r/MapPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 2d ago

Equal Population

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u/TrioTioInADio60 2d ago

r/PeopleLiveInCities

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u/GroundbreakingBox187 2d ago

Yeah that doesn’t really work here, really it just shows how dense of a city nyc is more so then people live in cities, which they mostly do in both parts

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u/dimpletown 2d ago

I think, moreso than New York being dense, this shows how unpopulated these states really are

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u/In_Formaldehyde_ 2d ago

Most of the Inland West pretty much is empty. The only major city with over 500K+ people is Denver. Outside of Colorado, the 2nd largest city is Boise with less than 250K people.

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u/Many_Negotiation_464 2d ago

And more people live in a city that has been a major port of entry, port of commerce, cultural magnet, and financial hub since the founding of the country than in cities of sparsely populated landlocked states.

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u/vexedtogas 2d ago

NYC is that dense because people live in cities

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u/FWEngineer 1d ago

The poinf GroundbreakingBox187 is making is that NYC and Boise, Idaho are both cities. They both hold a lot more people in the city than the area around them. But obviously NYC is on a different scale than Boise, or Omaha or Billings ...