Click the button at the bottom of the interactive to select Los Angeles County, for instance, and then click anywhere on the map to generate a (roughly) circular region of (roughly) equal population.

Texas too does pretty good in the population density map (28 million people), as does Florida (21 million). And New York (20 million) gets a sizeable boost, from a small sliver to one of the ...

Half of Montana’s counties reported more deaths than births in 2021, but overall the state experienced a population increase in the second year of the pandemic thanks in part to ...