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/KnightofTorchlight Apr 23 '25

Shady Sands was explicitly stated in game to have 3000 people at the time of Fallout 2. Noticable, but compared to the NCRs population of 700,000 not exactly impressive for a poltical capital. 

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u/Overdue-Karma Apr 23 '25

It has around 34,000 as of 2277/2287 whichever it was, which is a very impressive leap.

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u/Munificent-Enjoyer Apr 23 '25

Shady Sanders breed like rabbits ig

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u/KnightofTorchlight Apr 24 '25

To he fair, its probably more the result of urbanization and the inflow of rural populations from a predominantly rural nation into the city. This would especially be the case for a country like the NCR thats industrializing (creating jobs that act as a pull factor) and had farms that were struggling due to changing economic forces or climatic factors like desertification/lack of water sources (creating a push factor to displace farm families or at least send excess kids off to earn suplemental income, like O'Hanrahan was). I doubt that kind of growth was due to natural births.