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[Closed] Mind-boggling amount of huge cities in China

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Yes, there's quite a few people live there but I bet not many of you have heard of most of these - just look at the size of them too 😯

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_population


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:06 pm
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I wonder how many Chinese people have heard of Wakefield.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:14 pm
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Yes, but how many bicycles in Beijing?


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:15 pm
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London would be 7th on that list, not bad seeing as China is 20x the size of the UK.

Some of them above it are conurbations e.g. Guangzhou - Incl. Shenzhen, Dongguan, Macao and part of Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Huizhou.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:19 pm
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I've just had to google Wakefield, and I'm not Chinese.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:21 pm
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I wonder how many Chinese people have heard of Wakefield.

Wakefield - population 76,886

smallest city on this list

Lijiang - 155,540

so hardly comparable.

Even Manchester @ 2.55 million would be small pretty on that list.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:24 pm
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Hang on, you've got to factor in the national population.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:27 pm
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Always factor in the national population - that's what won us the wars you know.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:30 pm
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In the days of Empire maybe.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:37 pm
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Quite a confusing list -Lijiang as a pop. of 155,000 but its administrative pop. is over a million. As slowoldman pointed out our city pops. do compare quite relatively to china's city pops considering there national pops.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:55 pm
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Hang on, you've got to factor in the national population.

to achieve what? recognition of Wakefield as a global metropolis?


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 10:55 pm
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recognise where?


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 11:00 pm
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You clearly are unaware of top international night spot "Heppy's".


 
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Just popped round the local chinese takeaway. And I asked, "Have you heard of Wakefield?" He said yes. I asked if he new the poulation of cities in china he said no. I asked if he new the population of manchester, he said no. I asked if he had heard of 'heppy's' he said, oh yes. jobs a good'n.


 
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Posted : 23/11/2014 11:34 pm
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?? hell


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 11:40 pm
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A new skyscraper is built every five days in china.


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 11:45 pm
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[url= http://m.imgur.com/a/Fi4HB ]The beaches are splendid too.[/url]


 
Posted : 23/11/2014 11:49 pm
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In China there are 135 million people are called Wang.

To put in perspective though almost no one in China is called Smith. And there are probably very few Wangs in Wakefield 😡


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 12:40 am
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Even Manchester @ 2.55 million would be small pretty on that list.

[Pedant] Manchester as a city only has a population of 514,000. The Greater Manchester conurbation which includes all the surrounding urban areas such as Salford, Stockport, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Tameside, Bury, Trafford etc. has a population of 2.5 million [/pedant]


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 1:04 am
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which province of China is most like Yorkshire?


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 1:34 am
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which province of China is most like Yorkshire?

T'bet


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 7:29 am
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But China's actual population density is almost half the UK's.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density

Having watched the series about maps recently; Mercators Projection doesn't help us visually as China is bigger than you realise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 8:07 am
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Having watched the series about maps recently; Mercators Projection doesn't help us visually as China is bigger than you realise:

Pfft!

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Posted : 24/11/2014 8:23 am
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Pfft!

In fairness, you're comparing a continent with countries.


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 8:26 am
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T'bet

😆


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 8:57 am
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London would be 7th on that list, not bad seeing as China is 20x the size of the UK.

That's very good. Now can we just build a wall round all of it and sever all communications with what is inside it.


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 9:00 am
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Very good!


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 9:01 am
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Pfft!

It's interesting to know that Portugal is not in Africa.


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 9:19 am
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I've been to 4 of the top ten biggest Chinese cities. The size of the population is difficult to take in and they are so polluted it's unbelievable.


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 9:26 am
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which province of China is most like Yorkshire?

T'bet

very good!


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 5:41 pm
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My wife's from Jingzhou - been there, not so great but the city walls are good. The West Lake at Hangzhou is my favourite place in China though the city itself is unappealing.


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 6:34 pm
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The beaches are splendid too.

I wonder if there are any filthy stinking hovels nearby.


 
Posted : 24/11/2014 7:49 pm
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which province of China is most like Yorkshire?
T'bet

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Posted : 24/11/2014 9:05 pm

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