Comparative City Sizes

[minoanmiss]

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This video has a bunch of things I love, including: comparative sizes; cities; computer animation; cities; random information; and cities. I love how ameboid many cities look, like the living things they are, and how many bear marks of rivers, lakes, mountains, and other geographical features in their shapes.

Here's another one, of dinosaurs:

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Comments

[mific]

I watched the nations as planets one and they left out New Zealand! *shakes fist*

[minoanmiss]

Fie upon him! What an omission!

[sonia]

I watched the cities one, thanks! Took a while to get to US cities! San Francisco would have been in there super early on (121 sq km according to wikipedia). Although if they lump in the whole Bay Area it would be much bigger.

[minoanmiss]

I admit I would love to see one of these that is just US Cities. I want to compare cities with geographical limits, like SF, to ones with more space around them, and East Coast to West Coast to Heartland, and...

[wcg]

If you're going to start with Vatican City as separate from Rome, then later on put up a bunch of smushed together places like Baltimore-Washington it's ... inconsistent to say the least.

[minoanmiss]

It is, but it's made by a hobbyist, so I'm not being too critical.