Caching is best in the Maritimes
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Caches per population
population………..caches ………per 100,000 population
NL 513,555 ………… 5717 ……………..1113
PE 146,205 ………… 5849 ……………. 4000
NS 947,831 ……….. 14361…………….. 1515
NB 755,346 ……….. 10842…………….. 1435
QC 8,076,828 ……… 30580……………… 378
ON 13,546,112 …….. 36312……………… 268
MB 1,270,646 ………. 5445 …………….. 428
SK 1,086,564 ………. 5881……………… 541
AB 3,906,839 ……… 17085……………… 455
BC 4,638,825 ……… 29976……………… 646
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Caches per area
……sq KM…………..caches…..#per 1000 sq km
NL…..405,212…………5717………..14.1
PE ……5,660…………5849………1033.4
NS …..55,284………..14361……….259.8
NB …..72,908………..10842……….148.7
QC ..1,542,056………..30580………..19.8
ON ..1,076,395………..36312………..33.7
MB ….647,797…………5445…………8.4
SK ….651,036 ………..5881…………9.0
AB ….661,848………..17085………..25.8
BC ….944,735………..29976………..31.7
In Nfld, half of those are escaperr’s. 😉
Almost, but not quite.. I just wish I had a $1 for every time my name was mentioned. LOL.
If you want to go on a caching vacation, you would like to go to an area where there are caches wherever you travel. A look at PEI geocaching map will certainly show tons of caches. If you are looking for numbers, they have more than 1 cache per sq km. If you want to bike the Confederation Trail I think there are over 1500 caches. If you are looking for scenery, well you get that too.
The figures for PEI are high compared to large provinces like QC and ON. It could be said that it is because of all the wilderness in those provinces. However, If all the caches in QC were hidden on 5% of the territory, there would be 400 caches per 1000 sq km. In ON there would be about 675. This compares to 1033 in PEI.
Anyhow I only calculated and posted the stats for information purposes. We love caching wherever we go.
And what a great reason for people to come check out our mega event :):):)