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All cities more populous than every other city north of them (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] evidences@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's gotta be including the suburbs, just looked up the population of the NYC metropolitan area and Wikipedia has it around 20 million.

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, the state of new york has ~20m. The city and suburb is closer to london around ~8m. The graphic is wrong

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The metropolitan area around New York City includes ares in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. The best I can tell that's what this graphic is basing it's population of NYC on.

Edit: actually I can guarantee is the metropolitan are because Tokyo is the same way. The city has a listed population of 13 million but the metropolitan area is around 40 million, this map shows 37 million.

[–] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Oh wow I had no idea it was that built up outside of the city. This must be what Gibson calls the sprawl