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> It’s probably important to mention that Japan is half the size of Texas, or roughly 5% of the area of the lower 48 states. The US population is fairly concen
by throw0101d 1y ago
> It’s probably important to mention that Japan is half the size of Texas, or roughly 5% of the area of the lower 48 states.
The US population is fairly concentrated. Various metrics to make the point: 40% of the US population lives in coastal counties:
* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/population.html
About two-thirds of the population lives with-in 100 miles of the border:
* https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
The top 143 counties (out of 3244) contain half the population:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)
Hitting the most populous 10% of counties will get you a good way towards universal coverage (LA county alone as >9M people, which would rank #12 as a state population).