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    The 100 most populated 1kmx1km squares in Europe

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    2. CatL1f3 on

      Funny how you can tell apart the cities by colour sometimes: Paris has a distinctive grey, Bucharest has green, Barcelona is full of those squares, and most of the rest are non-descript orange-grey

    5. Possible-Wallaby-877 on

      Las Palmas Gran Canaria? Really? That’s so strange. I would think a few other cities before that one

    6. James-the-Bond-one on

      Spain is overrepresented: 66 out of 100 squares.

      Pedro likes to keep his neighbors close.

    7. u1604 on

      *in EU

      Edit: For those who are curious, many balkan countries as well as the european parts of russia & turkey are excluded. still cool visualization.

    8. youtossershad1job2do on

      2 in Gijon is surprising, I have family there and I’ve never thought of it super dense

    10. orthoxerox on

      It’s interesting that medium-rise housing like this is actually higher density than commieblocks.

    11. Kalagorinor on

      As a Spanish myself, I really like how dense Barcelona and Madrid are. It makes the streets much more lively and also enables very dense public transportation networks.

    14. NoRecipe3350 on

      Spain is an outlier by European standards in that it’s population density as a whole is quite low but has ultra dense urban cores.

      something to do with land ownership and rural-urban migration I think?

      British towns and cities have really big suburbs, not American levels, but not far off. In fact until about the 2000s, a lot of British city centres were basically dead, almost no one lived in them. Brits want to live in ‘semi detatched’ houses as an aspiration.

    15. LorpHagriff on

      Kindof interesting how we’re the densest non-microstate (Netherlands) population wise but have no tiles contributing. But also makes a lot of sense from what I’ve seen travelling

      ^(*our housing method miiight play a role in our massive housing shortage who knows*)