Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the world
3. Most Multicultural City On earth
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Golden Horseshoe)
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world.
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.
8. Largest Street festival in The Americas "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attend.
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands)
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Third most highrises 1,900
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most theater city, second to London and NewYork


WOW... I think I'm done!!!

all this thread is boosterism and will cause arguments. half your "records" are debatable and some are not even "records".

^agreed

Off the top of my head:
-The highest tides in the world, and
-The largest urban park in the world (Rockwood Park)
-widest steepest main street in the world

Paris

-most french people in any city
-most jews in an european city
-most effeil towers in a city
-biggest business district in europe
-most crappy football team for a capital city :D
-most dense european capital (not sure)
-most populated european city (wont debate) With london and moscow.

all this thread is boosterism and will cause arguments. half your "records" are debatable and some are not even "records".

Stop bitching and promote ur city, every record ever placed on this earth is debatable. And why don't you challange me about my own city, and let me prove you wrong.

Being second and third place is not a record your city Holds and the most Diverse City claim has never been proved, but we'll leave that to the other thread.

Who gives a shit, you can do that for your city too. And I know it's between Miami and Toronto, But the UN announced that it was Toronto in January and it was all over tv here, so I put that.

JayeTheOnly, there's no way you'll be respected on this board at this rate. Posting misleading stuff you clearly don't understand. And being rude.

Toronto doesn't have the third most high-rises. We haven't seen a comprensive list here; and the publicized list we did see recently grossly undercounted Asian cities like Shanghai. "Most neighborhoods"?! Not only is that meaningless because it's not defined, but it's dependent on apples-to-oranges definitions of "city limits." As a theater city, its often called #3, but only among English-speaking cities.

Seattle has three titles I can think of:

1. Largest building. (Boeing plant in Everett; by volume it's larger than then next ten (guessing) put together, and four times the size of the next largest.)

2. Richest person. (one magazine said Gates was #2, but another came out and had him back at #1)

3. Largest charitable foundation. (Gates Foundation. no contest)

off the top of my head

Milwaukee is hub for Miller Brewing Company, which produces more than 50 brands of beer, and the city has the most bars and taverns per capita than any other with 459, one for every 1,301 people.

-largest music festival in the world-Summerfest

-worlds largest Irish festival

-largest French, German, Polish, Italian American, Native American festivals in America. Has some of the largest Mexican, Arab, African in the U.S.

Wisconsin is also the leading producer of cheese, ginsing, and cranberries in the U.S.

I dont know if those are considered records...but oh well. Its all I could think of. Oh yeah....Milwaukee produced the most flamboyant man in the world.....Liberace.

Glasgow:

World Records:
Tallest cinema in the world,
First and tallest tower to rotate 360 degrees,
World's oldest national football stadium,
More green space than any other comparable sized city,
Worlds largest menswear store,
First and tallest aerodynamic structure,
Worlds Longest Bar,
Longest running annual performance,
Longest running international arts festival.

European Records:
Europe's Busiest road Bridge,
Largest undergraduate student population per capita in Europe,
Largest public reference library.

UK Records:
Most visited cinema in the UK,
Largest multi-arts gay festival.

:)

London

has the largest foreign currency exchange market in the world, handling more money than New York and Tokyo combined. Average
daily turnover is more than $0.5 trillion.


Along with The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, there are more than 550 international banks and 170 global
securities houses which have set up offices in London. By contrast Frankfurt has around 280, Paris 270 and New York 250.


World's largest insurance market.


More billionaires live in London than any other city in the world (44, compared with New York's 34 and Moscow's 21).


has the most expensive neighbourhood in the world (Kensington Palace Gardens), where the average house price is $85 million,
compared with $5.6 million for the next most expensive (Jupiter Island, Florida).


has the world's most expensive office space, far ahead of Tokyo and New York.


has the world's longest (by route kilometres) and oldest (1865) subway system.


is the world's busiest international airport hub.


300 languages are spoken in London, more than any other city in the world.


has more parks and green spaces than any other city of its size in the world. Almost 40% of its total area is green.


has an incredibly long and rich history, spanning over 2,000 years.


http://www.willfox.com/images/skyscrapers/bt/4.jpg

Wow hot damn London *claps*


P.S
Oxford Steet - Busiest in the world
M25 (metro(i think)) - Busiest motorway in the world

What city has the fastest growing stock market in the world? Karachi.

What English language high school consistently tops out the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores? Karachi Grammar School.

What country has the fastest growing cell phone market? Pakistan.

The statistics go on and on.

The statistics go on and on.
Go on then, give us some more. :)

Louisville has the largest annual fireworks display in the world. I went to it last night! It kicks off two weeks of festivities leading up to the Kentucky Derby.

Wow... most impressed by London so far. It is amazing to see how even though its population is much smaller than New York & Tokyo, it still is well above these two in many areas.

Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the world
3. Most Multicultural City On earth
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Golden Horseshoe)
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world.
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.
8. Largest Street festival in The Americas "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attend.
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands)
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Third most highrises 1,900
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most theater city, second to London and NewYork


WOW... I think I'm done!!!

How are the one's in bold records? To have a record your no.1, and a lot of them are just assumptions!

:sleepy:

Noo. New York has the most extensive subway network. Total track of 1,355 km. It also holds the record for the most stations 468.

Australia:
Longest Railroad Straight (NSW)
Steepest Railway Gradient (WA)
Longest and Heaviest Train (WA)
Longest Road Train (WA)

How are the one's in bold records? To have a record your no.1, and a lot of them are just assumptions!

:sleepy:
10,11,12,13, are certainly Records...>But who cares juss tell things that ur city beats other citys with.

And for that person who said something about respect, do I give a shit if you give me respect?

^ 12 certainly isnt...

^ 12 certainly isnt...

*Sigh* I guess, BUT AS I SAID BEFORE JUSS SAY THINGS YOUR CITY BEATS OTHER CITY's BY.

Taken from Calgary Economic Development:

1. Rated cleanest city in the world in an environmental examination of 215 cities around the globe
2. The most affordable North American city to operate a high-tech business
3. The youngest populated city in Canada with an average age of 34
4. Home to the "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth," the Calgary Stampede
5. Experiences more days of sunshine a year than any other major Canadian City

EDIT: I only took the ones that said we were #1 in...

4 is just a title I know, but still... :)

I didnt know about the last one, CAN YOU BELEIVE TORONTO RATED 32nd IN CLEANLYNESS? Juss think 15 years ago we were rated 1st.

GOLD COAST, Australia

Highest growth rate of any Australian city.
Largest Australian non-capital city(pop. and city area)
World's tallest residential tower(U/C) 322.5m
Largest Canal network in the Southern Hemisphere(More than Venice and Amsterdam combined!)
Australia's only 6-star hotel(Palazzo Versace)
Most Golf Courses per capita on Earth(one for roughly every 10,000 people)
Southern Hemisphere's largest extinct volcano crater(Mt. Warning)
Australia's largest club(Twin Towns Services Club)

BRISBANE, Australia

World's largest underground bus station
Largest city(proper) Area and population in Australia and Southern Hemisphere
Longest Bridge in Australia(Formerly the Southern Hemisphere--Houghton Highway, 2.7Km)
Largest Sub-Tropical Urban Park(Roma St Parklands)
Australia's largest Airport(Area)
Southern Hemisphere's largest purpose-built rectangular stadium
Australia's largest busway network

All VERY DEBATABLE

GOLD COAST, Australia

Highest growth rate of any Australian city.
Largest Australian non-capital city(pop. and city area)
World's tallest residential tower(U/C) 322.5m
Largest Canal network in the Southern Hemisphere(More than Venice and Amsterdam combined!)
Australia's only 6-star hotel(Palazzo Versace)
Most Golf Courses per capita on Earth(one for roughly every 10,000 people)
Southern Hemisphere's largest extinct volcano crater(Mt. Warning)
Australia's largest club(Twin Towns Services Club)

BRISBANE, Australia

World's largest underground bus station
Largest city(proper) Area and population in Australia and Southern Hemisphere
Longest Bridge in Australia(Formerly the Southern Hemisphere--Houghton Highway, 2.7Km)
Largest Sub-Tropical Urban Park(Roma St Parklands)
Australia's largest Airport(Area)
Southern Hemisphere's largest purpose-built rectangular stadium
Australia's largest busway network


LOL :laugh: ,R u serious?

Istanbul:
Only city on two continents
http://dunyaturk.com/tr31/Faruk_bogaz34.jpg

Capital city of three very different empires (Roman, Bizantian and Ottoman)
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/boukole.jpg
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/kariye.jpg
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/topkapi0019.jpg

biggest city in Europe
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/levent6306.jpg

two different christian patriarchates (Greek and Armenian)
http://www.roxanephoto.com/turquie/istanbul/iles-princes/images/burgaz_village01.jpg
http://www.roxanephoto.com/turquie/istanbul/eminonu/stamboul-ouest/kumkapi/images/kumkapi_surpvorodman02.jpg

The Blue Mosque is the only mosque in the world with six minarets
http://dunyaturk.com/tr29/kemal_bereket_sultanahmet_gece.jpg

World's second oldest subway station (Metro Han)
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/tunel1051.jpg

Perth.

Most isolated capital city on the planet
Sunniest Capital on the planet
Home to the world's largest musical instrument

more that i cant think of ..

[QUOTE=ReddAlert]off the top of my head

Milwaukee is hub for Miller Brewing Company, which produces more than 50 brands of beer,
Miller has in fact become part of SAB (South African Breweries), which therefore, in effect is a South African company and has its base in Johannesburg. SABMiller is now the world's 2nd largest beer company.

I came across a very interesting link that makes me feel 'proudly South African'
Please check out link http://zar.co.za/world/htm. It was an eye opener, even to me!

