Countries with the Lowest Population Density

Try to name the 20 countries with the lowest population density.

Density in people / square kilometer. Not counting external territories such as Greenland.

Population as of 9 May 2025

Also see Countries with the Highest Population Density.

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First submitted	July 25, 2012
Times taken	169,763
Average score	65.0%
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Density	Country
2.24	Mongolia
3.50	Australia
3.74	Namibia
3.86	Iceland
3.89	Guyana
3.90	Suriname
4.01	Canada

Density	Country
4.23	Libya
4.39	Botswana
5.14	Mauritania
7.64	Kazakhstan
8.43	Russia
8.81	Central African Republic
9.70	Gabon

Density	Country
11.4	Bolivia
15.6	Turkmenistan
16.0	Saudi Arabia
16.3	Chad
16.5	Argentina
16.6	Finland

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108 Recent Comments

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Level 45

Sep 1, 2015

Oman, this quiz was kinda difficult for me.

+59

Level 54

Sep 18, 2015

Belize me, I didn't do as well as I thought I would either.

+39

Level 35

Jun 14, 2016

CARm on guys! Need to pick it up a bit more.

+64

Level 66

Sep 3, 2016

My score was so bad it made me want to move to another country and change my Suriname

+24

Level 70

Dec 23, 2017

oman that's a terrible pun!

+42

Level 92

Nov 3, 2018

Canada ya a favor and tell you you're just embarrassing yourself?

+47

Level 67

Nov 12, 2018

Well, at least there's Norway this can get any worse…

+43

Level 93

Dec 4, 2018

I Syria-sly doubt that.

+25

Level 72

Dec 4, 2018

OuCH! 'AD enough of this! Russian' around the place to escape. If I said I didn't find it funny Icelander you though.

+42

Level 46

Dec 14, 2018

I'm Ghana freak out at the next pun.

Level 79

May 21, 2019

N-word, Belize!

+36

Level 70

May 31, 2019

Why do you Botswana continue this chain.

+17

Level 25

Jun 12, 2019

There is Guyana girl chatting to one another

+15

Level 56

Aug 14, 2019

This chain is never Ghana end Mozam-beCARse there's too many countries Indi-a world, Niger.

+32

Level 58

Jun 7, 2020

This is starting Togo towards being the worst pun chain on Jetpunk.

+16

Level 55

Jun 7, 2020

You all Mauritania-ward for these amazing puns!

+27

Level 87

Jun 8, 2020

I've Benin some Laos-y threads on JetPunk, Tuvalu-minous to count, but this ano-Mali takes the cake. I think everyone a-Greece.

+12

Level 77

Jun 9, 2020

Stop this Chad-ing, it's getting Mali-gnant

+10

Level 42

Dec 1, 2020

I think this chain is actually quite UK - well, more or Lesotho.

+22

Level 71

Dec 12, 2020

Kuwait a minute, are you telling me this comment thread had been going 5 years without Finnish?

+24

Level 51

Jan 14, 2021

If you want it to Finnish you're gonna have to Sweden the deal a bit

Level 44

Jan 21, 2021

This deal will always be SAU-di.

Level 37

Feb 10, 2021

I've never benin a country pun chain such as this one before.

Level 64

Mar 9, 2021

this is ghana give me a headache, I got togo.

Level 39

Mar 9, 2021

i bet there are some better puns india back of my brain

Level 35

Jul 19, 2021

I bet there are Ger-many people who want this to end

+10

Level 37

Feb 3, 2022

Ye-men we should really stop

+13

Level 33

Feb 8, 2022

anyone with a bahrain knows theres norway this will stop

Level 89

Feb 24, 2022

I wonder how long this Congo on

Level 43

May 6, 2022

ThiSpain is killing me

Level 61

May 6, 2022

We are all just China have some fun.

Canada-ble pun join the chain?

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Level 79

May 6, 2022

Kenya believe this has been going for seven years?!

Level 80

May 6, 2022

7 years... I can't believe Israel!

+10

Level 63

May 7, 2022

You must live under Iraq if you haven't seen this before

Level 66

May 26, 2022

I really don't appreciate all the puns, I'm china focus on eating my turkey, which, alas, karrots are not part of this meal. The chef must have a terrible korea

Level 27

Jun 5, 2022

I need to put in mauritaniar in order to eat my turkey, but I need to eritreas my steps beCARse I forgot where I put it

Level 55

Aug 1, 2022

Iran from the ghost I saw.

