Maybe I'm the only one, but is anyone else impressed about the amount of populated areas in the country? It makes me wonder how long we have until we start shoving each other into the oceans.
Nobody lives here: the 5 million US census blocks with zero population
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#12Can anyone explain whats going on with Maine? It doesn't make sense for a coastal state to be so uninhabited.
The coast is about the only part of Maine that is inhabited. That particular dark green area is largely remote, quite harsh, and has very little infrastructure. North and west of there is the tiny sliver of inhabited Quebec, then go much further beyond and you're in some of the harshest, most remote land in North America.
If you're interested in what the area looks like, check out the Trans-Taiga Road as well as the (less remote) James Bay Road.
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#13Can anyone explain whats going on with Maine? It doesn't make sense for a coastal state to be so uninhabited.
Protected forests? Harsh weather? Bad publicity from Stephen King's books?
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#14Drove across Wyoming the other day on the way to Denver and I could definitely appreciate that it was the least populated state in the US (or least densely populated). Lots of open space.
Wyoming is the least populated state.
As others have noted, Alaska easily wins the least-density contest.
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#15Maybe I'm the only one, but is anyone else impressed about the amount of populated areas in the country? It makes me wonder how long we have until we start shoving each other into the oceans.
Given that population growth in the developed world is decelerating, and in many countries has already reversed, this is likely to take very long....
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I'm a recluse and I've actually considered one day retiring to a state like Montana, Wyoming, or Idaho. This infographic just made my eyes light up. "Oh my god I can finally get away from everyone" I thought.
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#17This is fascinating.
Some of the big green areas are obvious: the Everglades, the forests of Maine, the awful stuff we call "Nevada".
But what about the green blob on the Georgia-Florida border? And what's up with south Texas?
Also, if you didn't catch the link, a fixed map: http://mapsbynik.com/maps/census0pop/census0pop-mapsbynik-re...
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#18North Dakota is the only clearly discernible state boundary. Anybody know why that is? Does something about the legal regime of North Dakota really change the settlement patterns that much? Or is it some kind of artefact of the way that ND census block are formed, compared to the surrounding states?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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OK, I downvoted you because you played therapist online, making no attempt to understand the person and telling them they had a problem.
That's really not OK in so many situations.
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#20This is fascinating. Some of the big green areas are obvious: the Everglades, the forests of Maine, the awful stuff we call "Nevada". But what about the green blob on the Georgia-Florida border? And what's up with south Texas? Also, if you didn't catch the link, a fixed map: http://mapsbynik.com/maps/census0pop/census0pop-mapsbynik-re...
> But what about the green blob on the Georgia-Florida border?
I was curious about that too. Apparently it's a very large swamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okefenokee_Swamp
> And what's up with south Texas?
Have you been to south Texas?