From: EvMick@aol.com
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 01:01:29 MST
In a message dated 12/3/99 12:43:47 AM Central Standard Time,
newstrom@newstaffinc.com writes:
> Excluding microstates (less than 200 square miles, Vatican City, Monaco,
> etc.),
> Bangladesh is the world's most densely populated country with 2200
> people per square mile. This is 1/10th the density resulting from putting
> the world's population in Texas.
>
> Obviously, this claim is false.
Oh...
Ok.....I can be big about this....<sniff>...guess i heard wrong..
ummmm...how densely populated is New York?...maybe I can do that web
thing...lessee..
'"New York is a densely packed mass of humanity - 7 million people in 309 sq
miles "
so......that's 22,653 people per square mile?
not quiet up to 23,041...but close...
lemme see....
an alternate source says NYC has a population density of 23,700....chicago
12,300,....San Francisco 15,500, per square mile...all together there are
five US cities that have a population density of greater than 10,000 people
per square mile (1990 figgers)...
World wide?
Tokyo = 25,018
Mexico City = 40,036
Seoul = 49,099
Bombay = 127,379
Jakarta = 130,026
Wow.
So.......the entire world's population would fit in texas at a population
density of less than one fourth that of Jakarta?
.......of less than or equal to (at least) fifteen of the world's most
densely populated cities?
Amazing...
EvMick
EvMick
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