Recently we read this article from Japan about the largest cities in the world. These ten came to the top. We are not sure, but probably the countdown is based more on exact legal city limits. Anyway, we don’t doubt they are big, but we’re not too convinced there aren’t any bigger places. Can you read which ones they are?
But then we did some more searching and then we found these statistics for 2013: they were the so-called urban-sized cities and they looked much more convincing. For instance you can drive through Tokyo/Yokohama and somewhere there is a separating line, but in reality one cannot tell from one house to the next that the city has changed.
Tokyo/Yokohama is e-n-o-r-m-o-u-s!
(but also spread out, it would seem)
Have a look at the figures just above! Karachi in Pakistan is one tenth of the size of Tokyo-Yokohama. This means Karachi is six times more-crowded than Tokyo-Yokohama! We couldn’t resist some calculations based on the figures above. If you would calculate population density per square kilometre then the rankings change again. You will be shocked:
Seoul is almost three times more crowded than Tokyo-Yokohama! Tokyo-Yokohama is almost three times more crowded than New York! And a lot cleaner and better organised. (Ouch! Mind you, so is Seoul. And definitely a lot safer. Personal opinions)
We also read that Istanbul in Turkey on both sides of the Bosporus Strait is even larger and much more crowded than Tokyo/Yokohama, but we are not too sure, if that is completely factual. It is huge though… Anyway, there you have it.
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