World's largest city??

it was ranked 61st on a 2003 list. Depends if its city limits or meteropolitan area....

still chuckling at my avatar.....

 

NEVER HEARD OF THAT

THOUGHT MAYBE TOKYO............

 

7th on that 2003 list

 

WHATS THE FIRST?? NEW DELHI, INDIA??

 

40 Million!! Wow!!
My father had strong memories of Chungking during the war, including hiding in a drainage ditch every day at noon, which was when the Japanese would fly over it and bomb it to bits.

40 Million! It’s inconceivable.

I’d hate to try and carry the phone directory up some stairs.

 

NYC and MX City right behind 'em.

 

just in case....top 30-
Rank Area Country Category Population
1 New York (NY) USA Urban area 21,199,000
2 MEXICO CITY Mexico Urban area 20,267,000
3 Los Angeles (CA) USA Urban area 16,373,000
4 Mumbai (Bombay) India Urban area 16,368,000
5 Kolkata (Calcutta) India Urban area 13,217,000
6 Delhi India Urban area 12,791,000
7 TOKYO Japan Urban area 12,059,000
8 BUENOS AIRES Argentina Urban area 11,298,000
9 SEOUL South Korea City 10,231,000
10 Sao Paulo Brazil City 10,009,000
11 JAKARTA Indonesia City 9,373,000
12 Karachi Pakistan City 9,339,000
13 PARIS France Urban area 9,319,000
14 Chicago (IL) USA Urban area 9,158,000
15 MOSKVA Russia Urban area 8,538,000
16 Istanbul Turkey Urban area 8,506,000
17 Shanghai China City 8,214,000
18 WASHINGTON (DC) USA Urban area 7,608,000
19 BANGKOK Thailand City 7,507,000
20 BEIJING China City 7,362,000
21 LONDON UK City 7,074,000
22 San Francisco (CA) USA Urban area 7,039,000
23 Hong Kong China City 6,843,000
24 CAIRO Egypt City 6,800,000
25 TEHRAN Iran City 6,758,000
26 Chennai India Urban area 6,425,000
27 BOGOTA Colombia City 6,422,000
28 Bandung Indonesia City 5,919,000
29 Tianjin China City 5,855,000
30 Boston (MA) USA Urban area 5,819,000

 

40 MILLION PEOPLE ???? WHERE??





The world's largest cities
Cities ranked 1 to 100
Capital letters denote country capital cities. This table provides population figures for cities with legally defined boundaries, with recognised urban status and with its own local government. The figures do not take into account suburban settlements or other heavily populated areas outside city boundaries. Greater urban areas are described and ranked on separate pages.

