What’s the largest city you’ve visited
 

What’s The largest city anyone has visited or lived in? Just curious... Mine would be México city, NYC, LA, Lima, Peru, then Chicago? Planning a trip to China/southwest Asia. Obviously Chinese cities take the cake, but what about other places? Also why didn’t you choose smaller cities in your travels.

Largest city I've visited: NYC

Largest city I've lived in: Chicago

Largest visited: Mexico City or São Paulo... not sure which is larger, guess it depends on boundaries

Largest in which I’ve lived: New York

Largest Metro Area: Tokyo
Largest City Proper: Shanghai
City that felt the largest: New York

Largest city I've lived in: Shanghai
Largest city I've visited: Jakarta

Los Angeles

Largest city visited: Tokyo
Largest city lived in: Houston

Largest city visited: Los Angeles
Largest city lived: Calgary

Visited: Los Angeles (will be replaced by NYC in October)
Lived In: Phoenix

I lived in Orange County for five years but it's hard for me to count that as part of Los Angeles.

visited: NYC
Lived: Toronto (metro)

Visited? Noo York. (although that'll change soon, going to Tokyo soon).
Lived? Melbawn.

Tokyo . . . followed by New York.

Largely I HAVE chosen to visit small cities, from Japanese and Filipino villages through numerous medium-sized European cities. In other cases it's because work took me certain places such as Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island rather than the North Island or Sydney because that's where the flights landed (from there I went to Brisbane). An example would be in Thailand I was on a ship that took me to Pattaya, not Bangkok (I could have taken a bus to Bangkok but didn't feel like bothering with that vs hanging out on the beach in Pattaya). Another would be Korea where we docked in Pusan, not Seoul.

Visited: Tokyo
Lived in: São Paulo(or NY depending on which measurement we're using)

Mexico City. I was in Sao Paulo as a child in the 1950s when it was still Brazil's "second city". It was referred to as the "Chicago of Brazil" back then. I guess my actual largest cities would be Mexico City and NYC. Biggest cities where I have lived would be NYC and LA.

Ditto.

Shanghai, 25 million, metro 27-38 million

Visited: New York, lived: London

I've lived in both New York and São Paulo.

They're similar in city proper size and metro, although SP's is denser as a whole and has less suburban sprawl. They both have similar ''True Big City'' feelings, which I've only felt in NYC, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and London.

Live in LA
Visited NYC

Visited: Tokyo
Lived in: St. Louis, if we're talking CMA kind of thing, otherwise Ottawa and Edmonton were very similar sizes when I lived in each