Other facts:
Cape Town- Has the oldest building in Southern Africa= Cape of Good Hope Castle,
built by the Dutch. World's first heart transplant took place in a Cape
Town hospital. Table Mountain, one of the 7 seven wonders of the
natural world, which is also its main scraper(!)at 1000m is smack-bang in
the city centre. More plant species, than in the whole of the british Isles
are found here.
Johannesburg- Holds all Africa's 'best' records, except its largest population & it
doesnt have a port.
Durban- Has Africa's largest port and biggest container port in the southern
Hemisphere.
Port Elizabeth- Has the biggest university campus in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nearby, crossing the Storms River, is the world's highest bridge (not by altitude)
Pretoria- World's biggest correspondence university (UNISA-university of South Africa)
S.A. is the only country in the world with 3 (three) capital cities.

[QUOTE=ReddAlert]off the top of my head

Milwaukee is hub for Miller Brewing Company, which produces more than 50 brands of beer,
Miller has in fact become part of SAB (South African Breweries), which therefore, in effect is a South African company and has its base in Johannesburg. SABMiller is now the world's 2nd largest beer company.


yeah, I heard about that. Wow, i didnt know it was the 2nd largest though lol. The brand is huge here--it has its own stadium (a good one at that) and sponsors pretty much every festvial, event, and charity in the city.

Noo. New York has the most extensive subway network. Total track of 1,355 km. It also holds the record for the most stations 468.


It depends on what statistics you use.

The New York subway does have more track (because it's four tracks min. almost everywhere), but rail infrastructure is usually measured in "route" kilometers, and the London Underground is longer by this measurement.

The New York subway does have more stations however, but then the full London rail network is more than double that of New York (more stations, more route km, and even more track km).

But year, both metro systems are very large and there are different ways of measuring.

Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the world
3. Most Multicultural City On earth
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Golden Horseshoe)
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world.
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.
8. Largest Street festival in The Americas "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attend.
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands)
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Third most highrises 1,900
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most theater city, second to London and NewYork


WOW... I think I'm done!!!

Pretty impressive list, but I do think some of them are a bit debatable, sorry.

Most multicultured city in the world is also claimed by a handful of other cities.

by far One of the safest big cities in the world, is also claimed by many other cities.

Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200. ??? What exactly is Toronto's definition of a neighbourhood? Is this like a suburb, because I can think of many cities (city proper) that has more than 200 suburbs.

Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands). With 600 people over 0.13km², Venice with 271,663 people, I can't really see the validity of this claim.

Pretty impressive list, but I do think some of them are a bit debatable, sorry.

Most multicultured city in the world is also claimed by a handful of other cities.

by far One of the safest big cities in the world, is also claimed by many other cities.

Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200. ??? What exactly is Toronto's definition of a neighbourhood? Is this like a suburb, because I can think of many cities (city proper) that has more than 200 suburbs.

Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands). With 600 people over 0.13km², Venice with 271,663 people, I can't really see the validity of this claim.

Yea but in Multiculturism, Miami and Toronto are the only ones head to head.
And Neighbourhoods NOT suburbs.

Like I live in the neighbourhood of Malvern, South of me I have East Highland Creek and West Hill, North of me I have Morningside Heights and Brookside, East of me I have Agincourt. They're all in the city, and they all have thier own culture, way of thinking and atmosphere.

And about that Carfree shit, I saw it in the yellowpages I need to correct dat shit...I mean Venice...How can I forget that.

The UN declared Toronto as the world's most multicultural city

^ lol, prepare to be grilled.

The UN declared Toronto as the world's most multicultural city

Yea but people at these forums cant accept it and cause contreversy.

Jaye there is no proof of it, show me an official UN statement on the issue. For Toronto's sake if they ever do release something like most diverse city in the world, Toronto would certainly be one of the front runners.

Jaye there is no proof of it, show me an official UN statement on the issue. For Toronto's sake if they ever do release something like most diverse city in the world, Toronto would certainly be one of the front runners.

It was on the news (CTV, City Tv Toronto), It's at Wikipedia.org...You think people just make up this shit....Plz don't start this here...There's another forum for that.

It was on the news (CTV, City Tv Toronto), It's at Wikipedia.org...You think people just make up this shit....Plz don't start this here...There's another forum for that.

Because its larger a myth. Show us some proof from the UN themselves, i'd be happy to see it

Because its larger a myth. Show us some proof from the UN themselves, i'd be happy to see it

Okay Wikipedia, CTV, City TV....A myth...PLEASE this just got stupid...

Post something about ur city.

^ ive never seen the claim, just heard about it.i could post hte same thing on Wikipedia about LA and then have a couple of channels report it and there you go.

^ ive never seen the claim, just heard about it.i could post hte same thing on Wikipedia about LA and then have a couple of channels report it and there you go.

U know it doesnt work like that... And
Ima list all the sites that have this listed, actually I can't because if you go on google and search "Most Multicultural City" the wordToronto shows up 11,000 times. www.

www.wikipedia.org/Toronto

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_01.27.05/city/malvern.html

www.arsenalpulp.com/select_book.php?book=165

jane-finch.com/articles/jzimmerman_ abrotherfromjaneandfinch.htm

www.schoolsincanada.com/profile.cfm?default=languages& newrfisearch=featured&ArtId=16795 ---> Schools canada? Would they inform Teachers and Students wrong?

www.ericmcerlain.com/offwingopinion/archives/002218.php

www.interlog.com/~gilgames/toskyln.htm


GEUSS WAT I FOUND THE UN'S DECLARATION!!!!! its a pdf

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127160m.pdf

Okay Wikipedia, CTV, City TV....A myth...PLEASE this just got stupid...

Post something about ur city.

lol, you already have for me...notice my avatar, and TO as location.

lol, you already have for me...notice my avatar, and TO as location.

LMAFO ok

GEUSS WAT I FOUND THE UN'S DECLARATION!!!!! its a pdf

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127160m.pdf

Can you tell me where it says "Toronto is the most multicultural city"? I looked through the PDF and I can't find any mention of "Toronto".

Can you tell me where it says "Toronto is the most multicultural city"? I looked through the PDF and I can't find any mention of "Toronto".
Plz do not tell me I posted the wrong link..O god....ill post it tommorw i need to go to bed.

Geez what is it with people from Toronto that have to CONSTANTLY say they are the best city in the world. It's like they all have a chip on their shoulder because they are not New York City.

The 3rd MOST high rises??? KEEP Dreaming....

Hong Kong - 7,828
New york - 5,841
Sao Paulo - 3,733
Seoul - 2,944
Tokyo - 2,450
Instanbul - 2,258
Toronto - 1,964

And there might be more in there before Toronto, but those are the ones I thought of.

And all your "records". How is "one of the best" ever been a record? Records are measureable recordings. THE best is a record, NOT one of the best. Toronto must realize, yes, it is a major city, but, it is NOT New York, London, Paris, or Tokyo, Hong Kong, or even Chicago for that matter. It's a 3rd tier world city, where as Chicago and LA are 2nd tiers. Ok, nuff w/ the rant.

^ I have yet to see a Torontonian who thinks the city is on par with London, New York, Paris, etc, maybe you're the one who's dreaming.

London

has the largest foreign currency exchange market in the world, handling more money than New York and Tokyo combined. Average
daily turnover is more than $0.5 trillion.


Along with The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, there are more than 550 international banks and 170 global
securities houses which have set up offices in London. By contrast Frankfurt has around 280, Paris 270 and New York 250.


World's largest insurance market.


More billionaires live in London than any other city in the world (44, compared with New York's 34 and Moscow's 21).


has the most expensive neighbourhood in the world (Kensington Palace Gardens), where the average house price is $85 million,
compared with $5.6 million for the next most expensive (Jupiter Island, Florida).


has the world's most expensive office space, far ahead of Tokyo and New York.


has the world's largest and oldest subway system ("The Tube"), more than 400km in length.


is the world's busiest international airport hub (110 million passengers).


300 languages are spoken in London, more than any other city in the world.


has more parks and green spaces than any other city of its size in the world. Almost 40% of its total area is green.



http://www.willfox.com/images/skyscrapers/bt/4.jpg


also the worlds largest student population and more higher education institutions in the world

the biggest dome (millennium)

biggest international airport (heathrow - in terms of international passengers)

biggest modern art gallery (and most popular - Tate Modern with 6 million visitors)

biggest arts and antiquities museum (British Museum has over 6 million exhibits)

biggest natural history museum (mostly uncountable -12 million exhibits?)

biggest applied arts museum (V&A has over 4 million exhibits)

tallest ferris wheel

largest concentration of protected buildings(20,000)

" " " theatres (115)

" " " museums(320)

" " " markets (300)

" " " art galleries (300)

" " " pubs (8000)

" " " churches (3000) - not sure about this one, Paris or Rome may have more?...

" " " theatre troupes (1500)

" " " dance troupes (600)

" " " clubbers(500,000 a night), DJs (over 100,000- nonprofessional , DJing became Uks most popular 'hobby' during the nineties) and artists (??? a nineties claim in the media at the height of the BritArt movement, doubt it is nowadays)

biggest centre of the art trade

worlds largest private art collection (the Royal Collection has 5x more than the National Gallery)

most asylum seekers and asylum applications

most unrecorded immigration (mostly EU aswell as illegal immigration)

most major minorities (85)

and linguistic diversity (340)

and er, the biggest ringroad (M25)

arguably it has the best art, theatre, live music, pub and clubbing scenes.

Noo. New York has the most extensive subway network. Total track of 1,355 km. It also holds the record for the most stations 468.

New York has the longest total track length, yes, but this is only because it uses 4 tracks side-by-side on most of its routes.

London actually has the largest subway network when measured by route kilometres. :)

New York has the most stations on its network, you're right there.

Moscow handles the most passengers.

"More billionaires live in London than any other city in the world (44, compared with New York's 34 and Moscow's 21)."
it is disputable.

