CITIES size Comparison ► 3D Animation

🗺 Welcome to this video that shows the sizes of some cities by Urban area, not just city proper (administrative) or metropolitan area. I hope you enjoy it. For more information visit the source.
⚠️ Urban area: According to Demographia, an urban area is a continuously built up land mass of urban development that is within a labor market (metropolitan area or metropolitan region) and contains no rural land.
🎶Music: Luminance by @ScottBuckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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[@MetaBallStudios]

I cannot put all the cities (or countries) in this type of videos, I leave you a list with a few more. The full list is at the source in the description. No puedo poner todas las ciudades (o países) en este tipo de videos, les dejo una lista con algunos más. La lista completa está en la fuente en la descripción. ꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜꜜ Houston, TX (4930km2) Detroit, MI (4269km2) Nagoya (3704km2) Cleveland, OH (3573km2) Miami, FL (3313km2) Seattle, WA (3264km2) Phoenix, AZ (3,236km2) Bangkok (3199km2) Charlotte, NC-SC (3091km2) Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (3019km2) Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI (2878km2) San Francisco-San Jose, CA (5313km2) San Juan (2268km2) Orlando, FL (2154km2) Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (2065km2) Cairo (2,010km2) Brisbane, QLD (1971km2) Lagos (1965km2) San Diego, CA (1916km2) Manila (1873km2) Tehran (1704km2) Riyadh (1672km2) Wuhan, HUB (1646km2) St. Petersburg (1372km2) Kolkata, WB (1351km2) Montréal, QC (1294km2) Belo Horizonte (1288km2) Accra (1222km2) Rome (1145km2) Baku (1135km2) Las Vegas, NV (1080km2) Durban (1074km2) Barcelona (1072km2) Karachi (1044km2) Rotterdam-Hague (1028km2) Brasilia (1016km2) Hanoi (963km2) Mumbai, MH (944km2) Vancouver, BC (914km2) Monterrey (897km2) Santa Cruz de la Sierra (843km2) Cape Town (839km2) Harare (833km2) Kampala (772km2) Toulon (764km2) Kyiv (762km2) Kuwait (724km2) Asuncion (708km2) Colomb (700km2) Katowice-Gliwice-Tychy (675km2) Ankara (672km2) Yangon (603km2) Bogota (584km2) Athens (584km2) Ottawa, ON-QC (580km2) Tel Aviv (577km2) Warsaw (547km2) Quito (535km2) Beirut (528km2) Auckland (524km2) Singapore (523km2) Helsinki (516km2) Tripoli (503km2) Kinshasa (473km2) Ibadan (470km2) Bucharest (412km2) Maracaibo (404km2) Montevideo (317km2) Amsterdam (316km2) Prague (308km2) Caracas (294km2) Aleppo (282 km2) La Paz (276km2) Oslo (238km2) Panama City (226km2) Jerusalem (219km2) Sofia (208km2) Mombasa (136km2)

[@Ivan_Berni]

Luego has uno de las capitales de cada continente, un render de Latam, otro de Europa Etc..

[@subjecttv96]

Hi

[@jessetorres8738]

Are you from The U.K.? I know you use kilometers since the majority of the world uses them as measurements, but I noticed the video began with a zoom in onto The U.K. Also, why do you have both English and Spanish text in the descriptions and comments? Are you Latino?

[@Ivan_Berni]

@@jessetorres8738 Español or Latino, we use KM too, i really don't understand why UE use feets xd

[@Pacheenee7]

If you include the greater Houston area similar to how you did with New York and Boston, it would actually be 26,000 sq. km

[@reigarw]

The music and animation is pure feliCITY!

[@grayforscher2747]

Oh Hello Reigarw I am a sub

[@L3G3ND4RY204]

I sometimes think that reigarw and mbs we’re brothers

[@albertfernando8032]

Oh hi

[@MMDoom-zb1or]

Simp

[@grayforscher2747]

@@MMDoom-zb1or HOW AM I SIMP, I HAVE NEVER COMMITED SUCH A SIN IN MY LIFE

[@dionemoolman]

Idea for a future video: Fictional landmass size comparison, where you’d compare the size of places like Middle Earth, Westeros, Gotham City, Wakanda, Panem, The Nations in Avatar and many more.

[@birchtainer257]

yes

[@verlax8956]

ningler

[@birchtainer257]

@@verlax8956 what

[@zerogproductions9144]

Yeah! That sounds like a great idea!

[@Solvang_circus]

Neverland for sure

[@coldguto]

São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro "cities" shown here are actually their whole metropolitan area, comprised of more than 10 proper cities each, and I'm pretty sure the same thing happens with these bigger cities. Quite unfair, since the smaller cities shown are actual cities and not metropolitan areas as a whole

[@gemstonesparkle7915]

To me, all cities should've been represented as metropolitan, since in daily life we cruise in between freely, as it's one seeing from above. A person who lives in a metropolitan area of a capital can go work, shop, everything, easily by automobiles, subways and etc.

