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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I spoke too soon - in the most recent data, NY is #9 in metropolitan area. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population … And #8 by urban area https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population … But there's a whole bunch of cities in the 20-25 million range on both measures, so no big differences up and down.
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The definition the US uses for "NY metropolitan area" is absolutely gigantic though in terms of extent, covering 11,500 km^2. It includes New Haven, CT, a city that's 2 hours away by intercity rail! You could agglomerate a lot of Europe into a few metros with such definitions...
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Here's Wikipedia's ranking, puts NYC in top 10 but not top 5. Tokyo still number 1.
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Whoops, forgot the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population …
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