Silly Little Country

You'd think they could check

Stephen Pollard did check.

Selected estimates of population density:

Mumbai
27,209 people/sq km
http://www.mcgm.gov.in/

...

Tel Aviv
7,445 people/sq km
(385,000 people, 51.8 sq km)

Hong Kong
6,352 people/sq km
http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/population.pdf

Singapore
6,252 people/sq km
http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/keyind.html

...

Gaza Strip per CIA projection
4,270 people/sq km
(1,537,269 population July 2008, 360 sq km)

Gaza Strip per George Galloway
4,167 people/sq km
(1.5 million people, 360 sq km)

Gaza Strip per Daoud Kuttab
3,822 people/sq km

I am not sure why every news medium I am following continues to assert that the Gaza strip is so densely populated, but they are still at it today.

Labels: fact-checking, lemming journalism

posted by Alan Adamson @ 5:47 AM