Allison Carter

allison.carter@indystar.com

Three hundred and fifty thousand people. That's 350,000 people. The number is hard to get your head around, but there could be that many people at the 100th running of the Indy 500.

To better help you understand just how mammoth that crowd is, here are some things it's about the same size as:

• As CEO Mark Miles pointed out, that's as big as the populations of South Bend and Fort Wayne — combined.

• That's 37 percent of the entire population of Marion County, all squeezed into a 2.5 mile oval.

• It's 59 percent of the entire population of the state of Wyoming.

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• More people than attended the last four Super Bowls — combined. It's almost five times bigger than Indy's Super Bowl.

• Nearly twice as many people as attended the record-breaking 2015 Kentucky Derby.

• Over 100,000 people more than attended all the games of the 2015 World Series.

• More than double the attendance of the last-reported Daytona 500 attendance in 2012.

• On Sunday, 1 out of every 1,000 people in the U.S. will be at the Indy 500.

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So come early, be patient and make some new friends.

Allison Carter is an engagement producer at IndyStar. She'll be one of the 350,000 on Sunday. Follow her on Twitter @AllisonLCarter.