• UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The main difference being that France is 248,573 mi² (643,801 km2)

    The contiguous United States is 3,119,000 mi² (8,080,464.3 km²)

    France also has a 3.5x higher population density

    Inhabitants/km²

    • France: 124.4

    • United States: 35.2

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      6 hours ago

      The country’s population density doesn’t change anything to protest, it’s a cultural thing. People only live in cities anyway why would having huge empty fields affect protests ?

      And there are plenty of denser countries which fight way less.