WORLD’S LARGEST CITY.
Now York is tku> largest citjv in the world (says an American journal). London by reason of the losses occasioned by the war and because ■of a gigantic mistake in estimating the population, must now admit that Hhe American metropolis is the bigger by about a quarter of a million perKoius). Nor are matters improved l ns Londoners have imagined, by comparing the population of Greater London with that of (treater New York, for tlicr,. again the Amerienn metropolis beats the ohler city by 132,00(>. li is lour years now since the lasi census of Loudon whs taken, but the official figures have onljr just been made public. The exact number of people in (lie (Vni'iity of London,,- according to the 1011 figures, is 1.021 .385. whereas New York I Citv in 1010 nil inhered 1,78(5,88.1. .
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5360, 18 February 1916, Page 2
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139WORLD’S LARGEST CITY. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5360, 18 February 1916, Page 2
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