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Old Posted Jul 26, 2022, 10:57 PM
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Paris was larger, Tokyo maybe. If Chicago is Cook+DuPage, than it's a bit smaller than Berlin; if it's only Cook, than Berlin is a bit larger.
I think by 1940 Tokyo had briefly become the world's largest city (though unofficial, it still only counted city proper rather than the contiguous urban area), overtaking NYC and London. But then WWII, and the bit where it became the most destroyed tract of urbanity ever.

Tokyo-Yokohama was 12.74 million by 1940 (city proper was half that at 6.36 million):

http://demographia.com/db-tok1920.htm

New York urban area was 10.8 million that same year (city proper 7.45 million)

http://demographia.com/db-nyuza1800.htm

London was high too. In 1900 alone its metro was 9 million and city proper 5 million, forty years before the war and in 1/3 the size of today. Anyhoo, in 1939 just before the mass evacuation of children, the city proper was 8.6 million which made it officially the world's largest pre-war city. In terms of contiguous city however I don't know, but I don't think larger than Tokyo.

https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/London,_1780-1900

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Old Posted Jul 26, 2022, 11:13 PM
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Old Posted Jul 26, 2022, 11:53 PM
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1950 Detroit, 3 million!! Geez. Can you imagine? Is anyone here that old? Tell us about the high scrapers cap'N walker.
The Detroit urban area is bigger now than it was then...
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I think by 1940 Tokyo had briefly become the world's largest city (though unofficial, it still only counted city proper rather than the contiguous urban area), overtaking NYC and London. But then WWII, and the bit where it became the most destroyed tract of urbanity ever.

Tokyo-Yokohama was 12.74 million by 1940 (city proper was half that at 6.36 million):

http://demographia.com/db-tok1920.htm

New York urban area was 10.8 million that same year (city proper 7.45 million)

http://demographia.com/db-nyuza1800.htm

London was high too. In 1900 alone its metro was 9 million and city proper 5 million, forty years before the war and in 1/3 the size of today. Anyhoo, in 1939 just before the mass evacuation of children, the city proper was 8.6 million which made it officially the world's largest pre-war city. In terms of contiguous city however I don't know, but I don't think larger than Tokyo.

https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/London,_1780-1900
How many people would you give to London metro area in 1939? Greater London +1 million, +2 million?
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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 3:53 AM
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Assuming you mean visited…
  • Beijing
  • Buenos Aires
  • Cairo
  • Istanbul
  • London
  • Los Angeles
  • Mexico City
  • New York
  • Osaka
  • Paris
  • Shanghai
  • Tokyo

I’m kinda surprised that Jo’burg is a mega city, and that Hong Kong is not.

I’d like to go to Bogotá and/or Lima next.
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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 7:17 AM
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How many people would you give to London metro area in 1939? Greater London +1 million, +2 million?
Ooh tough one, maybe 2 million.

The outline in red had 8.6 million in 1939 (in other words London has been shrinking for about 5 decades after, and is only just about now reaching pre-war levels for the contiguous city).


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Old Posted Jul 27, 2022, 5:25 PM
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Six (or seven). . .
  • Istanbul
  • London
  • Los Angeles
  • Mexico City
  • New York
  • Paris

and of course. . . Chicago. . .
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I have only been to Four:
NYC
LA
London
Mexico City.

Tokyo and Paris are probably tops on my travel wish-list of megacities. I absolutely loved my trip to Mexico City though. Living in the Northeast, US, Mexico City feels more foreign and different than London even though London's on a different continent.
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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
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Tehran
Tianjin
Tokyo
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Beijing
London
Moscow
New York
Paris

(+ Chicago, Hong Kong...)
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Yeah I guess I met the averaged with my 5 mega-cities. All for work with the exception NYC( where I was born).

For me:

Los Angeles
Moscow
New York City
Paris
Seoul

Small number but pretty spread out. Really need to make it to South America.

Airport stops in London and Tokyo, which of course shouldn't count.
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