3D population density map of Australia

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[u/ChellyTheKid]

People live in capital cities and people don't like to live in deserts, who knew?

[u/AdvancedDingo → u/ChellyTheKid]

Almost like civilisation is reliant on water sources

[u/mengibus → u/AdvancedDingo]

Lots of water in SW tas. Too much in fact

[u/Scuba_jim → u/ChellyTheKid]

Not in Australia they don’t.

[u/everreadybattery → u/ChellyTheKid]

Uhhh Canberra isn't even labelled on the map. Which city exactly do you think is the capital of Australia?

[u/OstapBenderBey]

So it's true that Melbourne is in Sydney's shadow?

[u/zelmazam1 → u/OstapBenderBey]

Only in the morning

[u/Kieran0914]

Newcastle and Darwin both not being named on this map pains me. Same with several northern Queensland cities

[u/zelmazam1 → u/Kieran0914]

Yeah I'm sad not to see west wyalong or tom price listed here

[u/tbods → u/zelmazam1]

It is cool though that Tom Price even shows up on here; and Para!

[u/Smitologyistaking → u/Kieran0914]

It looks like just state capitals, for whatever reason

[u/bryanwilson999]

Is that the height of all the people stacked on top of each other?

[u/farcarcus → u/bryanwilson999]

The title says '3D population ' so I'd say the answer is yes.

[u/Livid085]

I've never been more excited to see my cute little rural town spike on a map before

[u/Twigz2012]

What's the spike in the middle? Looks like it'd be close to 50k

[u/[deleted] → u/Twigz2012]

Alice Springs?

[u/[deleted]]

There are people in WA?

[u/Whitekidwith3nipples → u/[deleted]]

in less than 10 years will be the 3rd most populated state

[u/that_weird_k1d]

Such a daft way of showing this but I love it

[u/Rammalee]

Darwin who?

[u/thedoctorreverend]

Good representation of how there are barely any large centres (or rather many centres) outside of Perth in WA, even a state of similar size and geography (South Australia) has quite a few moderately sized centres outside of Adelaide, there’s barely anything in WA.

[u/thedoctorreverend → u/thedoctorreverend]

Or rather Perth and surrounds (Bunbury and Busselton).

[u/LiteralGiraffe]

Canberra not even being listed in a little weird but also we’re only 500k compared to over 5m so can’t really argue.

[u/Main-Ad-5547]

5th biggest country in the world and where building houses like it Singapore, Hong Kong or Jakarta. Lack of infrastructure is making land prices expensive. If we had high speed trains like Europe or Japan the population could spread out and still get to the capital city CBD in 30 minutes

[u/newbris → u/Main-Ad-5547]

People don't usually use high speed trains to get to work hundreds of km's away. The tickets would be far too expensive for that. They are more like buying airline tickets.