Labs / Geography
Population Density Mapper
Drag across the map to settle people — a tight brush builds a city, a loose one scatters villages. A grid counts everyone cell by cell and shades each square by how crowded it is, so you can see at a glance where the countryside ends and the city begins.
Pop 0Avg 0/km²Peak 0/km²Rural 0/km²
What to try
- What happens to the peak density when you pack a city into one corner versus spreading the same people out?
- Slide the grid from 4×4 up to 24×24 — why does the peak cell's density keep climbing as the cells shrink?
- With Terrain on, why do your brushed people refuse to settle on the mountains and desert?
- Can you make the average density high while the sparsest rural cell stays tiny? What does that gap tell you about a country?
- Turn off the dots and keep only the choropleth — is it easier or harder to judge exactly how many people live there?