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Can you name the world's most densely-populated countries? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: davidr Source: Country population by density You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 14330 Top Food Chains (US) 10279 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 7665 States by Capital 6921 1-100 4047 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 3947 And more...
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Rank	Country	Density (people/km²)
All countries
1.		16,754
2.		6,489
3.		1,866
4.		1,454
5.		1,272
6.		1,105
7.		1,045
8.		649
9.		636
10.		627
11.		610
12.		498
13.		461
14.		402
15.		395
16.		357
17.		344
18.		343
19.		342
20.		341
21.		339
22.		336
23.		327
24.		325
25.		316

Rank	Country	Density (people/km²)
Countries with at least a million inhabitants
1.		6,489
2.		1,454
3.		1,045
4.		636
5.		610
6.		498
7.		395
8.		344
9.		343
10.		341
11.		339
12.		336
13.		327
14.		325
15.		316
16.		307
17.		277
18.		271
19.		254
20.		254
21.		246
22.		241
23.		232
24.		198
25.		193

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There are 49 comments for this game.
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	Jesse:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:04 GMT	13 points
	surprisingly hard!

	metfan2211:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:18 GMT	13 points
	perhaps some bonus answers to see where countries like the US, China and Russia are compared to others

	debbiedoesnothin:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:39 GMT	2 points
	I'm pretty happy with myself for getting 38. Most of the ones Imissed were islands.

	sevorak:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:51 GMT	1 point
	I'm surprised I was able to get 48. I guess brushing up on my microstates and islands nations payed off.

	ku_sucks:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:52 GMT	1 point
	its weird that i consider american cities to be crowded, but when compared to monaco, they seem roomy.

	sammyhain2364:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:56 GMT	4 points
	I knew India was populous but I always pictured it as a massive country so I never even considered typing it in. Pretty happy overall that I got 40 right. Great quiz though made you think outside the box trying to complete two different lists.

	Jimmy Bojangles:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:58 GMT	3 points
	39/50! And wow, I can't believe I forgot about Singapore LOL. I basically tried all the pacific islands and european countries at first. But the first places that came to mind when I read the title were Hong Kong and Macau.

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 11:35 GMT	3 points
	@metfan: Russia appears in the Sparsely Populated Countries quiz. The USA's pretty sparse, too -- the same area as China but only a quarter of the population. Full details at the source link.

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 12:52 GMT	2 points
	@Pat: Looking at city limits, rather than Metro areas: New York, 10,482 people/km²; San Francisco, 6,324; Chicago, 4,816; Boston, 4815; Philadelphia, 4,201; Washington DC, 3,700; Los Angeles 3,168; Baltimore, 3,058. (Not an exhaustive list; just the cities I thought of.)

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 12:53 GMT	1 point
	@sammyhain: Yeah, I find it quite scary that India and Bangladesh are so high up this list.

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 12:53 GMT	1 point
	@Jimmy B.: Hong Kong and Macau would be up there at the top end both lists if they were independent nations.

	chrismet:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 12:56 GMT	1 point
	I got 40/50 first attempt, was never going to get Marshall Island and Tuvalu but overall I was pretty pleased.

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 14:47 GMT	18 points
	OK. I strenuously object. I LIVE in Trinidad & Tobago and it wouldn't accept it with the ampersand.

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 15:05 GMT	0 points
	@Vernon G.: Strange — spaces and most punctuation marks are ignored so I'd thought that, by having "trinidad tobago" as an answer, "trinidad&tobago" would be allowed.

	slw@hwdyk.com:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 16:32 GMT	9 points
	nice job, davidr - great idea splitting it into 2 lists.

	erziraphael:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 16:36 GMT	2 points
	Got 44/50. Why did I miss Japan, though?? Anyway, thanks for the quiz =)

	chrismet:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 17:14 GMT	5 points
	I think splitting it into two tables was a good idea as Sinagpore, the Vatican and Monaco have high densities simply due to the fact they are city states.

	HollywoodLeo:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 19:15 GMT	5 points
	@Chris, Singapore is on both lists as it has more than 1 million inhabitants.

	Joe_Ball:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 23:05 GMT	11 points
	Excellent quiz - I went in guns blazing, with 'China' and so on, and got nowhere until I really thought about it. Ended up with 32/50, awesome idea breaking it into two lists!

	ared:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 00:26 GMT	5 points
	thumbs up, excellent quiz!! also missed japan but also a lot of the middle-american countries. i was surpised that so many of them were in the list.

	springmom:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 03:32 GMT	9 points
	This is one of the best quizzes of them all, hands down! I loved it. It really made me think, and I still missed 11. The two lists idea is great! I have learned so much just from doing these quizzes.

	prototypetolyfe:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 05:28 GMT	4 points
	@ared: middle america is a term that refers to middle class americans (in the USA). i belive the term you are looking for is central america.

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	ElDavo:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 07:00 GMT	2 points
	Yep, harder than I thought it would be. These countries aren't entirely random, it's sort of what you'd expect in terms of dense population, plus the small countries that have only one square mile of land.

	darko:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 07:23 GMT	5 points
	I wanted to make "the world's most densely-populated countries" game, but this "2 in 1" is nice touch.

	sactoshc:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 07:59 GMT	3 points
	41/50 first time. The side by side tables gave the numbers a more complex meaning. Just like springmom said, I'm learning a lot from the quizzes.

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	ared:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 21:08 GMT	5 points
	@alex: i'm sorry. you are right of course. central american countries note to self :)

	davidr:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 21:17 GMT	7 points
	Thanks for the positive feedback, everyone. I was a bit worried that the two-column format would be confusing so I'm really glad to see that it's been well-received.

	springmom:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 23:31 GMT	7 points
	What about a quiz on smallest capital cities? Could be interesting....

	davidr:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 00:18 GMT	2 points
	It has been suggested but I'm not sure where to find reliable data for it.

	ared:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 17:21 GMT	4 points
	@davidr: i found http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855603.html but you'd probably still need a script to sort the cities by population ...

	davidr:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 18:07 GMT	4 points
	@ared: Thanks. Alas, that page doesn't quote its sources, which makes me rather reluctant to base a quiz on it. Never underestimate the wrath of somebody who knows that Spontala is the 23rd-smallest capital on the planet and finds that it's missing from the quiz! :-) (On a practical note, it would be rather tedious to extract the data from that page.)

	ared:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 19:21 GMT	3 points
	it's not that i want to insist on using the list on the page above, but sources for the data are listed in the FAQ ( see http://www.infoplease.com/helpfaqs.html#content20 ). to sort the cities by population somebody would need the write a small script or program to get it done. if nobody else wants to do that i could probably do it.

	A_is_for_Addict:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 20:14 GMT	8 points
	I'm a bit concerned that that list still regards Koror as the capital of Palau rather than Melekeok and Rangoon as the capital of 'Myanmar' rather than Naypyidaw (although this one wouldn't feature in the quiz). Seems a bit out of date.

	ared:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 02:45 GMT	5 points
	@sam: yeah, i think you're right. i checked a few random numbers with wikipedia (although this isn't a reliable source either) and there are some big differences there too. maybe someone else finds a better source and we can still get the quiz.

	ku_sucks:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 06:06 GMT	4 points
	@davidr: thanks for the numbers.

	davidr:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 19:42 GMT	4 points
	@ared: I agree that, with good data, it would be an interesting (but difficult) quiz.

	peanut4:	Jan 10th, 2009 at 06:36 GMT	5 points
	How come Taiwan has two different success ratings?

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 17:08 GMT	2 points
	@Paul: Well spotted! It's probably because `Republic of China' is accepted for Taiwan in the first list but not the second (I'll get that fixed). I'm surprised so many people were using the longer name.