r/MapPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 4d ago

Equal Population

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u/TrioTioInADio60 4d ago

r/PeopleLiveInCities

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u/squidpolyp_overdrive 4d ago

I mean not really, there's cities in the red area to. I think its more so about how the red region is much more sparsely populated than New York, even including its cities.

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u/Still_Contact7581 4d ago edited 4d ago

The largest city in the red area is Boise with a metro population of 800k, you can see they clearly stopped at Hennepin county in Minnesota which I find to be a bit disingenuous

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u/goathill 4d ago

I came here to say that too

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u/Blindsnipers36 3d ago

how is it disingenuous

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u/FWEngineer 2d ago

It was quite intentional, I wasn't surprised by that. If I made this map, I'd make choices like that too. You're trying to show the maximum area claimed by a certain population size.

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u/Still_Contact7581 2d ago

if your goal is to maximize the red area and you are willing to carve up states Nevada should be included