--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: For example, Belgium and the Netherlands are more overpopulated than India, but not as much as Bangladesh. Germany is more overpopulated than China. Sweden and Canada are among the least populated countries in the world, but that would change dramatically if you exclude from the equation the inhabitable areas that comprise large shares of these countries' territories. Ditto about Russia.
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Despite being the third-largest target for immigration in the world (after the US and Germany), it is not at all easy to get Russian citizenship.
*0% of the population lives on 20% of the territory, and 1 in 15 people in Russia lives in Moscow. Yakutia (Sakha Repiblic), is the size of India and has a pop of 100,000. The government spends something like 1-2% of GDP a year just keeping parts of Siberia and the Far livable -- airlifting in supplies, moving entire communities when the cold hits, calling in military air strikes on ice-blocked rivers, etc. Fiona Hill has a good article on this in the October issue of Current History.
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