[John H K]

I was coach of a speech and debate team in NY State, and when we went to NJ people from around the country were blown away; MOST of New Jersey is NOTHING; NW NJ is forested hills, most of southern NJ is a gigantic scrub pine forest where barely anyone lives. But it's the most densely populated state in the country.

What's that statistic where you could fit the entire population of the world, giving each person a small apartment, into a 40 mile by 40 mile by 40 mile cube or something?

[Focault's Pendulum]

MOST of New Jersey is NOTHING; NW NJ is forested hills, most of southern NJ is a gigantic scrub pine forest where barely anyone lives. But it's the most densely populated state in the country.

It's documented that New Jersey has the highest population per square mile in the nation......and %60 of it is still rural, farmland,and grass plains and forest. Wharton State Forest in the Pine Barrens consists of 108,000 acres of relatively unspoiled wilderness, boasting a large resurgence of coyote. Go figure!

[Steve0113]

What's that statistic where you could fit the entire population of the world, giving each person a small apartment, into a 40 mile by 40 mile by 40 mile cube or something?

Don't know about a cube, but I did the math on this once. The entire population of the world could fit in Texas, with each person having about 1,300 square feet. When you factor in apartment buildings, where many people are sharing the same land area, the space per person is multiplied. That's why in Manhatten, with so many apartment buildings, the space per person is around 200-300 square feet.