Strange but there are some cities listed twice: Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester are among them — and with different population figures.
Cool to see Arlington, TX make the list!
Yes, #5, I was thinking the same thing. Especially with Cairo and Giza (Egypt) listed separately. They’re kind of like New York and Newark in proximity. Greater Cairo has something like 12-13 million I believe, and so the figures listed here don’t do it justice. I thought I’d seen bad traffic in the NY area… HAH! You ain’t seen traffic until you’ve seen Cairo or Bangkok in Thailand.
The trick is that they are ranked by individual city population, not metropolitan area population. Consequently, neighboring cities are usually counted separately: Omdurman, Khartoum, and North Khartoum in Sudan would be #26 if they were a single city, for example. El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, would nearly be in the top 100.
Different countries define “cities” differently. Delhi is #3 partly because New Delhi and the other neighboring cities have been lumped in. If you rank the same data by metro area, Delhi comes in as #8 rather than #3, Mumbai is #13 rather than #1, and Karachi is #23 rather than #2. Tokyo is #1 rather than #13, New York is #2 rather than #12, Mexico City is #3 rather than #10. London has a metropolitan government, so it ranks #19 among cities and #20 among metro areas.
I grew up in Manila and was a bit surprised that MetroManila has grown to more than 10 M!!! Yikes, no wonder, I thought it was a “bit” crowded when I visited last November 🙂
Wichita’s new slogan: “We’re not last!”
I had Shanghai at #1, so I was really surprised that 1-3 were India-Pakistan-India.
Strange but there are some cities listed twice: Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester are among them — and with different population figures.
Cool to see Arlington, TX make the list!
Bogota, Colombia, is also listed twice: #15 & #20. Makes one wonder how accurate the list is.
a bit arbitrary – seems to follow political boundaries of cities rather than greater urban areas in which one ‘city’ melds into another.
Yes, #5, I was thinking the same thing. Especially with Cairo and Giza (Egypt) listed separately. They’re kind of like New York and Newark in proximity. Greater Cairo has something like 12-13 million I believe, and so the figures listed here don’t do it justice. I thought I’d seen bad traffic in the NY area… HAH! You ain’t seen traffic until you’ve seen Cairo or Bangkok in Thailand.
This link here gives a listing by urban areas rather than administrative areas.
The trick is that they are ranked by individual city population, not metropolitan area population. Consequently, neighboring cities are usually counted separately: Omdurman, Khartoum, and North Khartoum in Sudan would be #26 if they were a single city, for example. El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, would nearly be in the top 100.
Different countries define “cities” differently. Delhi is #3 partly because New Delhi and the other neighboring cities have been lumped in. If you rank the same data by metro area, Delhi comes in as #8 rather than #3, Mumbai is #13 rather than #1, and Karachi is #23 rather than #2. Tokyo is #1 rather than #13, New York is #2 rather than #12, Mexico City is #3 rather than #10. London has a metropolitan government, so it ranks #19 among cities and #20 among metro areas.
… am I blind — where is Atlanta?
Atlanta is indeed missing from the city list, where it should be #818, just above Sheffield.
Atlanta is on the urban area list:
— Metro pop 3,988,900; rank #69
— City pop 435,500; rank #709.
#9: Sherman’s ghost strikes again!
I grew up in Manila and was a bit surprised that MetroManila has grown to more than 10 M!!! Yikes, no wonder, I thought it was a “bit” crowded when I visited last November 🙂