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Tibetless China is still a lot bigger than India and doesn't have that 94% property. The spirit of the GP's comment holds, I think.
by vacri 10y ago
Tibetless China is still a lot bigger than India and doesn't have that 94% property. The spirit of the GP's comment holds, I think.
- Retric 10y agoChina: ~94% of 1.357b = 1.28 billion population. ~40% of 3.7 mill = 1.5 million square miles. = ~0.85 billion people per million square miles. India 1.252 billion people on 1.269 million mi =~ 1 billion people per million square miles. So, India is around 15% denser. Of course you can avoid the strait line cut and push China's density much higher, but the point is they are not that far off where people actually live.
- vacri 10y agoWhere are you getting the 40% figure from? Are you saying that Tibet(-ish) is 60% of the land area of China?
- Retric 10y agoEyeballing: http://www.undertheraedar.com/2012/06/population-of-china.html http://www.undertheraedar.com/2012/06/population-of-china.ht.... Tibet is part of that side with 6% of the population, but rainfall is a major issue limiting population over a much larger area.