Feb 3, 2009
Just how cramped is Japan?
I was intrigued to find this chart on Boing Boing this morning. It shows the respective amounts of space people have Japan, as well as countries such as Russia, Australia, China and Monaco. It is in square feet so divide by 3 to get a very rough square meter estimate.
Quite surprisingly, Japan has a lot of space per person. I guess all the mountainous regions and forest Japan has preserved add up to a bit more room than is imaginable when one is living in a city such as Tokyo.
You can read about how this was put together here: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/30/charts-3.html
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ConversionBoy
It’s actually divide by [just over 3] squared, so divide by 10.76 to get to square metres.
Dec 3rd, 2010
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