LOL :laugh: ,R u serious?

what's wrong with them? I've got another record for the Gold Coast: Most skyscrapers per capita in Australia.

London's in the lead!

Geez what is it with people from Toronto that have to CONSTANTLY say they are the best city in the world. It's like they all have a chip on their shoulder because they are not New York City.

The 3rd MOST high rises??? KEEP Dreaming....

Hong Kong - 7,828
New york - 5,841
Sao Paulo - 3,733
Seoul - 2,944
Tokyo - 2,450
Instanbul - 2,258
Toronto - 1,964

And there might be more in there before Toronto, but those are the ones I thought of.

And all your "records". How is "one of the best" ever been a record? Records are measureable recordings. THE best is a record, NOT one of the best. Toronto must realize, yes, it is a major city, but, it is NOT New York, London, Paris, or Tokyo, Hong Kong, or even Chicago for that matter. It's a 3rd tier world city, where as Chicago and LA are 2nd tiers. Ok, nuff w/ the rant.

Actually we're a second tier, pop isnt everything...Importance to its country, and other things are factors. And obviously I know that Toronto isnt Newyork. And we are also considered a Major World City along with New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires, & Frankfurt.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_city

Liverpool: oldest African and Chinese communities in Europe.

Mumbai (Bombay)

Home to largest film industry in the world.

Yea but in Multiculturism, Miami and Toronto are the only ones head to head.
And Neighbourhoods NOT suburbs.



Maybe you miss my point. Every country has a different definition of a neighbourhood. What is Canada's definition? How does it differ from a suburb? Are suburbs part of the neighbourhood, are neighbourhoods similar to districts or borough's?

Some country's don't actually have "suburbs" in the way Canada may. For example, in Germany, I suspect the suburb title is similar to the neighbourhood or district title. In Australia, the suburb is the only definition after the city proper - there are no "neighbourhoods" seperate to "suburbs".

So, if Toronto was to claim more neighbourhoods than any other city, would it be comparing the exact same definition of a neighbourhood with all other nations and cities on the planet?

It was on the news (CTV, City Tv Toronto), It's at Wikipedia.org...You think people just make up this shit....Plz don't start this here...There's another forum for that.

Do a quick google search on it, and you're find that it's an urban myth. The UN never did state that Toronto was the most multicultured city on earth, it came up (if I remember correctly) from a media article and has since become the myth that we hear today.

Here is one such paper dealing with the myth: http://ceris.metropolis.net/PolicyMatter/2004/PolicyMatters11.pdf

there are plenty others if you care to search.

Antwerp:

- First skyscraper on the European continent.
- Largest gothic church in the Benelux.
- Highest church in the Benelux.
- First lace city in the world.
- Largest port in the world.

Moscow


Europe's most populated city (10,5mln on 1000 sq km)
World's busiest metro network (3,2bln passengers per year)
Europe's tallest building (Triumph Palace - 264,1m 57f)
Europe's and East Hemisphere's tallest freestanding structure (Ostankino TeleTower - 540,1m 120l)
World's longest escalator (Park Pobedy metro station - 126m)
World's fastest metro network (possibly) (average commercial speed - 45kmph)
Europe's tallest hotel (Hotel Ukraine - 198m)
Europe's largest hotel (Hotel Russia)
World's Tallest Orthodoxal Church (Church of the Christ the Savor - 104m)
World's Tallest education building (Moscow State University - 240m 38f)
Most times the Capital of Russia (2 times)
Most longest as the Capital of Russia (in total - 462 years)
World's largest kremlin (possibly)

Some of them may have been broken already

Kuala Lumpur

WORLD

- Petronas Twin Towers
- All Asia Broadcast Centre (ABC) - Largest all-digital broadcast and production complexes in the world
- Largest indoor bird park in the world
- Tallest stone-carved dragon pillars in the world (24ft)
- Largest pewter factory in the world (Royar Selangor Pewter Factory and Visitor's Centre)
- First airport in the world equipped with Total Airport Management System (TAMS)
- First airport in the world equipped with AutoGate fast immigration checkpoints
- Longest baggage conveyor belt system in the world
- Biggest columnless hangar in the world
- Largest airport in the world in terms of land size
- Tallest air traffic control tower in the world (132m)
- First city air teminal in the world to be awarded it's own destination code XKL by IATA
- First air cargo operator in the world to introduce i-Port, Airport within the Seaport
- First airline in the world to implement SMS(text messaging) ticket booking
- First chip-based identification card in the world
- First contactless identification card in the world
- First identification card in the world to store biometric data
- First chip-based passport in the world
- First contactless passport in the world
- First in the world to issue Visa Wave cards
- Largest pewter beer mug in the world
- (MiTV) First pay-tv in the world to use IP-over-UHF technology, a home grown technology
- Tallest flagpole in the world(now I think it's Abu Dhabi)
- Sunway Lagoon - Longest suspended pedestrian bridge in the world
- National Squash Centre - Biggest squash complex in the world
- Sepang - First Grand Prix circuit in the world approved by the FIA to be called Sepang F1 Circuit
- Largest producer and exporter of air conditioners in the world
- First paperless and filmless hospital in the world
- First country in the world to have clinics that treat drug addicts
- Highest Snatch And Rescue in the world done at Petronas Twin Towers
- World's highest mcdonalds at KL Tower (record then broken by Genting a city outside KL)
- First Animal Hotel

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I'll list regional records later :D

Moscow


Europe's most populated city (10,5mln on 1000 sq km)
World's busiest metro network (3,2bln passengers per year)
Europe's tallest building (Triumph Palace - 264,1m 57f)
Europe's and East Hemisphere's tallest freestanding structure (Ostankino TeleTower - 540,1m 120l)
World's longest escalator (Park Pobedy metro station - 126m)
World's fastest metro network (possibly) (average commercial speed - 45kmph)
Europe's tallest hotel (Hotel Ukraine - 198m)
Europe's largest hotel (Hotel Russia)
World's Tallest Orthodoxal Church (Church of the Christ the Savor - 104m)
World's Tallest education building (Moscow State University - 240m 38f)
Most times the Capital of Russia (2 times)
Most longest as the Capital of Russia (in total - 462 years)
World's largest kremlin (possibly)



london is the largest city .. & there's no such this as "east" hemesphire ...

london is the largest city .. & there's no such this as "east" hemesphire ...

Well, actually as far as City Proper goes, I believe Moscow is larger.

London may have the larger metropolitan area population, although, figures in Moscow are not very accurate for this, so you never know.

Strasbourg

- largest city of Alsace :nocrook:

Townsville only holds one world record as far a I know:

Biggest sugar terminal in the world.

Built in 2003 it measures 376m by 100m and 30m high with a capacity of 400 000 tonnes - that's a lot of sugar :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_0490S.jpg

Maybe you miss my point. Every country has a different definition of a neighbourhood. What is Canada's definition? How does it differ from a suburb? Are suburbs part of the neighbourhood, are neighbourhoods similar to districts or borough's?

Some country's don't actually have "suburbs" in the way Canada may. For example, in Germany, I suspect the suburb title is similar to the neighbourhood or district title. In Australia, the suburb is the only definition after the city proper - there are no "neighbourhoods" seperate to "suburbs".

So, if Toronto was to claim more neighbourhoods than any other city, would it be comparing the exact same definition of a neighbourhood with all other nations and cities on the planet?

Okay... Im ganna give my example of a neibourhood (with Toronto)

The New city of Toronto used to be comprised of 5 city's...they include
North York, East York, Scarborough, York, Etobicoke, and The Old City Of Toronto. These are NOT considered neighbourhoods, I live in Scarborough in the neibourhood of MALVERN, to the south of malvern you have these neibourhoods: West Highland Creek, West Hill and Cedarbrae. To the west we have Agincourt, and to the north Morningside Heights, and Brookside.

A neibourhood is NOT suburbs, they are areas in a city that have culture, and usually different from the next in many ways. The are in the city proper.
Dictionary.com defines it as this:

A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.

there's no such this as "east" hemesphire ...

There is an Eastern Hemisphere. It's an old Cold War concept, but there is. The dividing lines being the former Iron Curtain and the International Date line.

edited

Okay... Im ganna give my example of a neibourhood (with Toronto)

The New city of Toronto used to be comprised of 5 city's...they include
North York, East York, Scarborough, York, Etobicoke, and The Old City Of Toronto. These are NOT considered neighbourhoods, I live in Scarborough in the neibourhood of MALVERN, to the south of malvern you have these neibourhoods: West Highland Creek, West Hill and Cedarbrae. To the west we have Agincourt, and to the north Morningside Heights, and Brookside.

A neibourhood is NOT suburbs, they are areas in a city that have culture, and usually different from the next in many ways. The are in the city proper.
Dictionary.com defines it as this:

A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.

Ok, I can clearly see that the definition is different from country to country. Dictionary.com in this case would just define as according to the north American concept.

Anyway, even using your definition, I would hesitate to say that London has more "neighbourhoods" than Toronto. Each borough has many neighbourhoods.

@ Ning
I'd add:
- Highest church of eastern France.
- Most beautiful city of France ;)

There is an Eastern Hemisphere. It's an old Cold War concept, but there is. The dividing lines being the former Iron Curtain and the International Date line.
It is not Cold War concept. Just the meaning of Hemishpere was distorted on west during the Cold War.

