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Midpoint between Seattle and Bangor, ME is in Canada. So is the midpoint between Redstone, MT and Hamilton, Bermuda.
But, due to the fairness doctrine, the midpoint between Vancouver and Toronto is in the USA.
Owing to great-circle navigation, the midpoint between any two cities along the border between Blaine WA and Warroad MN (and in fact almost the entire route) would be in Canada.
The midpoint between Seattle and Mogadishu, Somalia is in Finland.
I'm dying to tell you this: In Colma, California, the dead actually outnumber the living 1,000 to 1. This is because most of Colma consists of cemeteries containing some 18 million crypts and graves.
Are you sure? I doubt if 18-million people have died in California, ever. If you add together the San Francisco populations of 1870, 1910 and 1960 it adds up to less than 1.5 million, and would include almost every person who died in the city, and would count a lot of people twice. So it is fair to say that the maximum number of deceased people who ever lived in San Francisco is between one and two million. In 1900, San Francisco City had a quarter of California's entire population.
If any population doubles within a normal lifetime, and keeps on doing so forever, the number or people alive will always be equal to the number who have ever lived. (1+2+4+8+16+32+64=128 living against 127 dead.) But California's population doubles a lot faster than that, so the number of dead in California is considerably less than the number living there.
When I googled it, the number I found for Colma was 5-million graves, but many families purchase their gravesites for members who are still alive, so 5-million is not necessarily the number who are already dead.
When I googled it, the number I found for Colma was 5-million graves, but many families purchase their gravesites for members who are still alive, so 5-million is not necessarily the number who are already dead.
Right, there are about 5 million people buried in Colma right now, but there are about 18 million designated crypts and graves, some occupied and some in the waiting.
The Sahara Desert covers more land than the 48 contiguous United States.
Deceptively compact: Surprisingly, the total area of the British Isles is almost identical to that of New Mexico. England is just slightly smaller than Louisiana, Wales is smaller than New Jersey, and Scotland and Ireland (the island) are each smaller than South Carolina.
Montana is almost identical in area to Japan. But Japan has 128 times the population of Montana.
@ Lowell you can walk across the Merrimack River riverbed at low water without geting your feet wet despite being the second most volumous river in New England by median river flow.
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