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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Impressive.
How many other US cities put over 1.5M people on less than 100 contiguous sq. miles of land?
NYC obviously.
probably Chicago.
Who else?
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The Peninsula gets close, but not quite. About 1.45 million in about 125 square miles. A lot of open space preserve though so I'm sure if you look at actual developable land, it'd meet the criteria. If you cap the square mileage under 100 square miles, in 97 square miles, it gets you about 1.31 million.
And although not contiguous given it's separated by the Bay, if you took Daly City + SF + Oakland + Berkeley, that gets you about 1.54 million in about 120 square miles of land. Also includes a decent amount of open space preserves.