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Rank City Country Population
1 SEOUL South Korea 10,231,000
2 São Paulo Brazil 10,009,000
3 Bombay India 9,925,000
4 JAKARTA Indonesia 9,373,000
5 Karachi Pakistan 9,339,000
6 MOSKVA (Moscow) Russia 8,297,000
7 Istanbul Turkey 8,260,000
8 MEXICO (Mexico City) Mexico 8,235,000
9 Shanghai China 8,214,000
10 TOKYO Japan 8,130,000
11 New York (NY) USA 8,008,000
12 BANGKOK Thailand 7,506,700
13 BEIJING China 7,362,000
14 Delhi India 7,206,000
15 LONDON UK 7,074,000
16 HongKong China 6,843,000
17 CAIRO Egypt 6,800,000
18 TEHRAN Iran 6,758,000
19 BOGOTA Colombia 6,422,000
20 Bandung Indonesia 5,919,000
21 Tianjin China 5,855,000
22 LIMA Peru 5,681,000
23 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 5,613,000
24 Lahore Pakistan 5,143,000
25 Bogor Indonesia 5,000,000
26 SANTIAGO Chile 4,788,000
27 St Petersburg Russia 4,678,000
28 Shenyang China 4,669,000
29 Calcutta India 4,399,000
30 Wuhan China 4,040,000
31 Sydney Australia 4,031,000
32 Guangzhou China 3,935,000
33 SINGAPORE Singapore 3,894,000
34 Madras India 3,841,000
35 BAGHDAD Iraq 3,841,000
36 Pusan South Korea 3,814,000
37 Los Angeles (CA) USA 3,694,000
38 Yokohama Japan 3,426,000
39 DHAKA Bangladesh 3,397,000
40 BERLIN Germany 3,386,000
41 Alexandria Egypt 3,339,000
42 Bangalore India 3,302,000
43 Malang Indonesia 3,173,000
44 Hyderabad India 3,145,000
45 Chongqing China 3,127,000
46 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 3,015,000
47 Haerbin China 2,990,000
48 ANKARA Turkey 2,984,000
49 BUENOS AIRES Argentina 2,965,000
50 Chengdu China 2,954,000
51 Ahmedabad India 2,954,000
52 Casablanca Morocco 2,943,000
53 Chicago (IL) USA 2,896,000
54 Xian China 2,872,000
55 MADRID Spain 2,823,000
56 Surabaya Indonesia 2,801,000
57 PYONGYANG NorthKorea 2,741,000
58 Nanjing China 2,678,000
59 KINSHASA Congo (Zaire) 2,664,000
60 ROMA Italy 2,648,000
61 Taipei China 2,640,000
62 Osaka Japan 2,598,000
63 KIEV Ukraine 2,589,000
64 YANGON Myanmar 2,513,000
65 Toronto Canada 2,500,000
66 Zibo China 2,484,000
67 Dalian China 2,483,000
68 Taegu South Korea 2,449,000
69 ADDIS ABABA Ethopia 2,424,000
70 Jinan China 2,403,000
71 Salvador Brazil 2,331,000
72 Inchon South Korea 2,308,000
73 Semarang Indonesia 2,221,000
74 Giza Egypt 2,221,000
75 Changchun China 2,192,000
76 Havanna Cuba 2,192,000
77 Nagoya Japan 2,171,000
78 Belo Horizonte Brazil 2,154,000
79 PARIS France 2,152,000
80 TASHKENT Uzbekistan 2,142,000
81 Fortaleza Brazil 2,139,000
82 Sukabumi Indonesia 2,137,000
83 Cali Colombia 2,128,000
84 Guayaquil Ecuador 2,117,000
85 Qingdao China 2,101,000
86 Izmir Turkey 2,081,000
87 Cirebon Indonesia 2,080,000
88 Taiyuan China 2,051,000
89 BRASILIA Brazil 2,016,000
90 BUCURESTI Romania 2,016,000
91 Faisalabad Pakistan 2,008,000
92 Quezon City Philippines 1,989,000
93 Medan Indonesia 1,988,000
94 Houston (TX) USA 1,953,000
95 Abidjan Côte d’Ivorie 1,929,000
96 Mashhad Iran 1,887,000
97 Medellín Colombia 1,885,000
98 Kanpur India 1,879,000
99 BUDAPEST Hungary 1,825,000
100 CARACAS Venezuela 1,823,000

 

None of this matters, because DALLAS is the capitol of the world!

 

...and it feels like travelling around the world getting around up there!

 

I was going to say that, but you beat me to it.

 

it's worth repeating, nevertheless!

 

According to my Geography/History book(published in 2002) Tokyo is the largest. I dont even know where the hell Chungking is!!!

 

If you count the metro area, Chongqing is the biggest city at 40 MM people. Been there twice in the last year. Place is huge, but thankfully, only a small portion of the population has cars, so it is possible to make it across town in under an hour.

This is the city that most of the people from the three gorges area are moving to. Population explosion is an understatement. You have to also remember that the official population is based on the number of resident permits issued, there are tons of migrant laborers in the city.

Shanghai's real population is ~20MM right now...

 

There has to be a better definition. Depending on how you count, a city could be 300K, 3M, or 20M. Original city boundaries (like the original city of london) are archaic and meaningless today. Political boundaries are also relatively meaningless as urban/suburban growth has caused towns/cities to grow to their borders to become contiguous. Metro areas are closest to relevant, but still are not equivalent since some metro areas are free to sprawl out for hundreds or thousands of square miles (LA/San Diego Metro) while others are geographically constrained (SF Metro). Is it total contiguous population or population density that we care about when we bother to quote this kind of statistic?