Many people who have not been to the United States, understand the United States often see the United States in American movies, feel that the United States is prosperous and developed, full of American dreams, in fact, really understand the United States, only to know that the United States is just a large Mexico.
First of all, I will first explain to you about American movies, I believe that people who have watched more than n movies in the United States will suddenly find that the United States shoots to shoot is New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, the amazing seattle and then a few cities, shooting back and forth on these cities, sometimes, there is really no other city to shoot, they create a city that does not exist in the United States - Gotham City.
There are only a few bustling cities in the United States.
Maybe we ordinary Chinese people don't know the concept of urban infrastructure in the United States, I use the most real data and information compared between China and the United States, and immediately you have a concept.
For example, Philadelphia in the United States, once the capital of the United States, ranked fifth in the United States in terms of urban infrastructure, and philadelphia's infrastructure level, that is, the city's appearance, probably ranked at the bottom of China's third-tier cities.
Philadelphia
And Philadelphia's infrastructure, as shown above, is also concentrated in this small piece, really the entire philadelphia downtown is such a small piece, there are no high-rise buildings, and the back is full of flats with big cakes. This was once the capital of the United States, and now it is the so-called bustling city of the fifth city in the United States.
There are 49 first- and second-tier cities and 70 third-tier cities in China. The figure below is the recently more popular third-tier city of Tangshan City, note that it is the urban infrastructure of the horizon in the distance.
Tangshan
This is only a small part of this third-tier city. Speaking of the city's hotels, guesthouses, entertainment cities, movie cities, large shopping malls, supermarkets, lively street markets, amusement parks, parks, gardens... And so on the number, beauty, and spectacle is far beyond Philadelphia.
Perhaps many people do not know, the whole United States in addition to the New York Plaza, there is almost no square, and people who have gone to New York Square have also seen that New York Square is actually very small, to be honest, like New York Square square, There are squares everywhere in China, especially in China's first- and second-tier cities, many of which are far taller than New York Square. Notice that there is only one New York Plaza in the whole of America, which may seem incredible, but it is true. And in the United States, all kinds of film shots are filmed in this square, and the United States really has other beautiful or decent squares.
The picture below is the third largest city in the United States, which has been promoted in the long-term American movie or in the mouth of the public, the city of angels Los Angeles, like Philadelphia, is only the middle one.
Los Angeles Vista
Up close to Los Angeles
And Los Angeles is full of beggars and tramps, especially not far from downtown and around the corner of the street, and these places are full of a mixture of feces and urine and rats, and the smell of disgusting cannabis. The same is true of the few bustling cities in the United States.
Of course, it is surrounded by bungalows with flatbread-like stalls. Here I explain a concept, because many well-known, or uninitiated Chinese netizens will always think that the bungalows where Americans live are villas, and every household has its own lawn, all called villas. In fact, the vast majority of Americans live in wooden houses, the reason why there is a lawn, is used to prevent sand and dust on the side of the road, and from time to time to mow the lawn, otherwise spiders, bed bugs and mosquitoes are particularly numerous. If you don't live in a wooden house like that, it will tickle you to death.
Of course, Los Angeles has very obvious rich areas and slums, and the rich areas are called real villas, with their own swimming pools, and many of the house structures will have luxurious tiles and cement cut houses. The vast majority of American houses use wooden houses because of the convenience and cheapness of materials. Of course, this is also related to their historical conditions, geographical conditions, and sparse population, such as many herders in Inner Mongolia who live in yurts.
Maybe everyone still doesn't really feel and understand the infrastructure of various cities in China and the United States, and if you give a data here, you may immediately feel how big the gap between China and the United States infrastructure is. For example, there are only more than 200 high-rise buildings in the United States that are more than 200 meters high, and New York and Chicago in the United States occupy 90%! The remaining 10% is distributed outside of a few cities such as Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and there are no high-rise buildings in the whole United States. The United States is actually a typical, large rural area, or a large Mexico.
There is a popular saying in the United States: New York, foreigners see the most like the City of the United States, and the Americans see the least like the City of the United States. You savor the meaning of this sentence.
In the United States, the vast area is the same as our fifth-tier cities or townships, where as long as there are schools, hospitals, and police, it can be called a city, and most of these places in the United States, it is thankful to have a tavern, and it is a long drive to get there.
Maybe you can't understand these concepts, why is the United States like this, American movies are not like this, to be honest, it is just An American movie, and the bustling cities or corners that are filmed repeatedly are only a few places.
The United States is sparsely populated, and the distribution of personnel is very scattered, and it cannot form a population size. There are only 10 cities in the United States with a population of more than 1 million, New York with 8 million, Los Angeles with 4 million, and the other 8 cities with a population of 1 or 2 million. In addition to these ten cities in the United States, other cities are only hundreds of thousands of people, not as good as our town.
Chinese is very concentrated, with almost 1.3 billion people concentrated in the area to the right of the Huanyong Line. There are 300 cities with more than 1 million in China, 90 super cities with more than 5 million, and 30 mega cities with more than 8 million!
Don't forget that the United States only has a new York city with a population of 8 million, so in the near future, who is the real sea of stars on this planet!
How to understand the sparse population of the United States?
For example, we in China are divided into left and right according to the Huanyong line, as shown in the following figure
The famous Huan Yong Line
Because the angles of high and low longitude and latitude are different, we feel that the Huanyong line is as large as the left and right, in fact, the left side is almost twice as large as the right side. 36% of the land in the southeastern half (to the right of the HuanYong Line) feeds 96% of the country's population; The 64% of the land in the northwestern half (to the right of the Huan Yong Line) supports only 4% of the population. The average population density ratio was 42.6:1.
And the population density of the United States is the same as the one on the left side of our change line. For example, on the left side of our Huanyong Line, there are Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Great Northwest Gansu, Ningxia and other sparsely populated places, which are comparable to the population density of the United States.
We have large supermarkets everywhere in China, shopping malls, lively street markets, hotels and restaurants, food stalls and the like, and the United States does not, the United States population is scattered, can not form this population size advantage, they have to drive for half an hour to buy things, or even a few hours of car to the nearest supermarket to buy things, and these supermarkets are basically monopoly chain supermarkets, within a radius of tens of kilometers, the population is too scattered and too rare, not so supermarkets can not make money. Americans buy things at a time for a week, or even half a month to store food. Where like us in China, once out of the house, a corner is a taxi shop, or a street behind the supermarket, a wet market.
The United States, which is vast and sparsely populated, is strictly speaking, a real big countryside, a really large Mexico.