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Originally Posted by Yuri
With their own set of (arbitrary) rules, regarding commute, absolute numbers, relative numbers, definition of the core city, which in Brazil is the municipality, whose sizes range from 3.6 km² (Águas de São Pedro, SP) to 159,533 km² (Altamira, PA; bigger than England & Wales).
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The largest Brazilian metro areas don't have municipalities of Amazonian size, and you know it. In any case, criticizing the FUA is like criticizing the referee just because your team didn't win the game. It's a bit childish. There is an international definition, and demographers and urban researchers had been waiting for it in a long long time.
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Originally Posted by Yuri
If you take a larger area, let's say 500 km²: how Lille vs Lyon compared over time?
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500 km² would take us into Belgian territory...
At 171 km² and designing an elongated territory stretching from Lille to Roubaix and Tourcoing then like I've said there are more inhabitants in those 171 km² than in the 171 km² of Lyon from the 1890s until 1914. But it's not really comparable to Lyon. It's a conurbation in an industrial region. It wasn't a unified urban area as it is now.
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