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PolentaApology t1_j9tpx9o wrote

Reply to comment by HUNIH22 in I'd do a poll for best county abbreviation, but the winner is clear by Peach-Os

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Iowa

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_Jersey

  • Polk County, Iowa contains the city of Des Moines, which is also the capital and most populated city in Iowa. Polk has about the same number of people as Burlington County, and the same area as Atlantic County.

  • Bergen County has less area than Iowa's smallest county, Dickinson. But its population is about double Polk County's.

  • Salem is the least-populated NJ county, but it has nearly as many people as Iowa's Adams, Ringgold, Audubon, Taylor, Osceola, Wayne, Fremont, Ida, Pocahontas, Van Buren, and Worth counties, combined.

  • Those eleven counties have about 5,300 square miles total. New Jersey has about 7,300 square miles of land area, statewide.

Finally, New Jersey has more counties than Iowa per square mile of area, but Iowa has more counties per capita.

state pop (approx) sq mi land area # of counties counties per million people counties per thousand sq mi
NJ 9,288,994 7,354 21 2.2 2.85
IA 3,190,369 55,857 99 31.0 1.77
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HUNIH22 t1_j9u1jc1 wrote

Super interesting! Thanks for the comparison

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