[@Tyler-vz6ry]

I spoke to the Mayor of each of the cities represented, and they don't care because it's just a KZbin video.

[@acjazz01]

Actually, it's not the metropolitan area, at least for São Paulo, which has 7 946 km2.

[@davidbio1]

They made the same about the other cities. You can see that about New York.

[@davidbio1]

@@gemstonesparkle7915 You can do the same in two cities with a short space divide them, but they are still two cities. Metropolitan cities is not fair because they include many cities, and other cities are big but don't have many other cities around them.

[@royzhao6537]

This just shows how much USA cities sprawl. Dallas was larger than beijing but beijing had three times the population

[@alexdog04]

It was also the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, and the Beijing city proper. Difference there because a city is always smaller in size than it’s metro area

[@Cyraxior]

That's 'cause we need room for them ten-gallon hats :)

[@Miguel.L]

I mean Dallas and Fort Worth are so close together that you don’t even notice where one ends and the other begins.

[@machupikachu1085]

Or how much Chinese cities are crammed?

[@kenb2671]

Since China has over a zillion people their cities may be a little crowded.

[@Gumojammbo]

American cities be like Area: 9493 km² Population: 2

[@alfredmartinez2510]

That means cities with high quality of life

[@Gumojammbo]

@@alfredmartinez2510 not actually

[@dexv1lz996]

@@alfredmartinez2510 there are no American cities with outstanding liveability

[@mattyjay1711]

@@dexv1lz996 Really? None? You have lived in all of America's cities to know this? Or are you just another dude who hates America?

[@dexv1lz996]

@@mattyjay1711 there’s a thing called the world liveability index, my anecdotal opinion means nothing

[@geografisica]

You have the City, the Metropolitan Area, the Metropolitan Region and the Megalopolis. Here everything was mixed.

[@GustavSvard]

Agreed. City proper would still be very unhelpful as a comparison, but at least it'd be the equivalent official thing. Metropolitan region is counted differently from country to country, as are even continuous built-up area! Megapolitan and continuous built-up areas would be most fun to see compared. Maybe use the Nordic definition for continuous built-up area? i.e. if there's 200 meters or less between 2 buildings it is connected! (we're not very dense places, so this makes sense here :) ) I do wonder what Shanghai and Guangzhou would be like with those rules :D

[@ryanpayne7707]

@@GustavSvard Yeah, like the NE megaopolis. The US East coast is so built up, you could go from Richmond to Boston without being more than 45 minutes from a city.

[@xenotypos]

Isn't that the urban area ? The urban area is the most sensible way to measure cities. As urban areas and cities were historically always the same thing until the 20th century.

[@thecolorblack4778]

@@xenotypos no a city has limits, a metropolitan has multiple cities and towns that make up the area. the video would have been correct if it was titled largest urban areas but saying cities a lot of this information is incorrect

[@xenotypos]

@@thecolorblack4778 It's still cities broadly speaking, even if it's not the administrative limits. Both ways are valid in terms of semantics, but maybe it could have been mentioned somewhere I admit. Btw a metropolitan area (afaik) isn't an urban area, as a metroplolitan area isn't a contiguous urbanized area (= it's possible to have empty areas), while an urban area is really just the densely populated area. That's why in the end, urban areas are a better indicator.

[@AFT_05G]

Really puts into perspective just how small video game worlds are.

[@blackwalls8126]

The minecraft world is apparently about 4.1 billion km², which is basically wider than the planet Neptune. By comparison, GTA 3's Liberty City is 9 km². The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is about 162,000 km². Skyrim sits at 39 km² and The Witcher 3 sits at 136 km². Tamriel is calculated at around 9.1 million km².

[@AFT_05G]

@@blackwalls8126 Who tf gives a shit about randomly generated almost inifinite world of Minecraft i’m talking about AAA open world games. And a Minecraft world is 3.6 billion square km not 4.1 it’s 60 million blocks by 60 million wide blocks according to game’s coordinates. There are many wrong informations in these map size comparison videos.I generally play the game’s itself to figure out it’s true size. FE i’ve seen a few videos that shows AC Odyssey(says 130km^2,actually 256-260km^2)to be smaller than TW3(says 135km^2 but actually between 50-60km^2 with B&W DLC)which is basically nonsense,i’ve played both games and distance(m) wise Odyssey’s map dwarfes any map in TW3.Hell forget about Odyssey,it’s not even as big as likes of GTA 5 which is about 110-120km^2 but obviously that’s the size of rectangular map we get with the physical copy of the game so island itself is more 70km^2 range at most.Although if we wouldn’t include big empty sea of Skellige then Witcher 3 is more 30-40km^2 range instead of 50-60km^2.It’s also smaller than Cyberpunk which is 90-100km^2 including out of boundaries and inaccesible bay but playable boundary of Night City+Badlands+SoCal itself is just between 50-60km^2,still bigger than Witcher 3 i’d say. I’m a massive geography expert in open world video games,know size of all of em and locations etc.And honestly it’s crazy how developers are able to make these small worlds feel big.

