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Originally Posted by Crawford
NYC city proper is actually about 300 sq. miles. So Greater London is slightly more than twice the physical size.
Anyways, the two aren't apples-apples comparable. Greater London isn't a municipality, it's a region, and a huge chunk of Greater London's geography is suburban, and more like the Home Counties. If Bronxville or Montclair or Great Neck were in the UK, they'd probably be in Greater London.
And it's really metro areas that define city size. "NY" has been more populous than "London" since probably the 1920's-1930's or thereabouts.
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With NYC, if we add the small county of Hudson County in NJ, it swells to easily over 9 million. Given how intertwined they both are, the figures really start to add up once we factor the cities along the Hudson on the Jersey side.
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