How many people have to live in a city or its metro, to be considered a major city?

How many people have to live in a city or its metropolitan region, in order to be considered a major or large city? How does this vary from each country?


BTW, let me know if a poll should be added.>

Metro areas, different state from main city

While I will use the US as a model here, this thread applies for jurisdictions around the world.

IS METROPOLITAN LIFE DIFFERENT IN ANY PRECEIVABLE WAY WHEN YOU LIVE IN ANOTHER STATE THAN THE METRO'S CORE CITY?

Do people feel like the "step child" of the metro under these circumstances? Are they less empowered? Do they feel less part of the whole? Do people in the metro area make a major decision of moving there because it is out-of-state? How about transit: it is affected? Media...are the same newspapers read? Loyalty/identification to state (is it weaker in these regions than in others)?

I'm talking about places like the following:

NH: Boston
CT: NYC
NJ: NYC
NJ: Phila
Ont: Buf (special case)
MD: DC (special case)
VA: DC (special case)
IN: Cinci
IN: Chgo
IN: L'ville
Ont: Detroit (special case)
WI: Chgo
WI: Mpls
IL: StL
AR: Memphis
KS: KCMO
WA: Portland
Mex: SD (special case)>

World Populations (top 20)

*Source: cia.gov (world fact book)

July 2005 est.

(World: 6,372,797,742)

(EU 456,285,839)

1. China - 1,306,313,812
2. India - 1,080,264,388
3. US - 295,734,134
4. Indonesia - 241,973,879
5. Brazil - 186,112,794
6. Pakistan - 162,419,946
7. Bangladesh - 144,319,628
8. Russia - 143,420,309
9. Nigeria - 128,771,988
10. Japan - 127,417,244
11. Mexico - 106,202,903
12. Philippines - 97,857,473
13. Vietnam - 83,535,576
14. Germany - 82,431,390
15. Egypt - 77,505,756
16. Ethiopia - 73,053,286
17. Turkey - 69,660,559
18. Iran - 68,017,860>

Does Dubai have a good, steady, high-tech non-oil economy?

I don't know much about Dubai. I know, like everyone, the middle east is a haven for large oil economies. I don't know much more about their economies. Is Dubai experiencing it's "15 minutes," so to say?>

Future L.A. Trends or Senarios

I live in Los Angeles, which is experiencing a tranformation from suburban to Urban. I would like to hear about what kind of trends will transform L.A. over the next Century.>

Cities Ranked by Area Size

Hello,


Does anyone have any concrete data ranking cities according to their area? I know that for some cities like NY (789 sq.km), Chicago (594 sq. km), Toronto (630sq. km), London (1,580 sq. km), and Paris (105 sq. km), the data is readily available, but I have yet to come across stats for, say, Barcelone or Shanghai.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance!>

The merits of a central station

Köln, or Cologne has a perfectly located main station.

Descending from your carriage you find an overwhelming amount of culture at only 2 to 5 minutes: the Dom, Ludwigmuseum etc

Which other cities offer such highly economic travelling? From Montparnasse, Waterloo, Liverpool St and so on, I can tell from hundreds of travels, reaching a prime destination still makes you walk further or take the tube.

In Köln you could have already said your prayer , or you already would have seen a Don Van Vliet painting before any tube would arrive.>