[@AFT_05G]

@@blackwalls8126 Witcher 3 is nowhere near as big as 136km^2.Play the game by yourself to figure out it’s true size.The game has a distance unit system displayed near mini-map and that is alone to bust the myth of 136km^2 bullshit. The biggest map in the game,Skellige,is roughly 30km^2,it’s roughly 5,000 units wide by 6,000 units across. Also it takes just around 45 minutes to walk across Velen which is 4,100-4,200 units from north to south.Proves that these numbers are either meters or yard.On the other hans it takes 2,5 hours to walk across GTA V which has and island over 11km across and around 13km including a bit of sea. So,don’t believe in these videos.

[@titifandu69]

Not sure about this video compared to the usual ones which are brilliant... Some are cities and others are metropolitan areas. It's like comparing apples and oranges so the overall picture is very distorted

[@gism87]

totally agree

[@willp.8120]

This is based on developed landmass. It is all the same distinction for every listed area. The contiguous, non-rural development in square kilometers that spreads out from the urban core that is hemmed in by rural area.

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

This gives "England is my city" a new meaning

[@kirtil5177]

there is a small city in usa called england

[@catalannationalist9847]

@@kirtil5177 They guy that said "england is my city" hasn't an American accent.

[@kirtil5177]

@@catalannationalist9847 does it matter what accent he has if he lives or knows about the city England?

[@ixlnxs]

Indeed. This video is STRAIGHT FROM THE BULLSHIT DEPARTMENT. "Apples and oranges" doesn't even begin to describe it. It compares a few actual cities with completely different officially designated agglomerations and even with so called "urban areas" which are not necessarily centred around a single city, and where most inhabitants will not even step foot in the cities named in this video in an average week, let alone identify with them. "Brussels" is a case in point. The city of Brussels has +/- 150,000 inhabitants but forms a special federal district (like DC, Brasilia, Canberra and the like) with 18 other municipalities. Total area 165 km², total population 1.1 million, all of whom will call themselves Brusseleir or Bruxellois. The 792 km² that MetaBallStudios artificially formed here includes bits of two different provinces, with two different languages and where people are likely to go to places like Mechelen, Antwerp, or Wavre much more frequently than to Brussels itself. And very few of them would consider themselves to be from Brussels. Last but not least, most of that area is forest and farms. It's a classic example of reading the world through Anglo-Saxon glasses. It never works.

[@hawkdsl]

@@ixlnxs Na... it works just fine. It's a classic.

[@Michaelyinglia]

Bro you can't be mixing cities with metropolitan areas.

[@xq.tobias]

@People who Use youtube bruh for example Paris he put it above Berlin but Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris

[@stvdagger8074]

Especially when he includes the Vatican which is clearly part of the Rome metropolitan area.

[@TornioTorini]

Totally agree. If you take Milan at 2:46 as example, official datas for the city states it to be 181.67 square km with a population of around 1,400,000. He is taking into account the "greater area", including all the sorroundings.

[@aymanbel5513]

@@xq.tobias hahah and Dubai and abo Dhabi bigger than casablanca morocco this video very Funny haha and population of casablanca is 4 million hahahah im moroccan casablanca population is 10 milion

[@herbertqueirozmelo9961]

São Paulo is also mixed the city with the metropolitan area.

[@sargeanthrs]

I love that you kept London where it actually is, helps get a context for everything else

[@bachelbel]

For metropolitan area of Tokyo, it's usually considering all surrounding areas, not just Yokohama in the south, which is another city. But it's true that two cities' public transport are well connected with several different train lines.

[@Zichfried]

Fun fact: Mexico City is the oldest city in the American continent.

[@user-ic8mg3cv7b]

Also the largest and populous

[@v8dude609]

If you count the Metropolitan area its waaay bigger than Los Angeles

[@gabrielcastro3414]

@@user-ic8mg3cv7b são Paulo (Brasil)?

[@user-ic8mg3cv7b]

@@gabrielcastro3414 Quase, São Paulo 22 milhões Cidade do México 23 milhões

[@valarezzoti]

No, is Lima

[@jamila2957]

your videos are simply stunning...down to the clouds!

