THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD. 



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Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Portugal, Eonmania, Spain, Turkey, 

 Servia, Greece, Russia, and Sweden and Norway, the two largest countries 

 of Europe being reduced to tlie lowest grade in regard to the density of 

 the population. 



We shall now consider some of the great countries of Europe in de- 

 tail. 



The following table shows the states which, combined, form the Ger- 

 man empire : 



(a.) — GERMAN EMPIRE. 



states. 



Square miles. 



Population. 



Inhabitants 

 per square 

 mile. 



Kin^tloms of — 



Prussia, including Lauenburg 



Bavaria 



Saxony . . . 



"Wiirtemberg 



Total 



Grand duclii-es 



Duchies 



P;incipalities 



Free towns 



EIsass-Lotliringen 



134, 396 



29, 294 

 5,780 

 7,533 



24,691,203 

 4,661,402 

 2, 556, 244 

 1, 818, 484 



183. 72 

 165. C5 

 44-2. 26 

 241. 42 



177, 003 



18, 942 

 4,549 

 2,174 

 368 

 5,596 



33, 927, 333 



3, -57 1, 974 



1,019,414 



476, 262 



513, 6S>7 



1, 549, 459 



191.70 



]8t:.57 

 224. 10 

 219. 08 

 1,395.91 

 276. 90 



The above table shows th^it, amon^' the kingdoms which compose the 

 German empire, Saxony is the most important in point of density of 

 population, the number of inhabitants per square mile even exceeding 

 that of Belgium. 



The grand duchies are six in number, namely : Baden, Hessen, Meck- 

 lenburg Schwerin, Saxe-Weimar, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Oldenburg. 

 The largest population is found in Baden, (1,401,428 5) but it is most 

 dense in Hessen, amounting to 111.10 per square kilometer, or 287. Gl 

 per square mile, while in Mecklenburg-Strelitz it is represented by the 

 number 35.59 per square kilometer, or 92.17 x)er square mile. 



The duchies are Ave in number, namely: Brunswick, Saxe-Meiningen, 

 Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-CoburgGotha, and Anhalt, and the density of 

 their population is much more uniform than that of the grand duchies ; 

 Saxe-Altenburg, however, excelling, having 107 per square kilometer, 

 or 278.53 per square mile. 



The number of principalities is seven, namely: Schwarzburg-Eudol- 

 stadt, Schwarzburg-Sjondershausen, Waldeck, Eeuss, (senior branch,) 

 Reuss, (junior branch,) Schaumburg-Lippe, and Lippe-Detmold, and 

 their combined population does not reach half a million. The least 

 dense population is found in the largest of these principalities, Waldeck, 

 being 50,14 per square kilometer, or 130 per square mile; while in the 

 much smaller Reuss (senior branch) it numbers 164.12 per square kilo- 

 meter, or 425 per square mile, thus showing a density of three times 

 that of Waldeck. 



The free towns are Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg. In these the 

 density is very considerable, amounting in Hamburg to 827.21 per 

 square kilometer, or 2,142.25 per square mile. 



