On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:50:55 +0900, Tom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>Few people bother to actually drive through the US, the days
>and days of travel it takes to get from place to place. How
>few people actually live there in the spaces between the
>cities, how big it is.  I suppose Brazil is much the same.

I looked up the Brazil numbers.
It has 20 people per sq-km (USA has some 25, Germany 230).

80% of the land is owned by 20% of the people.
There are  many big land owners
and 180 millio ha in big farms are just fallow land (??).

Much of this may be ex-rainforest and not well suited to live on.

But quite big land is there, as you supposed.

regards

Amadeus