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But with 4x the population...



Obviously the US has a very low overall population density, being for the most part a wasteland devoid of human life.

China, on the other hand, does not seem remarkable: higher than the European average, lower than Germany, way lower than India.

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Population+density+of+Chi...

Of course, it's a pointless metric and it fails to capture that China, too, is for the most part a wasteland devoid of human life and it still has about five times the USA's average density.




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