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Re:Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on Goes East Im... by KidComputer on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:10PM (#36234331)
Probably because the entire population of Montana makes up just one neighborhood of NYC
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Re:Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on Goes East Im... by crazygringo on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:58PM (#36236624)
I thought you were joking and then I got curious.

Montana has a million people and NYC has almost 9 million people.

There are 4 NYC neighborhoods with over 200,000 people [1].

So we can say Montana makes up five NYC neighborhoods (out of 55 neighborhoods total).

Close enough!

[1] https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendi...

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