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by non-entity 2387 days ago
> It might be #11 in the USA but it's still small compared Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Hanzhou, Bejing etc...

I wonder if that's because American cities tend to have much of the population in surrounding suburbs and towns that are often separate municipalities. For example the city of Atlanta is pretty small, with a population of under 500,000, but the metropolitan area has about 6 million in total spanning a number of counties

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The list doesn't change a lot when you measure by metropolitan area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities breaks down the list across several measurement methods.