Ich hatte ehrlich gesagt keine Ahnung, dass diese 5 Städte so nah beieinander liegen. Ich vermute, dass dies Teil des sogenannten I-95-Korridors ist. Es scheint, als gäbe es eine Menge Menschen, die allein in diesem kleinen Teil leben. Die I-95 führt auch bis nach Miami. Ich frage mich, wie hoch die Bevölkerungszahl entlang der I-95 ist. Man kann mich auch als ungebildet bezeichnen. Ich habe es verdient.
Von notmyrealname8823
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How much people live in this corridor?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
TIL I am in one of the least populated counties in the northeast corridor
A ton is 1000kg. That’s not really a lot of people.
Would be a great place for some good high speed rail
The term for this is called [megalopolis ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis)
Mega-City One
It’s called Boswash.
Gives me anxiety just looking at this map
More HSR!
Won’t be long before it Sprawls its way to Atlanta.
Because you mentioned being surprised that the 95 goes all the way to Florida, check out the 10 (Santa Monica to Jacksonville) and the 80 (Bay Bridge to NYC).
On an r/longisland post yesterday, someone was complaining about holiday shopping mall traffic jams in Nassau County, and the response was basically “we’re like a whole ass city pretending to be a suburb.” You can really see that here. Nassau comprises one of the largest continuous high-density areas on the map, extending from adjacent Queens and into western Suffolk.
The intellectual, financial, and political capitals of the US. The power is palpable.
Good harbors invited the four cities first, then later the I-95 corridor became their connection.
Washington DC to Philadelphia is like driving from San Diego to Los Angeles
Colonial cities! I just drove from NYC to Philly and it took 3 hours because of holiday traffic. My brother took Amtrak and it was about 1.5 hrs.
Crazy to think it’s still way further to travel from Northern California (Redding) to Southern California (LA) than Boston to DC. Almost 200 miles further for those curious.
Delmarva peninsula just hanging out, somewhat empty.
Trust me, they don’t seem so close when you’re stuck in traffic on the Merritt parkway in Connecticut.
Putting this north would have spanned edge to edge, this breaks my brain lol
This megalopolis is here because it’s where the Fall Line intersects with the coast. Early factories relied on water-power. The higher the gradient, the better the power, hence why it’s called the Fall Line — it’s where there were rapids and waterfalls. Factories using this natural source of power could be built right next to the harbor, minimizing transportation costs.
Later advances in railroads and the combustion engine allowed for industrial expansion in the South, where there’s a very large alluvial plain between the Fall Line and the coast.
Poor prov:(
I-95, the most important road in American history (so far).
Cool perspective of corner of this world. I live right above the “e” in Newark. 😆
I had no idea Boston was north of New York
Jup. North Boston to south DC is further than traveling from the western most city to the eastern most city in Germany.
Very „close“
This map explains why the Delmarva peninsula is not that developed which is a frequent question on the r/geography forum.
Grew up in this area, the convenience is so nice and I’m never leaving if I can help it
There’s a reason why the North East Regional is like the only profitable part of Amtrak.
Northeast Megalopolis can’t stop winning, easily the GOATED region of the US
> I-95 runs all the way to Miami as well. I wonder what the population is along the I-95.
All of South Florida is basically one big city, there aren’t any breaks of “country” or “rural” inbetween 3 *counties* (Palm Beach, Broward, Dade).
It’s called the “Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area” officially. Somewhere between 6 and 7 million people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_metropolitan_area
And yes, I-95 runs right through the middle of it.
This image does a pretty good job : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Miami_Metropolitan_area_January_2023.jpg
I remember seeing a post a while back and blowing my mind. From the top of the Kinda Ka roller coaater you can see both Philadelphia and New Yorks skylines. I never realised how close the two cities are.
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/s/7gJc6zrZxn
Now we know why they all think alike.
BOSNYWASH?
BOSNYPHILBALWASH?
The drive from Boston to Philadelphia took me about 8 hours the other day.
I don’t know why I love this map
While true it’s not quite as connected as this map looks. Still 10 hours from DC to Boston.