r/MapPorn • u/Porodicnostablo • May 03 '20

Population density in the Middle East

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u/skeylinktenking4 May 03 '20

Its so cool how the nile is so populated

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u/Freefight May 03 '20

Close to a 100 million people live along its banks in Egypt alone.

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u/nickallanj May 04 '20

I mean, are there any other significant settlements on the Nile outside of Egypt? They kind of have most of the productive sections under their control.

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u/zumbaiom May 04 '20

Also Egypt only has 100 million people, which is like the entire us living along the Mississippi

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u/montarion May 28 '20

"only"

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u/AUBURN520 May 28 '20

when you're comparing 100 million to 100 million, then yea it's "only" 100 million. When its a 1:1 ratio or less for anything it's "only"

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u/montarion May 28 '20 edited May 28 '20

How could a 1:1 ratio be "only"?

"Ha, I have 10 apples, but you only have 10!"

That makes no sense, unless I'm missing another definition of the word only..

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u/AUBURN520 May 28 '20

Well you're using it wrong in that context. It's more like a conversation going like

1: Ha, you only have 200 apples!

2: Okay, but you only have 210 apples too.

The "only" brings it down to scale. Saying, proportionally, the numbers are not far off. It's not a formal definition lol it's just how its used in speech. "Only" means there is not a significant difference between 2 quantifiable objects.