Why do big cities pop up where they do and not in places like Montana?

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Montana is one of the most beautiful places on earth, yet hardly anyone lives there. Why do sprawling metropolis pop up in places like Cleveland and Phoenix, but not Montana?

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Waterways and trade plus migration. It’s historically much harder to expand across landmasses if there’s no waterway connecting the new settlements with existing ones. People can’t go it alone very well and so deep inland areas are slower to develop in most places.

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