Low-Tech Kingdom Population Density?

[Polydamas]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

A few million people appears to be sufficient; giving a population density of 865~ per square mile of arable land. This buffs their economic volume, even absent trade, which increases the funding available to field and maintain military/police forces. Thats' a lot of people though! ... somewhere between modern Japan (at 873) and the modern Philippines (at 846).

Would it not be easier to give them more land area than to force the desired population into a fixed area? That also gives you an excuse for them to have all the key ores and minerals. A few thousand square miles of farmland is not much ... something like the arable parts of mainland Greece south of Thermopylae. More land is also more fun for adventuring purposes, since it introduces the possibility of travel, multiple polities and subcultures, isolated forts and villas, and so on.