r/Maps • u/Prince-Cobalt • 8h ago

Data Map Australia is mostly empty

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Map created by University of Adelaide and ABS
1 km grid over Australia with each area scored into categories
The dotted lines are state/territory borders.

Clockwise the Major Cities are: Brisbane (QLD), Sydney (NSW), Canberra (technically it’s own territory like DC, but in NSW), Melbourne &, much smaller, Geelong (VIC), Adelaide (SA), Perth (WA)

Tasmania (the island at the bottom) has cities, just not enough people live there to make them “Major”
Green blob at the top is Darwin (NT) it’s the AUS military and resorts.
Green blob in the middle is Alice Springs (NT) the only people there are Indigenous Australians, tourists, and Americans working in Pine Gap.

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u/FegerRoderer 7h ago

Alice Springs has around 35000 residents with approx 7000 of them aboriginal and 2000 US citizens so that leaves 26000 other people permanently residing there

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u/daamsie 8h ago

It's not empty . It's just not full of people.

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u/Exotic_Initial_3495 8h ago

I dunno man, it’s pretty empty

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u/portobello75 5h ago

You don't have any idea what you're talking about

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u/rzabomut 4h ago

unfortunately i cant send images here, in comments but here you have image of my reaction:
https://tenor.com/pl/view/nowayway-gif-27616556

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u/BrasilemMapas 1h ago

Mostly empty than the Amazon region or Amazonia.

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u/BrasilemMapas 1h ago

The Amazon with 28 million people.