[@JIA-JUN-GUO]

我來自台灣，我對您做的影片關於都市面積這一部分感到非常驚訝，謝謝你做這個影片，我非常喜歡❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[@taschwei]

Unfortunately, in that video some cities are listed as the city itself, and some are listed in the whole metropolitan region, making a comparison really difficult. The city of Milan, Italy, itself, has about 1.3 Mio residents, not 4.9, as listed here, whereas Berlin is listed as the city itself.

[@Soussmeboules]

Berlin has very few suburbs compared to most others european or german cities, maybe because the city itself is huge. Its size alone is 890 km² with 3.6 M people. Here they show with suburbs 1368 km² but just 300.000 people more. It is indeed not accurate since Berlin agglomeration has more like 4.7 M citizens. But Milan agglomeration area population is really 5 M. The metropolitan area is even over 7M. Grüße aus Darmstadt. :)

[@konrad.35]

@@Soussmeboules This clip is just crap... Greetings from Berlin. 🙃

[@ricardohernandezmadrid38]

The same as the US cities.

[@inglewoodea3149]

I think Los Angeles should the biggest if it involves the Greater Los Angeles Aera

[@HoveringAboveMyself]

Read the description, the video uses buildup urban area which corresponds to the contiguous urbanized area. It is neither bound to imaginary lines on a map nor does it include area that is not urban like farmland or natural areas, which can happen when using administrative borders.

[@fabienpath]

I can't believe 30% of Peruvians are living in Lima and 40% of Chileans are in Santiago

[@nicolaspinto76]

Yep, is the latino centralism, everything happend in the Capital, nothing outside

[@Rafael-jn6iv]

@@nicolaspinto76 only in those 2 countries?

[@nicolaspinto76]

@@Rafael-jn6iv Argentina: 45 millions, 1/3 in Buenos Aires; Uruguay: 3,5 millions, 1/3 in Montevideo; Mexico: 120 millions, 1/6 in Mexico DF; Colombia: 50 millions, 1/5 in Bogotá; Venezuela: less 30 millions (thank Chavez and friends), 1/6 in Caracas

[@Rafael-jn6iv]

@@nicolaspinto76 i'm from Brazil, here only 3M ppl live in the capital

[@kaxike7988]

@@Rafael-jn6iv pero a pesar de no tener la capital muy poblada tienen a sao Paulo

[@mdshamimurrashid5389]

I love how Toronto took away part of Milton

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

I'm surprised it didn’t have Ottawa attached, and maybe a bit of Winnipeg

[@almal7591]

Very enjoyable. The graphics are fantastic.

[@vitamc1213]

There's 4 million more people in Delhi than in the whole of Australia. That is just crazy to think about!

[@xpressweferetv465]

Esa madre va explotar :v

[@TheBlueCreeper-]

Yeah. It sounds like an extremely crowded city. And unsanitary too.

[@4everx76]

It’s 40 million bro

[@TheBlueCreeper-]

@@4everx76 ?

[@tapikoBlends]

how do you breathe there ? :) oxygen deficit ? :)))

[@rakeshswami11]

Asian cities has more population than some countries.

[@alexanderhk9168]

Right, that is unfair competition

[@moctezumaaleg2008]

Mexico City Population 21 Million

[@burritoboy1012]

@Ean Elijah De Guzman everything in Asia has more people than Australia lmao

[@LeoSienna]

Yeah, now we know who to blame for the world's over population

[@Randomturtle001]

Keep in mind the 3rd city to appear (Hong Kong) has about the same population as the 2nd last metro area to appear (Boston Providence)

[@rooftopyourmom3743]

such entertaining content 🙏🏽

[@AaronTheHumanist]

Genius. Great video

[@joshguest1104]

I love how you actually put London where it is in England with other cities around it. Brilliant as always

[@promiscuous5761]

But London isn't a city. The City of London is, London isn't, at least by some measures.

[@joshguest1104]

@@promiscuous5761 you what?

[@boopbleepbloop]

@ He's right, the City of London & Greater London are two separate entities that have their own mayors and political systems, police forces and even different branded street lamps, bins and other public infrastructure. You can see the difference quite clearly if you're observant when walking through. The City of London has been uniquely governed since the 12th century.

[@akirasakuchi]

@Manuel Sacha Fortunately I've already watched Jay Foreman so I know lol

[@lukascole347]

@@promiscuous5761 true

[@zico739]

Metro/Urban areas and the actual city proper are two very different things. This is misleading.

[@chicchitammuottocifa]

Exactly

[@steffensteinhagen1252]

don't trust any statistics that you haven't faked yourself

[@acuritis]

He addresses that in the description. I agree though, if he was going for urban areas then LA should have been much larger.

[@hawkdsl]

I think most get the jest.. The city proper is usually the economic engine of the surrounding area. Washington DC metro area is called the "DMV" locally for example (Dc/Md/northern Va). Without the city proper, the surrounding metro areas wouldn't exist.

