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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The urban area around Gaza City is home to nearly 2 million people living in an 88-square-mile expanse, which is about 21,000 people per square mile, according to data from an annual Demographia report. Demographia looks at the urban footprint of cities to calculate density, as opposed to official administrative boundaries.

Within Gaza City, the population density is over 500 people per 100 square meters in many sections, according to data from the European Commission. Other areas of the Gaza Strip, such as Khan Yunis and the Nuseirat refugee camp, are also tightly packed, with over 250 people per 100 square meters in many places, and as high as over 400 people per 100 square meters in the refugee camp, according to the data.

While the Demographia report found Gaza City isn’t as packed as the world’s most dense cities, including Dhaka, Bangladesh, which has over 80,000 people per square mile, it’s more crowded than global cities, such as London, and three times more dense than Los Angeles, the most population-dense area in the US, according to the report.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/middleeast/maps-population-density-gaza-israel-dg/index.html

Over 3x the population density of LA...

I didn't even read the rest of your comment, don't take me ignoring everything else you got wrong as me agreeing with it.

It's just easier to point out one obviously wrong thing at a time.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your own quotes say that there are comparable third world countries with over 4x the density of Gaza City. So your statement that it's one of the densest areas in the world is clearly wrong. It's not even in top 100 most dense cities in the world.

Also, if you think LA is dense, you are the one that's dense. You've clearly never travelled outside North America. LA is textbook urban sprawl.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

three times more dense than Los Angeles, the most population-dense area in the US, according to the report.

Three times denser than the densest city in America

You're trying to "well ackschully" me like like I said it was the densest place...

Like, do you understand what I said or are you intentionally misrepresenting this?

I honestly can't tell

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're so poorly travelled that you simply don't understand how poorly developed the US is when it comes to cities and density.

Metro LA is the 57th largest city in the world, but the 72nd most dense city in the top 80 cities by population in the entire world.

At the end of the day, you were the one that asserted that Gaza was one of the most dense places in the world, and I gave evidence proving it isn't even close to the most dense places in the world. Now you're trying to play off your error like this is about LA being dense or not.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you were the one that asserted that Gaza was one of the most dense places in the world, and I gave evidence proving it isn’t even close to the most dense places in the world.

You still don't understand how those are two different things bro?

I'm sorry, I legitimately can't think of a simpler way to explain this.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 months ago

What two things?

You were trying to say that Hamas could not set up outside of residential buildings by saying the area is too dense with people for that to be possible.

It's not. It's not even close to too dense for that.

Go look at the Satellite maps of Gaza, there's tons of space they could set up if they didn't want to risk civilians. Literally half of gaza is farm fields.

UNOSAT analysis shows that the agricultural extent in the Gaza Strip is estimated to be 178 sq. km, accounting for approximately 49% of the total area of Gaza, following an extensive land cover analysis.

https://reliefweb.int/map/occupied-palestinian-territory/unosat-gaza-strip-agricultural-damage-assessment-january-2024#:~:text=UNOSAT%20analysis%20shows%20that%20the,an%20extensive%20land%20cover%20analysis.