• Jarix@lemmy.world
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    50 percent of canadians live below the 49th parallel. 90 percent live within 160 kms (iirc) 20kms of the border between canada and the usa

    Canada has roughly 40 million people.

    *Longest undefended border in the world

    *Canada has more fresh water than any other country and almost 9% of Canadian territory is water; Canada has at least 2 million and possibly over 3 million lakes - that is more than all other countries combined

    Just some contextual information for anyone who isnt familiar with canada reading your comment. Not directed at the comment i replied to, just thought it might be useful

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      That 90% is within 100 miles of the border, not 20km. And keep in mind that border is one of the longest on the planet. Not that it’s a good reason to have cars (it takes days to drive between Toronto and Vancouver, I think a train would be a much better experience for something more efficient than a flight).

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        And keep in mind that border is one of the longest on the planet.

        Depending on how you count it can have infinite length

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          not necessarily infinite, length is quantized so when you get to planck length sized chunks you can declare a largest border length (at least, the planck length is the shortest distance we can measure)

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        Thanks! wasnt sure about how close to the border will fix.

        And because you mentioned the length of the border, ill also add another tidbit in the edit

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      This is way off topic, but I’m curious about the fresh water thing. Does that include frozen water, and how does Antarctica fit into that metric? I know Antarctica is a continent, but is it also a country? Is it multiple?

      Edit: I return with knowledge!

      Antarctica has no countries, but does have regions where certain other countries have “claimed”. Also the info is pretty dated (late 80’s I think), but there’s a large portion that is totally unclaimed land entirely. Fun fact: this is the only large land area on the planet that’s unclaimed by a country.

      As for fresh water content: Antarctica holds about 70% of Earth’s fresh water as ice. As a scale reference: If that all melted, it would be enough to raise the planet’s sea levels by nearly 200 feet (~60 feet higher than the 2011 tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan).

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        Some day we are gonna answer a trivia question with this. Ill think of you when my turn comes.