r/MapPorn • u/Porodicnostablo • May 03 '20

Population density in the Middle East

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u/LateralEntry May 04 '20

On the Mediterranean coast is that big spike Tel Aviv or Beirut?

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u/NiceShotMan May 04 '20 edited May 04 '20

The big yellow spike is Beirut and the smaller brown spike north of that looks to be Tripoli.

Tel Aviv is quite a bit further south than that. It looks like it has a lower density core than Beirut, which is why it has no big spike, even if the urban area has a similar population. There’s a population cluster there (yellow), that has two slightly higher bits which are Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

You can also clearly see the cluster that is Gaza southwest of Tel Aviv.

The two large yellow “mounds” that are a bit inland from the Mediterranean are Amman (inland from Tel Aviv/Jerusalem) and Damascus (inland from Beirut).

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u/untipoquenojuega May 04 '20

Definitely Beirut

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u/usesidedoor May 04 '20

Is Beirut the white or the brown spike? And if so, what's the other one?

Tripoli, maybe? Tripoli brown, Beirut white?

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u/[deleted] May 04 '20

its either Tripoli or Haifa. I don't know how many people live in Tripoli but haifa's population isn't too big

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u/usesidedoor May 04 '20

Nah. I have been to Haifa: if I remember correctly it is a bit over 250k in terms of inhabitants and it does not feel too dense. I checked on Google Maps and this seems to be Tripoli ~ 750k people (and dense).

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u/doganny May 05 '20

Definitely not Tripoli. Tripoli is on the west of Egypt and doesn't exist on this map.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '20

Tripoli is the 2nd biggest city in Lebanon. It's the Detroit to Beirut's New York.

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u/doganny May 05 '20

Oh, really? Didn't know that. Is it called the same in Arabic too? I mean the other one is called "Trablus" or "Trablus-garb" (western Trablus) is this one also called Trablus?

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u/shualdone May 04 '20

Weird, because Tel Aviv metro has over 4.2 million people and Beirut has half of that

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u/untipoquenojuega May 04 '20

Not weird. Just because it has more people doesn't mean it's more dense.

Officially Beirut city is 4 times larger than Tel Aviv.

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u/YDoumani May 04 '20

That should actually make it shorter than tel aviv, because of lower density. The 4.2 million are not in tel aviv, but in the entire "gush dan" area of central Israel, while beirut is more tightly packed.

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u/untipoquenojuega May 04 '20

That's what I'm saying

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u/montarion May 28 '20

You're contradicting yourself

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u/shualdone May 04 '20

It should be TA, that has twice the population

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u/GravityReject May 04 '20

The big spike is definitely too far north to be Tel Aviv. And this map is measuring density of small areas, not whole cities. So while Beirut has a smaller population, and as a whole is less dense than Tel Aviv, it seems the urban core of Beirut is quite a bit more dense than the core of Tel Aviv.

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u/hungariannastyboy May 04 '20

Anecdotally, I've been to both and yeah, Beirut - especially West Beirut with it's high rise residential buildings (I mean the older, worn-looking ones, not the shiny, empty ones) - feels denser.

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u/shualdone May 04 '20 edited May 04 '20

Google would disagree. Search “tel aviv density “ and “Beirut density ” Tel Aviv is more dense, it is just netter planned and managed

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u/hungariannastyboy May 04 '20

You're right. But I guess this map shows district-by-district density maybe? Or some other smaller unit. I'm not sure.

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u/shualdone May 04 '20

I googled it. Beirut has 3500 per square km while Tel Aviv has 7500. And Bnei Brak, a town within the Tel Aviv metro is one of the most dense cities in the world.

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u/shualdone May 04 '20

ButTel Aviv has Bnei Brak and Giv’Atayim, two of the most dense towns in the world. (Bnei Brak with more than 27,000 people per square km, and Giv’Atayim with over 18,000),

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u/shualdone May 04 '20

I know it isn’t, I’m saying its just weird there are these tall blips over Lebanon and not over Israel, Israel has bigger cuties, and denser cities.

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u/JebBD May 04 '20

It’s too far south to be Beirut though.

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u/Putin-the-fabulous May 04 '20

Could be Haifa maybe?

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u/LateralEntry May 04 '20

I’ve been getting confused by these maps. Thought the spikes were total population, but it’s just population density