And it is have nothing to do with Time Zones. Hemispheres separated by Prime Meridian.
Eastern Hemisphere is Prime Meridian + 180°
Western Hemisphere is Prime Meridian - 180°




Western - Eastern
Northern - Southern
made in 1841
http://store1.yimg.com/I/pastpresent_1841_239309109


Western - Eastern
made in 1700
http://www.georgeglazer.com/maps/world/wells.JPG

Highest statue atop a structure (498 feet-548 feet)
Largest organ that is still used (in Wanamaker Building)
Largest bell inside a bell tower (inside PNB Building or One South Broad, its the same building)
Koolest cracked bell in the world.
Largest municipal building that is in continuous use.
Best Cheesesteaks in teh world.
Best Soft Pretzels in teh world.
Largest freshwater port (this one is probably otudated)
Largest city in all of (thats rite!) Pennsylvania.
Most colleges and universities per capita in teh US.
Most people who walk 2 work per capita in teh US (in Cneter City).
(Probably)Densest lowrise density that is 3 stories and shorter (South Philly; 40,000 people per square mile, almost ALL rowhouses).

Yeah, I know.... Philly's got it all.... :cool: ;)

Actually we're a second tier, pop isnt everything...Importance to its country, and other things are factors. And obviously I know that Toronto isnt Newyork. And we are also considered a Major World City along with New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires, & Frankfurt.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_city


Ummm, not to beat this to a pulp, but, your source doesn't list Toronto on the 2nd tier:


The Alpha (most influential) world cities were divided into two sub-ranks:

12 points: London, Paris, New York, Tokyo
10 points: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

Anyway, Toronto is in the next tier down, the same tier as San Francisco, not such a bad spot to be in really. The source says Toronto has a "World city building" status, which means it's world importance is increasing, but not quite full world city status yet.

Ummm, not to beat this to a pulp, but, your source doesn't list Toronto on the 2nd tier:


The Alpha (most influential) world cities were divided into two sub-ranks:

12 points: London, Paris, New York, Tokyo
10 points: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

Anyway, Toronto is in the next tier down, the same tier as San Francisco, not such a bad spot to be in really. The source says Toronto has a "World city building" status, which means it's world importance is increasing, but not quite full world city status yet.
this is GaWC 1999 rating.


here GaWC 2004 rating

GLOBAL CITIES

Well rounded global cities

1. Very large contribution: London and New York. Smaller contribution and with cultural bias: Los Angeles, Paris and San Francisco
2. Incipient global cities: Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Toronto

Global niche cities - specialised global contributions

1. Economic: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo
2. Political and social: Brussels, Geneva, and Washington

WORLD CITIES

Subnet articulator cities

1. Cultural: Berlin, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Munich, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm. Political: Bangkok, Beijing, Vienna
2. Social: Manila, Nairobi, Ottawa

Worldwide leading cities

1. Primarily economic global contributions: Frankfurt, Miami, Munich, Osaka, Singapore, Sydney, Zurich
2. Primarily non-economic global contributions: Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Atlanta, Basle, Barcelona, Cairo, Denver, Harare, Lyon, Manila, Mexico City, Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai

Ummm, not to beat this to a pulp, but, your source doesn't list Toronto on the 2nd tier:


The Alpha (most influential) world cities were divided into two sub-ranks:

12 points: London, Paris, New York, Tokyo
10 points: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

Anyway, Toronto is in the next tier down, the same tier as San Francisco, not such a bad spot to be in really. The source says Toronto has a "World city building" status, which means it's world importance is increasing, but not quite full world city status yet.

Yea, Juss wait...in 25-50 years!!!!!! LOL

Toronto may tie with Chicago soon.

Can someone tell me what 2 of the 12 things and that LA and Chicago doesn't have??

Yea, Juss wait...in 25-50 years!!!!!! LOL


It is Definitely on the world map now, and definitely up and coming. Good job to TO.

Some of them may have been broken already

Kuala Lumpur

WORLD

- Petronas Twin Towers
- All Asia Broadcast Centre (ABC) - Largest all-digital broadcast and production complexes in the world
- Largest indoor bird park in the world
- Tallest stone-carved dragon pillars in the world (24ft)
- Largest pewter factory in the world (Royar Selangor Pewter Factory and Visitor's Centre)
- First airport in the world equipped with Total Airport Management System (TAMS)
- First airport in the world equipped with AutoGate fast immigration checkpoints
- Longest baggage conveyor belt system in the world
- Biggest columnless hangar in the world
- Largest airport in the world in terms of land size
- Tallest air traffic control tower in the world (132m)
- First city air teminal in the world to be awarded it's own destination code XKL by IATA
- First air cargo operator in the world to introduce i-Port, Airport within the Seaport
- First airline in the world to implement SMS(text messaging) ticket booking
- First chip-based identification card in the world
- First contactless identification card in the world
- First identification card in the world to store biometric data
- First chip-based passport in the world
- First contactless passport in the world
- First in the world to issue Visa Wave cards
- Largest pewter beer mug in the world
- (MiTV) First pay-tv in the world to use IP-over-UHF technology, a home grown technology
- Tallest flagpole in the world(now I think it's Abu Dhabi)
- Sunway Lagoon - Longest suspended pedestrian bridge in the world
- National Squash Centre - Biggest squash complex in the world
- Sepang - First Grand Prix circuit in the world approved by the FIA to be called Sepang F1 Circuit
- Largest producer and exporter of air conditioners in the world
- First paperless and filmless hospital in the world
- First country in the world to have clinics that treat drug addicts
- Highest Snatch And Rescue in the world done at Petronas Twin Towers
- World's highest mcdonalds at KL Tower (record then broken by Genting a city outside KL)
- First Animal Hotel

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I'll list regional records later :D
Hey baq, wonderful list of KL, mate! However, here are a few more (which may also have been broken already):
- World's largest hotel (First World Genting, 6,300 rooms)
- World's largest Borders! (just opened at Berjaya Times Square, which is also the world's tallest shopping mall at 15-storeys)
- Asia's largest indoor theme park (at BTS also)
- Asia's biggest IKEA (Mutiara Damansara)
- South-East Asia's longest mall (Subang Parade)
- The only "genuine" million-year-old rainforest smack in the center of a CBD (on Bukit Nanas, where KL Tower is located)
- The best airport hotel, voted by Business Traveler Magazine's readers (Pan Pacific KLIA)
- World's largest man-made lake at Putrajaya

Some Malaysian records:
- Biggest flower (Rafflesia, found on Mt. Kinabalu and some jungles)
- The no.1 spa resort in 2003 as voted by readers of Conde Nast Magazine (Pangkor Laut Resort)
- The highest mountain between the Himalayas and PNG-Irian Jaya (Mt. Kinabalu, 4101m)

Jacksonville, Florida.

-Largest non-commerial land area in the US (757 sq miles...840 sq miles if you count the water and swamps). You can literally drive 70 miles in one direction and still be in Jacksonville. As far as I've searched, it may be the worlds largest.
-Dames Point bridge is the longest concrete cable-stayed bridge in the hemisphere.
-The largest popcorn container was made in Jacksonville in 1994. At almost 40 feet long, 21 feet wide and 8 feet high, it held nearly 6,620 cubic feet of popped corn.
-Kona Skate Park is billed as the oldest continuously operating skate park and is also one of the largest cement skateboard parks in the world and appears in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 video game.

Duplicated.

Well I bet my city has quite afew but I dont know them but the one I do know is that we have the worlds richest sporting club of any kind. Manchester United.

Jacksonville, Florida.

-Largest non-commerial land area in the US (757 sq miles...840 sq miles if you count the water and swamps). You can literally drive 70 miles in one direction and still be in Jacksonville. As far as I've searched, it may be the worlds largest.
-Dames Point bridge is the longest concrete cable-stayed bridge in the hemisphere.
-The largest popcorn container was made in Jacksonville in 1994. At almost 40 feet long, 21 feet wide and 8 feet high, it held nearly 6,620 cubic feet of popped corn.
-Kona Skate Park is billed as the oldest continuously operating skate park and is also one of the largest cement skateboard parks in the world and appears in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 video game.

Two cities in Alaska are bigger (too lazy to say which ones)...Check it out

Calgary...... largest free pancake breakfest festival in the world.... The Calgary Exibition and Stampede... YAAAAAHOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!

Two cities in Alaska are bigger (too lazy to say which ones)...Check it out

The three largest cities under a single local government are:
1: New York
2: LA
3: Brisbane, Australia

The largest local council area is Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia.

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The three largest cities under a single local government are:
1: New York
2: LA
3: Brisbane, Australia


no

The three largest cities under a single local government are:
1: New York
2: LA
3: Brisbane, Australia

The largest local council area is Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia.

And what criteria is this? Population, area?

Certainly not area, as there are plenty of larger cities in area than those mentioned above, and certainly not population either.

Aparently, Oslo is:
* The worlds most expencive city(debatable)
* The only city in the world ruled with parliamentism(is it?)
* The world's smallest city with it's own metro(debatable)
* Has/had the worlds largest THX-theatre(debatable)
* The best place in the world to live in for me, right now(not debatable:D)

^ I don't think Oslo is the smallest city with it's own metro.

As for city proper, Nurnberg has it's own metro (U-bahn) and has a smaller city-proper population than Oslo, as is Bilbao (In fact, Boston is only slightly bigger than Oslo (city proper) and it has a very famous metro)

For metropolitan area, Oslo, Bilbao and Nurnberg are about the same size. It would be quite hard to distinguish exactly which is the smallest.

But there are plenty of city's in Europe with small metropolitan area populations but also with metro systems, Rennes and Catania come to mind - although they are very small metro networks (1 line?)

