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Originally Posted by thewave46
Northern Manitoba and much of Northwestern Ontario are about the same 'remoteness', if the only way in or out is a winter road/bush plane. Yet the map classifies them differently.
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You can see provincial boundaries in a lot of these maps, including on the road map where just over the border Saskatchewan seems to have a less developed road network than Manitoba. Maybe they do but it could just be the classification and you can see SK has a similar density of roads.
I agree if you have no road access whatsoever you're basically at max remoteness and in remote areas you care about what basic services you can get to within some reasonable timeframe, not having a 200k vs 2 million person urban area 8 hours away.
A high resolution population density map showing the full settlement patterns is probably most expressive overall.