldova there is no difference like in the case of denmark/greenland. --84.114.134.129 (talk) 08:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)