Antalya will be break a record
It's Most putting rose on city tram at shorter time

Istanbul:
Only city on two continents
http://dunyaturk.com/tr31/Faruk_bogaz34.jpg

Capital city of three very different empires (Roman, Bizantian and Ottoman)
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/boukole.jpg
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/kariye.jpg
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/topkapi0019.jpg

biggest city in Europe
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/levent6306.jpg

two different christian patriarchates (Greek and Armenian)
http://www.roxanephoto.com/turquie/istanbul/iles-princes/images/burgaz_village01.jpg
http://www.roxanephoto.com/turquie/istanbul/eminonu/stamboul-ouest/kumkapi/images/kumkapi_surpvorodman02.jpg

The Blue Mosque is the only mosque in the world with six minarets
http://dunyaturk.com/tr29/kemal_bereket_sultanahmet_gece.jpg

World's second oldest subway station (Metro Han)
http://dunyaturk.com/tr01/tunel1051.jpg


Istanbul is the largest city in Europe! ,)

Two cities in Alaska are bigger (too lazy to say which ones)...Check it out
I know of the cities you speak of yet they are not exactly municipal lands. I believe they have some form of commercial ties.

http://geography.about.com/library/misc/bllgcity.htm

answers... commerical ties?

http://geography.about.com/library/misc/bllgcity.htm

answers... commerical ties?
From what I read long ago, I can't guarantee it's validity but I have never found anything to claim otherwise, almost all of it is a combination of forest logging, preserve, sled racing trails and something else.

Perhaps this has changed and is no longer the case but I do know at one time it was.

Frankfurt:



<----the City with the biggest Asshole living there! :cheers:

The three largest cities under a single local government are:
1: New York
2: LA
3: Brisbane, Australia

The largest local council area is Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia.
By large, they mean area.

New York City, New York:1,214.4 km²
Juneau, Alaska: 8,430.4 km²
Jacksonville, Kentucky: 2,264.5 km²

NYC first? Oh please!


And I add Shortest Ferry ride, to Toronto's list.

What city has the fastest growing stock market in the world? Karachi.

What English language high school consistently tops out the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores? Karachi Grammar School.

What country has the fastest growing cell phone market? Pakistan.


Very amusing claims
Especially the one about SAT scores

The statistics go on and on.
Bring on some more :)

By large, they mean area.

New York City, New York:1,214.4 km²
Juneau, Alaska: 8,430.4 km²
Jacksonville, Kentucky: 2,264.5 km²

NYC first? Oh please!


The city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia calls itself the largest city in the world. It has an area of 95,000 km², but only 30,000 inhabitants.

^The federal electorate of Kalgoorlie is the largest electorate on Earth. I can't remember the size.

The city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia calls itself the largest city in the world. It has an area of 95,000 km², but only 30,000 inhabitants.

OMG that is soooooooooo big, thats crazy!!!!!!!!!!
With a density of 3.1/km2

Not technically my city, but it's only about 5 or 6 miles away, and Wakefield's only claim to fame is having the biggest rhubarb festical in the world.

Roundhay park in Leeds is apparently the largest urban park in Europe.

global importance of Arnhem
1/ ..
2/ ..
3/ ..
4/ birthplace to Lorentz
5/ Audrey Hepburn went to ballet academy here
6/ first removable football pitch
7/ first indoors jungle, desert and ocean (theme park)
8/ first church with an elevator (?? Eusebius church)
9/ 2 London streets named after Arnhem (Dulwich and somewhere NE)
10/ paint from Arnhem company AKZO is most used on airplanes worldwide
11/ largest pacemaker company of the world (?? vitatron)

national level:
6/ first music hall in NL
7/ first trade union of NL
8/ first liberal journal of NL
9/ deepest buildings of NL (I think, at least a lot is built subterranean)
34/ city of KEMA Keur (electronic devices security control org)
35/ fashion academy
36/ most often (re-)built railway station (4x in 160 years)
37/ first ratelband snack corner (tsjakkaa!)
38/ first gimsel bio-dynamic supermarket (now a chain of 55 or so)
39/ first to have a Turkish council-member (for Christian-Democrats :D )
40/ most newsreaders and presenters with radio and TV (no accent)
41/ first to introduce boring regional TV
42/ metro has richest part of NL (Rozendaal)
43/ sharpest income differences (with The Hague)
44/ hilliest of NL (+9 > +113mtrs)
45/ first gay organisation for the elderly
46/ worst air quality (megatraffic in valleys surrounded by hills)
47/ most profitable Bijenkorf (posh warehouse)
48/ most competitive city (award from Chambers of Comm and the Body of Medium and Small Business)
49/ best water quality (bottled and sold elsewhere, e.g. Rotterdam)
50/ best vineyards
764/ best 1970's neighbourhoods
765/ least casualties amongst cyclists
766/ best policeforce (official but I hardly understand how that's measured)
767/ most deceptive highrise (built on hills :D )
768/ grandest ways leading in/out of the city
769/ most deceptive inner city (see 768 then think shoebox housing)
770/ first AH XL (supermarket hangar)
771/ first Supercoop (cheapest supermarket)

(being taken away by the men in white coats)

^^Hmm does GC have more canals than Amsterdam and venice combined?? show me!

Culemborg has the largest wall painting of europe! (maybe the world(?))

I renew the old thread ;)
Antalya;
Most 5star otels.
Most burst balloon in a moment.
Most putting roses on a tram.

London: In owning the worlds first and only ''environmentaly friendly'' skyscraper :)

-worlds largest Irish festival
Rubbish. The three largest are:

1. New York
2. Manchester
3. Dublin

Roundhay park in Leeds is apparently the largest urban park in Europe.
Don't see how....

Roundhay Park is 258 hectares - http://www.leeds.gov.uk/fol/fol_15.html

Heaton Park (largest urban park in Europe) is 259 hectares - http://www.manchester.gov.uk/leisure/parks/heaton/

Zurich:
Best living quality in the world
Highest density of public swimming facility (indoors, outdoors, lake, river)
Voted for highest density of cultural and subcultral events
Biggest street party in Europe (street parade)
Biggest decorated indoors ball (Polyball - I have been a helper there since 1990!)
Largest clock in Europe (St.Peter chruch), second biggest in the world
Biggest Tibetian population outside of Tibet
Highest density of Nobel Prize winners (not sure about it nowadays)
Athletic Meeting Zurich: 23 worldrecords have been made there

Asheville, North Carolina...

...is home to the largest private home in America, the 250-room Biltmore House, which has about four acres of floor space all totalled.

...is home to the world's only thriving grove of torreya taxifolia, an unusual and primitive conifer whose plant structure has remained virtually unchanged since the Jurassic Period.

...is home to the world's largest repository of weather data at the National Climatic Data Center, located in the Federal Building.

...is home to the largest free-standing elliptical dome in North America, at the Basilica of St. Lawrence. (Now tell me that's not a statistic to wet one's pants over.)

...is located on the French Broad River, third oldest river in the world.

Paris

-most french people in any city
-most jews in an european city
-most effeil towers in a city
-biggest business district in europe
-most crappy football team for a capital city :D
-most dense european capital (not sure)
-most populated european city (wont debate) With london and moscow.

-only town of less than 6 million inhabitants (2.2millions without suburban) with subway system who transports more 1 billion traveller per yer (without RER system)
-densest subway system in the world
-busiest freeway in europe : peripherique freeway with 1.1 millions vehicules
-busiest train station in europe : gare du Nord
-biggest subway station in europe with 7 subway lignes and 2 rer lignes
-st Lazard ,auber,opera station
-fastest rail train in the world TGV
- the most rentable mall in Europe : forum des hall

I'm not sure if this is what you would call breaking a record... but the Greater Rochester area (with a population of around 1.1 million) issues more patents for new products created there... than any other city ON EARTH. (I swear I'm not making this up)

Here are the records for NYC that I know of.

1. It has been the largest city in the US since 1823.
2. It is one of the most diverse cities in the world.
3. It had the longest streak for holding consecutive WTBs (1890-1974).
4. It has more musuems than most cities.
5. It has the more skyscrapers than most cities.
6. It is known for getting the most gridlock anytime durring a day.
7. It has the most expensive property in the US.
8. It is known for having more subway lines than most cities.
9. It is the most densley populated city in the US and second most in the world.
10. It has more colleges and schools than nearly every other city.

OMG!!! This is the first thread I ever made on this site! :D And it's back!

Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the world**
3. Most Multicultural City On earth**
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Golden Horseshoe)**
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world.
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.**
8. Largest Street festival in North Americas "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attend.
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands) in north America.
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Second Most Highrises in the Americas. (1,600)
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most English theater city, second to London and NewYork

**Very Debatable

WOW... I think I'm done!!!

I'll just quote myself. With a few edits.

About the discussion of largest city in area. The largest city is Altamira (PA), Brazil - 160.000 km² aprox. (Belgium and Netherlands together). But the city is very small.

I live in Rio de Janeiro and the best record is the most beautiful city in the world !!!

Originally posted by wjfox2002

London

has the largest foreign currency exchange market in the world, handling more money than New York and Tokyo combined. Average
daily turnover is more than $0.5 trillion.


Along with The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, there are more than 550 international banks and 170 global
securities houses which have set up offices in London. By contrast Frankfurt has around 280, Paris 270 and New York 250.


World's largest insurance market.


More billionaires live in London than any other city in the world (44, compared with New York's 34 and Moscow's 21).


has the most expensive neighbourhood in the world (Kensington Palace Gardens), where the average house price is $85 million,
compared with $5.6 million for the next most expensive (Jupiter Island, Florida).


has the world's most expensive office space, far ahead of Tokyo and New York.


has the world's longest (by route kilometres) and oldest (1865) subway system.


is the world's busiest international airport hub.


300 languages are spoken in London, more than any other city in the world.


has more parks and green spaces than any other city of its size in the world. Almost 40% of its total area is green.


has an incredibly long and rich history, spanning over 2,000 years.


http://www.willfox.com/images/skyscrapers/bt/4.jpg

About the discussion of largest city in area. The largest city is Altamira (PA), Brazil - 160.000 km² aprox. (Belgium and Netherlands together). But the city is very small.
A bit more than that - it's more than DOUBLE of Belgium and Netherlands together! ;) Or about:
Netherlands+Belgium+Luxemburg+Switzerland+Denmark+Liechtenstein :lol:

My city has the best looking and most intelligent people in the world and the males with the largest average penis size.