[@vayres7512]

Absolutely correct.

[@shitonmyboot]

This one really puts things in perspective :o

[@aristotels_aristotals]

Muy buen vídeo. Gracias por el esfuerzo de prepararlo y por compartirlo.

[@TheLuxGuy2018]

i love how my contry is smaller then the biggest cities (luxembourg)

[@Atsam2kGaming]

funny how 613,894 people live in luxembourge. the are of your country is 2,586 km² and funny how 11.13 million people live in my city (lahore) and its area is 1,772 km²

[@slmbnctn7509]

15.53 million people live in istanbul (my city) 1,375 km²

[@Atsam2kGaming]

@@slmbnctn7509 the Urban area of istanbul is 2,576.85 km2 and Metro area is 5,343.22 km2

[@akosleoszilagyi2529]

@@slmbnctn7509 You mean Constantinople? :-P

[@marcelleung]

Resident in HK, 7.3M ppl in 250km2. I love my place. Crowded, convenient, energetic, and also many country parks to enjoy the green. Yet we need to flee from the Communist's tyranny soon. They kill the city where I born and live, and we lose our freedom forever.

[@MisterMarioMaus]

"Wait, it's all the British Isles?" "Always has been"

[@chilliam00]

Britain managed to colonise everything again without even doing anything. 😂

[@spheredude6003]

*load gun* *bang*

[@James-thefogiscoming]

@@spheredude6003 * shoots self *

[@LeftoverPat]

Shout out to Tokyo & LA for being the actual largest metro areas (not 90% mountains/grass)

[@senseifuri6953]

Glad my house is in your video, some tiny speck in one of those cities

[@rade-blunner7824]

Breathed a sigh of relief when London appeared where it did.

[@sodium7127]

Yep same

[@heymikey1981]

They used London's city limits, while for the other cities like Paris and NYC, they used the metro area.

[@cratarata2278]

@@thomassowellaudiobooks6441 no it’s not that

[@cratarata2278]

@@thomassowellaudiobooks6441 it’s that the piece of area they are placing the cities on is actually the U.K. and they placed London on here in the exact same area as London in real life

[@DaChaGee]

Greater London is bigger than NYC and Paris, but they used metropolitan areas with those two. The video is very inaccurate!

[@BlackMagickMike]

This is misleading because a lot of those "cities" you list in the US are metro regions. New York City is smaller in area than Berlin.

[@West_Kagle]

Thank you

[@luchogonzealaise3717]

Berlin is huuuge if you compare with other cities without their urban surroundings. Like just the S-Bahn ring Berlin, it's crazy. This is also what makes Berlin so special, so much room to breath and a lot of different atmosphere from a borough to another.

[@ycyang2698]

@@luchogonzealaise3717 True for European cities. Asian cities are hugest in terms of area with high rises

[@luchogonzealaise3717]

@@ycyang2698 You're right, I was mostly saying this in comparison to Paris, which is around 4 times smaller than Berlin if you only take the city itself.

[@thisguy976]

@@ycyang2698 but who likes high rises?

[@openeyz]

Didn't expect to see DFW metroplex on this list. Pretty cool.

[@kedarmeow]

I liked how You placed City of London at the exact spot where its actually located.

[@josht777]

Imagine if all the cities were actually islands like that all next to each other

[@shaggymp2133]

Just like one punch man

[@GamerLord64]

Yea and Los Angeles is than literally the GTA V Map

[@GamerLord64]

@@shaggymp2133 he said islands not all together like in one punch man btw the continent where it takes place is Based on Saitama region that's above Tokyo it has the same shape

[@Caroleonus]

England would be a very interesting place to live if they were all here like that. My hometown of Southampton completely subsumed by Baghdad for one lol

[@PolarisCastillo]

First thing I thought of was GTA style cities lol

[@orohyuno]

Disappointed with the video ending showing misleading information, biggest cities in the Americas are Mexico city and São Paulo. As are their metropolitan areas.

[@cmoisandico]

Same ! Paris is not 2 500km² but 105,4 km² !

[@TheRaiane157]

If metro areas counted, San Paolo would win easily in population and size.

[@PedroHenrique-SW]

@@TheRaiane157 São Paulo*

[@hzurbiaf]

American cities are bigger because they spread therefore they have more area but less population in comparison with cities of other countries

[@user-mq8kx3je6y]

New York is not that populated, Mexico City is the most populous city in America

[@ebw9802]

Great video 👍

[@sanblake]

I live in New Jersey, its crazy how big it is new jersey never ends, you pass through manhattan, brooklyn, and there is entire long island yet

[@darthmarticusLFC]

I like how the UK is used as the background just so London lines up.

