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The title is misleading
The first line of the article calls this "List of countries and dependencies by population density." Why doesn't the title reflect that? All it says currently is "List of countries by population density." Why should China be marked 75 if, for example, Macau and Hong Kong, both undisputed parts of the PRC, are listed before it? It is also misleading because a smaller dependent region is more likely to have a high population density simply because it is smaller. If you ask me, there should be a separate list with just proper countries. --Catch153 (talk) 02:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I moved the page and thereby changed its title. Finally people will not be confused about why so many non-country entities are listed here. --Catch153 (talk) 00:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Baffin Island?
Sure, its a PART of one of Canada's Territories.. What about the whole territory of Nunavut that it a part of? That might be legitimate but shouldn't that territory then be removed from Canada's totals? and then likely Canada's other territories, NWT, Minnesota, and Yukon should be separated from the national calc?..
Abkhazia
The intro states: "The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories that are recognized by the United Nations. The list also includes but does not rank unrecognized but de facto independent countries." Despite this, the list includes and ranks the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia. Not sure that it should be included (or at least not ranked). To remedy ambiguities like this (e.g., Taiwan, below), I would support using only some sort of "official" list like ISO 3166-1 mentioned below. QVanillaQ (talk) 14:01, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Palestine
The figure for the population of Palestine is less than half a million. No matter what the criteria is for arriving at the correct number with the contentous political debates at hand, this number is obviously dubious. On wikipedia, and on many other sites, the West Bank is stated has having a population of well over 3 million and the Gaza Strip of over 1 million. With all of these previous valid comments, this article needs to be flagged, if not outright deleted, for it clearly does not achieve an encyclopedic-level of accuracy.
Palestine's numbers are wrong
Using CIA Factbook data, I got a population of about 3.6 million and an area of 6,000 km^2. The UN data linked to gives about the same population density. Why does this table list Palestine as having a land area of 300 km^2 and only 400,000 inhabitants?
ISO 3166-1 Code
It is said earlier in the talk article about St.Pierre and Miquelon that the basis for this list are the countries which have an ISO 3166 code. More correct would be: An ISO 3166-1 code. This is perhaps the most 'official' list of entities which should be called countries. This list today includes 244 countries. (Note: The list includes several non-independent entities as well as all independent states). If possible, I think this list (and others) should include these 244 countries and also rank them. Additional entities might be unranked. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 Antipoeten 22:09, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Taiwan
Why is Taiwan listed as a country? (It is not that I am in favor or opposed to it being list I would just like to understand the criteria because it is my belief that under the criteria listed in the article it is not supposed to be listed.) Chico 00:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Taiwan has a government of its own which, although not recognized by the Chinese government, is largely left un-meddled with, and it sends its own set of athletes to the Olympic Games as "Chinese Taipei". Ergo, it is most likely listed as "de facto independent", although since (Republic of China) is next to it, the list also recognizes China's claims to sovereignty over it, in accordance with WP:NPOV. PsyMar (talk) 00:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Miles 2
perhaps if someone would put in square miles and people/mi 2 that would be nice for us non-metric americans Soyseñorsnibbles (talk) 02:24, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Area per person
Can a column showing average area per person be added? That makes it easier to appreciate how crowded a country is. Monaco, e.g., has about 40 sq meters per person (or, on average they stand about 6m apart). 70.68.70.186 (talk) 00:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Jacked Up
Whats with like the japan and french cities on a countries list what what stupid The density of Canada is 0.32 per km2 or 0.83 per sq. mi a difference of a decimal point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.219.165.148 (talk) 08:30, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
population density on field
It should be added the population on field not whole national Area, likewise we donot need desert or lake, mountains where people donot live. In which list we may know which counties are busy and therefore people can estimate the speed of epidemic disease and economy
Send the Navy...
It looks like the Argentinians have taken over the Falkland Islands. ;)
Actually there are three issues; they're called the Malvinas Islands here, they're listed with the Argentinian flag, and they're listed with (Argentina) in parentheses. Based on the column heading I'm not sure the last is wrong for the table. Wnt (talk) 05:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Monaco data
How come the data for Monaco are completely different from the Monaco article? Aside from the area difference, the Monaco article states that the population is 32,671 (2007 estimate), but in this article, the estimate for July 2005 is 35,253, which is even larger than the 2007 estimate. There must be something wrong here.--207.112.69.250 (talk) 00:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Unranking non-sovereign entities
Wikipedia lists of countries articles don't usually rank non-sovereign entities. Is it ok if I redo the rankings to only rank sovereign entities? If I get no reply I will be bold. ☆ CieloEstrellado 15:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Isle fo Man
Its not in the UK.
The Isle of Man is not in the UK, but it is administrated under the UK Crown. If it were in the UK, it would not be listed at all. PsyMar (talk) 00:59, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Transnistria
Transnistria is oficially part of moldavia. So it should not be ranked. I don't know whether moldavian numbers include transnistria. But, as the density is compareable to moldova and it's territory is adjacent to the rest of moldova there is no difference like in the case of denmark/greenland. --84.114.134.129 (talk) 08:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Transnistria is officially an autonomous and de facto independent territory of Moldova, and therefore shares the same status as Hong Kong and Macau. PsyMar (talk) 01:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
n. 1
So... who's got the number 1 place?
What is the population density of England?
I think it's somewhere around 322. Any other offers? Ch3apsid3 (talk) 13:09, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
England
So does anyone have the technical know-how (& permission) to insert England, & the Cross of St George, between Martinique and the Netherlands? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.171.94.254 (talk) 07:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Egypt
The current rank is based on a population of 74m which is a 1996 consensus. Current population estimate is over 81m. Estr4ng3d (talk) 12:43, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Macau and Hong Kong
Macau and Hong Kong are part of China they were returned to China after 99 years from Portugal and the UK respectively. They therefore whould not be included as separated states. It is a bit like making Scotland out on its own when it is part of the UK. Therfore Monaco should be first and Singapore second and Gibraltar thrid. mspence835 thankyou for taking my point into perspective.
No they should not be listed with China's calculation. International organization, including the U.N. regard them as different political entities, though under the sovereignty, not governance, of PRC. For example the IMF publishes it's statistics as all sovereign nations plus HKSAR. You can't compare Scotland to Hong Kong, does Scotland have it's own passport and immigration jurisdiction? Does Scotland maintain its own currency? —Preceding un
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