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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If you had a 100 foot building with 50 people in it, that’s more densely populated than a 1000 foot building with 100 people in it.

Basically if you spread all the people out evenly, how close together they would be is the population density.

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