> For anyone curious, Melbourne has 5,159,211 people, which puts it ahead of fan-favorites in the US like Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Bos

> For anyone curious, Melbourne has 5,159,211 people, which puts it ahead of fan-favorites in the US like Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston... and literally every city in the United States with the exception of New York! I tried to look up what the "metro" population of Melbourne is, but could only find a reference to "greater Melbourne" being around 5M. LA metro area is 12M. Is Melbourne really larger?