EU Urbanization (map!)

[SHiRO]

I've been working on this map for several days.
It's not entirely selfmade, I found it somewhere on the internet but I had to take all irrelevant things off and change colors, which took
a lot of time.
Enjoy...

[Cirrus]

Neato.

Also: Wow Belgium! I had no idea.

Also also: Why aren't Andorra, San Marino and Lichtenstein in the EU?

[MSPtoMKE]

Now that, right there, is a cool map!

[UrbanSophist]

Wow, London is big compared to all the other cities.

[aufbau]

Neat map! I can see The Netherlands' Ranstad region. This map makes Portugal, Ireland and the Nordic region look so empty.

[James Bond Agent 007]

Somebody ate Switzerland.

[BTinSF]

Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

Somebody ate Switzerland.

Not a member of the EU. I was wondering what he had against Norway until I realized why it was a big blank too--and poor little Andorra.

[James Bond Agent 007]

^
I know that. But it still looks funny with a hole where Switzerland is,

[BTinSF]

Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

^
I know that. But it still looks funny with a hole where Switzerland is,

I think the Andorran hole is tragic.

[Julito-Dubai]

They are not in the EU, because they don't have economomic benefit of it, as they are that small. Liechtenstein is a tax heaven and would not profit from free trade (especially as they are economically tied to Switzerland and share a common market with it).

[Grumpy]

Interesting map , didn't know some areas were that urbanized in the EU

[R@ptor]

I always thought Spain's mediterranean coast would be denser populated.

[arbeiter]

The area near the Czech border near Krakow, Poland looks to be a much larger metro area than I thought!

[SHiRO]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

Also: Wow Belgium! I had no idea.

Yeah they have very lax building codes down there, which results in sprawling countryside towns. I for one think it's a mess...
But don't be fooled, if you take out the scarsely populated south of Belgium and you do the same with the scarsely populated north of the Netherlands so that you'll end up with roughly the same area, the Netherlands has 14 million on the same area Belgium has 10 million.

Here's a map of the border region, you will see the difference. The Netherlands north of the border with North Brabant province, roughly 2,3 million people in the area displayed. South of the border a part of Antwerp province in Belgium with roughly 1,3 million people in the area displayed.

Originally Posted by Cirrus

Also also: Why aren't Andorra, San Marino and Lichtenstein in the EU?

One word. Tax havens!
Also note that the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Bornholm are not in the EU.

Originally Posted by R@ptor

I always thought Spain's mediterranean coast would be denser populated.

It is densely populated, but mainly directely at the coast with the hinterland quite empty. This shows up on the map as red spots along the coast, but not sprawling inwards.

Originally Posted by arbeiter

The area near the Czech border near Krakow, Poland looks to be a much larger metro area than I thought!

That's the Katowice/Upper Silesia metro area with 3,5 million inhabitants. It's like a mini Ruhr Gebiet.
Krakow is the first big blot to the right of it, the one which looks like ET's head...

[FREKI]

Awesome map!

Here's a high res pic of Denmark in case you want to add the small missing parts

( Unfortunatly most suburbs and villages blend into nature on it.. but it still gives an idea about the desity )

[staff]

Copenhagen's urban area looks correct in size while Malmö's looks to small. Are they made from different original maps? Malmö is very small by area but not as small as in this map.
How do I correct it?

Doesn't Paris look a tad bit oversized as well?

This map also shows how huge Milan's metropolitan area actually is. The city itself is not that big, but it has some 8 million people in it's nearby metro area!

This thread made my day, by the way! You know I got love for these kinds of maps, SHiRO. Thanks!

[staff]

Originally Posted by SHiRO

Also note that the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Bornholm are not in the EU.

Bornholm not in the EU?
That's news to me!


On another note: The map shows that Copenhagen's urban area is quite sprawly (pretty big and still only holds some 1,6 million people), whereas the city proper/inner city is very dense (perhaps one of the more dense in EU as a whole).

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

This map is quite detailed in the areas its picking up!

One can see the Friedberg/Bad Nauheim twin towns just north of Frankfurt, and the string of urbanization along the "Bergstrasse" agricutural region, connecting the Rhine-Main area with Ludwigshaven/Mannheim/Heidelberg. The sparsly populated lowland "Hessiche Reid" along the Rhine (parallelling the Bergstrasse) shows up as a blank, too.

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

The area near the Czech border near Krakow, Poland looks to be a much larger metro area than I thought!

Yeah thats that old Silesian industrial district, sort of a "Ruhr East"...mining and steel mills and chemical works.

I new it was a sort of urban region, but am suprised, too, at the scale there.

[EtherealMist]

theres no scale! what does the red mean? 20,000 p sq mile?