World's Largest Cities Over Time

[Guest ExChinaExpat]

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[Guest ExChinaExpat]

What's especially noticeable in the graphic is how openly skewed the population reporting is. For present day it shows Tokyo, New York and Mexico city populations, but fails to list the Chinese cities that are larger. I don't know where they get there stats, but they appear to have an odor of sphincter.

 

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The article from the following link does a pretty good job in explaining the differences in how a population can be statistically parsed:

 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/largest-city-in-the-world.html

Edited December 15, 2013 by GuangDongExpat (see edit history)

[Randy W]

What's especially noticeable in the graphic is how openly skewed the population reporting is. For present day it shows Tokyo, New York and Mexico city populations, but fails to list the Chinese cities that are larger. I don't know where they get there stats, but they appear to have an odor of sphincter.

 

 

 

The article from the following link does a pretty good job in explaining the differences in how a population can be statistically parsed:

 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/largest-city-in-the-world.html

 

 

I believe the graphic you posted shows the ONE biggest city in both the "East" and "West" over history - that city today is Tokyo in the East, and Mexico City in the West. What they refer to as the "West" seems to extend all the way to what we typically call "the Middle East". It seems to correspond fairly closely (at the present time) to what your article refers to as the "Largest Metropolitan Area by Population".

 

In 1400, for example, the largest city in the "East" was Nanjing, while the largest city in the "West" was Cairo. No # 2 or smaller cities were included for any year.

[Guest ExChinaExpat]

 

What's especially noticeable in the graphic is how openly skewed the population reporting is. For present day it shows Tokyo, New York and Mexico city populations, but fails to list the Chinese cities that are larger. I don't know where they get there stats, but they appear to have an odor of sphincter.

 

 

 

The article from the following link does a pretty good job in explaining the differences in how a population can be statistically parsed:

 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/largest-city-in-the-world.html

 

 

I believe the graphic you posted shows the ONE biggest city in both the "East" and "West" over history - that city today is Tokyo in the East, and Mexico City in the West. What they refer to as the "West" seems to extend all the way to what we typically call "the Middle East". It seems to correspond fairly closely (at the present time) to what your article refers to as the "Largest Metropolitan Area by Population".

 

In 1400, for example, the largest city in the "East" was Nanjing, while the largest city in the "West" was Cairo. No # 2 or smaller cities were included for any year.

 

 

Right, their report shows their view of the 'biggest' cities in East and West during their snapshot of history. My point was they fail to mention the current populations of:

 

Guangzhou: 44.2 million

Shanghai: 27.9 millon

Edited December 15, 2013 by GuangDongExpat (see edit history)