Almost similar GDP as well

Canada GDP (2026): $2.51 Trillion USD

California GDP (2025): $4.25 Trillion USD

Greater Tokyo Area (2022): $1.82 Trillion USD

Wide Spread but still all in the low Trillions

Biggest question.

Who wins in a street fight.

I wanna give it to the Canadians on sheer variety but I think California might win that one.

source: https://www.woatlas.com/density/canada/

The density makes life very convenient though

I doubt you've been or lived here if you think it's very dense for a large city. Frankly its extremely spread out. Most buildings are quite short or single family homes. Compared to the skyscrapers of Chinese cities, its a lot closer to American suburbs.

Only moose I ever saw in California palled around with a squirrel and constantly had beef with a Russian couple when visiting Universal Studios.

The big map is misleading. The vast majority of us live within 100 miles of the US border.

That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?

Canada is in desperate need of immigrants but simultaneously suffering some growing pains from fumbled immigration programs and policy it’s the old you won’t make everyone happy shenanigans

COL in Japan in general is about as unhealthy as it is in California.

people are working themselves to death just to scrape by.

if governments want population growth, they have to siphon wealth away from their corporate overlords and nurture the working class.

I doubt the fertility rate is much better in the scenic, middle-of-nowhere areas. People just don't want kids, and now there's the option to have sex without them.

Tokyo isn't having population decline, its the countryside.

The free land space: 🧊

do you want to drive 3 hours to work every day?