[staticelf]

Sweden is not dense at all and we have a lot more data for a lesser cost. I don't think density of cities are the only explanation.

[kingnothing]

Sweden is roughly the size of California, and roughly 1/25th the size of Canada.

As for population density, Sweden is about 6x more dense than Canada (23 people / sq km vs 4, respectively).

It's comparatively a dense country.

[repsilat]

> Sweden is about 6x more dense than Canada

Canada quite a high effective density -- something like 80 or 90% of the population live within 100 miles of the US border. Those statistics are not terribly convincing.

Better, I think, to note that Sweden has a high proportion of urban residents at 87%, compared to around 83% for Canada and the US.

http://www.geohive.com/earth/pop_urban.aspx

[kalleboo]

I'm not sure you can compare densities just like that, since there are large parts of Canada nobody is expecting them to cover