[chaosagent]

Even better, you could house the world’s entire population in the state of Texas.

Texas has 261,797 square miles of land area

1 square mile = 27,878,400 square feet

So Texas has 7,298,481,484,800 square feet of land area

The world population is 6,706,993,152 / 4 = 1,676,748,288 households of 4 people each

Dividing the 7,298,481,484,800 square feet of land area in Texas by 3000 (3000 sqft. lots)

Giving us 2,432,827,161 1500 sqft homes on 3000 sqft lots,

Subtracting the 1,676,748,288 households from the 2,432,827,161 1500 sqft homes leaves us with
756,078,873 houses still empty.

Even better, you could stand the entire world’s population in Jacksonville, FL. (Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the continental US. It now has 840 square miles.)

840 square miles

23,417,856,000 square feet

3.5 square feet for each of 6,706,993,152 people

[Sirius Lee]

Even better, you could stand the entire world’s population in Jacksonville, FL. (Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the continental US. It now has 840 square miles.)

Yeah, but it would still be Jacksonville.