Look at the area. 8261 km2 of land while NYC is 300. We call both "city" but we might as well use 2 totally unrelated words given the differences. As the othe

Look at the area. 8261 km2 of land while NYC is 300. We call both "city" but we might as well use 2 totally unrelated words given the differences. As the other commenter said, NYC metropolitan area would be more comparable - 8936 km2, 19.5M people.