Cobucci, Belgium is about 30.000km² and Netherlands 41.000km², but you could say that Altamira is a bit larger than England and Wales together :)

Some for Miami:
-Highest percentage of foreign born residents in the world.
-Home to the wealthiest neighborhood in the U.S. (Fisher Island) according to the U.S. Census.
-One of the oldest continuously populated cities in the U.S. (over 2,000 years)
-Only municpality in the U.S. conceived and founded by a woman.
-Second highest Cuban population in the World (second only to Havana)
-Home to North Americas largest street festival (sorry Toronto, of course different sources always say different things using different ways of measuring)
-3rd most highrises of any U.S metro (behind NY and Chicago)
-Home to Art Basel Miami Beach which is recognized as one of the most prestigious international art shows in the U.S.
-Only metro in the U.S. containing or touching two national parks (Everglades & Biscayne)
-Largest conga line (119,986 people in 1988)
-Most decentralized office market in 2004 in U.S. (not a good thing)
-Cruise ship capital of the world (3.2 million passengers depart per year)
-Financial Capital of Latin America (home to over 500 multinational corporations, over 100 international banking institutions, 61 foreign consulates, 40 bi-national chambers of commerce, 25 foreign trade offices)
-Home to largest college (2 or 4 year) in the U.S. --Miami Dade College (~60,000 students)
-The Miami Free Trade Zone is the first and largest privately-owned-and-operated trade zone in the world.
-Miami-Dade County harvests more tropical vegetables than any other US county.
-Geographically (and culturally) closer to Cuba's Capital (Havana) than the capital of its own state (Tallahasee).
-and last but not least, the largest city named Miami in the world!!! (bigger than Miami, OH)

35 world records and city still going strong
By a staff reporter

26 September 2005



DUBAI — Dubai holds as many as 35 of the world records and all of them are mentioned in the Guinness World Records, a select list of which has been specially featured in the much awaited 2006 edition of the book launched on Saturday.


With records ranging from the biggest chocolate box, to the tallest all suites hotel, and the largest paper clip to the largest man-made harbour, attributed to Dubai, the book lists the UAE as one of the highest per capita world record breakers.

Jashanmal group's books division, which holds the exclusive distributorship for the Guinness World Records book since 2000, released the records book at a special launch party at The Village Mall in Jumeirah yesterday evening. The party was attended, among others, by Gangu Batra, CEO of Jashanmal, representatives of various organisations behind Dubai's world records, including the Dubai Shopping Festival, Dubai Intercontinental, and Trident Support Corporation.

Speaking to Khaleej Times, Tshering Idnani and Suhaila Saqer Gobbash, both representing the DSF at the launch party, said that next year's festival would definitely have more record breaking feats. “But our focus in the coming festival will be in record breaking activities that involves people and community,” Gobbash said.

Replying to a question on what specific feats have been planned for DSF 2006, Idnani said that it was too early to speak about specific ideas, but added that there will definitely be some amazing performances.

Guinness World Records 2006 once again reveals some of the most bizarre and breathtaking record attempts ever undertaken. It showcases thousands of all-new records, fantastic new features and brand new photos. The latest attractions of this 288-pages book include giant foldout spreads, exciting new categories such as digital music, computer games, extreme sports and much more. For sports fanatics, it has the ultimate sports records reference guide.

JUST FOR THE RECORD

Here are some of Dubai's most acclaimed superlatives:

1. Largest excavated drydocks

2. Largest man-made harbour

3. Biggest artificial islands

4. Biggest and tallest indoor ski

5. Largest price for a single horse race

6. Tallest purely residential building

7. Second largest unsupported flagpole (the tallest is in Abu Dhabi)

8. Most expensive water theme park

9. Largest Crown

10. Largest Cradle

11. Largest Shawerma

12. Largest To Mother With Love message board

13. Longest line of licensed taxis

14. Tallest Hotel

15. Longest RoadSide Advertisement

6. Tallest purely residential building



I thought that was taken over by the Q1?
(Sorry i could be wrong)

I am sure HK have 2 records which is quite meaningful and general enough.

1. Highest residentials on average
- Residential estates built in the past few years are all over 50 storeys. Together with the already high-rise residentials in different decades. I don't have a formal statistics but the fact HK people living at the highest level from the ground should be no question.

2. Highest population density
- I knew a statistics recognised worldwide more than 10 years ago said Shampshuipo District of HK was the most densely populated area in the world. It's more than 150,000 people per sq.km(I forgot the exact figure). The figure should have even up more in the past 10 years.

Boston
1. Widest Cable-stayed bridge in the world at 187ft wide.
2. Oldest running subway system in the US.
3. Oldest ship still "afloat". (HMS Victory does not count because it has been drydocked.)
4. Oldest running MLB park in the US/Canada.
5. First college built in the US. Also the oldest.
6. First school built in the US. Also the oldest.

Yup Boston is old.

Milano

the only city to have 2 teams that won the European Champions Cup.

largest Albanian community outside Albania.

most polluted city of the world in the 70's (...sic...).

most expansive city of Euro Zone in 2005. (...sic....)

Pirelli Tower, world highest concrete skyscrapers for 40 years.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II°, the first Mall of everytime.

World Biggest Fair.

World oldest race-track in F1 (Autodromo di Monza)

European biggest urban public park. (Parco di Monza)

highest number of Top Models living in a city (...that's good)

European highest number of Motor Company settled in a city (Alfa Romeo, Innocenti, Autobianchi, Isotta Fraschini)

World highest number of football fans that went away to see a football match (Milan-Steaua Bucarest, 1989, 85.000 fans from Milano to Barcelona for the Final of C1)

2° city of the world after New York to have a propre Electric Power Company.

2° city of Europe for Highrise buildings

Capital of the Roman Empire for two centuries

Capital city of the Renaissance for 150 years
most bombed and destroyed city of Europe during the II° W.W., apart German cities.

world most important and famous Theatre (La Scala)

2° world biggest cathedral after San Pietro in Roma.

Location of some of the most important cycling race: Milano-S.Remo, Milano-Torino, Giro di Lombardia, Giro d'Italia, hundreds of 6-Days races, 3 world record of km/h. and one of the most famous Velodromo of the world, the Vigorelli.

Tallinn,Estonia:
--former highest building in the world:St Olaf's Church 159m(now 123,7m)

--largest community of Estonians in the world:D

--the oldest still working apothecary in the world:Rae Apteek

--the biggest singing choir in the world(in every five years a singing festival takes place in Tallinn with 20 000 singers and about 100 000 spectators;the record is 300 000 spectators and that's about 30% of Estonian population)

--the most beautiful and well preserved medieval town walls and defence towers...

--the longest human chain started from Tallinn

--tallest Lego tower in the world-24,91m

--oldest capital in northern Europe

also worth mentioning...
we have:
--Fat Margaretha defence tower-a circle tower with 155 loopholes;diam. 25m and height 20m

--two churches over 100m

London will gain a few more records when Wembley Stadium is completed early next year

http://www.wembleystadium.com/NR/rdonlyres/ACAFE164-4EF0-4E16-8BB5-D52DEA4D491D/60111/aerial_shot_blue.jpg

With 90,000 seats the new Wembley will be the largest football stadium in the world with every seat under cover.

With a span of 315 Metres, the arch will be the longest single span roof structure in the world

There will be 2,618 toilets :rock: - which WNSL estimate is more than any other stadium in the world.

San Siro today have 87.200 seats under cover + 20 sky boxes for 20 people each, total 87.600 + 250 journalist seat under cover, total 87.850 + other 3.000 place for Police, Medical and Servcie men all with seats under cover + 50 handicapp people

total 90.900.

so new Wembley lost a record before it will be born.

Düsseldorf has the biggest japanese community in Europe
and the Königsallee is in the top 5 of the most expansive streets in Europe.

Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the worldPanamerican Highway, surely?
3. Most Multicultural City On earthDebateable
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Golden Horseshoe)
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world."One of the" is not a record!
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.Highly spurious
8. Largest Street festival in The Americas "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attendBigger than Rio carnival? :crazy:
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands)I'm sure plenty of African villages beg to differ
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Third most highrises 1,900
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most theater city, second to London and NewYork


WOW... I think I'm done!!!

Nice try mate...

Nice try mate...

good points Tubeman. I'm sure Venice would also have a think to say about this claim.

"9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands)I'm sure plenty of African villages beg to differ"

ROME -ITALY.
Not the greatest now, but sure the first in history.

