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by 0xbadcafebee 1839 days ago
London is a bit of an outlier. It's high on the list of major cities with the most green space, at about 34%. It has more green space than any city in the UK, and it is the world's largest urban forest at over 8 million trees.

By comparison, Los Angeles is the only major US city with as much green space (the next is NYC at 27%), even though the US is 40 times bigger than the UK.
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gpm 1839 days ago
> and it is the world's largest urban forest at over 8 million trees.

According to this, Toronto has 10 million, and honestly I'm sort of surprised it's that low... do you have a source for the "largest" claim?

https://www.td.com/document/PDF/economics/special/UrbanFores...

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nicoburns 1839 days ago
> It has more green space than any city in the UK

That's probably technically true, but a bit misleading. It's also pretty much the only city in the UK where it's difficult to get out into actual countryside. I used to live in Bristol and it certainly felt greener and more rural than London, even if it technically isn't.

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