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From my perspective living in Asia I’d place it on par with a small rural village

rahimnathwani 2y ago
After I moved to Beijing, my first job was at a company opening a network of village banks. The villages had a population of around 1 million. SF has 850k people.
- lucianbr 2y ago
  There's a theoretical limit of 1400 villages in the entire country at that size, and that's assuming zero population in cities. I don't see how it can be true. If a village has 1 mil, then China is probably entirely made up of something like 40 cities and 500 villages, plus some smaller stuff.
  - brabel 2y ago
    Well, there are more than 100 cities in China with over 1 million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop... From the perspective, I would think a city of 800k is definitely midsized if you compare with China. I'm from Brazil, and we would definitely say 1 million people is a midsized city there (I don't live there anymore). For example, have you ever heard of Campinas? Well, it has a population of over 1.2 million people, and everyone I know around the area call it a midsized city. But no, no one in their right mind would say a 1 million people city is a village :D.
janalsncm 2y ago
This is a very funny comment. Small rural villages in China do not have 61 story buildings. Non-major cities do, but not “small rural villages”.
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  China has over 100 cities with > 1 million population. (113 to be precise). The 100th-ranked US city (Huntsville, AL) has a population of 225k. (The 113th, Fayetville, NC, has just under 210k.) San Francisco, with 808k population, would rank 126th in China. Not "small rural", but definitely a 2nd or 3rd tier city at best. (The comparable Chinese city, Anqing, is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhi Province, and has, to boot, 631 years on SF.) Consider that Wuhan, a city in China you'd likely never have heard of prior to early 2020, has a population of 11 million, more than any US city, and ranks 9th overall in population within China. China: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...> US: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...> Anquing: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anqing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anqing>

After I moved to Beijing, my first job was at a company opening a network of village banks. The villages had a population of around 1 million. SF has 850k people.

lucianbr 2y ago
There's a theoretical limit of 1400 villages in the entire country at that size, and that's assuming zero population in cities. I don't see how it can be true. If a village has 1 mil, then China is probably entirely made up of something like 40 cities and 500 villages, plus some smaller stuff.
- brabel 2y ago
  Well, there are more than 100 cities in China with over 1 million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop... From the perspective, I would think a city of 800k is definitely midsized if you compare with China. I'm from Brazil, and we would definitely say 1 million people is a midsized city there (I don't live there anymore). For example, have you ever heard of Campinas? Well, it has a population of over 1.2 million people, and everyone I know around the area call it a midsized city. But no, no one in their right mind would say a 1 million people city is a village :D.

janalsncm 2y ago

This is a very funny comment. Small rural villages in China do not have 61 story buildings. Non-major cities do, but not “small rural villages”.

dredmorbius 2y ago
China has over 100 cities with > 1 million population. (113 to be precise). The 100th-ranked US city (Huntsville, AL) has a population of 225k. (The 113th, Fayetville, NC, has just under 210k.) San Francisco, with 808k population, would rank 126th in China. Not "small rural", but definitely a 2nd or 3rd tier city at best. (The comparable Chinese city, Anqing, is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhi Province, and has, to boot, 631 years on SF.) Consider that Wuhan, a city in China you'd likely never have heard of prior to early 2020, has a population of 11 million, more than any US city, and ranks 9th overall in population within China. China: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...> US: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...> Anquing: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anqing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anqing>