[@plagah]

@@Tyl3r_B okay, I'm an atheist tho

[@retyroni]

@@Tyl3r_B You're real? I thought you were a spambot. Like (let's see if this works) .. bitcoin invest investment returns economy cryptocurrency ...

[@sygneg7348]

@@Tyl3r_B Bro, chill the hell down. I don't want to change from Islam you idiot.

[@xxstexx7450]

Oh shit I didn't even notice that

[@gamechanguhrrr3816]

@@Tyl3r_B Nah i won't

[@marcelbilbao8533]

This video is all over the place, some are showing all of the metro area, others just the actual cities, not your best work, unfortunately...not accurate...

[@TheZenytram]

and in another showed the woods and desertic area not populated at all around the cities, and mixed in cities with province and metropolitan region, 3 different thing.

[@jossdeiboss]

Indeed. There is no way Milan is bigger than London. He took London city and Milan Metropolitan area, which is like comparing a town with a region. Plus, why "Tokyo-Yokohama". They are 2 distinct cities. If we took "Tokyo" as the city is very small. If we take the metropolitan area is pretty big. What is Tokyo-Yokohama though...

[@1estel1ch.42]

@@jossdeiboss he wanted the US cities to win--look at how all of the US cities are combined rather than singular ones. If you combine all of the cities in the tokyo district it would be twice bigger than new york

[@gavinbarnhart5204]

@@1estel1ch.42 fr. Atlanta is not that big bro.

[@m5a1stuart83]

True, even Jakarta is a province or region not a city.

[@duphasdan]

Would be interesting to have something like this, but showing all the cities throughout history that held the title of most populous. And anybreprars would just show the city as how it looked at the time.

[@Belorofontt]

The geographycal extension of Buenos Aires doesn't fit with the population, 3200 km2 is roughly the extension of the closest cities around the city of Buenos Aires, which is call "Great Buenos Aires". In that area lives nearly ten millions inhabitants. Strictly, if you want to measure the full extent of Buenos Aires City, it is needed to consider the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; in such case the territorial extension is 13.285 km2 ; and yes, 16.200.000 inhabitants.

[@camichiBichi]

Interesante

[@leonardovillalobos735]

haha us 9 834 000 km

[@wilbert1412]

Those are not cities, they're urban areas

[@mllnth]

The title say:CITIES!!!

[@wilbert1412]

@@mllnth that's why I'm correcting them, duhh🙄

[@eddypalomino2650]

Dehecho, si son áreas urbanas, por ejemplo, en la ciudad de Lima (Perú), ese era la misma carta nacional que se muestra de manera oficial, pero aún existe población, que es bastante, que vive en las cercanías alrededor de esa ciudad. Y ese ejemplo se puede aplicar a muchas de las ciudades, ya que sólo son áreas urbanas.

[@BroItsBTC]

@@eddypalomino2650 ok?

[@cebulak941]

Urban area = city

[@J_cobra]

For those wondering why American cities are bigger in this video, its because he’s not taking account just the city, but the metropolitan area as well. For example, Atlanta ga as an individual city would not even be considered bigger than Buenos aires or Sao Paolo, but its metropolitan area spans miles across counties and municipalities

[@TelpPov]

Because this video counted counties rather than city. For example Just the Los Angeles city vs LA county is tiny and this way some of the American ones wouldn’t made the list.

[@rimpenship4168]

In all the exposed cities, their metropolitan area is considered and even so the American cities give them a drag even to megacities that exceed 20 million inhabitants in terms of the extension of the urban area. And this is due to the fact that American cities tend to grow almost exclusively horizontally, they do not seek the densification of housing.

[@justinwright6611]

I agree there needs to be clarification regarding the actual metrics of a city. I’m assuming in most cases it’s actually the whole continuous metro area.

[@magnomaxx2010]

Craziness! In a matter of half a century, or a few decades, in some cases - Capitalism and industrial revolution, in agriculture and transport, transformed, absurdly, the population of cities that today would be called small towns, villas in monstrous immense metropolises, where millions, tens of millions of people swarm, and squeeze

[@squirlmy]

"Urban Area", not metropolitan area, which is why Boston and Providence are combined. Compare the city of Boston at about 50 sq. miles, to a city like Denver, 150 sq. miles. The scale could have been quite different.

[@xBloodXGusherx]

Cool to see my city in here :)

[@joaobatistakalteamkltrrtea8825]

Can you do Sao Paulo municipality size comparison

[@antoniojgracia725]

Interesting the ratio between size and population!!!

[@akosleoszilagyi2529]

Manila vs. Post-Soviet ghost cities

[@MrWombatty]

As someone who doesn't really like crowds, I thought Sydney was really crowded!

[@bikasdas5441]

Delhi😐😥😑

[@ianeons9278]

Fun fact: Tokyo is the entire population of Spain in one city!

