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Originally Posted by DubberDom
The "City of Ottawa" is 2796sq km (1080sq mi), and the urban zone is 512sq km (around 200sq mi) based on the city's data
# Population: 900,000 (mid 2009)
# Households: 366,550 (mid 2009)
# Area: 2,796 kilometres (1,080 square miles); 90 kilometres east to west
# Ottawa's area is almost 80 per cent rural
You could probably estimate that 800,000 of the population within the City's limit are considered "urban", so the math would say :
Population per sq km: 1562/km2 (give of take...)
You can't include the greenbelt in the land use calculations since it is a prohibited building area, treat is like a waterway... I doubt Lake Ontario falls into Toronto's numbers, nor Vancouver's mountains either....
The CMA numbers are all screwed up, see the following figures:
http://www.chpc.biz/Census_Population.htm
Please explain how Edmonton is over 9000sq km? The CMA figures are out of whack, then the Toronto CMA should start at Bowmanville and extend to St-Catherines and to all the way north to Barrie and west to Kitchener. |
Again, if you took only the Urban parts of Toronto or Montréal, you would have over 10 000/km2...
This is the CMA of Montréal:
I don't agree with your Greenbelt comment, since it is mostly responsible for Ottawa's sprawl. If Vancouver stretched out the other side of the mountain, these numbers would have been included in the CMA.
If you're not happy, blame StatsCan!
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