Population Density Practice

What is the formula for calculating population density?

If a city has a population of 1,000,000 and an area of 500 square kilometers, what is its population density?

• 2,000 people per square kilometer

• 1,000 people per square kilometer

• 500 people per square kilometer

• 2,500 people per square kilometer

A country has a population of 50 million and an area of 250,000 square kilometers. What is its population density?

• 200 people per square kilometer

• 250 people per square kilometer

• 150 people per square kilometer

• 300 people per square kilometer

A region has a population of 5,000 and an area of 25 square kilometers. What is the population density?

• 100 people per square kilometer

• 200 people per square kilometer

• 150 people per square kilometer

• 250 people per square kilometer

A rural area has a population of 2,000 and an area of 100 square kilometers. What is the population density?

• 20 people per square kilometer

• 25 people per square kilometer

• 15 people per square kilometer

• 30 people per square kilometer

The population of 10 mile radius area is 1,400,000 people.

Find the population density.

Show your work.

• 8912 people/mi²

• 4456.3 people/ mi²

• 14,000,000 people/ mi²

• 3279.5 people/mi²

As of 2015, the most densely populated state in the US was New Jersey. The 2015 population was 8,957,907 people and the land area was 7,354 square miles. What is the the population density to the nearest tenth?

• 1218.1 people per sq mi

• 1500 people per sq. mi.

• 325 people per sq. mi.

• 8569 people per sq. mi.

A city has a population of 8792 people. The area of the city is approximately 6.5 square miles. Approximately, how many people per square mile live in the city?

• 57148
• 208
• 1353
• 135

If a country has a total land area of 2,000,000 square kilometers and a population of 100,000,000, what is the population density?

• 20 people/sq km

• 50 people/sq km

• 40 people/sq km

• 30 people/sq km

What is the population density (people per square kilometer) of a city that has a population of 500,000 people and covers an area of 250 square kilometers?

• 1000 people/sq km

• 2000 people/sq km

• 2500 people/sq km

• 500 people/sq km

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