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Land Size: Germany | 137,847 mi^2 (square miles) United States | 3,719,000 mi^2 (square miles) Paved Roads: Germany | 400,784 mi United States | 2,674,830
by Implicated 11y ago
Land Size:
Germany | 137,847 mi^2 (square miles)
United States | 3,719,000 mi^2 (square miles)
Paved Roads:
Germany | 400,784 mi
United States | 2,674,830 miles
Not sure that's a fair comparison.
[1] https://www.cia.gov/Library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2085.html https://www.cia.gov/Library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
- tonyedgecombe 11y agoThe population is far from evenly distributed across that larger area.
- falcolas 11y agoTrue, but it tends to be concentrated at the four corners. The northeast gets Boston and NY, The southeast gets Miami and Atlanta, Then there's Seattle, California, etc. And if you don't live anywhere near these (a good portion of the population does not), or need to move between them, that means you have a long drive. I live in Montana (tangentially - about the same size as Germany), and if I want to get to the closest population center, I can either ride the bus (yeah, no) or drive. The closest train station is across the state from where I am, and takes 4 hours longer than the drive (or bus) would (not including transit time to the station.
- yitchelle 11y agoNot knowing much about Montana, I looked it on wikipedia and found the following snippet. "Montana is ranked 4th in size, but 44th in population and 48th in population density of the 50 United States." Population density is 2.65 per sq km. Man, that is very sparse. Remind me of outback Australia where traveling distances were measured in "number of beers" drank.