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I'm pretty sure NYC has a population of like 7 or 8 million, about a third of Australias.
Depends where you draw the line. The 5 boroughs alone is about 8M, but the broader metropolitan area is something like 20. (And even beyond that it's still pretty densely populated compared to most places.)
Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
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Yes. 7 billion people => 7000 Million. 1% of that, 70 Million. Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%
Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
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Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
An order of magnitude higher and it'd be of similar magnitude to the entire USA. I tend to think of Australia as pretty similar (if literally polar opposite) to Canada. Similar population and standard of living on a similarly large but largely inhospitable landmass.
Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
- Access to capital? - close to "action"? - Airport hub city?
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A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
What are you optimizing for? Once you clarify that your answer will be clear. - Access to capital? - close to "action"? - Airport hub city?
https://www.yahoo.com/now/ozone-hole-found-over-tropics-1538...
Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
Doesn't 80% of the world's population live within 100km of the sea as well. And I'd guess most of the remainder live close to major rivers and lakes.