Level 66

Oct 4, 2022

Stop acting like gabons and Libya alone

Level 54

Oct 30, 2022

This Israelly getting out of hand...

Level 56

Feb 13, 2023

I can't Bolivia thought of so many puns!

Level 63

Feb 13, 2023

I'm ghana go to get in the CAR so i can leave. I've Benin hear tuvalung.

Level 46

May 5, 2023

sorry did we go Tuvalu. I'll Libya alone now

Level 43

Jun 1, 2023

I bhutan apple on the table.

Level 49

Nov 16, 2025

after I impregnated her, Iran

Level 40

Jun 11, 2021

Yemen!

Level 61

Sep 8, 2023

Honestly I am not Ghana go to travel, just Togo to a place Ive Benin before. Or IT A LYric.

Level 65

Feb 12, 2024

This chain is as goat-like as Michael Jordan or Lebanon James, or even Russial Westbrook.

Level 32

May 21, 2024

This Congo any longer

Level 58

Sep 10, 2024

I can't Belize this chain went on for so long, Israeli not OK. I'mma send my Para-guay bf round, as he's Hungary to teach you a lesson for starting this foolishness. You gotta be more Syrias after all

Level 57

Apr 30, 2025

Naur-U-ganda wrong way, you have to be happy in life, not Syria s all the time, otherwise your Chile-dren are not gonna have a good Chinahood, and you'll bots-wana die young. Whaich isn't good

Level 65

May 9, 2025

I don't Haiti that this Canada stop but Israelly un-Belizeable that I'm Russian into this. People who say we need Laos of this Kuwait for a Bahrain.

Level 65

May 9, 2025

I really must Tel Aviv about this chain's ten-ure length so far.

Level 30

Mar 23, 2026

Syria-sly. Iran out of things to say a while ago. I'm starting to Spain under the pressure of keeping this going.

Level 28

Apr 1, 2026

I've Benin this situation before.

Level 65

Apr 29, 2016

I didn't get Iceland (sorry bud), CAR, Guyana, Suriname and Belize

Level 74

Jul 12, 2016

Denmark should make the list.

Was Greenland taken into account when calculating the density for Denmark?

+14

Level 80

Jul 14, 2016

Seeing as how it wasn't in the answers, clearly not.

+14

Level 26

Mar 31, 2020

"Not counting external territories such as Greenland." It's on the caveat.

Level 76

Jun 15, 2024

Probably wasn't when he commented 4 years earlier

Level 22

Jul 15, 2016

How did I NOT get Iceland? My favourite country!

Level 22

Jul 18, 2016

I was guessing all these countries and I was surprised that belize is on here and so few people got it

Level 26

Feb 25, 2018

I got Gabon and not Turkmenistan...what is my mind

Level 31

Apr 23, 2018

Fricken Gabon and Belize

Level 67

Nov 12, 2018

Gabon. IT'S ALWAYS FREAKIN' GABON.

Level 79

Nov 26, 2018

Belize must have just dropped off because it says the 5 points I earned on this today were new, and it's not on the list now.

Level 74

Nov 3, 2018

Some quite obscure answers on here have reasonably high scores. I can only assume people read the comments before they try the quiz.

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Level 67

Nov 12, 2018

One person's obscurity is another's obvious answer.

Level 79

Nov 26, 2018

I got them all without cheating. I started with the answer I knew was #1. Then I guessed Iceland because I know they have a very low population and I remember seeing them on such lists before. Then I moved on to guessing countries that were very large with relatively low populations... mostly the frozen, jungle, or desert countries I referenced in a comment above. That took care of all the rest in the Americas, Asia, northern Europe, and the Sahara. And finally I turned to guessing random countries in Africa since I know that African countries by and large, though growing rapidly now, still don't have the population density of most more prosperous countries- that got me the last few stragglers.

Level 79

May 6, 2022

This comment seems to have gone missing now. I remember pointing out before that most of these countries are not very hospitable to human habitation, being either desert, jungle or tundra.

Level 74

Dec 4, 2018

According to Wikipedia Niger's density is 12.1. Also, the numbers in the answer stats and in the quiz itself don't match. :S

Level 79

Dec 4, 2018

I literally tried each and every one of the "-stans" (except Pakistan) before I thought "Nah, Turkmenistan's not gonna be on there either…"

Level 79

Dec 4, 2018

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are relatively small. Uzbekistan is fairly populous. Kazakhstan makes the list.

