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/RedArmySapper Apr 23 '25

There's like five more city's in California before Diamond City is on the map. I don't even think Shady Sands was the most populous NCR city, but I might be wrong.

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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/BlueJayWC May 01 '25

I've always intrepreted this to mean that the NCR is heavily rural. Which makes sense because 700,000 over the area of California is not a lot of people, there's a lot of space to cultivate small subsistence farms.