Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 5/Answers/Question 13

There must be a lot of such towns, Rochester, Ulster County, New York has even smaller density - 30.5 ppl/km^2. Grue 15:19, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Although some googling (77.5/km site:en.wikipedia.org) reveals Wooster, Arkansas being quite close to requirements. Grue 15:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The density number is exact and straight from the article. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:30, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Possible answer
Well, there's Murray, New York, pop. 6259, density 77.9/km². That isn't exactly what you specified, however, so I'm continuing to search. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 20:39, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Further clarification
The total area is between 80 and 100 km, and the population is greater than 6,000. -- AllyUnion (talk) 23:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I am going to give this a last stab and say that 77.59 was misprint and guess on Yamaga, Oita with a population of 8,590 and population density 59.77(!). Ok now I'm giving up. I'm going to sleep. Gkhan 01:12, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

To further narrow the search (I think Google isn't really giving good results at the moment), the article in question is a stub. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:47, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Still not helping, really... I've used four different search engines and I still can't come up with anything. On a slight aside, MSN has already indexed this question; it's one of three results for "77.59". Johnleemk | Talk 09:09, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Not really helping much, but I'm guessing that the population density isn't on the page itself, but you took the population/land area to get the figure? Searching on google "small town" +stub restricted to wikipedia has not yet yielded much results. Ahh, the frustration -- fiveless 16:42, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, but AllyUnion said that the density number is "straight from the article." There are loads of stubs about towns of all sizes all around the world. Sigh. FreplySpang 16:51, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think the town is in Japan, not US (they have two digits precision for density), but since 99% of Japanese towns have 2003 data, it leaves only small room because Ally said it was as of 2004. Grue 17:08, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Getting warmer. -- AllyUnion (talk) 19:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Just wanted to say that I've found a golden mine of such towns. As I expected they're uncategorized (except stub category). I think I'll have an answer by the end of the day ;). Grue 08:52, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

GOT IT!!!
Yeah, I've found it! It's Naie, Hokkaido. Here is how I've found it. Grue 09:03, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Check Category:Towns in Japan randomly. Realize that most of the towns have 2003 data.
 * 2) Google for "As of 2004" "the density of" site:en.wikipedia.org
 * 3) Check Osaka and Ehimi prefectures. Fail.
 * 4) Check Hokkaido prefecture at random. Three towns. 2004 data. _VERY_ suspicious!
 * 5) Notice Hokkaido has subprefectures. Each subprefecture article is a list of districts and towns in them. That's what I want.
 * 6) Tediously check each town in subprefectures starting from Tokachi Subprefecture (the last one).
 * 7) Tokachi: no result, Soya:no result, Sorachi: got it!

Damn this is ridiculous. Just when I found the answer I realize I failed the deadline by 9 hours :(. Grue 09:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)