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Wow, I knew that BC was larger than the British Isle, but not that much larger.
944,735 km2 (364,764 sq mi) is the area for BC.
315,159 km2 (121,684 sq mi) is the area for The British Isles, basically 1/3 the area.
BC's population density is 4.76/km2 (12.3/sq mi) while the density for the UK is 216 /km2 (559 /sq mi), 50 times as much.
They can't be having much room to breathe there.
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that's nothin'
Here in New Jersey, the population density is (according to Wikipedia) 1218.1 per square mile, the highest of any US state. 8,958,013 people in 7,354 square miles. On the other end of the scale, Alaska has roughly 1.3 people per square mile (and about the same density of caribou).
That's nothing squared
The population density of London Metropolitan Area is 3900 per squ mile, which is as nothing compared with Hong Kong which has 17000 per squ mile!
Now that is crowded.
Hong Kong
Actually, the situation in HK is worse than that. Much of the territory is uninhabited islands, mountains and forest reserve, so the population lives on only part of the area available. 17,000 per square mile is much lower than reality!
Penny
Not so surprising
For example, if we were talking about squares, and a side of one square were 1.7 times the side of the other square, its area would be about three times the area of the other square. Also, 560 persons each square mile is highly diffuse. It leaves plenty of room for farming, hiking, forests, mountains, etc.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
BC: Super Natural (but not really, that's just a motto)
British Columbia is very large, yes, but most of it is wasted on pointless coastal beauty and awe-inspiring mountain vistas. Still more is underused as habitat for seasonal snows, heritage ice, very cold rivers (which term includes all other surface waters, moving and somewhat stationary, whether cold or warm), assorted wildlife and a bazillion trees - none of which pay rent, being the landlords and all.
Parts of BC are so rainy as to make a trip to Britain in the wintertime seem a sunshine vacation. Be aware of this while packing your bags.
And while it's quite sparsely populated by humans, there are bears which can also waddle on two legs. Also several kinds of deer (which cannot, though many are a lot taller than us on just the four legs), scattered weasels (ditto - on the legs, not the height) and many, many birds. (Which are all bipedal, and some as large as people, measured cross-ways.)
So come visit! (I don't live there, I just visit, too. Was there last week, even. Used to live there, but it was too rainy for me. Too vertical, too. There are only twenty-seven sq. miles in BC that are flat. Luckily, they put the airports in those spots.)
Super Natural British Columbia! Come visit! Spend monies! (But remember: the birds own the place. People are allowed, but eagles, jays and ravens are in charge and they use the bears to remind you of that at every opportunity, usually by tipping garbage bins over :-)
you forgot to mention
the sheer number of illegal to kill Canada Geese that you have to watch for the droppings, IN THE CITIES, and the number of skunks, coyotes, raccoons etc that also live in the cities.
not to forget the occasional mountain lion that wanders into town.
the otters in the harbours, the seals and whales in georgia straight, the ocean water that is so full of plankton it is green ( one of Nature's most amazing events according to the BBC world special on the 6 events, 4 of which are in Canada, 3 in BC. )
and I do believe we have the town with the highest number of days per year with rainfall, an average of 360 days of rain a year.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
I think I prefer Ottawa. At
I think I prefer Ottawa. At least, other than the 'We Must Have Super Government' idiots that decided to make Ottawa and Hull Mega-Metropolises and eat every small town for a gawdawful distance. Oh yeah, and now 'Hull' is named 'Gatineau', for some insane reason.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Gooses and oughta and meese, oh my!
Urban wildlife is a fact everywhere in Canada. In Winnipeg (on the prairies) they even had a rabbit last year! Well.. they had hundreds of thousands of them, but they only had the one newsworthy one. (It killed and ate a Toyota Prius. Woke up a lot people who'd been feeding the little things, I tell you, especially the one guy at the Level IV Mutant Virus Lab.)
But BC wildlife is special in an extraordinary way, I agree. On the "Sea to Sky" highway you can drive one hour and see everything from black bears to orcas, or 'killer whales' (don't let the nickname scare you: they're actually huge, terrifying monsters from the deep), to combover eagles - right out your windscreen! And the bear when you're still in downtown Vancouver, maybe while walking to your car!
Beautiful British Columbia! Where nature is right there in your face. And boy, does nature smell. The wet animal parts, anyway.
Especially the bears.
UK stats...
The human population density of Wales is 149 per sq km - but there are nearly four times as many sheep.
Cardiff, the capital city, had a population density of 2500 per sq km - this increases considerably on rugby international days.
Londoners are miserable because their population density is twice that of Cardiff's, and they have no sheep
so you are saying
Velcro is a popular method of closing trousers in Wales? ;)
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Nah. Velcro is noisier than
Nah. Velcro is noisier than zippers.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Not all is crowded in UK
While the area around Greater London is too crowded for my liking, some parts of England, Wales and Scotland have sparse population.
I recall a road trip in Scotland, where there was a sign "Next shop 26 miles". The number of houses to be seen on the road could be counted on your fingers. Thankfully I live nearer to shops and has a reasonable population density and I am well above river level.