Largest city?

[neves29]

well i dont know about the others, but são paulo is huge when its about urban area

[Metro007]

Of course but less huge than the other cities we speak about.

[Cosperus]

Jacksonville, Florida

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the Contiguous United States

(some cities in Alaska are larger)

see:

List of United States cities by area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...cities_by_area

[spxy2]

You cant discuss city sizes without defining what is urban, what is sub-urban and what is rural.

There are whole countries with higher population densities than many of the US urban areas mentioned in this thread.

[Chrissib]

Originally Posted by spxy2

You cant discuss city sizes without defining what is urban, what is sub-urban and what is rural.

There are whole countries with higher population densities than many of the US urban areas mentioned in this thread.

Well, but those countries also have higher built densities. What counts is measurable built up land, and there New York takes the lead as the largest built up area.

[spxy2]

Originally Posted by Chrissib

Well, but those countries also have higher built densities. What counts is measurable built up land, and there New York takes the lead as the largest built up area.

They don't always have higher built densities at all.

It also depends how you define built up land, lots of those suburban areas in the US and Australia have vast tracts of un-bulit land in-between housing, it just more evenly spread than in say Europe.


We can ask the question "are suburban areas really what we define as a city"?

[Rinchinlhumbe]

in terms of area expanse (not population density!)

Mount Isa in Australia (45,000 sqkm, just 30,000 inhaibtants)
Kiruna (19,000 sqkm, Sweden, just 35,ooo souls)

but much larger and denser
Chongqing (81,000 sqkm, the size of Austria, over 30,000,000 people)

[haikiller11]

Chongqing is not that big 81k sqkm is the size of the whole province which is named municipality whatever and most of that "so called" city is covered in forest and mountain. The actual city of Chongqing is more like Guangzhou.

[oliver999]

shanghai city center(中心城区) has nearly 10 million population, might be largest in the world.

[Metro007]

I think we are speaking about the whole urban area and not the population of the city-center. I think asian cities (except Tokyo) can't compete with the size of american urban areas (i say this as an European) ;-)

[the spliff fairy]

Originally Posted by oliver999

shanghai city center(中心城区) has nearly 10 million population, might be largest in the world.

yes, but its suburbs are not that big, though they're highrise still. However there are loads of cities in the area and if they all connect up then
Shanghai will be the biggest city in population aswell as area - its in the worlds densest urban tract, the Yangtze River Delta. At the moment
its close already to connecting up to Suzhou (pop 7 million).


Shanghai city centre

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr



suburbs










...and this believe it or not is the countryside in the delta (check it out on Google Earth, pick a random spot then zoom)
for thousands of sq miles, made up of dense tracts of farmers apartment blocks and villas between the fields - built for free by
the local council. In any other place especially with the high population density it would be classed as urban let alone suburban.

When going through this 'countryside' I thought I was going through the worlds largest city (for years couldnt work out how Hangzhou
was soooo much bigger than Shanghai). From the train it all looks like this for hour after hour:












the delta cities, fast connecting up:


http://msittig.wubi.org


www.iseis.cuhk.edu.hk

[spotila]

Those "rural" images are just incredible

[oliver999]

Originally Posted by spotila

Those "rural" images are just incredible

must be in zhejiang province.

[messicano]

maybe Los Angeles

[chicagogeorge]

Originally Posted by the spliff fairy

yes, but its suburbs are not that big, though they're highrise still. However there are loads of cities in the area and if they all connect up then
Shanghai will be the biggest city in population aswell as area - its in the worlds densest urban tract, the Yangtze River Delta. At the moment
its close already to connecting up to Suzhou (pop 7 million).


Shanghai city centre

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr

OMG

[aaabbbccc]

Cairo is huge but very packed like a can of sardines , extremelt high density , I have a friend of mine from Cairo who tell me that the population during the day is 25 million and at night it goes down to 20 million

[royal rose1]

When looking at the satellite images, it appears Shanghai, Tokyo, or New York.

London looks like a blip on a radar compared to those three.

[Blackpool88]

Originally Posted by royal rose1

When looking at the satellite images, it appears Shanghai, Tokyo, or New York.

London looks like a blip on a radar compared to those three.

What is the population of the continuous urban area of New York out of curiosity?

[Metro007]

Originally Posted by royal rose1

When looking at the satellite images, it appears Shanghai, Tokyo, or New York.

London looks like a blip on a radar compared to those three.

NY, Tokyo AND L.A. ! ;-)

[royal rose1]

Originally Posted by Blackpool88

What is the population of the continuous urban area of New York out of curiosity?

22-25 million