It's hard for me to imagine how big the rural Areas in America are. Part of that is that the most vast vastnesses are not rural. They are wildernesses. Humans

It's hard for me to imagine how big the rural Areas in America are. Part of that is that the most vast vastnesses are not rural. They are wildernesses. Humans don't live in them. And they don't have infrastructure to encourage or facilitate visitors. In the US, you can't drive a car, ride a bicycle, fly a drone, or sail a sailboat in a designated wilderness. You can ride a horse or burro, however. But need to carry feeds free of invasive species seeds. Then there are vast public lands where you can in theory ride a bicycle, etc. but climate and terrain make it a bad idea for most people. Much of the Mojave Desert for example (maybe search HN for "Death Valley Germans" if you want a rabbit hole to dive down). Then there is Alaska, where airplane is the most practical and often only means of travel to and from and within. Or to put it another way, if you thought of Siberia as part of Europe, then the scale of Europe would be more like the scale of the US. But it seems Western Europeans usually mean Western Europe when they say "Europe." And not the Balkan countries, let alone Azerbaijan.