Can you name the world's most densely-populated countries?

Rank	Country	Density (people/km²)
1.		16,500
2.		7,197
3.		1,317
4.		1,213
5.		1,141
6.		1,046
7.		800
8.		635
9.		596
10.		461
11.		505
12.		476
13.		409
14.		399
15.		390
16.		384
17.		367
18.		366
19.		360
20.		354
21.		348
22.		337
23.		318
24.		313
25.		311

Rank	Country	Density (people/km²)
26.		306
27.		302
28.		294
29.		282
30.		280
31.		262
32.		260
33.		253
34.		248
35.		229
36.		224
37.		212
38.		211
39.		209
40.		200
41.		200
42.		199
43.		194
44.		188
45.		186
46.		179
47.		171
48.		171
49.		164
50.		158

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Densely Populated Countries Quiz

by davidr

Created Dec 12, 2008 in Geography
Featured Dec 12, 2008
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	Jesse:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 05:04 GMT	21 points
	surprisingly hard!

	metfan2211:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 05:18 GMT	25 points
	perhaps some bonus answers to see where countries like the US, China and Russia are compared to others

	debbiedoesnothin:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 05:39 GMT	4 points
	I'm pretty happy with myself for getting 38. Most of the ones Imissed were islands.

	sevorak:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 05:51 GMT	-1 points
	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 05:52 GMT	3 points
	its weird that i consider american cities to be crowded, but when compared to monaco, they seem roomy.

	sammyhain2364:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 05:56 GMT	7 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 05:58 GMT	4 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 07:35 GMT	7 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 08:52 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 08:53 GMT	3 points
	@sammyhain: Yeah, I find it quite scary that India and Bangladesh are so high up this list.

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 08:53 GMT	5 points
	@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 08:56 GMT	2 points
	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 10:47 GMT	23 points
	OK. I strenuously object. I LIVE in Trinidad & Tobago and it wouldn't accept it with the ampersand.

	davidr:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 11:05 GMT	2 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 12:32 GMT	9 points
	nice job, davidr - great idea splitting it into 2 lists.

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

	chrismet:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 13:14 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 15:15 GMT	5 points
	@Chris, Singapore is on both lists as it has more than 1 million inhabitants.

	Joe_Ball:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 19:05 GMT	13 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!

	rahv:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 20:26 GMT	6 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 12th, 2008 at 23:32 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 01:28 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 03:00 GMT	3 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 03:23 GMT	6 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 03:59 GMT	4 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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	rahv:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 17:08 GMT	6 points
	@alex: i'm sorry. you are right of course. central american countries note to self :)

	davidr:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 17:17 GMT	9 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 19:31 GMT	9 points
	What about a quiz on smallest capital cities? Could be interesting....

	davidr:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 20:18 GMT	2 points
	It has been suggested but I'm not sure where to find reliable data for it.

	rahv:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 13:21 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 14:07 GMT	5 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.)

	rahv:	Dec 14th, 2008 at 15:21 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 16:14 GMT	9 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.

	rahv:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 22:45 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 02:06 GMT	4 points
	@davidr: thanks for the numbers.

	davidr:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 15:42 GMT	4 points
	@ared: I agree that, with good data, it would be an interesting (but difficult) quiz.

	peanut4:	Jan 10th, 2009 at 02:36 GMT	5 points
	How come Taiwan has two different success ratings?

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 13:08 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.