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Originally Posted by chrisallard5454
You are including CMA, I was going by city proper, I don't include CMA's when talking city populations with Winnipeg. It has way too small of a CMA to be appropriately used for comparing other cities CMA's.
London City (2011 Census): 366 151
Winnipeg (2012 City Estimates): 700 000
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recens...egins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1
http://winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/population.pdf.
Considering London's CMA includes over 115 000 people and Winnipeg's only includes 70 000 it is safe to say that the city is half the size. Considering I have lived in both cities for a considerable amount of time, I can vouch for that. |
As long as you're comparing apples to apples I'm fine with it. Metro populations can be misleading, especially the way Canada classifies them.
I find that urban population (now called Population Centre) is the best way to measure the size of a city. By this figure, London has 366,191,
just 40 more people than it's city population of 366,151!
In Winnipeg's case, it grows to 671,551, up from it's city population of 663,617,
a difference of 7,934!
I'm getting those numbers from this table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_100_largest_urban_areas_in_Canada_by_population
Those numbers reflect the true size of cities. They stretch beyond political boundaries, but not into their metro area.
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