the "City of Edinburgh" may be 500k people, but the metropolitan area is bigger - once you include the outlying towns which people commute from there's more lik

the "City of Edinburgh" may be 500k people, but the metropolitan area is bigger - once you include the outlying towns which people commute from there's more like 800-900k people. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/agglo/S20000463A__edinburgh/ https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/agglo/S20000463A__edinbu... The festivals also completely skew things. Edinburgh in February is a vastly different city than Edinburgh in August.