Population Density:
870/sqmi
1313/sqmi
Land Area:
146,000 sqmi
39,000 sqmi
GDP (PPP) per capita:
$44,426
$44,210
Density of capital region:
3430/sqmi
5646/sqmi
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People love to argue that the USA is too large, too sparse, and/or too rich to support passenger rail. By all these metrics, South Korea should have much heavier rail use than Japan. But in real life...
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Your argument doesn't follow. That the US is too sparse for effective passenger rail in the modern era could be true without a relationship of density:usage. RoK could have bad policy. If you wanted to give a counterexample, you'd need a nation with…
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…pop density & major population center distances similar to the US's with rail usage/cap. more like Japan's
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