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A Farewell to Autumn | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Actually, those beautiful, sparsely populated landscapes were either in parks and wilderness areas, or settlements were just behind the mountain or behind the photographer's back :-)

Country	Persons/km²	Persons/mi²
Germany	229.3	594.0
Czech Republic	132.8	344.1
Slovakia	110.5	286.1
Hungary	108.5	281.1
Slovenia	101.2	262.1
Austria	99.6	258.1
USA	32.0	82.9

From Wikipedia. Also from Wikipedia, US states with comparable or higher population density:

State	Persons/km²	Persons/mi²
New Jersey	452.2	1,171.1
Rhode Island	390.8	1,012.3
Massachusetts	317.6	822.7
Connecticut	279.1	722.9
Maryland	221.9	574.8
Delaware	170.9	442.6
New York	157.8	408.7
Florida	130.7	338.4
Ohio	108.1	280.0
Pennsylvania	107.1	277.4
California	90.5	234.4

Your Arkansas has just 54.4 persons per square miles.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Dec 7th, 2009 at 07:02:28 AM EST
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Re: A Farewell to Autumn (none / 1)

The big difference is that European towns are almost uniformly beautiful.

by njh on Mon Dec 7th, 2009 at 12:29:38 PM EST
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