[PAR35]

8000 in a country of 10169 sq mi seems like a lot.

1375 people per each of the 8000. I used to live in a small town that had a church per approximately each 165 people.

[Hieronymus]

There are four in my rural Ontario town of 1200—two of them Catholic. With five Sunday masses between the two. People do come from beyond town limits, but not far.