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I found this on farmland necessary to sustain some amount of people: How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland? so using conventional farming (no hydroponics, magic, or crazy stuff), you'd get around 2350 people per km^2 km2. Flip it around and that's about 425 km^2km2 for a million people.

Ok, then I looked up population density for one of the major US cities that I'm familiar with. About 3662 people / mi^2mi2 or 1400ish people / km^2km2. That's about 715km^2715km2 for a million! This metric isn't ideal at all since medieval london was around 100 people/km^2km2 which is a huge difference so you'll have to play around with this number. I read that ancient Rome (city of Rome) had around 1 million inhabitants so that might be a good reference as well

So, 425 + 715 = 1140km^21140km2 which is a circle with a diameter of 38km or 24mi. That's probably a solid start to the problem. You'd probably have to also look up how many farmers you'd need per km^2km2 to help estimate that layer.

oh and the average human walking speed is about 3.1 mph so on a clear cross-cutting road, it'd take 8 hours to make it across with no breaks or obstacles.

I found this on farmland necessary to sustain some amount of people: How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland? so using conventional farming (no hydroponics, magic, or crazy stuff), you'd get around 2350 people per km^2 . Flip it around and that's about 425 km^2 for a million people.

Ok, then I looked up population density for one of the major US cities that I'm familiar with. About 3662 people / mi^2 or 1400ish people / km^2. That's about 715km^2 for a million! This metric isn't ideal at all since medieval london was around 100 people/km^2 which is a huge difference so you'll have to play around with this number. I read that ancient Rome (city of Rome) had around 1 million inhabitants so that might be a good reference as well

So, 425 + 715 = 1140km^2 which is a circle with a diameter of 38km or 24mi. That's probably a solid start to the problem. You'd probably have to also look up how many farmers you'd need per km^2 to help estimate that layer.

oh and the average human walking speed is about 3.1 mph so on a clear cross-cutting road, it'd take 8 hours to make it across with no breaks or obstacles.

I found this on farmland necessary to sustain some amount of people: How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland? so using conventional farming (no hydroponics, magic, or crazy stuff), you'd get around 2350 people per km2. Flip it around and that's about 425 km2 for a million people.

Ok, then I looked up population density for one of the major US cities that I'm familiar with. About 3662 people / mi2 or 1400ish people / km2. That's about 715km2 for a million! This metric isn't ideal at all since medieval london was around 100 people/km2 which is a huge difference so you'll have to play around with this number. I read that ancient Rome (city of Rome) had around 1 million inhabitants so that might be a good reference as well

So, 425 + 715 = 1140km2 which is a circle with a diameter of 38km or 24mi. That's probably a solid start to the problem. You'd probably have to also look up how many farmers you'd need per km2 to help estimate that layer.

oh and the average human walking speed is about 3.1 mph so on a clear cross-cutting road, it'd take 8 hours to make it across with no breaks or obstacles.

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I found this on farmland necessary to sustain some amount of people: How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland? so using conventional farming (no hydroponics, magic, or crazy stuff), you'd get around 2350 people per km^2 . Flip it around and that's about 425 km^2 for a million people.

Ok, then I looked up population density for one of the major US cities that I'm familiar with. About 3662 people / mi^2 or 1400ish people / km^2. That's about 715km^2 for a million! This metric isn't ideal at all since medieval london was around 100 people/km^2 which is a huge difference so you'll have to play around with this number. I read that ancient Rome (city of Rome) had around 1 million inhabitants so that might be a good reference as well

So, 425 + 715 = 1140km^2 which is a circle with a diameter of 38km or 24mi. That's probably a solid start to the problem. You'd probably have to also look up how many farmers you'd need per km^2 to help estimate that layer.

oh and the average human walking speed is about 3.1 mph so on a clear cross-cutting road, it'd take 8 hours to make it across with no breaks or obstacles.