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If you count the city limits proper that would be true. If you count the agglomeration or greater city area which is what you are doing by saying all of Singapo

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > If you count the city limits proper that would be true. If you count the agglomeration or greater city area which is what you are doing by saying all of Singapore then no, not by a long shot: Yes, if you said “Singapore is of similar size to a large metropolitan area in the U.S.”, rather than “...a city...”, then, yes, the comparison would be to a category where Singapore's population would be reasonably typical, rather than just shy of the biggest. But when you say “city”, it doesn't communicate something bigger than a city just because the thing you are comparing to a city is, itself, not just a city.