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title: The homo sapien footprint
date: "2002-10-25T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1075
description: I found a map of the human footprint showing global population density. It highlights extreme density in Europe and coastal China versus the vast emptiness of the Sahara, Siberia, and the Australian outback.
keywords: [population density, cartography, human footprint, demographics, geography, world map]
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[The homo sapien footprint](http://wcs.org/humanfootprint). Shows the population density of the world. Here's the result at a glance. The densest spots: Europe, India, the East coasts of China and the US. The sparsest: north Canada, Sibera, Sahara, the Andes, the Himalayas, and most of Australia. [via Plastic](http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/10/24/23554907)