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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Population density has to with how many people live in a given area, so while California has the most people overall New Jersey has the most people living in a given square mile(or whatever measurement the stats you found used)
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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