1) First multicultural city on earth (over than 100 languages spoken in 1° century bC)
2) First multiracial city on earth ( for example, there were Emperors from 3 continents)
3) First multireligious city on earth
4) First city on earth with more than 1 million inhabitants.
5) First city on earth with more than 1.5 million inhabitants in urban area.
6) First city on earth to unify Europe, 2000 years before Ue.
7) First city on earth to govern over lands in 3 different continents.
8) First city on earth - and maybe the only one - to give its name to an Empire.
9) First world class city on earth
10) The only city on earth declared 5 times "world's heritage" by Unesco
11) The only city on earth with an indipendent State IN.
12) Largest sport stadium ever built on earth ( Circo Massimo, 375.000 spectators).
13) Largest church in the world.
14) Largest stone dome in the world (Pantheon)
15) Greatest number of aegyptian obelisks in the world.
16) Largest number of ancient bridges in the world (with more than 5 centuries)
17) According with Unesco, largest cultural, artistical, historical heritage in the world.
In detail:
7000 archeological areas
3000 kilometers of catacombs explored, extimated others 3000 km non-explored.
More than 400 artistical and historical churches, only in the municipality.
More than 300 museums
40 castles in the municipal area
150 medieval towers, 50 only in the city center.
18) Largest roman art collection on earth
19) Largest renaissance art collection on earth
20) Largest baroque art collection on earth
21) According with the Rough Guide, "Quite simply the largest and the richest collection of art and culture in the world" , The Vaticans Museums.
http://travel.roughguides.com/roughguides.html
22) Dozens of hills, the mountans, the sea, 2 lakes, 4 rivers, 3 vulcans in the municipal area.
23) Has more parks and green spaces than any other city of its size in the world. Almost 68% of its total area is green (1290kmsq).
24) According with some SSC polls, most important city in history.
25) Most imitated city on earth ( temples, arches, architecture, domes, churches, columns, all that is classic style)

1° century
http://www.panodome.com/roma/Das_alte_Rom_04_02_All_rs_4000.jpg

Other records about Rome:

1) Worst metrò system (only 36.6 km) for an European Capital (with exception than little capitals )
2) Crappy football team ever (SS Lazio), with most stupid fascists supporters in the history of the world :D
3) Best football team ever (AsRoma), with best supporters :D:D
4) Highest number of motorbikes in Europe (more in Rome than in all England)
5) Highest number of stray cats in Europe, declared "protected community"

other records of Milano

first highway of all the world (Milano-Laghi 1924)

second highway of all the world (Milano-Bergamo 1927)

the most cabled city of the world with T3 connesion (100%)

world oldest stadium only for sport and show events that still today hosts atlethic, american football and football matches (Arena Civica 1807 - 35.000 seats)

for many centuries Milano was the biggest harbour of the inner Europe. and the closest sea is at 120 km!

Nice try mate...
Actually, that was one of my first posts, I put a edited version later. here it is...

Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the world**
3. Most Multicultural City On earth**
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Ontario)**
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world.
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.**
8. Largest Street festival in North America "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attend.
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands) in north America.
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Second Most Highrises in the Americas. (1,600)
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most English theater city, second to London and NewYork

**Very Debatable

WOW... I think I'm done!!!

There.

And the PanAmerican highway isn't a road... it's a HIGHWAY.

Vienna

Well, erm...
Ok, so we...
...well, screw Vienna.

Some of these records are so ridiculous !!! There isn't how to know which city is the most multicultural city, most beautiful city (I've posted one about that, but I was joking), etc. And some records are insignificant.

Oh, no, don't screw Vienna!

Vienna is the only European capital city that has (important) vinyards within its city limits!
And it is the only major European city with a National Park within city limits.
It is the most important city for german-speaking drama.

And IIRC, Rapid Vienna (my club) is the only football team ever to have won the German championship that is no longer German.

And yeah, we have the longest Marathon in the world.











































Yes, I was kidding.

Toronto

1.Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land
2. Longest road in the world
3. Most Multicultural City On earth
4. Most underfunded Transit system in North America
5. Most Veicles produced in North America (Golden Horseshoe)
6. by far One of the safest big cities in the world.
7. Most neighbourhoods in one city (not Metro) over 200.
8. Largest Street festival in The Americas "Caribana" 1.2 Million people attend.
9. Largest carfree community (Toronto Islands)
10. 2nd Biggest concert "Sars Stock" 470,000 people
11. One of the biggest blacouts in the world "2003 N. American Black Out"
12. Third most highrises 1,900
13. Busiest highway in North America, possibly the world. The 401, 500,000 cars.
14. 2nd Largest underground mall "Path System"
15. One of the largest Public Library Systems in the World.
16. 3rd Most theater city, second to London and NewYork


WOW... I think I'm done!!!

My friend I don't know what it is about Torontonians but they might be number one in many things in Canada but that does not encompass the whole world!

I think everyone will agree with your first choice ..that of the CN Tower. At over 1800 ft it's hard to beat.

The longest running street must be Yonge Street which is the world's longest continuous road in the world at some 26 miles.

Now for your third choice...that's basically a lot of what Canada's Multicultural comission preaches. "While the USA is a melting pot...we in Canada are a Mosaic of multiple cultures!" My friend it's all the same! Now, as for the number. Open the NY yellow pages [for example] and count. Then go to Chicago's and so on. You will see the same [number] and more [groups] and in larger numbers living and working, studying etc. while keeping their faith, going to their cultural centers, speaking their mother tongue etc. It does not only happen in Canada. I work for the gov't. It's propoganda. Nothing wrong with that. But lets not start putting numbers on these things or we'll be the laughing stock of the world.

As for the vehicles produced....I guess you forgot to consider Michigan.

Now, as for the neighborhoods...this may also be negative depending on how you look at it. If you look at it like you did in a multicultural way ....we have all these neighborhoods...great...but on the other hand...many neighborhoods ...different ones... also means that people must be divided....therefore...something is not working. [I read that last year about a Euro city and sure enough..something wasn't working.and things exploded out of control ... it was in the news].

Number 9 has got to go!!! Big time! Go over the ON-MI line to Mackinac Island. ...Avalon [Catalina Island] just off the Los Angeles coast has NO cars...as doesn't Hydra a short ferry ride from Athens, Greece. An even larger car free community is that of Buyukada Island[pop 17,000] a few miles away from bustling 12 million+ Istanbul, Turkey.http://www.carbusters.org/magazine/index.php?issue=25&go=feature1

Now as for your number 12 New York is def. #1 at close to 7000 high rises. Toronto may be number two though...and not number three as you state...though, I don't have my up to date data on Chicago. As far as I can see, Toronto has some 980 more highrises than Chicago...BUT, I have to check up on something that is very misleading and most people do not pick up on it.

.... Toronto's facts are so misleading. The metro Toronto figures have really changed the look of Toronto in the eyes of people reading statistics.[due to the new metro area gov't] For example....San Fransisco's population is some 7.3 million. in the metro area. If you were to look at stats...high rises as you stated in your records...the number you get for each city looking them up on a site the number you get is for the city only. For example SF has 483 highrises...but that is city limits. It doesn't count Oakland's nor does it count San Jose's. The same goes for LA, Chicago and NYC...Vancouver, Montreal....The only city that is not like this is Toronto with its new metro gov't. If we were to recount things so that they are along the same lines....Toronto loses a lot that it gained from its BIG city image when it incorporated everything under one roof. Similarly, Boston suddenly became the fourth largest city in the US ..its population shot up some 2 million souls in a couple of days...and surpassed San Fransisco's 7.3 and nowBoston is now 7.5 million and the 4th largest!! Boston also incorporated cities into its Metro area. As for the crime rate....Toronto is they say a pretty safe city. I've read up on that. Now when they report murders and other violent crime...is it only city of TO? or is it the new metro area.? The crime rate in Canada went up drastically in the years 2000-2005...and the gov't was worried about this. Now, leading criminalogists at leading Canadian Universities recently reported on what has to be done in order to lower the crime rate. .....They are going to make changes to the criminal code...and alter consenting age for sex related offenses.....and make other changes to other laws in order to make things "look better". While they warned that this will not do anything really to the crime rate...it will make Canada look better abroad. I say if there are problems..let the people know..instead of always saying that everything happens south of Windsor [actually Detroit is north]...let Canadian's know what actually happens in their towns instead of being ignorant of their surroundings. Basically what I am saying always question the stats you read. The person reporting them for example might not even know where Toronto is. Ask why something is like this...and the sort. I remember in University two of us did a similar paper in Crim class....one of us reported the crime of a city using city proper stats...I remember the city had some 39 murders..and the other the metro area total 384 murders. Of course reading the first one made the place look like it was heaven for such a major city and such a large population. When they read mine they bought more security. ...I used to live in Irvine California [moved there from Canada] and immediately I was bombarded by all this propoganda shit about living in the safest city in the good ole US of A !!! Now in a city where you are scared half to death to go to a 7-11 at 3pm... one must wonder if this is really true. After looking into it...sure enough six of the 12 safest cities were located in southern California beside one of the top three worst! Irvine though, didn't advertise how it became the safest. Hell, they have gated most of the city. Everyone lives in gated communities. No wonder !...now overall it doesn't matter...it's safer. And I enjoyed living there. I felt safe as did my family. But, you must read into things.

I am almost finished....the busiest freeway in the world is the San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles & Orange Counties, Calif. has a volume of 612,000 vehicles daily. And as for theaters, Athens, Greece has either second or third place...theaters are everywhere and we're not talking about movie theaters now are we?

By the way..number 11 is ridiculous but when you got to make a place look better anything counts I guess. :cheers:

it's harm but as far as i know none record in my city :)

World's longest skating rink.
http://artbabych.com/Oct19-25-th/canal4-th.jpg

What's the World's tallest NON-freestanding structure anyway?

My friend I don't know what it is about Torontonians but they might be number one in many things in Canada but that does not encompass the whole world!

I think everyone will agree with your first choice ..that of the CN Tower. At over 1800 ft it's hard to beat.

The longest running street must be Yonge Street which is the world's longest continuous road in the world at some 26 miles.

Now for your third choice...that's basically a lot of what Canada's Multicultural comission preaches. "While the USA is a melting pot...we in Canada are a Mosaic of multiple cultures!" My friend it's all the same! Now, as for the number. Open the NY yellow pages [for example] and count. Then go to Chicago's and so on. You will see the same [number] and more [groups] and in larger numbers living and working, studying etc. while keeping their faith, going to their cultural centers, speaking their mother tongue etc. It does not only happen in Canada. I work for the gov't. It's propoganda. Nothing wrong with that. But lets not start putting numbers on these things or we'll be the laughing stock of the world.

As for the vehicles produced....I guess you forgot to consider Michigan.

Now, as for the neighborhoods...this may also be negative depending on how you look at it. If you look at it like you did in a multicultural way ....we have all these neighborhoods...great...but on the other hand...many neighborhoods ...different ones... also means that people must be divided....therefore...something is not working. [I read that last year about a Euro city and sure enough..something wasn't working.and things exploded out of control ... it was in the news].

