South Korea has 5x the population of Ohio, but around 27x the number of bars [1]. So it really is a lot of bars.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/us/industry/ohio/bars-nightclubs/1...

Snark aside - I used this site which compares the country question to the location closest to you. I live in ohio. https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/unit...

The entire US and North America is massively more empty relative to almost anywhere else, even most perceptually sparse countries. Many of European countries are 5-10x denser than US.

  0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density

Empty lol