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> quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area You've never been to Stockholm metro area. It's very sparsely populated compared to many big metr
by dmitriid 5y ago
> quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area
You've never been to Stockholm metro area. It's very sparsely populated compared to many big metro areas.
Stockholm is a small city (800k people or so) surrounded by villages (another 1.5 million people) spread over 6,519.3 km2. Density is 360/km2
And that's the biggest city in the country.
In comparison, Paris (as we were talking about France): 13 mln people over 18,940.7 km2 with a density of 690/km2. That's for metro area. Urban area alone is 10 mln people with density of 21,000/km2
- supperburg 5y agoBut when you look at the average distance between two random people who live in the same town/city it would probably indicate that lack of contact doesn’t explain any success they’ve had with their numbers
- dmitriid 5y agoElsewhere people have already pointed this out: Swedes also have smaller families and a large proportion of people living alone, which (positively) contributed to numbers more than population density. Which is why Tegnell had the gall to blame immigrants for the spread of Covid-19. Immigrants live in more densely populated areas. And all this still doesn't explane a significantly larger mortality rate than immediate neighbors that have similar populations.
- mannerheim 5y agoI was in Stockholm last week. My point is that 25/km^2 is an absurd figure to use because northern Sweden has more reindeer than people.