Location, Location, Location

By Mitch Berg

If you packed the entire world’s population together equal to the densities of some of the world’s major cities, how much area would that entire population cover?

This, and many other questions, are answered among the “40 Maps that will Help you Make Sense of the World

This stuff is like crack to me.

2 Responses to “Location, Location, Location”

  1. Night Writer Says:

    And if we had the entire population of the world living squeezed into the area represented by Houston’s density, there would be those who would still not be satisfied until we looked like Paris.

  2. Joe Doakes Says:

    Proof that urban sprawl is bad. Use the New York model, pack everybody into Texas and light rail finally would pay for itself.

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