WORLD'S LARGEST CITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1922, Page 8

WORLD'S LARGEST CITY.

N'KW VOliK NOW LKADs. The latest statistics sliow that the largest city in the w.,r!d, judged by population, is not London, but New York. According to recently published flgiiree the po-.ntliition of New York, including Brooklyn, is 7,820,070; whereas Greater London has only 7.470 IbS inhabitants. Jt will he remcmlwred, However, that adjoining Greater London are ot.ier large areas practically continuous with it, whose people are not included in the published-fuTures of the population of London. Yet their streets are continuous with those of the great city, -and if the population of tlie.se areas that are really part of London, though not ofhVially" joined :o it, were included. London would easily beat New York, and maintain its prouil position as the biggest city in 1 !iv world Kour other cities have over -J . 000.000 inhabitant-: Berlin. 4.000.000; Chic.i"o 2,701.70r>; Paris, Tokio, 2,173,----401. Fifteen otlier cities have over 1.000,000 people each, lliulapest. Hamburg, IVkin, Buenos Ayre«, Hankow Philadelphia, Calcutta.' .Mexico Ri,i .laneiro, Constantinople. Moscow, Shanghai. Glasgow. Osaka. Vienna.