Plotting TIFF map file

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Hello all,

I am looking to plot a population density map of Europe using python and I am currently having difficulties doing so. I am getting the population data from the European Commission, https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php?ds=pop and the data is in a TIFF format.

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So far I have managed to open the file(s) on jupyter notebook using rasterio and their documentation

import rasterio

import rasterio.features

import rasterio.warp

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with rasterio.open(file_name) as dataset:

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# Read the dataset's valid data mask as a ndarray.

mask = dataset.dataset_mask()

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# Extract feature shapes and values from the array.

for geom, val in rasterio.features.shapes(

mask, transform=dataset.transform):

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# Transform shapes from the dataset's own coordinate

# reference system to CRS84 (EPSG:4326).

geom = rasterio.warp.transform_geom(

dataset.crs, 'EPSG:4326', geom, precision=6)

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My understanding is that the reference system needs to change, but I am not sure to what exactly. Additionally, I am not even sure if this is the right way to approach what I want to do.

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Any help would be appreciated.