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Originally Posted by hipster duck
England and France have a much larger proportion of their population living in rural areas. Drive across France and it's just an endless string of villages every 2-3 km in every direction.
Canada and Australia are probably the most heavily urbanized countries in the world (not counting city states). The largest 6 metros in Canada have over half the country's population; actually, more than half of Canada is within an hour's drive of Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, alone.
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Not really.
Urbanization by country:
Australia 89.4%
United Kingdom 82.6%
Canada 81.8%
France 79.5%
European countries like the UK and France may have more rural villages, but they also have much less scattered rural development than Canada. Stuff like
this is rare in western Europe but in Canada it's everywhere. My impression of Australia is that the countryside is relatively empty outside metropolitan areas.