“What blows me away is both Tokyo and Greater Delhi (New Delhi) are both larger in population than all of California which practically feels like wall to wall people.”
California has 39.54 million people as of 2017. So you may draw the comparison that those cities have roughly the same population, but not more than California. I should add that once you get a little north of LA or east of San Diego there’s nothing but open space aside from the Bay Area.
I guess the population grew since I last heard or looked. It was around 37M at that point and it has been going down so I figured it was lower. No biggie. Close enough to make the point. I should have been more clear about where the dense population area are but I guess you know them better than I do since I move away in 2000.
The good thing about CA, besides the geography, is once one gets away from those dense population areas it starts to get much nicer politically speaking. For whatever reason; leftists like to nest together in dense cities.