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All cities more populous than every other city north of them (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but those population numbers seem very wrong. Last I checked, NYC only had about 8.4 million people and Tokyo only 13.9. Does this include the surrounding suburbs?

[–] jagungal@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No clue about Japanese cities, but if you search for an American city's population you'll get the metropolitan population, not the greater city's population. That's how, according to Wikipedia, Sydney has a similar population to LA, despite LA having 10x the population density. If you include the suburbs LA is an order of magnitude larger than Sydney.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Similar with any UK city other than London and a few small ones, it makes it easy to spot mapmakers who've used the metro/borough population based on whether they include Manchester (borough 550k, metro 2.72M), Birmingham (borough 1.15M, metro 2.59M) on their maps... I've also seen some include Liverpool though (looking at you hoi4) when it's smaller than both in all metrics

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