Level 57

Jun 7, 2020

you forgot to mention Afghanistan

Level 47

Dec 5, 2018

Missed Bolivia for some reason, got 23 though.

Level 46

May 5, 2023

I can't Bolivia

Level 50

Mar 8, 2020

How did I forget Iceland and even AUSTRALIA?

Also, I was going to type Botswana but time ended and forgot how to type C.A.R.(:D)

Good quiz!

Level 77

Jun 7, 2020

Can't believe I forgot Canada.

Level 65

Jun 8, 2020

if palestine was a country it would be here considering that all they have is desert

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Level 50

Jun 8, 2020

Actually Palestine is very densely populated, being almost entirely urban. The Gaza Strip in particular is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/212340/20-most-densely-populated-countries-and-territories

Level 79

May 9, 2025

Gotta respect the confidence of complete ignorance

Level 31

Sep 8, 2020

oman we need to start the pun chain again

Level 33

Feb 8, 2022

kuwait, there's already another one

Level 68

May 19, 2023

mali could think of I already used

Level 67

Sep 12, 2020

Got Suriname. Got Gabon. Got Turkmenistan. Got Congo. Got Mauritania. Got CAR. Forgot Russia. :.(

Level 27

Sep 3, 2025

skul, dw me too

Level 48

Sep 13, 2020

i feel like that greenland should count as part of denmark and not be left out totally.

Level 76

Dec 4, 2020

I like how the first 5 are from 5 different continents.

Level 24

Sep 27, 2021

Gabooooooooooooon!

Why does almost every game I play has Gabon?

Level 63

May 7, 2022

Equatorial Guinea is the one that seems randomly everywhere for me. Crude oil, Spanish-speaking countries... But I guess Equatorial Guinea has only 93 features quiz appearances and Gabon has 112 features quiz appearances.

Level 33

Feb 8, 2022

i somehow got both guyana and suriname, don't ask how

Level 89

Feb 24, 2022

How?

Level 88

Apr 18, 2022

You spray enough shot out there, sometimes you get a hit. I'm talking to you, Gabon.

Level 68

May 6, 2022

I always found it amusing that the world's least densely-populated country (Mongolia) is right next to, arguably, its most intensely-populated (China).

Level 67

Mar 7, 2023

China is not that dense, around 150 per km2. Countries like India are much higher (same population, much smaller territory), countries like Bangladesh or the Netherlands are at another order of magnitude. But the top of the list are small city-states like Singapore or Monaco.

China has a lot of relatively empty land, notably in the west of the country.

Level 46

May 6, 2022

Finally I got them all, 1:08 left! Bolivia was the last one

Level 69

Nov 21, 2022

I haven't benin one of these countries, I think im ready togo.

Level 74

Jul 3, 2023

I tried all but 2 of the ‘Stans (if you include Pakistan in that group) and then moved on, I tried all but three of the countries in South America before moving on. All were correct answers. Frustrating.

Great quiz though.

Level 63

Jul 4, 2023

Just like me with South America. I didn't try probably the same 3 (or Brazil) and spent about a minute wondering what I could have missed. I got them with 4 seconds left.

Level 69

Jul 6, 2023

oh no I misspelled Mauritania, didnt noticed it, thought it wasnt on the list bc it didnt accept it, and couldnt find out the last one bc I've already tried it. So sad

Level 22

Jul 8, 2023

Where is South Sudan?

Level 72

Oct 12, 2023

South of Sudan

Level 77

Jul 25, 2023

crazy how the numbers are still so high

Level 52

Oct 13, 2023

Wow, I got this on the first try.

Knew a lot of these countries would be here, then I just kept guessing more south American and African countries, and got it.

Level 65

Jun 1, 2024

I bet that if you were to exclude Ulaanbaatar's population from Mongolia, the density would nearly halve.

Level 75

Mar 12, 2025

Ulaanbaatar excluded would give it a population density of ~1.04 so you are correct.

Level 85

May 11, 2025

Both Oman and Paraguay are less densely populated than Finland. See....

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-by-density

Level ∞

May 11, 2025

That is not an authoritative source. We use UN data.

Level 94

Sep 2, 2025

If we are to believe that it's up to date, Norway should be on the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density