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US population densityYou might think that since the United States is so much bigger than individual European countries in area, it must also have a far higher number of inhabitants. Not quite. Let’s first of all compare the population density of a few European countries with that of the US. The most densely populated country in the European UnionEuropean Union is the Netherlands with almost 400 people per square kilometer, the UK has about 250, and GermanyGermany has just a little less. The US as a whole is much less densely populated. If you round up the size of the US in square kilometers (look at a previous item for the answer) and know that in 2006 the US Census BureauCensus Bureau’s estimate of the population reached the 300 million milestone ( 7), then you can very easily figure out that the current population density has to be more than 30 people per square kilometer. Not only does the EU have a population density more than three [19]times higher than the US, considerably more people live in the EU (around 500 million) than in the US (around 320 million estimated in 2015).

state populationsIf we compare American states to European countries, the most populous state CaliforniaCalifornia with 35 million has almost as many inhabitants as Poland, the sixth-largest EU country in population. And the others?