Population density is an important demographic indicator in sociology and economics. It can be used to draw indirect conclusions about the state of affairs in specific countries. In the table below we will try to ignore countries like Liechtenstein or San Marino. Their indicators show only the tinyness of these states.
Europe: population density. List of countries
Countries are ranked from most populated to most deserted. And also here is a list of the population of European countries.
Emblem × Highlighted Southern European Countries
| Country | Capital, million people | Largest cities and metropolitan areas, million people | Population, million people | Area, thousand square meters Km | Population density per sq. m |
| Principality of Monaco | Monaco (0.001) | Monte Carlo (0.003), Condamine (0.004), Fontvieille (0.004) | 0,038 | 0.002 | 18679 |
| Vatican | Vatican City (0.001) | - | 0.001 | 0,0004 | 1913.6 |
| × Republic of Malta | Valletta (0.005) | Birkirkara (0.022) | 0.429 | 0.316 | 1432 |
| × Republic of San Marino | San Marino (0.004) | Serravalle (0.010) | 0,033 | 0,061 | 539.69 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Amsterdam (0.825) | Rotterdam (0.631), The Hague (0.516), Utrecht (0.313) | 17,208 | 41,543 | 405 |
| Kingdom of Belgium | Brussels (1,832) | Antwerp (0.521), Ghent (0.231), Charleroi (0.203) | 11,359 | 30,528 | 368.3 |
| Kingdom of Great Britain | London (8,631) | Birmingham (1,074), Leeds (0,782), Glasgow (1,818). | 63,396 | 243,809 | 246 |
| Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | Luxembourg (0,163) | - | 0.602 | 2,586 | 233 |
| Principality of Liechtenstein | Vaduz (0.006) | Shang (0.006) | 0,037 | 0.16 | 229.56 |
| Federal Republic of Germany | Berlin (3,575) | Hamburg (1,810), Munich (1,464), Cologne (1,076) | 82,522 | 357,021 | 227 |
| Swiss Confederation | - | Zurich (0.397), Geneva (0.199), Basel (0.170) | 8.561 | 41,284 | 207 |
| × Italian Republic | Rome (3.9) | Milan (1.352), Naples (0.970), Turin (0.883) | 60,796 | 301,340 | 201.1 |
| × Principality of Andorra | Andorra la Vella (0.022) | - | 0,085 | 0.468 | 182.6 |
| Czech Republic | Prague (1,281) | Brno (0.378), Ostrava (0.297), Pilsen (0.167) | 10,538 | 78,867 | 133 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Copenhagen (1,309) | Aarhus (0.311), Odense (0.187), Aalborg (0.105) | 5,693 | 43,094 | 126.4 |
| Republic of Poland | Warsaw (1,758) | Krakow (0.767), Lodz (0.697), Wroclaw (0.638) | 38,422 | 312,679 | 123 |
| Republic of Molodov | Chisinau (0.821) | Balti (0.147), Bender (0.084), Rybnitsa (0.048) | 3,551 | 33,846 | 119.8 |
| × Republic of Cyprus | Nicosia (0.276) | Limassol (0.280) | 1,143 | 9,250 | 117 |
| × Portuguese Republic | Lisbon (0.506) | Porto (0.222) | 10,799 | 92,151 | 114 |
| The Slovak Republic | Bratislava (0.426) | Kosice (0.241), ilina (0.084), Presov (0.091) | 5,443 | 49,034 | 111 |
| Hungary | Budapest (1,798) | Debrecen (0.203), Miskolc (0.161), Szeged (0.162), | 9,809 | 93,036 | 106 |
| French Republic | Paris (10,620) | Marseille (0.870), Lyon (0.507), Toulouse (0.437) | 66,991 | 674,685 | 103 |
| Republic of austria | Vienna (1,822) | Graz (0.277), Linz (0.193), Salzburg (0.150) | 8,712 | 83,879 | 102.1 |
| x Republic of Slovenia | Ljubljana (0.287) | Maribor (0.095), Celje (0.038), Cranes (0.037) | 2,067 | 20,273 | 101.8 |
| × Republic of Albania | Tirana (0.812) | Durres (0.175), Shkodra (0.136), Elbasan (0.142) | 2,877 | 28,748 | 100 |
| × Republic of Turkey | Ankara (5,271) | Istanbul (13.855), Izmir (2.829), Antalya (2.223) | 79,464 | 783,563 | 97 |
| × Kingdom of Spain | Madrid (3,166) | Barcelona (1.609), Valencia (0.799), Seville (0.689) | 46,468 | 505,990 | 92 |
