What is the difference between “most populous” and “most densely populated”?

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For example, according to my research, California is the “most populous” state in the country but New Jersey shows up as the “most densely populated” state. I thought the latter essentially meant “the state with the biggest population” (same as the former). How do they differ? Are they related in any way?

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Has to do with the amount of people in one space rather than the amount of people.

So the amount of people relative to the amount of space. Basically, there’s a ton of people in a small state like NJ so the population is dense.

CA just has a sheer amount of people, and just population # doesn’t take into account relative to the amount of space.

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