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Population density is the measure of the number per unit area.
While this number would seem to indicate that 8.7 people live on each square mile of Canadian land area, the density within the country varies dramatically - a vast majority lives in the southern part of the country. Density is only a raw gauge to measure a population's disbursement across the land. Density can be computed for any area - as long as one knows the size of the land area and the population within that area. The population density of cities, states, entire continents, and even the world can be computed. The tiny country of Monaco has the world's highest population density.