Comment on Expand North! So much room up there.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of “a lot of people” does not exist in North Dakota, though.

  I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state’s population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The subset is a lot of and the set is North Dakotans.

    If you have a room of ten people a lot of them can have things in common.

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    • Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, I did already understand this :)

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Speaking of Germany, Bismarck is named after Otto von and when he was still alive! Greater Bismarck includes Mandan too, so it’s a bit more like 100k+ people in the area, but yeah it’s pretty small. Lots of the middle west is like that. They need to be consolidated into a single state for the senate lol

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    • Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Awesome trivia! Thanks! :)

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Trenton, NJ, the most densely populated state in America, only has 91k. This represents only 1% of the population, versus 10 in ND. I’m not sure how it is around the country, but of the capitals of NJ, NY, PA, none are amongst the most populated cities in the states. And I don’t really care about the rest of the states (and I like Mass, but it doesn’t fit my example), so that’s that.

    You’ve certainly piqued my interest in regard to populations of capitals v. the states they represent.

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