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Chinese cities often include the entire metropolitan area, and then some. For example, Chongqing has 30 million people, in 31,800 square miles. Omaha-Council
by greeneggs 10y ago
Chinese cities often include the entire metropolitan area, and then some. For example, Chongqing has 30 million people, in 31,800 square miles. Omaha-Council Bluffs has 915,000 people, in 4400 square miles.
- josu 10y agoThat's just journalist doing a bad job. There is Chongqing the municipality (equivalent to a US state) and there is Chongqing the city. According to the source used on the wikipedia page the city's population is 18M.
- vorg 10y agoThe contiguous urban area of Chongqing is about 12 million. You get 18 million if you count all the urban areas contained within Chongqing municipality, which is the equivalent of counting Beijing-Tianjin as being a single city, or even Guangzhou-Dongguan-Shenzhen.