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Originally Posted by Acajack
I don't think that it's that relevant to go that far back. Especially not with the concept of primate city which is a fairly recent one. Lots of cities were dominant over territories at one point in history and have faded away.
In 1900, Los Angeles had 100,000 people, Sao Paulo 200,000 and Mexico City 300,000.
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And I add Berlin, by the 2020's was the undisputable largest German city in the world, twice the size of Vienna and almost 3x larger than Hamburg.
Surely Berlin fell badly with all the WWII destruction and be locked and divided inside East Germany, but they did recovery greatly in the past 20 years and I don't see any German city with a stronger cultural brand than Berlin now.
Also Berlin it's not this frontier outpost Crawford talked about since the early 18th century at least. It was the capital city of the ascending Prussia, already the 2nd most powerful German state after Austria.
Crawford mentioned he's originally from the Frankfurt area and people there and in Munich tend to resent Berlin recent comeback, usually dismissing them as "poor".