text: The French postal density is higher at every quantile , but the ratio is strikingly high at the 95th and 90th quantiles where it exceeds 3 to 1 . On average the French postal density exceeds the U.S. by a ratio of 2.5 to 1 . This is somewhat less than the ratio of population density between France and the U.S. which is 3.6 to 1.10
  
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  The French postal density can be compared and contrasted to the U.S. ' s .