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Other interesting facts on US population distribution/location: > In the U.S., 127 million people live in coastal counties. That’s as much as the entire popula
by throw0101c 4y ago
Other interesting facts on US population distribution/location:
> In the U.S., 127 million people live in coastal counties. That’s as much as the entire population of Japan. If they were their own nation, the coastal counties of the U.S. would rank third in the world in gross domestic product, beaten only by China and the U.S. as a whole. The outsize U.S. marine economy is fueled by tourism and recreation, offshore energy, shipbuilding, and aquaculture, to name just a few.
* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html
> Roughly two-thirds of the United States' population lives within the 100-mile zone—that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That's about 200 million people.
* https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone