B741 From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 716 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1812 times:
I checked Wikpedia and it listed the largest urban areas of the world. Tokyo with 33 million and I was surprised to see Seoul with around 22 million. Also, it was good to see the Toronto-Hamilton(Golden Horseshoe) area recognized with about 6.7 million. It would be even higher if you include the Niagara(Buffalo) Frontier.
Aerobalance From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 4634 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1795 times:
KYIPpilot From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 7 Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1790 times:
I think Mexico City will be up there. Pop is 22 million in the city alone.
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Mdsh00 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4097 posts, RR: 9 Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1779 times:
The Greater Los Angeles Area is quite large and populous too.
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SFOMEX From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1776 times:
Quoting KYIPpilot (reply 2): I think Mexico City will be up there. Pop is 22 million in the city alone.
That's right. The city's population is around 8-10 million. Yet, the whole urban area has more than 20 million inhabitants. Nothing beats landing in MEX at night, wherever you look is a sea of lights. At that moment you realize how big is this place. BTW, I love my hometown...
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12333 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1738 times:
The New York City Metro area, including about 50 miles to all directions from Times Square, is about 22 Million as well. That would include All of New York City, most of Northern New Jersey, well into Central New Jersey, most of Long Island, 4 counties In NY State and several counties in southeastern CT.
Perhaps some other urbanized areas of Asia, including in China and India may be up there too.
Aerorobnz From Rwanda, joined Feb 2001, 6326 posts, RR: 14 Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1734 times:
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Mexico City
Sao Paulo
Rio
Seoul
Accra ( I think)
London
Paris
LA basin
Those would all be up there for major cities. The top two are examples of a Megalopolis'. Two or more major cities joined together.
Auckland where I live is only 1.2 million, but it is a large area in land for such a 'small' city.
NYCFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1381 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1719 times:
did you get that list off an official site, or did you just think it up? I'm 99% sure London, Paris, and Accra are not top-10. Also, the BOS-NYC-DC megalopolis should not be counted as a single entity on a list like this. But NYC is still top 6 or 7.
TOK, MEX, GRU, and PVG are generally top 4, not necessarily that order.
Yokohama1970 From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 199 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1703 times:
AA777 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 2470 posts, RR: 31 Reply 9, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1690 times:
Airlinerfreak From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1681 times:
I dont mean this as a rude or negative comment, but in L.A. we could have that many people living in a house listed under one person. Also there are a number of aliens un accounted for.
Northwest_guy From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 217 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1603 times:
The 2005 World Almanac lists the top 15 cities (urban "agglomerations") as being:
1. Tokyo, Japan - 34 million
2. Mexico City, Mexico - 18 million
3. New York City, U.S. - 17.8 million
4. Sao Paulo, Brazil - 17 million
5. Mumbai, India - 16 million
6. Kolkata, India - 13 million
7. Shanghai, China - 12.8 million
8. Buenos Aires, Argentina - 12.5 million
9. Delhi, India - 12.4 million
10. Los Angelos, U.S. - 11.8 million
11. Osaka, Japan - 11.1 million
12. Jakarta, Indonesia - 11 million
13. Beijing, China - 10.8 million
14. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10. 8 million
15. Cairo, Egypt - 10.3 million
The 2005 Britannica Almanac has a slightly different list, but they are basically the same.
Logan22L From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 1581 times:
Quoting Airlinerfreak (reply 10): L.A. we could have that many people living in a house listed under one person
And some of those houses are more than 25 Years Old.
I suppose "largest" really should be "most populous." THen it's a no brainer. If we want to consider land area, then all sort of subjectivities come into play.
UALPHLCS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1559 times:
When you said "Largest" I thought you meant by area.
See this is were words can get tricky. Certainly one of the largest single urban areas is New Jersey. The entire state is classified as urban. Or you could go by City in which I think Indianapolis or Oklahoma City are the largest cities in the US. Now none of these three examples are the most populous urban areas in the US. But all count in terms of Largest.
You need to be really clear as to what you mean when you are talking about geography. "Largest" means alot of different things.
NYCFlyer From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1381 posts, RR: 10 Reply 18, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1550 times:
Jacksonville, Florida is actually the largest in the U.S., in terms of square mileage.
Prebennorholm From Denmark, joined Mar 2000, 6019 posts, RR: 55 Reply 21, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1498 times:
It is always hard to say what is "one urban area". And where are its limits.
In 1989 - first time I was in Paris - it seemed endless to me while driving around. I asked a knowledged local friend, what is the population of "Greater Paris"? He said 11.5 million. It is bigger today.
Also few people imagine that within a 30 miles radius circle with Birmingham, England as center lives 8.5 million people.
The Ruhr district in Germany is quite small in area, but includes more than half a dozen large cities.
The whole nation - the Netherlands with 18 million inhabitants - is probably smaller in area than LA city.
So there are a lot of difficulties when ranking the world's major urban areas with any sort of accuracy.
I'm just happy that I live far away from any of them. Copenhagen-Malmö is only 2 million, that's just bearable.
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EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 22, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1483 times:
Jacksonville, Florida is actually the largest in the U.S., in terms of square mileage.
Juneau, Alaska is actually up there too - if not first, then second.
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Delta767300ER From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2559 posts, RR: 14 Reply 23, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1436 times:
Jacksonville is 757.7 square miles.
Indianapolis is 361 square miles.
Orlando is 93.5 square miles. But most of the cool shit is outside the city limits.
NUAir From Malaysia, joined Jun 2000, 1181 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 1428 times:
"The whole nation - the Netherlands with 18 million inhabitants - is probably smaller in area than LA city."
Think again. Greater LA is about one third the size of The Netherlands so not really that comparable. Plus in The Netherlands you have long stretches of undeveloped farm land between cities and towns, something you won't see in LA county (unless you are playing GTA-San Andreas).
from CIA world factbook -
Netherlands
land: 33,883 sq km
(About twice the size of New Jersey)
Greater Los Angeles-
land: 10,515 sq km
If you have been to Tokyo I don't think that you can argue that its not the biggest and most populated urban area in the world.
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25 Banco: I know it's cheating a bit what with so much of it suffering from extreme damp but wouldn't Honolulu have the biggest area of the lot?
26 Spaceman: I guess if you just include the city itself, and here is the list of the largest cities: Rank City1 Population 1. Shanghai, China 13,278,500 2. Mumbai
27 Searpqx: Actually, EA CO AS had it right - I believe the City and Borough of Juneau is still the largest (in area) city in the United States and likely up in t
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But most of the cool shit is outside the city limits.
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