What an *******. The nearest mountains to me are hundreds, thousands of miles from me. It's above freezing right now and we have had less than ten centimeters of snow over the whole winter and it is long gone. Our winters are colder but our summers are a hell of a lot warmer than those in dreary England. My sister in law comes over here every summer for a month from London to get some sun and warmth, to get away from grey dreary England. Our population appears to be sparse if you divided Canada up into 36 million squares and put one of us in each one but Canadians are highly urban. About 85% of us live in cities, a third if us in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, alone.
Imagine the mess an independent Scotland would be in right now
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What an *******. The nearest mountains to me are hundreds, thousands of miles from me. It's above freezing right now and we have had less than ten centimeters of snow over the whole winter and it is long gone. Our winters are colder but our summers are a hell of a lot warmer than those in dreary England. My sister in law comes over here every summer for a month from London to get some sun and warmth, to get away from grey dreary England. Our population appears to be sparse if you divided Canada up into 36 million squares and put one of us in each one but Canadians are highly urban. About 85% of us live in cities, a third if us in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, alone.
Most of Canada is under a vast ice sheet all year round with permafrost penetrating the ground down to a level of six feet, even during the summer.
I bet London gets more sunshine and less rain that most, if not all, Canadian cities.
Canada is sparsely populated. VERY sparsely populated.
There are a mere 9.4 people per square mile in Canada which means that, of sovereign states, only Libya, Botswana, Mauritania, Suriname, Iceland, Australia, Namibia and Mongolia are emptier.
In comparison, there are 679 people per square mile in Britain; 1,012 people per square mile in India; and 48,466 people per square mile in Monaco.
Apparently, you didn't understand my post, Colonel Blimp.
Most of Canada is under a vast ice sheet all year round with permafrost penetrating the ground down to a level of six feet, even during the summer.
I bet London gets more sunshine and less rain that most, if not all, Canadian cities.
Canada is sparsely populated. VERY sparsely populated.
There are a mere 9.4 people per square mile in Canada which means that, of sovereign states, only Libya, Botswana, Mauritania, Suriname, Iceland, Australia, Namibia and Mongolia are emptier.
In comparison, there are 679 people per square mile in Britain; 1,012 people per square mile in India; and 48,466 people per square mile in Monaco.
No, I did understand your post, and your method of trying to say that Canada is highly urban therefore it's not as sparsely populated as the maths say is complete bollocks. Many countries around the world are highly urban, including Britain (the first urbanised nation). Canada is no exception here. And the fact is that only eight countries are more sparsely populated than Canada.
In fact, being highly urban makes countries appear MORE sparsely populated than what the stats - people per square mile - show.
Britain is a good example of this. Even though Britain is said to be crowded - 679 people per square mile on average - almost everybody lives in urban areas. Only 7% of the entire UK landmass is urban - towns and cities and villages - and a whopping 93% of it is rural - fields, mountains, valleys, moorland, heathland, bogs, etc. This means that the vast majority of the UK's population lives on just 7% of the UK's land. 93% of the UK landmass is sparsely populated, even though the stats show that there are 679 people per square mile on average in Britain. Therefore, the UK is not as crowded as the stats show when looking at it this way.
The great myth of urban Britain - BBC News
This also applies to Canada. Canada being mainly urban means that it is actually MORE sparsely populated than the stats - 9.4 people per square mile on average - show. Almost all of Canada has nobody living in it.
