Data source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Author: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1f38xe2/tennis_court_density_of_europe/
Population map of Europe
Oh, another population density map.
I added a population map, there are still a few outliers
- South England has a lot of tennis courts for the population
- Same for West of France
- East Germany has a high population but no court
- Mallorca is a tourist hotspot
South England has a lot of tennis courts for the population
Is it? Isn’t it the most densely populated area in Europe?
Very interesting question, I had to do some research to find out (especially since the Brexit and UK is not included in Eurostat data anymore)
If we look at NL vs England
- NL has a density of 424 hab/km² (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density)
- England has 434 hab/km² (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/annualmidyearpopulationestimates/mid2021#population-change-for-uk-countries)
- (the UK as a whole has 279)
This map shows the difference, in the NL it’s more spread while in England it’s focused on the big cities
Source: http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2020/04/population-density-in-europe.html
This interactive map also shows the data: http://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#8/51.856/3.705
This has more useful insight than the wrong-data tennis-court trivia! I had no idea England was denser than the Netherlands.
Partly yes, but also of culture/history.
E.g. England that invented it having a really high density or Eastern Germany being basically blank (main tennis hype has been in the 80’s in Western Germany).
This map would actually be interesting if it were normalized against population density. Tennis court density per 1000 inhabitants. Probably need to do it per 100.
I’d rather say tennis isn’t that poular in eastern Europe.
Tennis is not very popular anywhere. If we use the number of top players each region has as proxy for how popular tennis is relatively, then it’s not doing that bad in eastern Europe.
At least in Western Germany, there has been a tennis boom in the 1980s and 90s when Boris Becker and Steffi Graf were active and successful. Thus, you can still see the inner German border between GDR and FRG on the map.
Is it, though? Is Spain, Poland and Balkan so much less populated than Germany or France?
Yes.
Are we looking at the same pictures? Spain is less dense, but Poland seems mostly denser than rural France and Balkan roughly the same.
Go see in person or find better data. Spain is a desert between big towns. Poland has only 35ish M people on all that land. You can drive for hours in west Balkans without seeing a single settlement. Croatia, for example has less than 4M people in an area which is bigger than the Netherlands. The Netherlands has like 18M people.
Using http://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#10/44.1517/0.0082
The West of France seems to have a high number of tennis courts for the population, probably because it’s a a tourist area.
You mean like official EU data? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_d3dens/default/map?lang=en And “go see in person” is a very bad advice to anything data-related in most cases. Compating population density anywhere in Europe with Netherlands isn’t fair. Poland, Hungary and Romania (and north Balkan as well, it seems) have denser population than rural France, for example. Spain is less densely populated, but still has about as many tennis courts, so it must have much more per capita. It just isn’t a population density map. It is another Iron curtain division map, but even so, Czechia and Slovakia stand out as exceptions. There is interesting information in there.
needs to be in m^2 tennis court per person format
Apparently Portugal and Spain mostly play it by the water
…or provide sports facilities for tourists?
I think the population density argument plays best here. I’m not as well versed in Spain, but for Portugal the largest concentration is Porto and Lisbon.
For Spain the highest concentration seems to be on Mallorca, which is a tourist hotspot.
Missing the tennis court near my family cottage.
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From this I have learnt the Wirral is an overpopulated tennis court.
