You may think you live in the middle of nowhere. If there’s houses even a kilometre around you, think again.
The UK is actually covered in in greenery. As a staggering report from the BBC found, only 5.9 per cent of the land in the country is actually built on.
The lowest proportion is found in Scotland, where only 2.1 per cent of land is built on.
This has been further visualised, in graphics tweeted by an expert.
Conrad Hackett, a senior demographer & associate director at the Pew Research Center, tweeted:
Map thread: Where nobody lives
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 1, 2018
Where nobody in the UK lives
map by @georgia_corr pic.twitter.com/DdZ71VCcX4— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 1, 2018
He followed up the map with a thread of tweets detailing the same data for different countries.
Where nobody in France lives
map by @matamix pic.twitter.com/wbgpNSUcBA— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 1, 2018
Where nobody in the US lives
map by @nikfrrr pic.twitter.com/OxXPqoDjKB— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 1, 2018
Where nobody in Canada lives
map by Michael Chung pic.twitter.com/7V7s1fMAzg— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 1, 2018
Where nobody in Finland lives
map by @hezec pic.twitter.com/iRKnByjP2f— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) February 1, 2018
As some people pointed out, there are issues with presenting the map purely as unexplored land for building:
Of course, not every yellow area is actually habitable
— Angelak (@Angelak321) February 1, 2018
Some also complained that their areas were incorrectly marked as uninhabited:
This is fake. It says no one lives where i live even though there are hundreds of thousands of people here..
— Kris (@KrisLAD_) February 1, 2018
The town I live near is highlighted yellow, and 40,000 + people live there?
— Holly (@hollyrr17) February 1, 2018
At a quick glance,I note that one such “uninhabited “yellow area,is in fact Lough Neath in Ireland.(it’s a lake).
— Gerry mc Dermott (@gerrymac6511) February 1, 2018
Source : Conrad Hackett
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