Extremes
See also: List of United States congressional districts by areaAs of the 2000 census:
- Average population per district: 646,946 people
- Districts per state
- State with the most: California (53)
- States with the fewest (only one district "At-large"): Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. Alaska, Delaware and Wyoming are the only states that have never had more than one district.
- Area
- District with the greatest area: Alaska At-large
- District with the greatest area that comprises less than an entire state: Nevada's 2nd
- District with the smallest area: New York's 15th
- Population
- District with the most people: Montana At-large (905,316)
- District with the fewest people: Wyoming At-large (495,304)
- Oldest district: Delaware At-large (Same geographical borders since 1789)
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Famous quotes containing the word extremes:
“Time, force, and death
Do to this body what extremes you can,
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders our view. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
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—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)