[@andrijavasiljevic]

It isn’t tho? Spain has a population of 47 million while Tokyo has a population of 38 million. Tokyo is however larger than Canada

[@jesusgz1891]

Dude, Yokohama is a city with 5 million people. Yokohama is not part of Tokyo. Tokyo has as many people as Perú.

[@adam2943]

@@andrijavasiljevic what????Tokyo ISN'T larger than Canada

[@andrijavasiljevic]

@@adam2943 Population wise it is

[@Revilatan]

WHAT THE

[@jimmyay181]

Very interesting. Thanks

[@jerome2022]

It's over 90 miles to travel across Atlanta on I 85, 65 miles on I 75, and 77 on I 20.

[@mrnorbotron3308]

That's not Cities, that's more States. NYC is waaaay smaller than Tokyo or London.

Creo que toma de referencia el concepto de superciudad, en ese caso NY si es tan grande como lo muestran.

[@adityasakkamahindra1232]

By administration border : yes

[@Inferryu]

​@ De ser asi la mancha urbana de Mexico (5,954 km2) seria aun mas grande que como lo muestran.

[@justinbelk2759]

All the suburbs and smaller cotys around new york are joined as one big super coty just like here in alabama birmingham is the biggest coty but combining all the regions around it its luch bigger

[@DavidBaumel]

Más que nada hay que saber la diferencia entre ciudad ( delimitada políticamente) y lo que es más importante su ZONA METROPOLITANA que siempre es mucho más grande en la periferia, al rodear a cada ciudad de cualquier país

[@Iknowthismeme]

Me: sees there's Milan but not Rome Also me: confusing confused confusion but in spaghetti

[@alessandroberto1776]

milan is 181 km2.. rome is 1285 km2...

[@merlincocai99]

@@alessandroberto1776 è la grandezza dell’area metropolitana, non del comune. C’è scritto nella descrizione. E dal punto di vista dell’area metropolitana Milano è una delle più grandi d’Europa.

[@TheBlueCreeper-]

Away from Lamborghini and pasta, Italy sucks. (No offense)

[@Iknowthismeme]

@@TheBlueCreeper- why

[@merlincocai99]

@@TheBlueCreeper- you clearly never studied...Italy is one of the most developed countries in the world

[@FindingGreenOS]

I think the challenge with city Vs metropolitan area (or greater city as we say in the UK) is that it is frequently dependent on locals as to whether that counts or not as being part of the city. In London for instance if you are from or live in Greater London then you are from and live in London (I'm sure there are a couple of small exceptions). But that's not the case for many other cities with metropolitan areas, even in the UK. I don't think everyone in the Greater Manchester area would say they are from Manchester for instance. It therefore makes it very difficult for anyone to make a list like this because it makes sense to follow the political/geographical definitions when you can't possibly know all the cultural understandings of the cities size and populations. A beautifully done video by the way, stunning visuals.

[@Rob_Dekker]

Did I blink and miss Amsterdam? Great video though 👍🏻

[@tarsythebest]

In reality, Milan is the smallest of the most important cities in Italy, and is just over 181 square km. And then I don't see Rome which is the largest Italian city with its 1287 square km.

[@sir_sack]

Umm, Milan is in this video at 1,881 square km

[@lucagiudice9120]

There is something wrong in this video, the informations about surface and population of the cities are incorrect.

[@eidemonbkk]

@@lucagiudice9120 perché contano anche tutto l'hinterland

[@andallthatjazz5796]

@@lucagiudice9120 I think they included all of the suburbs and all the smaller cities which borders the big one. I think it's more about metropolitan areas than cities.

[@Xegethra]

@@sir_sack Video is a bit wrong. Like with New York City it lists it way bigger than it actually is, because it includes places that aren't even NYC like New Jersey.

[@windhelmguard2405]

Imagine being called meatballstudios and not adding stockholm to this video

[@ikad5229]

Meatballs are not only from Sweden. But to be fair, in the Anglo world, they are known for that.

[@brighttz]

It’s meta-balls

[@Link2edition]

One thing I want to point out here, because I have seen Europeans visiting the US surprised by the size of our cities. In the USA we tend to build more spread out than ya'll do across the pond, so a city might LOOK big, but actually have a fraction of the population of an equivalent European city. A lot of this is because our cities are designed for cars pretty early on, rather than foot traffic.

[@Markus_Andrew]

That's a good point. Most, if not all, major European cities predate the automobile by centuries.

[@Link2edition]

@@Markus_Andrew Exactly, and if you look at particularly old (By our standards) American cities, they are built more like European cities.

[@Markus_Andrew]

@@Link2edition It's largely the same here in Australia. In fact, the nation's capital, Canberra, was planned out from the very beginning to accommodate motorized traffic using a system of large roundabouts and ring roads. If you look at a map of the central city, you can see the original planning. It's a pretty small city though, with a population of only about half a million, and its founding was relatively recent, in 1913.

