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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Ridership on High Speed Rail nationwide:
421m
57m
Ridership on Subway + Suburban Railway in capital area:
13.5b (only counting top 11 operators)
3.8b
Total ridership on "national" rail system (JR Group & Korail):
9.1b (5% on HSR)
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Replying to @380kmh
If density wee all that mattered, Bangladesh would have supersonic trains on 1 Minute headways
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certainly wealth matters too--but SK and Japan are almost identical in that respect
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