Guess the map 11: New map at least once per year

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Kyriakos said:
The US? It would have to be some very relative urbanization.

Eg in Greece virtually 8/10 of the population live in 5 cities.
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Here below another graph of urbanisation rate, that shows Greece in the same 60-80% rate.
Greece could be just below 80% ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization
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Hrothbern said:
Here below another graph of urbanisation rate, that shows Greece in the same 60-80% rate.
Greece could be just below 80% ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization
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Not sure, but almost 4/10 of the population lives in Athens... And another 1/10 in Thessalonike, so you get the idea :o
I suppose that they count very small towns as "cities" or urban, for US. Even so, i am surprised with the stat for Greece, cause very few people live in the countryside, though this may have changed a bit in recent years (but i doubt it has changed much).
 
@Hrothbern, that is the most useful map ever. Thanks to it we now know that Africa is less urbanized than Europe or north America. :p
 
Kyriakos said:
Not sure, but almost 4/10 of the population lives in Athens... And another 1/10 in Thessalonike, so you get the idea :o
I suppose that they count very small towns as "cities" or urban, for US. Even so, i am surprised with the stat for Greece, cause very few people live in the countryside, though this may have changed a bit in recent years (but i doubt it has changed much).
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The amount of the definition matters indeed.
IIRC the definition for urban was 5,000 inhabitants or so for a town and increased recently to 7,500.
But where I saw that, did not mention what the definition of a town was.
A fine definition for describing ancient/medieval civilisations. Urbanisation rate is after all one of the proxies to characterise the degree of non-agricultural to agricultural, a proxy for the development degree of civilisation.

If one bigger village is merged together with 3 smaller villages nearby for administration effeciency and then higher than 7,500 inhabitants,
is that urban or rural ?
Urban per definition and rural per our feeling.

I think that explains the US
Perhaps a better way to define urbanisation for current purposes would be to define it as the rate of people living in areas, 1 km granular size, with a population density higher than 500 per km2

On Greece:
I remember having read somewhere that 12% of the Greece jobs was considered to earn their (partial) income from agriculture.
That could again be a definition issue:
If I have a job or married to someone with a job and own somewhere a piece of land with some olive trees that generate some income... how am I registrated /
 
Thorgalaeg said:
@Hrothbern, that is the most useful map ever. Thanks to it we now know that Africa is less urbanized than Europe or north America. :p
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Just wait....
Until Nigeria has one of the biggest metropoles on Earth
 
ok, here another one:
It is amount per capita
To get some variation in our riddles I show three world maps, to show the development in chronological order: 1973, 1993, 2013

1973:
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1993:
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2013:
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Meat consumption.
 
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