People- It is really hard to describe the grand size of Bogota. Sometimes it seems like a small community- you can run into people you know anywhere in the city (this happened yesterday when we were across town working on legal documents and ran into a lady from church). At the same time, however, Bogota is a city of 8 million people. 8 million folks! That’s the same as New York (8.25 million) and WAY more than Los Angeles (3.82 million), or Paris (2.23 million). It’s hard to wrap my mind on how many people that really is, so I did some simple math.
In my apartment complex there are roughly 400 people.
In my neighborhood (7 square blocks) there are roughly 25 apartment complexes.
If each apartment complex has roughly the same number of people as ours (most have more, since we live in a smaller complex) that is 400 X 25 or 10,000 people.
That’s more than the population of Monmouth (OR) in just my neighborhood.
On the map below outlines where I live in comparison to the whole city.
This is only part of the city. Imagine the whole city. Now that’s a lot of people.
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