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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Biggest Cities and Wealth
Message-ID: <1777@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: 3 May 88 19:53:43 GMT
References: <1866@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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Keywords: Cities versus metropolitan areas

In article <1866@ihlpm.ATT.COM>, dcn@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Dave Newkirk) writes:
> In Isaac Asimov's science fact article in the June '88 issue of Fantasy
> and Science Fiction, this table of the 16 largest cities in the world
> was offered along with some observations.
> 
>  3. Shanghai, China		12,000,000
> 14. New York, U.S.A		 7,200,000
> 
> 				Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihlpm!dcn

Yes, there is the distinction between city and metropolitan area.  I only
picked these two examples because this is coming from several years ago
when Shanghai was still the number one populated city, with about 10.5 
million people.  The square mileage of the city of Shanghai is actually
quite huge compared to the actual urban area.  On the other hand, the
urban areas of New York City do not end at the city limits.  At the time,
about 1982, this meant that the actual population of the two metropolitan
areas was about
	New York 16,000,000
	Shanghai  6,000,000

	There is an interesting sidelight to this, and the scenario goes
like this.  If built up to the population density of New York City, the
entire world's population would fit into the state of New Jersey, all
five billion of them. 

~.

-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 3.5 years down, 3.5 to go)
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