List of countries by population density

Unlike the figures in the country articles, the figures in this table are based on areas including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers) and may therefore be lower here.

Table of contents

1 Table (part 1) 2 Table (part 2) 3 Analysis 4 Countries/dependencies 5 See also 6 External links to information by country

Table (part 1)

country	pop. dens.	area	population
	(/km²)	(km²)	(2002-07-01 est.)
Macau (PRC)	18,000	25	461,833
Monaco	16,000	2	31,987
Hong Kong (PRC)	6,688	1,092	7,303,334
Singapore	6,430	693	4,452,732
Gibraltar (UK)	5,000	6	27,714
Vatican City	2,000	0.44	900
Malta	1,260	316	397,499
Bermuda (UK)	1,200	53	63,960
Maldives	1,070	300	320,165
Bahrain	987	665	656,397
Bangladesh	926	144,000	133,376,684
Guernsey (UK)	830	78	64,587
Jersey (UK)	774	116	89,775
Barbados	642	431	276,607
Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu)	627	35,980	22,548,009
Mauritius	588	2,040	1,200,206
Nauru	587	21	12,329
Palestinian territories (Isr.)	545	6,220	3,389,578
South Korea	491	98,480	48,324,000
Mayotte (Fr.)	457	374	170,879
San Marino	455	61	27,730
Puerto Rico (USA)	435	9,104	3,957,988
Tuvalu	429	26	11,146
Marshall Islands	407	181	73,630
Netherlands	387	41,526	16,067,754
Martinique (Fr.)	384	1,100	422,277
Aruba (Neth.)	365	193	70,441
Lebanon	354	10,400	3,677,780
U.S. Virgin Islands (USA)	351	352	123,498
American Samoa (USA)	345	199	68,688
Belgium	337	30,510	10,274,595
Japan	336	377,835	126,974,628
India	318	3,287,590	1,045,845,226
El Salvador	302	21,040	6,353,681
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	299	389	116,394
Sri Lanka	298	65,610	19,576,783
La Réunion (Fr.)	296	2,512	743,981
Guam (USA)	293	549	160,796
Israel	290	20,770	6,029,529
Comoros	283	2,170	614,382
Philippines	282	300,000	84,525,639
Rwanda	281	26,338	7,398,074
Saint Lucia	260	616	160,145
Grenada	259	344	89,211
Haiti	255	27,750	7,063,722
Vietnam	246	329,560	81,098,416
Guadeloupe (Fr.)	245	1,780	435,739
United Kingdom	244	244,820	59,778,002
Jamaica	244	10,991	2,680,029
Germany	233	357,021	83,251,851
Burundi	229	27,830	6,373,002
Trinidad and Tobago	227	5,128	1,163,724
Netherlands Antilles (Neth.)	223	960	214,258
Liechtenstein	205	160	32,842
Micronesia	194	702	135,869
Italy	192	301,230	57,715,625
North Korea	184	120,540	22,224,195
Nepal	184	140,800	25,873,917
Pakistan	184	803,940	147,663,429
Dominican Republic	179	48,730	8,721,594
Switzerland	177	41,290	7,301,994
Seychelles	176	455	80,098
Luxembourg	173	2,586	448,569
Sao Tome and Principe	170	1,001	170,372
Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	162	477	77,311
Antigua and Barbuda	152	443	67,448
Saint Kitts and Nevis	148	261	38,736
Andorra	146	468	68,403
Tokelau (N.Z.)	143	10	1,431
Tonga	142	748	106,137
Nigeria	141	923,768	129,934,911
British Virgin Islands (UK)	139	153	21,272
Cayman Islands (UK)	138c	262	36,273
People's Republic of China (Mainland)	134	9,596,960	1,284,303,705
Moldova	131	33,843	4,434,547
Czech Republic	130	78,866	10,256,760
Isle of Man (UK)	129	572	73,873
Gambia	129	11,300	1,455,842
Denmark	125	43,094	5,368,854
Poland	124	312,685	38,625,478
Albania	123	28,748	3,544,841
Guatemala	122	108,890	13,314,079
Anguilla (UK)	122	102	12,446
Thailand	121	514,000	62,354,402
Indonesia	121	1,919,440	231,328,092
Kiribati	119	811	96,335
Kuwait	118	17,820	2,111,561
Armenia	112	29,800	3,330,099
Slovakia	111	48,845	5,422,366
Serbia	110	88,361	9,780,000
France	109	547,030	59,765,983
Portugal	109	92,391	10,084,245
Hungary	108	93,030	10,075,034
Uganda	105	236,040	24,699,073
Cape Verde	101	4,033	408,760
Cuba	101	110,860	11,224,321
Austria	97	83,858	8,169,929
Slovenia	95	20,273	1,932,917
Togo	93	56,785	5,285,501
Dominica	93	754	70,158
Syria	93	185,180	17,155,814
Romania	91	238,391	21,698,181
Malawi	90	118,480	10,701,824
Azerbaijan	90	86,600	7,798,497
Cook Islands (N.Z.)	87	240	20,811
Turkey	86	780,580	67308,928
Ghana	85	239,460	20,244,154
Cyprus	83	9,250	767,314
Montserrat (UK)	83	102	8,437
Republic of Macedonia	81	25,333	2,054,800
Greece	81	131,940	10,645,343
Ukraine	80	603,700	48,396,470
Spain	79	504,782	40,077,100
Sierra Leone	78	71,740	5,614,743
Croatia	78	56,542	4,390,751
Bosnia and Herzegovina	78	51,129	3,964,388
Costa Rica	75	51,100	3,834,934
Lesotho	73	30,355	2,207,954
Georgia	71	69,700	4,960,951
Egypt	71	1,001,450	70,712,345
Cambodia	71	181,040	12,775,324

Table (part 2)

Analysis

Countries/dependencies which each have the property that it is the most densely populated country among all countries/dependencies with its size and larger (i.e. there is no country/dependency both larger and more densely populated), in order of increasing size and decreasing density: Macau, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Japan, India, Mainland China, United States, Russia.

Considering independent countries only the first two entries in this list are replaced by Monaco and Singapore.

Countries/dependencies which each have the property that it is the least densely populated country among all countries/dependencies with its size and larger (i.e. there is no country/dependency both larger and less densely populated), in order of increasing size and increasing density: Greenland, Australia, Canada, Russia.

If Greenland is not counted as a country it is replaced in this list by Mongolia.

Countries/dependencies

236 countries and dependencies are listed, the same as List of countries by population, except that the two Palestinian territories are combined in one entry, Serbia and Montenegro are listed separately, and Niue is considered a dependency; thus in this list we have 194 countries and 42 dependencies. Another difference is that above the dependencies are not grouped according to the governing country.

What to list separately is not always obvious. For example, Hawaii and the Canary Islands are not listed, but French Guiana and Hong Kong are. Saint Helena is listed, but not its dependency Tristan da Cunha.

For a list similar to that above but with independent countries only, see the German version.

See also

• List of countries
• List of countries by continent
• List of countries by area
• List of countries by population
• List of countries by date of nationhood

• Africa
• Asia
• Area and population of European countries
• North America
• Oceania
• South America

• http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm
• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/