The first non-Asian city is surprisingly Moscow at 7. I wonder if the list would get reordered if you did greater urban regions rather than the formal city limits
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New York is in top 5 worldwide if you look at metropolitan population. "City proper" is a meaningless comparison metric as the definition differs so much between countries. The US tends to have particularly narrowly drawn city borders.
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I suspected this might be the case
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Are you considering population density?
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In the seventies the UN predicted Mexico City would have 32M people by early 21st century and would be the largest global metropolitan area. But there were a lot of books written on dead trees back then predicting doom. And not one of them had heard of Donald Trump.
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I like the broader view of the Blue Banana type megalopolis: 111m people across a highly integrated area of western Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana …
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