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>To this day, the city remains California’s third largest by land area. This is largely beside the point of this, but the lack of clarity in words such as "lar
by Amorymeltzer 3y ago
>To this day, the city remains California’s third largest by land area.
This is largely beside the point of this, but the lack of clarity in words such as "largest" and "biggest" in this space bugs me. LA is so much bigger than NYC (size), NYC is so much larger than LA (population). You'll get various guides saying just one is for size, but I've seen both given.
It's a minor issue, but it's annoying in language.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoChongqing is the largest city in the world at 39 million people, but its mostly rural.
- adasdasdas 3y agoChinese cities are not really "cities". They are closer to counties and in some instances like Chongqing, a literal province. The bigger cities are a administratively half a level above counties.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoYa, CQ is about the size of Maine, hardly just a city. Core urban CQ is only around 9.5 million people, which isn't that large by Chinese standards. Shanghai is much less rural at around 22-24 million people.
- terminous 3y ago>It's a minor issue, but it's annoying in language. Call it what it is: clickbait, an intentionally deceptive headline meant to get you to click.
- laurencerowe 3y agoAs regions they are pretty similar population wise. At 100km radius (centring for maximimum population) LA is 18M people and NYC is 22M. It's clear why they are the cultural centres of the US. Chicago, Washington DC, and the Bay Area are next highest at ~10M each. https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/ https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/
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- jimjimjim 3y agowait, what? Largest and biggest are synonyms. Why are you deciding that larger means "having more population"
- Riseed 3y agoI’d wager that most people would assume “largest city” meant “largest city [by population]” because that’s clearly what search results assume. “Largest city in USA” first lists the Wikipedia entry for “List of United States Cities by Population” [0], with the next bunch of results assuming the same thing. For me, the 9th result is the first to mention land area.[1] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities... [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/largest-cities-in-us-by-area https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/largest-c...
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoJacksonville, Florida being the largest city has long been a trivia question that relies on this ambiguity. Based on the Wikipedia article, it looks like Anchorage is larger but maybe because it's a county equivalent, it's not considered a city in this context.
- walthamstow 3y agoA city is simply a collection of people, so it's natural to say that the biggest city is the one with the most people.