American Crisis

Time flew by, and 1920 soon drew to a close.

Over the past half year or so, construction of Spain's radio broadcasting base stations had progressed more than halfway. At present, they could already ensure that at least two-thirds of the population fell within Radio Waves signal coverage.

Such progress had been remarkably swift, though it was inseparable from Spain's basic national conditions.

As one of Europe's most developed countries today, Spain's urbanization rate was extremely high. In fact, Spain's population growth over the years revealed a problem: its population was excessively concentrated in a small number of areas.

Most of Spain's population lived along the coasts and around central Madrid, while most of the inland mountainous regions were sparsely inhabited, if inhabited at all.

Among these inhabited regions, cities gathered the majority of Spain's population. Spanish cities led by Madrid and Barcelona were currently the main centers of Spain's population.

It was no exaggeration to say that more than half of Spain's population now lived in cities.

As the two largest cities, Madrid and Barcelona had populations of 3.12 million and 4.07 million respectively, both ranking among the world's ten largest cities.

Seville's population had also surpassed one million, while cities such as Bilbao, Valencia, Lisbon, and Porto each had populations reaching into the hundreds of thousands.

The price of these persistently huge urban populations was that most of Spain remained sparsely populated, or even completely uninhabited.

But that could not exactly be called a disadvantage. After all, a country's urbanization rate was an important measure of its industrial and economic development, as well as its level of advancement.

If Spain's cities had not possessed such large populations, its industry naturally could not have developed.

Speaking of which, present-day Madrid and Barcelona truly had begun to resemble cities of