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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Gaza - You've heard the phrase open air prison and that's probably the best way to describe it. It's a 25 mile strip where 2.3 million people live that cannot leave.
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Just to help make a comparison, Gaza is ~139 square miles and Chicago is ~237 square miles. Metro Chicago population is ~9.5M. Of course, Gaza doesn't have anything near the kind of modern housing stock that a city like Chicago has.
The closest size comparison to a major U.S. city is Philadelphia, which is ~134 square miles, with a metro population of 1.6M.