The cartographer recently confirmed the assumption that a circle with a radius of 4,000 km can actually be drawn on a map of the Earth in which more people live than outside the circle. We present Yuxi circle, which is therefore nothing more than the most densely populated area on the planet.
In 2013, a special post began circulating on the Reddit community site, which claimed that looking at a map of the Earth, a circle with a radius of 4,000 kilometers could be plotted, with more people living inside the circle than outside it. Cartographer Alasdair Ray decided to throw himself into the subject and checkwhether the statement is true. He finally came to the conclusion that such a circle can indeed be drawn. This became called Yuxi circle, which covers 55 percent of the Earth’s total population – It turns out that a optical capitalist from the summary.
Ray’s methodology was simple. He’s plotted 4,000-kilometre radii around a total of 1,500 cities and looked at how many live inside them – based on data for 2020 when the Earth’s total population was 7.8 billion.
Of the 1,500 circles drawn, 148 came out with no less than 4 billion people living within them, and most of these circles were concentrated in Asian cities. At the top of the list was the so-called Yuxi circle, an area with a radius of 4,000 km and centered in Yuxi City in Yunnan Province, China. The radius of 4000 kilometers, of course, is a large distance in itself, but it can be seen that the Yuxi circle also covers a relatively small area compared to the land areas on Earth.
There are 4.32 billion people in the circle, or 55 percent of the world’s population. In addition, the result is a number of very sparsely populated areas within the circle, Such as the Takla-Makan desert, the Tibetan plateau, Mongolia and southern Siberia.
By the way, the cartographer also identified several densely populated areas with centers outside Asia. Examples of these centers are Cairo (2.29 billion people), Paris (1.19 billion people), and Mexico City (0.73 billion people).
Finally, an interesting addition to the research is that in 2015, a researcher at the London School of Economics went even further in examining circuits. Danny Kwah show upwho – whichYou can also draw a circle with a smaller radius to find an area where more people live than outside the circle.
Its center is located near Mongkhet in Myanmar. And around the center, a radius of 3,300 km is enough to find the most densely populated area on Earth.
