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Originally Posted by muppet
Guangzhou-Shenzhen is one single contiguous urban area now (42 million in 2010) not a metro count (60+million). They are a physically conjoined city, where one can walk on paved streets surrounded by buildings from one end to the other. No countryside, no jumps.
The 2015 World Bank Report is here which announced it had become the world's most populous urban area.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/...-biggest-city/ |
Demographia doesn’t count it as an urban area as they consider both to separate metro areas. They explain their criteria, getting specific about some metro areas in the first 30 pages of their PDF.
City Population, on the other hand, does. However, their list has much more problematic cases.
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About Guangzhou-Shenzhen, where does this 60 million figure comes from? The sum of the four main municipalities, which are huge in area, are merely above 40 million.
And about being connected by streets, well, in theory you can go from all the way from São Paulo to Campinas that way, but they are still clearly to separated metro areas.
Maybe in some years in the future, with a bigger population and an upgraded mass transit system, Guangzhou-Shenzhen (or Shanghai-Suzhou) might work as an one city.