In many sociological studies, as well as studies of a different kind, in order to define a country as an economic unit, it is necessary to know the population density. Sometimes it is calculated for smaller regions - a city, a village, or any other settlement. How to calculate this, it seems, such a complex value?
Instruction manual
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Find out the area of the inhabited territory. Use existing data for this. This kind of data can be found anywhere that contains general information about the village - be it a guide or a geography textbook, but at present it is most convenient to use, of course, Internet resources. If the area remains unknown to you, then find out the borders of the place you need in the local authorities and, based on the borders, calculate the land area. You can be helped in this difficult matter by any organization engaged in topography, for example, a construction company or a company engaged in surveying surveys for construction.
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Try a simpler way - use existing maps, such as Google maps or any other, the accuracy of which you have no doubt. Select the fragment of the territory you need, save as an image. Then, using the program for designing construction projects, for example, Autocad or Areas, and calculate the area of the site you need, and then simply multiply the result by the scale at which the original map was built. That is, multiply by how many times the size of the territory was reduced to build a map.
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Find out how many people live in the territory you need. To do this, re-use the existing data - Internet sources, textbooks, guides, directories, etc. Again, the data may not be accurate, so use sources with the latest and most reliable, in your opinion, information.
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Use the census data for your locality. They can also be found on the Internet, or learn about the results of the census using the official institutions of the city or village.
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Divide the area of the settlement you have received by the number of people living there. To do this, be sure to convert the area to square kilometers, because it is this unit that is generally accepted for measuring the area of the population.
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Do not be alarmed if you get a fraction in the answer. Population density is a statistical quantity, so just round the resulting number to a lower value and do not worry about the incorrectness of your calculations.
