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25 Jul 2008 12:25 pm
Nine Orders Of Magnitude
By Patrick Appel
Via Kottke, a post on population density:
In case you're wondering, the most densely populated block group is one in New York County, New York -- 3,240 people in 0.0097 square miles, for about 330,000 per square mile. The least dense is in the North Slope Borough of Alaska -- 3 people in 3,246 square miles, or one per 1,082 square miles. The Manhattan block group I mention here is 360 million times more dense than the Alaska one...
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