Per Square Mile made these infographics to give you an idea of what you’d find. In the image above, they stuffed the world’s people into a city as dense as Houston. We’d take up most of the continental United States.
Per Square Mile made these infographics to give you an idea of what you’d find. In the image above, they stuffed the world’s people into a city as dense as Houston. We’d take up most of the continental United States.
Chris
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 10:24 AMWhat about Australia?
With a population of about 20 or so million, we shouldn’t take up too much space.
Painkiller
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 11:08 AMThere’s 20 million people in New York City alone.
Sutter
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 12:17 PMThere’s 20 million people in New York *State*, New York City has about 5 million.
Still impressive enough.
Factor
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 1:14 PMThese stats just go to show that the urban sprawl that has consumed western countries like the US and Australia is probably not the right way to go about things
Nick
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 5:50 PMOf course not and State governments and City Councils think they’re actually doing good for the environment by leaving forest size gaps all around the city thinking that this will help the environment more. It will help more if we don’t keep spreading out killing off trees with out low density infrastructureless outer suburbs.
Dingo
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 2:26 PMthere are nearly 20 million people in Dhaka…with the country having more than 160 million people in total. all in a space of about 65,000 square miles..