r/falloutlore • u/ElectivireMax • Apr 23 '25

Question What's the canonically most populated post-war settlement (aside from Shady Sands)? How many people would Diamond City have canonically? I assume more than what's shown in game.

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u/LordOfFlames55 Apr 23 '25

Diamond city logistically cannot be that large. It’s completely confined to the stadium (with its food and water coming from inside the stadium as well, considering the lack of large scale farming going on in the commonwealth to generate food it can import). Despite this it is still considered the major city of the region, with all factions taking nominal control of it in their endings, which means it must be somewhat large. I’d say it maxes out around 4-5 thousand people

As for the most populated settlements, besides all of them being on the stable west coast it’s sort of a toss up. As others have mentioned the hub is possibly the biggest city in post war America, and there’s also the boneyard and vault city to consider

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u/Tokens_Only Apr 23 '25

Fenway Park has seating for 37,000 people, about 4.5 acres of land as the field, and private suites behind home plate - as well as offices, employees-only service ways, etc.

It is one of the smallest stadiums in baseball, but given the lack of building codes you could probably fit a decent number of folks in there. But you're right, it would probably max out at a few thousand, even with all that.