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Old Sep 20, 2019 | 4:33 pm
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Originally Posted by bsagator
La Paz, Bolivia is at 12k feet in altitude and has 2.3 million inhabitants in its metro area.
Originally Posted by xliioper
La Paz, Bolivia. Elev. 11,942 ft., Pop. 757,184 (2012).
Originally Posted by TTT
IIRC, Leadville, CO is the highest incorporated town in the US at 10,152'. It has about 2800 people.

But looking outside of the US it's easy to find large populations at altitude.
La Rinconada, Peru: 16,732 with ~50,000 people
Nagqu, Tibet: 14,800 with ~42,000 people
Juliaca, Peru: 12,546 with ~216,000 people
Cusco, Peru:11,152 with ~428,000 people
El Alto, Bolivia: 13,620 with ~846,000 people

Quite a few more of varying sizes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_cities
These are used to higher altitude. Also despite these not being small numbers of people, even in total they're not even .01% of the Earth's population.

Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
MSP media are reporting that this happened again. On Monday, a 757 flight to MSP from SLC diverted to Rapid City. Oxygen masks weren't deployed. Apparently at least one TV station was contacted by a local couple on the flight.
Cant seem to find anything online about this. Seems weird to lose pressure but not have masks deploy. Curious if issue was something else.
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