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Pretty much all European cities are small bar Paris and London so no need to qualify them. Same in the US. NYC and Chicago are the only big cities by Asian stan

Pretty much all European cities are small bar Paris and London so no need to qualify them. Same in the US. NYC and Chicago are the only big cities by Asian standards (LA isn’t really a city IMO but population wise would also qualify).

adventured 6y ago
Moscow is larger than Paris or London. Madrid is 5-6 million. Saint Petersburg, Barcelona and Berlin are over five million. None of those are small by Asian standards. (to claim Paris is a large city by Asian standards, you must be going by the metropolitan area population) The Los Angeles metro area is also one of the largest in the world. It is very obviously a city by the same standards that define sprawling Asian cities, and it's larger than Chicago.
- rorykoehler 6y ago
  Russia is Russia. I don’t count it as European though people do. I live in Berlin and it is small (also it’s only 3.6m people metro area). LA is all metro area with no city which is why I don’t think of it as a city. It doesn’t have the density. Measuring Paris’ population by city proper makes no sense at all. Having spent considerable time in all 3 continents and many of the cities mentioned I think there is a significant difference once cities hit 8m+ population. They become much more imposing and seem to suffer from a different class of infrastructure problems than small cities.
  - maks25 6y ago
    Doesn’t really matter whether you do or not, it’s in Europe.
    - rorykoehler 6y ago
      Ok 3 cities. Russia is in Europe like Turkey is. So make that 4 cities.
      - maks25 5y ago
        The vast majority of its population, 75%+, lives in Europe. Just because their current leader is worsening its ties with the West does not make Russia any less part of Europe.
        rorykoehler 5y ago
        My point was more when people say they're "going to Europe" they never mean they're going to Russia. If they're going to Russia they say they're going to Russia and not Europe. Russia is culturally and geographically unique.

adventured 6y ago

Moscow is larger than Paris or London. Madrid is 5-6 million. Saint Petersburg, Barcelona and Berlin are over five million. None of those are small by Asian standards. (to claim Paris is a large city by Asian standards, you must be going by the metropolitan area population) The Los Angeles metro area is also one of the largest in the world. It is very obviously a city by the same standards that define sprawling Asian cities, and it's larger than Chicago.

rorykoehler 6y ago
Russia is Russia. I don’t count it as European though people do. I live in Berlin and it is small (also it’s only 3.6m people metro area). LA is all metro area with no city which is why I don’t think of it as a city. It doesn’t have the density. Measuring Paris’ population by city proper makes no sense at all. Having spent considerable time in all 3 continents and many of the cities mentioned I think there is a significant difference once cities hit 8m+ population. They become much more imposing and seem to suffer from a different class of infrastructure problems than small cities.
- maks25 6y ago
  Doesn’t really matter whether you do or not, it’s in Europe.
  - rorykoehler 6y ago
    Ok 3 cities. Russia is in Europe like Turkey is. So make that 4 cities.
    - maks25 5y ago
      The vast majority of its population, 75%+, lives in Europe. Just because their current leader is worsening its ties with the West does not make Russia any less part of Europe.
      - rorykoehler 5y ago
        My point was more when people say they're "going to Europe" they never mean they're going to Russia. If they're going to Russia they say they're going to Russia and not Europe. Russia is culturally and geographically unique.