Is England THAT small?

[indolikaa]

I was doing some research for a trip I might be taking next spring to England, and I happened to notice the 'air distance' from London to Cardiff was about 120 miles.



I never realized how small the country was until I had to calculate travel distances, so I did some rough math and discovered that all of England and Wales could fit within the boundaries of the state of Arizona with room to spare.

If this is correct, I think I now better understand what Craig means when he says there isn't a lot of open space left in England anymore.

[Hardcoreruss]

Yep thats correct.

[JohnnyCNote]

It's probably a lot like driving in the Northeast US (aka New England). Very densely populated, lots of traffic, but with occasional semi-rural stretches. Are you going anywhere near Abergavenny? My maternal grandmother's mother came from there.....

[curryman]

Are you going anywhere near Abergavenny? My maternal grandmother's mother came from there.....

Oooohh, About 7 Miles from me.

[VCDHunter]

Are you going anywhere near Abergavenny? My maternal grandmother's mother came from there.....

Oooohh, About 7 Miles from me.

Not too far from me either !

[northcat_8]

Hell Indo, you could go over visit Curryman and VCDhunter, then we would have jokes that started "3 wankers walk into a bar......"

[pacmania_2001]

Add in Will Hay and you have a foursome.

[Capmaster]

Add King John and you'll have a brawl

Tiny indeed:

All of United Kingdom: 244,820 sq km
Arizona: 295,274 sq km
New Mexico: 314,924 sq km

With 60,270,708 people, no wonder the UK is so crowded

We have only 1,819,406 people in New Mexico and Arizona has only 5,130,632 people

[yoda313]

Add King John and you'll have a brawl

Tiny indeed:

All of United Kingdom: 244,820 sq km
Arizona: 295,274 sq km
New Mexico: 314,924 sq km

With 60,270,708 people, no wonder the UK is so crowded

We have only 1,819,406 people in New Mexico and Arizona has only 5,130,632 people

Hello,

60 million in UK??????

Man they sure had a population explosion in the 20th century!!!!!!

Kevin

[Capmaster]

England has been growing people a lot longer than we have

[yoda313]

England has been growing people a lot longer than we have

Hello,

Yeah and they've been coming over to the US!!! (oops, sorry I guess that's getting into politicks ).

Kevin

[tgpo]

SC is 30,109 square miles (48,455.7385 square kilometers, I think)
and has ~4,147,152 people

[indolikaa]

Well good. My math is still up to speed.

[snafu099]

Those fortunet enough to travel, and those that only can study/read, it can privide a whle different prospective to the lands and people of the world.

Yeah and they've been coming over to the US!!! (oops, sorry I guess that's getting into politicks

And where would we be if they and others did not?

[tgpo]

And where would we be if they and others did not?

Extras in the movie Shaun of the Dead??

[handyguy]

Is that Chunnel any fun to ride?

[Capmaster]

Is that Chunnel any fun to ride?

Only going to England. It can't be much fun going the other way

[asdf]

It's probably a lot like driving in the Northeast US (aka New England). Very densely populated, lots of traffic, but with occasional semi-rural stretches. Are you going anywhere near Abergavenny? My maternal grandmother's mother came from there.....

actually New England is just the extreme Northeast (Northeast of Ny) n is bigger thaan ol England (as opposed to the whole uk of great britain n northern ireland) n has far fewer people than England.



Administrative Division Pop. 1981 Pop. 1991 Pop. 2001 Area Size
(sq km) Population density
(people per sq km)

England 46.8 48.2 49,181 130,433 377
Northern Ireland 1.5 1.6 1,689 13,576 124
Scotland 5.1 5.1 5,064 78,822 64
Wales 2.8 2.9 2,903 20,778 140
United Kingdom 56.3 57.8 58,837 243,610 242


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New England (USA)
Region of northeast USA, comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; population (2000 est) 13,922,500. It is a geographic region rather than a political entity, with an area of 172,681 sq km/66,672 sq mi. Boston is the principal urban centre of the region, and Harvard and Yale are its major universities. First inhabited by the American Indian Algonquin peoples, New England was named by the explorer John Smith in 1614, and settled by Pilgrims and Puritans from England in the 17th century.



http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/population.html

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0017668.html

[JohnnyCNote]

I mean more in the sense that it's densely populated over a large area. I also wasn't really including Maine in that, just for clarification.....

[Reason]

Eng - a - land swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycles two-by-two

Westminster Abbey, the Tower of Big Ben
The rosey red cheeks
Of the little child-ren

Roger Miller

[asdf]

`mean more in the sense that it's densely populated over a large area. I also wasn't really including Maine in that, just for clarification.....

but it's much more densely populated than aything in the US of comparable size.

heck it's even more densely populated than japan.

btw you can't seperate ME from New England, it even used to be part of MA, but even excluding it, England is much more densely populated.

check the links above.

[indolikaa]

60 million people crammed into that small country.

Bad food, worse weather.

Mary ******* Poppins.

The perpetual underachievers known as the English National Team.


What a depressing lot.

[Hardcoreruss]

England is a ******* shit hole, I hate it and cannot wait to leave. However London pays better than any other capital city and thats why I am here.

[JohnnyCNote]

`mean more in the sense that it's densely populated over a large area. I also wasn't really including Maine in that, just for clarification.....

but it's much more densely populated than aything in the US of comparable size.

heck it's even more densely populated than japan.

btw you can't seperate ME from New England, it even used to be part of MA, but even excluding it, England is much more densely populated.

check the links above.

It's not that important...

[asdf]

It's not that important...

yeah, but they stiill think they are

[JohnnyCNote]

Well, of that there's no dispute....

[handyguy]

I read traffic speed in London was 3mph average. However, there were recent attempts to speed it up.

I was watching TRIGGERMEN today & they described England as "a festering cesspool of an island".... I thought they were kidding until I read this topic.

[flaninacupboard]

Add King John and you'll have a brawl

Tiny indeed:

All of United Kingdom: 244,820 sq km
Arizona: 295,274 sq km
New Mexico: 314,924 sq km

With 60,270,708 people, no wonder the UK is so crowded

We have only 1,819,406 people in New Mexico and Arizona has only 5,130,632 people

Now you understand why our houses are overpriced and small! you ******* sent madonna back here, she bought a house and land big enough for 90 families just for her! thanks!

[makntraks]

England is a ******* shit hole, I hate it and cannot wait to leave. However London pays better than any other capital city and thats why I am here.

God Hardcore... you always sound soooo damn cheerful in your replies

makntraks

[JohnnyCNote]

Actually, London is way at the top of my Most Want to Visit list. I stayed overnight at the Holiday Inn near Heathrow on my way to and from Moscow, but in my book you have to get away from the airport to say you've been to a place. I was going to to into town, but I was too tired and just slept instead.

Oh yes, I'd like to take a trip to Portmeirion, too. For those who've forgotten what's at Portmeirion: