Los Angeles is friggin' BIG!!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Odin
Filling out an entire county?

Actually, we almost fill out the entire county. Check out JohnT's map at the top of this page:

Santa Clarita is separated from LA's urban sprawl by a strip of unbuilt-upon mountains. Then Hwy 14 heads from there, northeast through some more low mountains which were thrown up by the San Andreas Fault.

On the other side of those mountains (and still in LA County) is the southern end of the Mojave Desert, containing the City of Palmdale, the town of Lancaster, and the itty bitty down of Lake Los Angeles. The local joke is: No lake; no Los Angeles.

[Japher]

Alright, Snake.

[VetLegion]

New York (same scale):

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Japher
I'd rather live in Minneapolis/St. Paul area over LA fo sure

oh yeah

Walleye and the Mall of Americas

On the other hand, today I had lunch in my shirtsleeves at a sidewalk cafe. It was only supposed to be 61, but a nearby thermometer said 69.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

You were only wearing sleeves?

[Zkribbler]

Actually, restaurants require shirts and shoes. Nothing is said about pants.

[Drake Tungsten]

It was a bit of a joke, Drake, given that the 35 million metro area figure represents quite a large proportion of the total population of the country. As a matter of fact, I underguessed - the metro Tokyo population is actually 27% of Japan's, not 20%. In comparison, metro NY with its 18 million represents just 6% of the US.

Oh. I thought you were talking land area. Anyway, I was just using your comment as an excuse to talk about the pattern of urbanization in Japan, a subject that still fascinates me even after having lived here for a few years. Sorry...

[laurentius]

Please do talk more about that Drake.

Seriously.

[Drake Tungsten]

There's not that much to say, really; everyone already knows that they have only tiny bits of flat land to cram their cities onto in the midst of all the sparsely populated mountains. It's really cool to see in person, however, and completely different from most of the cities I'm familiar with in America.

[GePap]

Los Angeles the City is bigger in land area than NYC:

LA is supposedly 465.9 Square Miles
NYC is 321 Square miles.

So LA is over 100 Square miles bigger than NYC.

At the same time, NYC has more than twice the number of people.

According to Wiki, NYC has a density of 10,292 per square kilometer vs. LA's 3,041.3 per square kilometer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles

BUt honestly, who has a more classy flag:



or

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
There's not that much to say, really; everyone already knows that they have only tiny bits of flat land to cram their cities onto in the midst of all the sparsely populated mountains. It's really cool to see in person, however, and completely different from most of the cities I'm familiar with in America.

Kind of odd Japanese cities don't seem to build as much upward as do Hong-Kong or New York.

[Drake Tungsten]

I think the regular earthquakes have something to do with that.

Speaking of which, did anyone else read that article about Taipei 101 being suspected of causing earthquakes?

[mrmitchell]

It really is friggin big...

Camden, AR, to the same scale NYC and LA and Tokyo were earlier (Camden is the one circled in blue)

Each of the bigger circles is about 15000 people...each of the smaller is anywhere from 500 to 5,000

And yes, everything else is woods or trailers. I'm missing most of the really small communities, but we're talking about places where you can see a "Now Leaving" sign and think, "what, did I just go through a city?"

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
There's not that much to say, really; everyone already knows that they have only tiny bits of flat land to cram their cities onto in the midst of all the sparsely populated mountains. It's really cool to see in person, however, and completely different from most of the cities I'm familiar with in America.

Yes, Tokyo was a trip to remember.

[Dinner]

The San Diego flag is pretty weird. It's like a bunch of gringos were sitting around in 1846 and just decided to modify the Mexican national flag. I have no idea why they chose the colors they did. Still beats La's flag though.