Number 9 has got to go!!! Big time! Go over the ON-MI line to Mackinac Island. ...Avalon [Catalina Island] just off the Los Angeles coast has NO cars...as doesn't Hydra a short ferry ride from Athens, Greece. An even larger car free community is that of Buyukada Island[pop 17,000] a few miles away from bustling 12 million+ Istanbul, Turkey.http://www.carbusters.org/magazine/index.php?issue=25&go=feature1

Now as for your number 12 New York is def. #1 at close to 7000 high rises. Toronto may be number two though...and not number three as you state...though, I don't have my up to date data on Chicago. As far as I can see, Toronto has some 980 more highrises than Chicago...BUT, I have to check up on something that is very misleading and most people do not pick up on it.

.... Toronto's facts are so misleading. The metro Toronto figures have really changed the look of Toronto in the eyes of people reading statistics.[due to the new metro area gov't] For example....San Fransisco's population is some 7.3 million. in the metro area. If you were to look at stats...high rises as you stated in your records...the number you get for each city looking them up on a site the number you get is for the city only. For example SF has 483 highrises...but that is city limits. It doesn't count Oakland's nor does it count San Jose's. The same goes for LA, Chicago and NYC...Vancouver, Montreal....The only city that is not like this is Toronto with its new metro gov't. If we were to recount things so that they are along the same lines....Toronto loses a lot that it gained from its BIG city image when it incorporated everything under one roof. Similarly, Boston suddenly became the fourth largest city in the US ..its population shot up some 2 million souls in a couple of days...and surpassed San Fransisco's 7.3 and nowBoston is now 7.5 million and the 4th largest!! Boston also incorporated cities into its Metro area. As for the crime rate....Toronto is they say a pretty safe city. I've read up on that. Now when they report murders and other violent crime...is it only city of TO? or is it the new metro area.? The crime rate in Canada went up drastically in the years 2000-2005...and the gov't was worried about this. Now, leading criminalogists at leading Canadian Universities recently reported on what has to be done in order to lower the crime rate. .....They are going to make changes to the criminal code...and alter consenting age for sex related offenses.....and make other changes to other laws in order to make things "look better". While they warned that this will not do anything really to the crime rate...it will make Canada look better abroad. I say if there are problems..let the people know..instead of always saying that everything happens south of Windsor [actually Detroit is north]...let Canadian's know what actually happens in their towns instead of being ignorant of their surroundings. Basically what I am saying always question the stats you read. The person reporting them for example might not even know where Toronto is. Ask why something is like this...and the sort. I remember in University two of us did a similar paper in Crim class....one of us reported the crime of a city using city proper stats...I remember the city had some 39 murders..and the other the metro area total 384 murders. Of course reading the first one made the place look like it was heaven for such a major city and such a large population. When they read mine they bought more security. ...I used to live in Irvine California [moved there from Canada] and immediately I was bombarded by all this propoganda shit about living in the safest city in the good ole US of A !!! Now in a city where you are scared half to death to go to a 7-11 at 3pm... one must wonder if this is really true. After looking into it...sure enough six of the 12 safest cities were located in southern California beside one of the top three worst! Irvine though, didn't advertise how it became the safest. Hell, they have gated most of the city. Everyone lives in gated communities. No wonder !...now overall it doesn't matter...it's safer. And I enjoyed living there. I felt safe as did my family. But, you must read into things.

I am almost finished....the busiest freeway in the world is the San Diego Freeway in Los Angeles & Orange Counties, Calif. has a volume of 612,000 vehicles daily. And as for theaters, Athens, Greece has either second or third place...theaters are everywhere and we're not talking about movie theaters now are we?

By the way..number 11 is ridiculous but when you got to make a place look better anything counts I guess. :cheers:

OK, while not all things on his list are true, some that you dismiss actually do hold merit.

Ontario actually does out produce Michigan in the automotive sector, it has for the last several years.

Toronto does have more high-rises than Chicago does, they are also counted only for city proper and not metro, that is where you, Mr. Know-it-all get mislead. Also, that 7.5 million is San Frans metro, not the city proper. If 7.5 million were San Frans city proper, then it would almost be the size of New York.

Toronto does have the third most theatres in the world, or at least the english speaking world.

Also, why did you dig this thread up from the grave. The author of this was only 15 at the time, give him a break.

HK is arguebly known for breaking NY's record for skyline and skyscrapers.

Also, why did you dig this thread up from the grave?

Because Toronto is an evil place. If there is a devil, she must be from Toronto.

Can I add to the list for Toronto?

"Most Liberal City in the World*"


* of evil cities metros greater than 3 million residents.

OK. Start bitching.

The Seattle area has the largest building (4x the runner up) and the richest person.

What's the World's tallest NON-freestanding structure anyway?

It's a radio tower in North Dakota. Don't know it's name, where exactly it is, or how tall it is though (I think it's about 2,000 feet).

EDIT: Oops, forgot my record.

-Most Mormons in a city. Although that's debatable (and I doubt it's true, either).
-It's the headquarters of the fastest-growing religion in the world. Does that count?
-Hmmph, they're both Mormon-related (one of which, as I said, probably isn't true).

It's a radio tower in North Dakota. Don't know it's name, where exactly it is, or how tall it is though (I think it's about 2,000 feet).Cool :)
http://mishilo.image.pbase.com/u33/talshiarr/large/21526581.KVLYSunset.jpg

^^Hmm does GC have more canals than Amsterdam and venice combined?? show me!

The Gold Coast Seaway providing safe ocean access and over 270 kilometres of navigable waterwaysSOURCE (http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard.aspx?PID=255)
With nine times more waterways than Venice, the Gold Coast is a boating paradise with over 260 kilometres of navigable waterways within the City.
The Gold Coast Seaway also offers convenient access to the Pacific Ocean for those interested in deep-sea fishing.SOURCE (http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard.aspx?PID=322)--So Venice has about 30Km of canals
The city has 160 canals -- more than Venice -- with a combined length of 76km (47 miles), spanned by 1,281 bridges -- also more than Venice (though not as many as Hamburg).SOURCE (http://www.frommers.com.au/destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=43&catID=0043010029)
As well known as the Gold Coast is for its barcode of high-rise along the majestic Pacific Ocean, it's also known for its canal estates.

42 kilometres of beaches are complemented by more than ten times that length of canal-front residential property.

Although the Gold Coast has more canals than Venice and Amsterdam (probably put together) the canal phenomenon drew its inspiration from similar estates in Florida resorts. During the 1950s, Alfred Grant, a property developer, created two estates - Miami Keys (50 hectares) and Rio Vista (30 hectares) - with the help of architect Karl Langer, the famous designer of the Lennons Hotel at Broadbeach. About 400 allotments were obtained out of the larger Miami Keys, and the canals represented about one third of the total area. Names of the canal estates and beachside suburbs drew on the American and Mediterranean names associated with water eg. Florida Gardens, Miami Keys, Sorrento, Rialto, and the earlier Isle of Capri, often unkindly referred to by competing neighbours on nearby islands as the 'pile of debris'.

The phenomenon of waterfront home sites drew on the Dutch farming idea of creating land some hundreds of years earlier by filling from the site itself to create a platform of high land beside a big drainage ditch. This, of course, looked a lot better once the drain filled with water.

WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT CANALS?

The canals of Amsterdam and Venice provide a spectacular urban experience for pedestrians, cyclists and even motorists. The opportunity to cross over the water via narrow pedestrian/cycle bridges throughout Venice, adds to the public experience of the canal and the views along their length. The development of canals on the Gold Coast has enabled many people to live close to water, but the opportunity for public access to the water's edge or the opportunity to cross the canals via footbridges, has largely been neglected. Given that the Coast has more canals than Venice and Amsterdam put together, the place could become the 'City of Bridges'. This is something to be pursued by energetic and fertile young minds as this city evolves.

The Gold Coast canals have had a chequered history with some areas being somewhat low and prone to flooding, others providing first class environments for residents and the community at large.

Street systems, with crossroads reaching the water's edge, complemented by pocket parks, were a hallmark of some of the early canal developments. The canals have provided an opportunity for residents to enjoy open space views, and have provided a recreational space for much water-based recreation.SOURCE (http://www.abc.net.au/goldcoast/stories/s1141960.htm)

Venice's Canals(30Km) + Amsterdam's Canals(76Km) = 106Km Vs Gold Coast's Canals(about 260Km)

Here's some of the Gold Coast's Canals:

Hope Island
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Biggera Waters
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Surfers Paradise/Benowa/Broadbeach Waters
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Mermaid Waters/Robina
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7230/mermaidrobinabx7.png

Southern Gold Coast
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I think I've proved that the Gold Coast has more canals than Venice and Amsterdam combined.

Helsinki:

- Northernmost operating metro system in the world.

- Biggest orthodox church in Western Europe.

- Biggest movie theatre in the Nordic.

There are som very big malls in Helsinki too, and i think at least on of them make it to the top 3 or top 5 in Europe.

Tel Aviv

-first Hebrew city in modern times, est. 1909 (though older neighbourhoods exist before).

-largest Jewish populated metro area in the world :some 3 million (sec. New-York some 2 million).

-largest collection of the modern European international style buildings in the world ,which made it aworld heritage site by UNESCO.

-some 1,500 HR and towers in metro area.

-the first tallest tower of the ME (and in away of Europe and Africa)-shalom tower 142m built in 1965.

-the biggest bus terminal in the world

and other "nonesense" records

QUEBEC CITY:

- Oldest city in North America (1608)
- Oldest fortified city of N.A
- City with the longest Cantilever Bridge (Pont DE Québec)

That's what I see right now.

Oldest city in North America (1608)North America consists of more than Canada and the U.S., therefore the oldest city is Santo Domingo which has been around since 1496, 4 years after Columbus' discovery of the New World.

Bringing back an 11-month old thread from the grave... Is this a record? :crazy: