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Highest Population Densities

The Ten Countries With the Highest Population Density

By Matt Rosenberg, About.com

Aug 27 2006
According to the Population Reference Bureau, these ten countries have the world's highest population densities, in people per square mile.

1. Monaco - 44,000 people per square mile
2. Singapore - 18,652
3. Malta - 3,278
4. Bahrain - 2,793
5. Bangladesh - 2,637
6. Maldives - 2,573
7. Barbados - 1,626
8. Mauritius - 1,592
9. Nauru - 1,529
10. San Marino - 1,338

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