Where People Live on Planet Earth
Explanation:
Where do
people live on
Planet Earth?
Although
people inhabit every
continent, the highest population densities occur in
Asia.
Sparsely inhabited regions occur on virtually every continent,
however, including the
Sahara Desert in
Africa, the Great White North of
North America, the
outback of
Australia, the
Amazon of
South America, and the
Himalayan Mountains of
Asia.
The
above color-coded map was produced from populations estimates made for 1994,
when the
world population was about 5.5 billion.
Current estimates place the
world population at about 6.3 billion.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
