What’s the largest city you’ve visited

[liat91]

Manila, NYC, London, LA

[saybanana]

I dont know which ones are the largest cities but I have visited these mega ones.

Tokyo
Beijing
Shanghai
Seoul
New York
London
Manila
Bangkok

[mthq]

Visited: Tokyo (making my fifth visit there next month)
Lived: San Diego

[liat91]

After considering the irregularity of how metros are assessed globally, I looked at what would be considered the largest. I then used the US metric with some considerations, such as layout and commute information I could glean from online. So I found that the largest metro crown goes to Delhi. But not by much. Here is the list;

Delhi: 54,616,251
Shanghai: 53,381,600
Tokyo: 42,607,376
Guangzhou: 37,513,400
Cairo: 33,928,715
Jakarta: 31,689,592
Beijing: 31,534,039
São Paulo: 30,833,520
Dhaka: 29,976,567
Manila: 27,965,043
Mumbai: 27,239,779
Mexico City: 26,290,000

For the top 12 anyway..

[Obadno]

Originally Posted by emathias

Of course, this is ~25 miles from Midtown, too:
https://goo.gl/maps/FhvZtEeQAx5ytCsQA

And this is also 25 miles from central Tokyo:
https://goo.gl/maps/eYAiQ5UM3TdHX9iZ6

Of course depending on the direction you head, this could be 25 miles from either city:
https://goo.gl/maps/VKioVuH1tpDYq1KZ7

I went 25 miles west of the city center in both cases, you can tell by satellite imagery that New York rapidly transitions into a suburban model once you get across the Hudson.

As I said and others have said Tokyo is massive in a way you don’t feel in New York, as big as New York is you can get your head around it you can picture it’s ends in your mind. Tokyo stretches on at a high level of density and it feels unending.

Like I said originally it’s as massive as greater los Angelous but with the density of queens or Brooklyn, these two things combine to make it feel more massive Th an nyc

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Obadno

I went 25 miles west of the city center in both cases, you can tell by satellite imagery that New York rapidly transitions into a suburban model once you get across the Hudson.

New Jersey is pretty urban until you get west of Newark. The density of most of the towns between Newark and Manhattan is higher than most other major cities in North America.

[muppet]

Tokyo - this is what people mean when they talk about a constant density across a vast area such as Tokyo, pop 39 million




Joni Bodaci, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/4517...18610/?lp=true




https://cdn.suwalls.com


Also it's office buildings are the largest in the world as measured by average floorspace. In any other city they'd be twice as narrow and twice as tall,
but Japan has its strict earthquake height limits, and favours large floorplates due to the less hierarchical business set up.


https://thumbor.forbes.com

https:supermouse.blog

For example the 248m Tokyo Midtown has twice the floorspace of 1WTC


https:supermouse.blog

https:supermouse.blog


https://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects...ndon-to-tokyo/

[muppet]

Interesting read on all that:


The World's Most Built Up City

[saybanana]

I wonder at what point will Tokyo have reclaimed all of Tokyo Bay.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by muppet

https://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects...ndon-to-tokyo/

This is a pretty good graphic that indicates what many of us have been saying: Manhattan has a visibly larger concentration of extreme density than anywhere in Tokyo; but Tokyo has a much larger spread of mid to high density.

Originally Posted by saybanana

I wonder at what point will Tokyo have reclaimed all of Tokyo Bay.

Probably never. It's not exactly a high-growth city.

[muppet]

But also bear in mind Tokyo, like London, is increasingly becoming a centre that is only for the UHNW rich nowadays, with the daytime population of the 3 central wards 6x that of the night time one.

Chiyoda, Chuo and Minato cover an area of 42.24km with less than half a million people living there (almost a third of residential Manhattan in density). However it's daytime population of 2.4 million is 56,865 per sq km or 86% of Manhattan's daytime population.

If you include Shinjuku Tokyo works out at a 60 sq km centre (almost the exact as a 59 sq km Manhattan) with about 80% of Manhattan's daytime density. But with a neverending, denser version of Brooklyn on all sides.