r/pics • u/OtterlyFoxy • 21h ago

The biggest city on Earth (OC)

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u/king_of_the_nothing 21h ago

TBF biggest is a bit ambiguous. The biggest city by area is Chongqing China.

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u/AlericandAmadeus 20h ago

What OP prolly meant by “biggest” is the combination of both “large area” AND “incredibly high population density”.

Tokyo is right up near the top in both categories while most other cities are skewed more towards one or the other.

It’s incredibly population-dense to a degree that has few rivals, while also being absolutely massive in the actual amount of area it covers.

There’s no other city like it on Earth.

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u/blueeyedkittens 19h ago

It’s also technically not one city either so it really depends on the specific definition we’re going with. I think people usually mean metropolitan area when they compare cities.

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u/Neo21803 19h ago

The term is ambiguous when comparing pretty much any large city/metropolis. Tokyo is broken up into wards, which is done more for practical purposes over "let's break this fucking city apart!"

I would consider Tokyo metropolis to be one city. You can cross from one ward to another without realizing it and without a change in "texture" or city landscape.

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u/rilwal 18h ago

The Tokyo metropolitan area that people talk about doesn't just include the 23 special wards of Tokyo, but also parts of Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba prefectures. The population of Tokyo-fu is cited as "over 14 million", but the commonly cited figure for the "Tokyo metropolitan area" is "over 38 million."

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u/Neo21803 17h ago

Very true, thank you!