Biggest city in the world

[paidmonk]

London is big in area, twice the physical size of New York City but 1 million less population.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

Paidmonk i just googled 'biggest city in the world' and the first link shows this(I would of thought mumbai was bigger - bear in mind this was conducted in 2004):

1. Shanghai, China 13.3 million
2. Mumbai (Bombay), India 12.6 million
3. Buenos Aires, Argentina 11.92 million
4. Moscow, Russia 11.3 million
5. Karachi, Pakistan 10.9 million
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17. New York City, USA 8.09 million

As for metropolitan area it shows this:

1. Toyko, Japan 31.2 million
2. New York City - Philadelphia area, USA 30.1 million
3. Mexico City, Mexico 21.5 million
4. Seoul, South Korea 20.15 million
5. Sao Paulo, Brazil 19.9 million
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14. Shanghai, China 13.9 million

This is the link: http://www.worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm

[Mad May]

7M1LLION
LONDONERS

[Cumar-Labasuul]

Also I didn't realise that population-wise LA was small in comparison to big cities. It is only 4million - without metro area.

[Dhaga Bacayl]

1. Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan - 33,200,000
2. New York, United States - 17,800,000
3. Sao Paulo, Brazil - 17,700,000
4. Seoul-Incheon, South Korea - 17,500,000
5. Mexico City, Mexico - 17,400,000
6. Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, Japan - 16,425,000
7. Manila, Philippines - 14,750,000
8. Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay) - 14,350,000
9. Jakarta, Indonesia - 14,250,000
10. Lagos, Nigeria - 13,400,000
11. Kolkata, India (formerly Calcutta) - 12,700,000
12. Delhi, India - 12,300,000
13. Cairo, Egypt - 12,200,000
14. Los Angeles, United States - 11,789,000
15. Buenos Aires, Argentina - 11,200,000
16. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10,800,000
17. Moscow, Russia - 10,500,000
18. Shanghai, China - 10,000,000
19. Karachi, Pakistan - 9,800,000
20. Paris, France - 9,645,000
21. Nagoya, Japan - 9,000,000 (tie)
21. Istanbul, Turkey - 9,000,000 (tie)
23. Beijing, China - 8,614,000

[paidmonk]

Also I didn't realise that population-wise LA was small in comparison to big cities. It is only 4million - without metro area.

Cities tend to balloon when included with metro areas. Minneapolis proper is 400,000 but 3.2 million with metro area.

[TATI]

who cares...NYC is the BESTTTTTTTT

[BaasAbuur]

That is huge. Shanghai, Sau Palo and several other cities are huge and have massive numbers of buildings but they are still very ugly. Hong Kong has the craziest skyline so far from what I have seen. But huge megacities are not very appealing to me. I take smaller (more like mid size) condensed cities that are very self sufficient over them any day. San Francisco, Boston etc are my kinda cities.

[Amethyst]

So when we say big, are we talking about the area or the population?

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

subxanallah now compare this to xamar and hargeisa

[paidmonk]

The whole population of Somalia fits in the box: