<story><title>Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/57102499</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sequoia</author><text>Tangentially related but where does this come from and why is it so widely repeated (as in this article):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...Gaza, one of the most densely populated places in the world&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen this claim (both in the &amp;quot;one of the most...&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; #1 most...&amp;quot; forms) many times and I don&amp;#x27;t know where it comes from. What am I missing?&lt;p&gt;Here[0] wikipedia says Gaza Strip has ~5,046&amp;#x2F;sqkm. I thought maybe Gaza City was meant, it&amp;#x27;s density is 13,000&amp;#x2F;sqkm[1]. Neither of these come close to ranking on wikipedias list of cities by population density[2], and I haven&amp;#x27;t been able to find any &amp;quot;most populated places&amp;quot; lists that list anything below 15,000 people per square kilometer, which Gaza city is well below.&lt;p&gt;Is the BBC just plain wrong here or am I missing something? I hope it&amp;#x27;s me because if it&amp;#x27;s the former, that says something really bad about their fact checking and would suggest that BBC is not a reliable&amp;#x2F;trustworthy source, at least on this topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    0: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gaza_Strip
    1: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gaza_City
    2: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_cities_proper_by_population_density&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re probably missing this listing:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_countries_and_dependen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where Gaza listed as its own country, it would be one of the densest, since it&amp;#x27;s basically a city and its urban sprawl and nothing more (like the other densest entries on the list). Of course, Gaza is itself arguably only part of Palestine, but the West Bank itself is pretty dense (see how high Palestine ranks on that list).</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/57102499</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sequoia</author><text>Tangentially related but where does this come from and why is it so widely repeated (as in this article):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...Gaza, one of the most densely populated places in the world&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen this claim (both in the &amp;quot;one of the most...&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; #1 most...&amp;quot; forms) many times and I don&amp;#x27;t know where it comes from. What am I missing?&lt;p&gt;Here[0] wikipedia says Gaza Strip has ~5,046&amp;#x2F;sqkm. I thought maybe Gaza City was meant, it&amp;#x27;s density is 13,000&amp;#x2F;sqkm[1]. Neither of these come close to ranking on wikipedias list of cities by population density[2], and I haven&amp;#x27;t been able to find any &amp;quot;most populated places&amp;quot; lists that list anything below 15,000 people per square kilometer, which Gaza city is well below.&lt;p&gt;Is the BBC just plain wrong here or am I missing something? I hope it&amp;#x27;s me because if it&amp;#x27;s the former, that says something really bad about their fact checking and would suggest that BBC is not a reliable&amp;#x2F;trustworthy source, at least on this topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    0: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gaza_Strip
    1: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gaza_City
    2: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_cities_proper_by_population_density&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avip</author><text>Gaza would have ranked 5th on population density, or 3rd if you remove places with tiny population (i.e take a &amp;quot;pop &amp;gt; 1MM&amp;quot; threshold).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s basically after Singapore and Hong-Kong.</text></comment>