New York City has enough room for all people in the world

The famous city of America - New York - has an extraordinary ability.

New York City "crams" more than 7 billion people inside

The world population has reached 7.3 billion people as of April this year and soon people will run out of land to live. However, there is a " strange" thing that few people know is New York City enough land to cram more than 7 billion people inside it on one condition: We all have to stand close together.

Chen wished so hard.

Here is the calculation of a website called Wait But Why , in particular the members of the research team assumed that if we removed all space space, 1 square meter would have enough space for 10. This is acceptable when a quarter of the world's population is children under 15 years old.

From this base, we can quickly calculate 1000 people who will need a 100 square meter plot of land, want to accommodate 54,000 people, will need a standard American football field and the entire population of the North Europe - 26 million people - will be crowded together in a 1-square-mile plot (equivalent to 2.5 square kilometers).

As such, the entire world population will " shoulder " in a square of about 700 square kilometers. On the other hand, New York City's land area is 789 square kilometers , which means we still have plenty of land to fill 7.3 billion people in New York.

World population map when all people stand close to each other without gaps.

Specifically, the European population will settle in the Bronx . Meanwhile, the whole of Asia will occupy two zones, Staten and Queens. North America will cram together in Manhattan. Finally, the Brooklyn area will be the location of Africa, South America and Oceania.

Of course, the story above is only fictional and two funny. Even though, thinking of the more than 7 billion people crowded together, there is no room for it to be so " startling" .