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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 2:54 PM
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Which megacities have you seen?
Wikipedia lists 42 megacities in the world. How many of them have you seen?
  • Bangalore
  • Bangkok
  • Beijing
  • Bogotá
  • Buenos Aires
  • Cairo
  • Chengdu
  • Chennai
  • Chongqing
  • Delhi
  • Dhaka
  • Guangzhou
  • Ho Chi Minh City
  • Hyderabad
  • Istanbul
  • Jakarta
  • Johannesburg
  • Karachi
  • Kinshasa
  • Kolkata
  • Lagos
  • Lahore
  • Lima
  • London
  • Los Angeles
  • Metro Manila
  • Mexico City
  • Moscow
  • Mumbai
  • Nagoya
  • New York
  • Osaka
  • Paris
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • São Paulo
  • Seoul
  • Shanghai
  • Shenzhen
  • Tehran
  • Tianjin
  • Tokyo
  • Xiamen

So far I've seen 10. By end of year I might tick off two additional (Mexico City and Bangkok). And I have at least 10 others on the bucket list. One of those is Tehran, which I am skeptical that I'll ever get the chance to visit.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 3:14 PM
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Bangalore
Bangkok
Beijing
Bogotá
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Chengdu
Chennai
Chongqing
Delhi
Dhaka
Guangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
Hyderabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Kinshasa
Kolkata
Lagos
Lahore
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Mexico City
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tehran
Tianjin
Tokyo
Xiamen
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 3:21 PM
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Pretty short list for me:
New York
Los Angeles
London
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 3:46 PM
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Bangalore
Bangkok
Beijing
Bogotá
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Chengdu
Chennai
Chongqing
Delhi
Dhaka
Guangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
Hyderabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Kinshasa
Kolkata
Lagos
Lahore
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Mexico City
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tehran
Tianjin
Tokyo
Xiamen

Looks like 9 for me...embarrassingly few. My international travel has slowed way down...need to step it up again.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 4:39 PM
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Only Los Angeles (lived in OC for 5 years) and New York (visited April this year) because I'm a philistine.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:12 PM
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London
Lima
Istanbul
Los Angeles
Mexico City
New York
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:17 PM
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24 but then pretty much all I do in my free time is travel

Bangalore
Bangkok
Beijing
Bogotá
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Chengdu
Chennai
Chongqing
Delhi
Dhaka
Guangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
Hyderabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Kinshasa
Kolkata
Lagos
Lahore
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Mexico City
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tehran
Tianjin
Tokyo
Xiamen

Hoping to hit up Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Tehran soon.

Had no idea Nagoya was a megacity, seemed like a small-ish (by Japanese standards) city to me. Didn't know it was in a region of 10 million.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:28 PM
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24 but then pretty much all I do in my free time is travel

Bangalore
Bangkok
Beijing
Bogotá
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Chengdu
Chennai
Chongqing
Delhi
Dhaka
Guangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
Hyderabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Kinshasa
Kolkata
Lagos
Lahore
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Mexico City
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tehran
Tianjin
Tokyo
Xiamen

Hoping to hit up Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Tehran soon.

Had no idea Nagoya was a megacity, seemed like a small-ish (by Japanese standards) city to me. Didn't know it was in a region of 10 million.
wow 24...that's very impressive...I'll be curious to see if anyone tops that.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:35 PM
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Yeah, you don't have to be particularly well-travelled, just well travelled in Asia to do well on this list.

Maybe not many on this forum which skews towards vacationing in European and North American destinations.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:41 PM
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Only 5:

Johannesburg
London
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo

And outside those, it wouldn't be no other city where near those. Not even above 5 million (I've never been to Belo Horizonte, despite being only 500 km away). Above 4 million than I've visited Porto Alegre, Brasília, Cape Town, Durban, Rome and Berlin.

P.S. I'm always surprised on how a lot of SSPers have visited Brazil.
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Chicago and San Francisco should be on this list. But..

I've been to London, Paris, Moscow, New York and Los Angeles.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:50 PM
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London
Los Angeles
New York City

Nothing much original or exotic from me...
I've spent my whole life in Paris, so it doesn't really count as anything I would have ever visited as a tourist or for business.

You'd expect to find Hong Kong or Chicago in that kind of lists.
That one may be too short.
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 5:51 PM
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The cutoff is 10 mill

Chicago is about a 500k short to make the list

Hong Kong is only about 7 million
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 6:09 PM
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For me, of these megacities listed, only 7 of them:

Istanbul
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
New York
Paris
Tokyo

I've been to the airport in Seoul, but that doesn't count.
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New York

London if you count Heathrow (lol)

Not much, unfortunately..
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 7:42 PM
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Bangkok
Beijing
Cairo
Guangzhou
Istanbul
London
Moscow
New York
Paris
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tianjin
Xiamen
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Cairo
Istanbul
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Nagoya
New York
Paris
Tokyo
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Old Posted Jul 22, 2022, 9:29 PM
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Only 6

London
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Tokyo

I didn't count Moscow as I have only been at Sheremetyevo airport.
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Johannesburg
London
Los Angeles
New York
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
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Pretty short list for me:
New York
Los Angeles
London
Ha ha, same list as me.
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