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If we're going to compare apples to apples, the Yangtze River Delta (including Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and other cities, all of which are very close to eac
by impendia 12y ago
If we're going to compare apples to apples, the Yangtze River Delta (including Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and other cities, all of which are very close to each other), is substantially bigger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River_Delta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River_Delta
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- zhemao 12y agoYeah, the article really needs to specify what its definition of "megacity" is. The YRD is a patchwork of many different cities, towns, and villages, some parts of which are substantially less urban that others. If you take the train from Shanghai to Hangzhou, you'll pass by some farmland on the way. I'm sure the Pearl River Delta is no different.
- vorg 12y agoThe distances between any 2 of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou on a map looks far greater than Beijing to Tianjin, or Guangzhou to Shenzhen, so perhaps Beijing-Tianjin and Pearl River Delta would qualify as urban conurbations in way that the Yangtze River Delta doesn't.
- zhte415 12y agoA fair amount of people commute daily from Tianjin to Beijing, so I think it is a fair comparison. The commute (train) takes about 1 hour (per direction, so 2 hours per day), and is good for people with offices/homes near the terminating station, but not so good for people that need an additional 1-2 subway rides to their office. One hour commute times are pretty typical for largish modern Chinese cities.
- sdm 12y agoShanghai and Nanjing are rather far away from each other. It's more common to talk about how Shanghai, Suzhou, and Wuxi are growing together to form a massive conurbation. The YRD is more of a broad economic zone and not really comparable to Tokyo or really the Pearl River Delta.