The Geografile
By Bryan Henry
This item appears on page 51 of the March 2018 issue.
This item appears on page 51 of the March 2018 issue.
Denmark, with about 131 Danes per square mile, is Scandinavia’s most densely populated country, but if you include its territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, it is the world’s most sparsely populated country, with an average of 0.15 people per square mile. Otherwise, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated, with four people per square mile.