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The article doesn't actually mention the population of the Pearl River Delta, which I find a bit odd... anyway, from Wikipedia: Population • Metro 63,724,157

• blacksmith_tb 12y ago
  That did seem like a strange omission, agreed. Neither is quite what we would traditionally have called a 'city', though - Tokyo is an entire prefecture (aka state, or province, depending on how your country divides its regions), the PRD is a Gibsonesque Sprawl of huge cities and smaller ones. So while I agree with the general premise that these are the largest urbanized areas in human history, we will need to revise our terminology to call them cities (or they'll need to implement a single local government, tax structure, address and street naming, etc. to fit the exiting definition).
  • kokey 12y ago
    It sounds like you refer to the definition as it is in the USA, which is not exactly the same as it is in the rest of the English speaking world.
  • saryant 12y ago
    Perhaps the world needs a new term for these sorts of conglomerations.
• vorg 12y ago
  Wikipedia's Guangdong page reports the total provincial population as 106 million so perhaps 63 million is the correct number. When the newspapers in China about 3 years ago first reported plans to merge the city administrations and infrastructure of Guangzhou, Dongguan,Shenzhen, and some nearby smaller cities, they estimated the population as 43 million. The extra 20 million must be from the non-urban areas in the region pictured on Wikipedia's Pearl River Delta page.