They are better covered with respect to current population, but not
with respect to Land area..
I suspect that a couple of phenomena are at play here. One is that
many of our articles are about historic sites and they are more evenly
spread as many predate the great drift to the towns in the nineteenth
century. The other is that every little settlement merits an article,
whilst large slabs of Suburbia are lumped together.
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On 1 December 2010 00:01, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
It's very surprising that rural locations are a
lot better covered on
Wikipedia than city areas - what's going on here?
Mike
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