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Not even close. SF Bay Area: 395/sqkm Sao Paolo Metro: 2,469/sqkm http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_S%C3%A3o_Paulo http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greate

• rayiner 13y ago
  I'm talking about San Francisco, not the 5,500+ square miles of faceless suburbs surrounding the city. Sao Paulo (city proper): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo (18,690/sq mi). San Francisco (city proper): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco (17,620/sq mi). The metro area density is mostly a measure of whether the suburbs are more or less urbanized. E.g. the LA/OC metro CSA is substantially more dense than the SF/Oakland/Fremont CSA, but nobody would say that LA is denser than SF. Rather, LA is surrounded by urban sprawl while SF is surrounded by suburbs.