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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
^ a quick google maps area take off exercise shows that the area inside Houston's inner loop is ~100 sq. miles, while the area inside the perimeter in Atlanta is ~250 sq. miles. That's not a small difference.
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I didn't do Atlanta, but the city proper has 498,715 inh. within 350.5 Km² for a 1,423 inh./Km² density. It manages to have a density a good 1/3 lower than I-610's Houston. Crazy.
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Moscow - MKAD
Lenght: 109 km
--- 2021 ------- 2010 ------- 2002 --------- Growth ------------ Area -------- Density
10,966,684 --- 10,364,011 --- 9,518,930 --- +5.8% --- +8.9% --- 887.3 Km² --- 12,360 inh./Km²
Arguably one of the most important/meaningful in the world, as it used to be the official boundaries of Moscow city proper itself, before they started to annex those bizarre shaped areas out of it - Los Angeles-style. As result, it made my work much easier as we have the districts completely alligned with it.
Moscow have another three rings aside MKAD, two inside of it and other out, cycling the whole expanded metro area (I guess there would be 17-18 million inside it) but it will be very hard to put them together as administrative borders don't allign.
MKAD covers an area much smaller than either London and São Paulo. More similar to Washington's Capital Beltway. Unsurprisingly, density inside it it's extremely high (32,000 people/sqm), higher than São Paulo's, almost 3x higher than London's and more than 4x of Washington.
Even though population is still growing quite fast inside the ring despite the already high density, Moscow is sprawling very fast. Some districts out of the ring had absurdly high population growth. Nekrasovka, for example, jumped from 7,800 (2002) to 104,900 (2021) or Yuzhnoye Butovo from 105,000 (2002) to 205,000 (2021). This century marked the very strong population growth of Moscow and St. Petersburg (the latter started a bit later) fueled by mass migration from all parts of Russia and former Soviet republics. It's another case of the primate city rising in a demographically challenged country.
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