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> much smaller and more recently developed countries Like China?

• theredbox 8y ago
  You mean all those densely populated cities of 5m+ people that china has?
• twoheadedboy 8y ago
  > more recently developed countries Yes, like China.
• joshuaheard 8y ago
  FTFY: with much smaller and more recently developed areas of countries. Leave Chinese cities and go into the countryside and there are primarily dirt roads.
  • aylmao 8y ago
    I mean, to be fair they do have more and bigger cities than the US. China apparently has 102 cities with population over 1 million vs the US's 10 [1]. If we consider "megacities", they are at 15 vs the US's two (NYC and LA) [2]. In fact this is interesting, because although its population is huge in terms of the rest of nations-- about "a full Brazil" bigger than all of North America, and Europe (including Russia) combined [4]-- to put things in another perspective, we're talking about a country that's just 4.3 times the size of the US [3], yet it has 10x more cities and 7x more megacities. This makes me think it's less rural than the US, which probably yields more focus on cities and less investment in rural areas. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity [3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+china+%2F+population+of+usa https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+china+%2... [4]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+china+-+(population+of+north+america+%2B+population+of+europe+%2B+population+of+brazil) https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+china+-+...