MEAN CENTER OF POPULATION FOR THE U.S.: 1790 TO 2020

The concept of the center of population as used by the U.S. Census Bureau is that of a balance point. The center of population is the point at which an imaginary, weightless, rigid, and flat surface representation of the 50 states and the District of Columbia would balance if weights of identical size were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person.  The 2020 national mean center of population is 37.415725 N, 92.346525 W, the most western and southern mean center of population point in our nation’s history. The 2020 center of population is 11.8 miles from the 2010 center and 885.9 miles from the 1790 center. Hartville, Missouri, the nearest incorporated municipality to the 2020 center of population, is a town of 594 people in Wright County, Missouri.

CRIMEAN BRIDGE

The Crimean Bridge, also called the Kerch Strait Bridge, is a pair of Russian Constructed parallel bridges, spanning the Strait of Kerch between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea. The road bridge was opened for non-truck cars on May 16, 2018 and for trucks on October 1.  The rail bridge was inaugurated on December 23, 2019 and the first scheduled passenger train crossed the bridge on December 25, 2019, while the opening of the bridge for freight trains is scheduled for July 1, 2020. With a length of 11.8 miles, it is the longest bridge Russia has ever built and the longest in Europe.

THE CRIMEAN BRIDGE
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