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Unsurprisingly, the coastal areas with the greatest population densities are also those with the most shoreline degradation.

The areas surrounding the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and Southern Asia have the highest proportion of altered land, while the coastal zones of the Arctic, Northeast Pacific, South Pacific, West and Central Africa, East Africa, the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden, and Kuwait have the highest proportions of least modified land.
   
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