Friday, June 29, 2007

Could Helsinki, Finland fit inside Yamanote-sen, Tokyo?

So I started wondering with my beloved Google Maps.
How would my beloved birthplace Helsinki fit inside Tokyo's Yamanote line.

Not the whole Helsinki though, downtown Helsinki is where the buildings are so I'm comparing that :)

(For the informed downtown Helsinki in this case is something that starts from Pasila and continues until you hit the sea)

So here's what we work with:
On the left, Tokyo Yamanote-line highlighted, and on the right the Helsinki downtown highlighted (Notice the difference in the amount of greenery). The scale should be the same and the sizes of the pictures are the same (Note how downtown tokyo is made of more concrete and less sea than Helsinki).

Well, we can already see that apparently downtown Helsinki will fit inside without a problem.




And here, the result (Helsinki=red part):



Not a suprising result, but interesting for me to see how the scales compare. Although area-wise Helsinki can fit inside roughly probably two times, it also tells that the area inside Yamanote-line that actually feels humongous is actually quite tightly packed. The fact that it's not such a huge area after all is not all that suprising as there have been rumours that only the Japanese Emperor can afford to live inside the Yamanote-line and Tokyo has alot of people to accomodate ;)
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