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by dom0 3250 days ago
> North America has low population density relative to most of the world.

Well the quotient N(north america) / A(north america) is low, but this value does not have to match the average or median population density in areas around samples.

In other words, yes, America is a big country, but it's big cities are just as densely populated as big cities anywhere else.

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Well the quotient N(north america) / A(north america) is low,

It's infuriating that you choose to reply like this without accounting for both paragraphs of my comment. I mean, I'll just let it go, but c'mon.

I would say that US cities tend to be less dense and that Americans don't tend to live in urban centers as much as people in other countries.

Sorry, I must have misread it. Looking at some charts, you have a point there.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/World_po... (1994)