:2 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE
There are also countries, with populations of a
million and over, with a density of less than 10 persons
per square mile. These are: —
Belgian Congo . 94
Brazil : 9:3
French Cameroons . go
Angola . . 8-7
Argentine Republic. 8-6
Portuguese E. Africa 7-3
Arabia . ’ . 70
Venezuela  . . 65

Anglo-Egypt, Sudan . 6-4
Rhodesia . . . 46
French Equat. Africa 3-2
Terr. Niger . 30
Canada . ‘ . 26
Australia . . . 21
Russia in Asia . . I'4
Tripolitania . 13
Smaller populations and areas afford examples of
still greater density of occupation. The following are
examples :—
Macao ‘
Gibraltar .
Monaco .
Hong-Kong
Kwantung .
Malta .

On the other hand, very cold and desert regions
afford examples of very slight population-density.
Thus we have: —

Very cold countries.
Iceland . 2-5
Russia in Asia 14
Greenland . 03
Alaska. | . 0°09
Spitzbergen. . 003%

Desert countries.
Arabia . . . 70
Italian Somaliland . 6-5
French Equat. Africa 3-2
Tripolitania . 13
French Sahara . . 04
The preceding examples are sufficient to illustrate
the great diversity in the density of the distribution of
the human race; they also may be taken to indicate
that, at any given point of time, the actual capacity of
different parts of the earth’s surface to carry population