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I was surprised to learn Venice only has 155,000 or so inhabitants. For some reason I thought it was a big city. It's half the size of my small city.
by Kluny 9y ago
I was surprised to learn Venice only has 155,000 or so inhabitants. For some reason I thought it was a big city. It's half the size of my small city.
- klez 9y agoThe Venice having 155.000 people isn't the islands. Those have roughly 55.000 people. The rest is spread on the mainland. In Italy when you talk about a city it's usually about the city itself and some towns around it. In this case most of the population is in Mestre and Marghera. So it's actually even smaller than you thought :)
- zakk 9y agoJust about 50k people live in the islands... The density is quite low, and much more people lived there in the past, now for locals it's more profitable to just rent their flat to tourists, while living in the mainland.