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    If you're using the same GPW data I have, I believe it includes "land area" as one of the fields, which might be a better estimate of population density (which GPW has a separate TIFF file for if you want it) than the entire tile area. As you note, computing the pixel area should be fairly simple, remembering that each degree of longitude is cos(latitude) degrees of latitude Commented Aug 25, 2022 at 14:50