06/11/2014
LEARN ABOUT THE BIGGEST CITIES ON EARTH
Which is the largest city on the planet, this issue is still unresolved but sometimes the subject of small talk. On your next casual conversation you may impress your audience when you state that by far the largest city is Chongqing, because most certainly nobody ever had heard of that city.
Chongqing in southwest China is one of the emerging Megacities with a population of more than 32 million people, sprawled over an area of 82,400 km² (this is twice the size of Switzerland with 41,285 km²). Chongqing carved out of Sichuan province in 1997, is de facto a Chinese province with the status of a provincial-level municipality like Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin.
And this should be the largest? Actually Chongqing's core population is about 7.5 million
Shanghai (Chinese: 上海) - also named "Hu" or "Shen" in short. It is People's Republic of China's largest city and one of the largest cities in the world. It covers an area of 6,340 square kilometers. It is one of the world's largest seaports and a major industrial center of China. Shanghai city proper population was 7 million people in 2010.
Karachi - largest city, business capital and the "Melting Pot of Pakistan. The city is Pakistan's principal seaport and capital of Sindh province, located in southern Pakistan at the coast of the Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean). According to Karachi Metropolitan Corporation: Karachi's 'metropolitan area along with its suburbs comprises the world's second most populated city'. Due to its migrant population the city grew almost 60 times since 1947, and there is nowadays still the unchecked and uncontrolled massive migration of workforce to Karachi that increases the city's population
Tokyo (東京) - the "Eastern Capital", formerly Edo (until 1868), the capital and largest city of Japan and in Asia. The Tokyo Major Metropolitan Area includes the cities of Chiba, Kawasaki, Sagamihara, Saitama, and Yokohama, making it the world's most populous metropolitan area. Tokyo City Limits (Special wards of Tokyo) has a population of 9 million people.
Beijing - (Chinese: 北京 Běijīng, also formerly known in English and other language as Peking). Pei-Ching the "Northern Capital", capital city and political and cultural center of the People's Republic of China, is the second most populous city in China.
São Paulo the largest city in Brazil and the capital of the captaincy (state) São Paulo, founded as São Paulo de Piratininga (Saint Paul of the Fields of Piratininga) in 1554. Most populous city in South America.
Mexico (Ciudad de México) was in ancient times the pre-Columbian city of Tenochtitlan, it became the capital of the Aztec Empire until 1521. Today Mexico city is the economic, industrial, and cultural center and the capital city of the United States of Mexico. Most populous city in North America.
New York City -The city of the five 'boroughs': Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island (formerly Richmond), at least since 1790 number one on the list of the largest city in the United States. New York is also in the lead in the ranking on almost any of a variety of Global Cities Indexes.
Mumbai (मुंबई)-Marathi Mumbai (the former Bombay), capital of Maharashtra state in India, port to the Arabian Sea and one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
Delhi (Hindi: दिल्ली) - city and union territory, also known as the National Capital Territory of India. New Delhi to the south of Old Delhi is the capital of India.
Moscow, (Moskva) - most populous city, the political center and the capital of the Russian Federation, first written mention of Moscow dates back to 1147.
Chongqing (in Chinese: 重慶; 重庆; Abbr. 渝 yú), formerly known as Chungking. The metropolitan region of Chongqing is one of four provincial-level municipalities of China, the highest level classification for cities with a status equal to that of provinces. The city/province is the economic center of the upper Yangtze River with a population of almost 30 million people. Chongqing is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
