Americans have no true megapolis scale cities by population. The biggest American city, New York, is number 28 on the world list. London is 27. The first “western” city is Mexico City at 23.
Of course by GDP it would look different. And “city” is not consistently defined.
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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 like the broader view of the Blue Banana type megalopolis: 111m people across a highly integrated area of western Europe.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bana
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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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