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[–] JackNapier@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago
[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Texas is less than a quarter of the size of Alaska.

[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except the population size

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, bigass country yet despite its supposed awesomeness barely anyone wants to live there.

[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call 30 million barely anyone

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Texas is utterly barren compared to the center of european population density that's depicted here (ever heard of the blue banana?). I'd say that's roughly 150 million people.

[–] thmnwlf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

yeah thats totally correct, love that

[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

for the curious

https://s3.amazonaws.com/thetruesize.com/mockup.html#?borders=1~!MTUyMDkxMDE.MTAzOTgyMDEMjQ2ODk4MDE(MTIxODI5NjU~!US-TXODYwMTU3MA.MjIyNjgwNzA)Mw

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