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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by kungato on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:07AM (#23064751)
Many people don't own a car because they can't afford it or are too old to drive it. Owning a (registered) car costs with gas yearly about 1 net monthly salary. Croatia is small but even so very sparsely populated. 1/4 of population is in the capital metro area
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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by tasuki on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:15AM (#23065646)
> very sparsely populated

That's very relative. With 72 ppl/km^2, I wouldn't call Croatia "sparsely populated".

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by jon-wood on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:23AM (#23066369)
Looking at nationwide statistics can be misleading, often you'll find that while on average you get a figure like that, almost all of it is centred on a few large cities with anything outside those cities consisting of scattered small villages a few hundred people living in them.
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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by arethuza on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:11AM (#23066606)
Looking at land use in places like can be surprising - e.g. a great er percentage of the UK land area is peat bogs than is built on:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/land-cover-atlas-uk-1.74...

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