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Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Australia has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30% of the population, a higher proportion than in any other nation with a population of over 10 million. [ 80 ] [ 82 ] Most immigrants are skilled, [ 83 ] but the immigration quota includes categories for family members and refugees .
The populations of the central local government areas in other capitals are relatively small. As of June 2020, Darwin had a population of 82,030, Hobart 55,250, Perth 30,971, and Adelaide 26,177. [150] Most Australian capital cities have suburban local government areas significantly larger in population than the central local government area.
The largest inland city in Australia is Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Australia’s mean population density is 3.3/km 2, one of the lowest in the world. [14] A significant immigrant population occupied these places with relatively little dispute and few inner city ghettoes. [15]
Australia's population density is 3.5 inhabitants per square kilometre, [144] which is one of the lowest in the world. [143] However, there is a large concentration of the population in cities along the temperate south-eastern coastline, and population density exceeds 38 inhabitants per square kilometre in central Melbourne. [144]
The area spread over 25,500 km 2 having around 3.9 million people or about 40% of the total population of the area. According to the December 2001 census there were 271 Royal Bengal Tigers and other animals in the Indian portion of the Sundarban forest, spread across 9.630 km 2. The floor of the Sundarbans varies from 0.9 m to 2.11 m above sea ...
The world's smallest continent, Australia is also the sixth-largest country by land area and sometimes considered the world's largest island. Australia has a mainland coastline of 32,994 kilometres (20,502 mi) [14] and claims an exclusive economic zone of about 8,200,000 square kilometres (3,200,000 sq mi). [15]
Population density map, (of white residents) 1921. Evenly divided units of land have little relevance in a country where the population is highly unevenly distributed. Counties have since gone out of use in Australia, and are rarely used or even known by most of the population today.