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by kumarsw 1367 days ago
I recall some figure that 90% of the Canadian population lives in a thin band extending a few hundred miles north of the US border. So average population density is very misleading.
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The stat is that 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the us border.

Over half of all Canadians live at a lattitude south of Seattle.

Most of Canada's population live in the small area between Toronto and Montreal.

What I'm saying is that population density using Canada as a whole is a dumb statistic. Where there's people in Canada, there's lots of them, and most of the land area is literally uninhabitable by almost any standard.