{"id":1301,"date":"2026-07-20T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:58:01","slug":"draw-anyshape-on-map-and-instantly-see-how-many-people-live-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/news\/draw-anyshape-on-map-and-instantly-see-how-many-people-live-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw anyshape on map and instantly see how many people live inside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Population Circle \u2014 a fresh online mapping tool \u2014 allows users worldwide to draw custom areas on a global map and receive accurate population estimates based on high-resolution data.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PopulationCircle allows you to draw any irregular shape, not just circles with a fixed radius. The tool is intuitive \u2013 simply click and draw on the map, and the result \u2013 estimated population and land area \u2013 appears in real time. The data source is the WorldPop Global2 database, which provides estimates of population distribution at a spatial resolution of 100&#215;100 meters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tool is perfect for educational purposes or simply for curiosity \u2013 for example, how many people live within a 100 km radius of your city, or how densely populated a given region of Asia is compared to Europe. Similar projects (like the classic Population Around a Point) have existed for years, but PopulationCircle stands out for its modern interface and the flexibility to draw any area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The website includes a link to the PopulationGuessr game, where you can test your knowledge of the population density of various regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/populationcircle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/populationcircle.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population Circle \u2014 a fresh online mapping tool \u2014 allows users worldwide to draw custom areas on a global map and receive accurate population estimates based on high-resolution data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}