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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by eru on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @12:53AM (#11711416)
Or look at Hong Kong and Singapore.
Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:17AM (#11711843)
That's twice you've said that, care to elaborate?

Hong Kong 6,544/km2 17,024/sq mi

Singapore: 7,697/km2 19,910/sq mi

Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by scythe on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:35AM (#11711883)
Hong Kong is 75% rural montane forests. The city density is closer to 80000/mi^2.

An unsurprising choice, since for a century residents were surrounded by a much poorer, much more dangerous country, and the ocean, in all directions. The only place you can go in Hong Kong to escape are its parks.

Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by sampo on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:03AM (#11712147)
Those numbers are the population densities for the whole countries. I wasn't able to find densities for the urban areas of Hong Kong or Singapore.

Btw, Monaco is at 48 462 people per mi2.

Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by eru on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:39AM (#11712065)
Singapore is reasonably dense as a whole for around 5 million people.

If you look at the high numbers for Barcelona, Hamburg or Paris, that's only the urban core. Singapore, of course, also has a denser core.

(And what scythe said about Hong Kong.)