While China's disaster affected millions of people, the destruction was concentrated in rural areas and smaller towns, not a dense city.

尽管中国这次灾难影响了数百万人，但是破坏集中在农村和小城镇，而非人口稠密的的城市。

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But once one gets behind the relatively small urban core, the overall density is barely 2, 200 per square mile, less than half San Jose or Los Angeles, hardly a fifth that of Tokyo and not much more than Atlanta, the least dense major city in the world with more than 2.5 million residents.

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