WORLD'S LARGEST CITY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 242, 26 September 1922, Page 3

WORLD'S LARGEST CITY.

LONDON OR NEW YORK: WHICH? The latest statistics show that the largest city in the world, judged by population’, is not London but New York. According to recently published figures the population of New York, including Brooklyn, is 7,820,676 j wnereas Greater London has only 7,476,168 inhabitants. It must be remembered, however (says the “Children’s Newspaper”), that adjoining Greater London are oilier large areas practically continuous with it whose people are not included in the published figures of the population of London. 'let their streets are continuous with those oi the great city, and if tho population of these areas that are really part of London, though not officially joined to it. were included, London would easily beat New York, and maintain the proud position as the biggest city in the world. Four other cities have over two million inhabitants: — Berlin, 4,000,000; Paris, 2,863,741; Chicago, 2,701,705; Tokio, 2,173,401. Fifteen other cities have, over a million people each: — Budapest, Buenos Aires, Calcutta, Constantinople, Glasgow. Hamburg. Hankow. Mexico. Moscow. Osaka, Pekin, Philadelphia. Rio de Janeiro. Shanghai, Vienna. With regard to British cities, though the record for the metropolis places London far ahead of all competitors, if we include the country’ within a radius of 75 miles from the citv’s centre, then , Manchester beats London by a considerable amount, and if within 1(10 < miles. Hull runs it very close. These , are the figu ,- es for London. Mauches- ■ ter. and Hull within various radiuses: Miles London. Manchester. Hull. 25 9,026,850 3.967.350 594,300 50 . 10.124.400 9.163.350 1.760,850 75 11689 0.50 12,751.350 4.654.650 100 . . 13.225.350 16.070.250 12,712,350 Tn the north, of course, large manufacturing centres with dense populations are very close to one another. i