New York is densely packed, we all know that, there’s barely enough room to swing a pizza rat without hitting another New Yorker.
There are over 8.55 million people living within the 302 mile² that make up our city, meaning that there are around 28.2k people per mile².
Where as you may be thinking that is overwhelmingly claustrophobic, it only touches on the population density of other major world cities.
Take a look at how big NYC would be if it had the population density of other cities below in this map from Sparefoot.
Featured image source [flickr | Kevin Case]