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Yes, that cargo capacity is a canonical figure, after correction for misprinted data that made the cargo capacity ten times less (and would have subsequently required Coruscant to use ten times as many ships to deliver food).

Do not think about what they do with all the sewage.


2013-01-22 Rerun commentary: 50,000 people per square kilometre is just an estimate I pulled out of thin air. Well, I estimated it as moderately higher than the highest population densities seen on Earth, for which Macau clocks in at just under 20,000. A high-tech place like Coruscant seems like it has giant buildings and layer upon layer of crawling undercity everywhere, so 50,000 seems plausible, at least in small localised regions. Applying that to the whole planet is really just artistic licence for the sake of this comic.

Canonically, Coruscant's population is supposed to be around the one trillion mark (1012, a US trillion). So that'd be a mere 500 people per square kilometre.

It would also merely be the entire output of 100 agricultural planets to feed them, and 800 super star destroyers delivering food every single day. Much more plausible.

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