| Romania | Bucharest (1,883) | Cluj-Napoca (0.325), Timisoara (0.304), Craiova (0.304) | 19,511 | 238,391 | 84.4 |
| × Greek Republic | Athens (5) | Thessaloniki (0.325), Patras (0.168), Larisa (0.145) | 10,750 | 131,957 | 81 |
| × Republic of Macedonia | Skopje (0.544) | Kumanovo (0.076), Bitola (0.095) | 2,074 | 25,333 | 81 |
| x Republic of Serbia | Belgrade (1,234) | Novi Sad (0.342), Nis (0.313), Kragujevac (0.193) | 7,042 | 88,407 | 80 |
| Ukraine | Kiev (2,935) | Kharkov (1,447), Odessa (1,011), Dnipro (1,407), | 42,249 | 603,549 | 73.92 |
| × Republic of Croatia | Zagreb (0.803) | Split (0.178), Rijeka (0.129), Osijek (0.090) | 4,154 | 56,594 | 73,4 |
| × Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo (0.276) | Banja Luka (0.151), Mostar (0.105), Zenica (0.115) | 3,531 | 51,197 | 68.97 |
| × Republic of Bulgaria | Sofia (1,353) | Plovdiv (0.367), Varna (0.367), Burgas (0.212) | 7,000 | 110,994 | 63 |
| Ireland | Dublin (1,347) | Cork (0.192) | 4,593 | 70,273 | 60.3 |
| Republic of Lithuania | Vilnius (0.546) | Kaunas (0.301), Klaipeda (0.157) | 2,827 | 65,301 | 49 |
| Republic of Belarus | Minsk (1,982) | Gomel (0.536), Mogilev (0.381), Vitebsk (0.378) | 9,492 | 207.6 | 47.89 |
| × Montenegro | Podgorica (0.186) | Niksic (0.058), Plevlya (0.031), Bielo-Pole (0.016), Herceg Novi (0.016) | 0.622 | 13,812 | 45 |
| Latvian republic | Riga (0.638) | Daugavpils (0,086), Liepaja (0,071), Jelgava (0,057) | 1,934 | 64,589 | 30.5 |
| Republic of Estonia | Tallinn (0.477) | Tartu (0.093), Narva (0.057), Pärnu (0.041) | 1,316 | 45,227 | 29th |
| Kingdom of Sweden | Stockholm (0.939) | Gothenburg (0.573), Malmo (0.334), Uppsala (0.149) | 10,043 | 447,435 | 21.89 |
| Republic of Finland | Helsinki (0.643) | Espoo (0.259), Tampere (0.231), Oulu (0.201) | 5,560 | 338,400 | 16 |
| Kingdom of Norway | Oslo (0.673) | Bergen (0.277), Trondheim (0.187), Stavanger (0.132) | 5,276 | 385,186 | 13.1 |
| Russian Federation | Moscow (12,506) | St. Petersburg (5.352), Novosibirsk (1.603), Yekaterinburg (1.456) | 146,880 | 17125,119 | 8.56 |
| Republic of Iceland | Reykjavik (0.119) | Kuopavogur (0.033), Hafnafjordur (0.028), Akureyri (0.018) | 0.322 | 103,125 | 3,1 |
More spacious in southern Europe
An analysis of the available numbers allows us to draw conclusions about the population density of Southern Europe. It is much smaller than in the northern part of the continent. Only the very northern Scandinavian countries have a population below the South European.
Why? It’s warmer there
Despite the more comfortable climatic conditions of the south, the reasons for such a “warp” are as follows:
1. The best socio-economic development of the countries of northern Europe.
2. Lesser cultural and social heterogeneity of northerners. The basis of their population is Germanic peoples. In the south, these are Romans, Slavs, and Turks. And also isolated: Basques, Maltese, Albanians, Greeks. There are many different nations, and the population density of southern Europe is low.
3. Low urbanization (percentage of urban population) is explained by the agrarian nature of Southern Europe; agriculture does not need large cities.
4. The territorial extension of southern Europe, not conducive to close communication, the strengthening of economic ties.
5. The flow of external migrants from outside Europe seeks to enter the countries of the more developed North, which further increases the difference in population density in Southern Europe and Northern. In particular, indigenous southerners go to the north in search of a better share.
6. The turbulent political situation on the Balkan Peninsula. The collapse of Yugoslavia led to a large number of emigrants in the north, which also affected the population density of southern Europe.