Posted on 07/11/2018 8:32:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“What blows me away is both Tokyo and Greater Delhi (New Delhi) are both larger in population than all of California which practically feels like wall to wall people.”
California has 39.54 million people as of 2017. So you may draw the comparison that those cities have roughly the same population, but not more than California. I should add that once you get a little north of LA or east of San Diego there’s nothing but open space aside from the Bay Area.
Seoul, South Korea?
25 million+ already
How many high-rise buildings in Dhaka?
Dhaka is currently at 14.1m and 121,000 people per sq mi... almost FIVE times as dense as the top US city, NYC at 27,000. (Most major US metropolitan areas are around 10,000-11,000, and only 6-50 sq mi. Dhaka is 118 sq mi. NYC is 302 sq mi.)
And they expect the Dhaka population to DOUBLE in 12 years?? That would put it at 242,000 people per sq mi. At that density, we could fit all 7.3 billion humans in an area the size of 30,000 sq mi... the size of South Carolina.
Yep! If you combine DFW (2.2m), it's rivaling #4 Houston (2.3m) and approaching #3 CHI (2.7m).
The DFW growth rate (2010-2017) is higher that most of the other top cities. Ft Worth (0.8m) at 18%, Dallas (1.3m) at 12%... #3 HOU at 10%, #7 PHX (1.6m) at 13%... but the top growth spots are #11 Austin (0.9m, 21%), #17 Charlotte NC (0.8m, 18%), #18 SEA (0.7m, 17%) and #19 DEN (0.7m, 17%)
#3 CHI (2.7m) is stagnant at 0.7%, so they'll get passed soon.
Understandably, massive LA (4m) and NY (8m) are both at around 5%. Tough to grow more when you're that big.
Just go down I-35 from the Oklahoma border all the way to San Antonio and it’s just becoming one massive googleplex.
Detroit-400,000
I guess the population grew since I last heard or looked. It was around 37M at that point and it has been going down so I figured it was lower. No biggie. Close enough to make the point. I should have been more clear about where the dense population area are but I guess you know them better than I do since I move away in 2000.
The good thing about CA, besides the geography, is once one gets away from those dense population areas it starts to get much nicer politically speaking. For whatever reason; leftists like to nest together in dense cities.
I know in Moscow, they make you pay money to use a public restroom. Can you imagine have an emergency, and realize you don’t have any cash on you?
Wakanda ??
The population of California has never been declining. It’s true that more people leave the state then move in from other states, but immigration more than makes up for it.
RE: It’s true that more people leave the state then move in from other states, but immigration more than makes up for it.
Are they only including legal immigration in the count? Or are illegals included?
Smaller towns and villages ARE dying, both due to lack of births and people migrating to the cities.
Illegal or legal immigration? If it’s illegal; it shouldn’t count because they all need to go back to their home countries.
Its called immunity, their systems built it up over the years
that is why kids who are brought up in super clean places end up allergic to everything and get sick all the time
Good question but I don’t know the answer.
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