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Originally Posted by Yuri
Egypt seems rather large (996,603 km²) but 96% of the territory is unhabitable desert and the 100 million Egyptians and all their agriculture happen on only 35,000 km² (slightly bigger the Belgium), meaning an effective density of 2,800 people/km². That's more than any urban area in the US or Canada for instance.
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Actually, Toronto's urban area density is 3,037/sqkm and Montreal's is 2,893/sqkm.
But yeah, point taken - the Nile Delta in particular is a pretty crazy patchwork of urbanity. And one that's rapidly losing arable land area due to population growth pressures:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/im...aring-farmland