Kind of crazy to think about.
Reddit users have been uploading maps of countries to r/DataIsBeautiful that highlight how huge subsets of a state’s population often occupy a small fraction of the land.
Using figures from the 2011 Census, ParadoxAnarchy worked out that the population of Dublin, Kildare, Limerick city, Galway city and Cork city amounts to 2,440,533 – more than half of Ireland’s 4.5 million population.
Considering that Ireland only has a handful of cities, this doesn’t sound too surprising, but it’s pretty weird to see it on a map:
Image via ParadoxAnarchy.
Added up, the size of these five areas is 2747km², which means that roughly 53% of Ireland’s population lives on just 3% of the available land.
Kildare is a lighter shade of red than the other four to denote that population density is lower in that county.
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