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The problem with using arithmetic population density to investigate the population

pattern of a country is that such a density figure does not take into consideration

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To get crude density, divide the total land area by the total population. You can see that when you measure a large area of land, the arithmetic density becomes meaningless because it “blends in” the urban population and masks the sparsely-inhabited areas with an average.

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