[@willp.8120]

European urban areas aren't that large by population. London, Paris, Moscow, are the notable exceptions. USA urban areas are just larger, in area and population, on the whole.

[@epicdizzle.]

i've been living in Toronto my whole life and even I didn't know it was THAT big

[@joeritchie7286]

0:00 my PS3 startin up

[@slmbnctn7509]

yeah it its similar sounds :D

[@dethmaul]

Wow lmao

[@havarhen]

That logo is just like TrackMania

[@Galaxy-ym3zu]

00:00 my xbox 360 startin up

[@AnggaDRAP]

In Indonesia, the capital will move to the province of East Kalimantan in 2024, covering an area of ​​127.347 km²

[@dann2542]

jujur gw kurang setuju kalo pindah, kek apa ya ya kalo emang tujuan nya buat meramaikan Kalimantan sih kurang setuju, Indonesia katanya paru-paru dunia, tapi malah di rusak, ekosistem di rusak karna Jakarta juga udah maju, kenapa malah pindah sih, heran orang dah mati matian merdeka buat Indonesia di Jakarta tapi malah pindah ke Kalimantan_- dahlah

[@AnggaDRAP]

@@dann2542 Yes, I also disagree with moving the capital to Kalimantan. Because Kalimantan is the center of habitat for rare animals. Also, Kalimantan is the oldest tropical rainforest in the world, which is more than 150 years old. In Kalimantan the forest has been cut down in several areas, the impact of flooding in Kalimantan has started to happen again, which had happened 50 years earlier. I swear so sad :(

[@seandaugurau6743]

In borneo

[@Petrikzz]

@@seandaugurau6743 in indonesia, we say kalimantan but in internasional its BORNEO

[@steverempel8584]

@@Petrikzz In Indonesia, do you call it Sumatera or Sumatra? Java or Jawa? Sulawesi or Celebes? I'm pretty sure you call it Papua, and not New Guinea. I'm not sure if it's Papua or New Guinea internationally though, I know it as both names.

[@daianbotelho]

Somebody: largest urban area in the world Tokyo: YES!

[@viktorfant9182]

Kiruna could've been an interesting addition to this with their 14000 square kilometers but only 23 thousand inhabitants.

[@Neo_Tenko]

Really appreciated the background image, the UK in this case for truly getting a sense of scale.

[@rooo9855]

Ah yes, my favourite uk member, ireland

[@placeholdername2737]

@@rooo9855 It also included northern parts of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and I think a sliver of Norway at the very end

[@r.d.9399]

Here's some scale for you. From Boston to Washington DC down Interstate 95 in the United States is just one mega region with all the suburbs of cities connecting.

[@ROForeverMan]

I don't like that you take lots of surrounding empty areas around the cities, sometimes even 20 times larger than the city, thus making the entire comparison meaningless.

[@Jacob-sx8iu]

its probably what is the legally defined administrative area of the city determined by the city/country

[@matt47110815]

@@Jacob-sx8iu It is hard to determine what to include, especially in American Cities. For example, the Miami (FL) Metropolitan area is huge, Millions of People, huge Airport, but the City Limits of Miami is very small, only about 330k People.

[@MARK-gp9hb]

@@matt47110815 same for Paris, it should be a lot smaller, London should be bigger, Rome should be on the list too and bigger than London

[@Pablo-ob2bx]

@@MARK-gp9hb Rome is not bigger than London lol

[@MARK-gp9hb]

@@Pablo-ob2bx you never looked at a map

[@86samsky]

Im sorry but you start the video zooming in on kent in southern england and the Vatican pops up from where the town sandwich is roughly

[@AussieGunzel]

You forgot the world's largest city by size are coverting 43,310 sq. km which is Mt Isa in Queensland, Australia.

[@weeeper1]

This feels like where all of the cities in this video aren’t cities but islands

[@EmanuelRecemConvertido]

I said this the guy who made this video: You took The WHOLE NYC/NJ metropolitan urban area size and didnt do the same to others cities, like São Paulo. São Paulo metropolitan urban area has 9.298 km². STOP cheating to benefit cities from the united states. You cheated literally in every city from USA by taking their entire metropolitan area instead of just the city size itself. The Rio de Janeiro metropolitan área has 7.535 km².

[@zonaryorange8734]

@@EmanuelRecemConvertido It gets tricky dealing with official city limits vs the city proper, it could vary so much from country to country. The vid coulda done better maybe 🤷‍♂️

[@ghostyidk9383]

@@zonaryorange8734 city limits and city proper are the same thing

[@zonaryorange8734]

@@ghostyidk9383 whoops, i meant metro area i dunno why i said city proper

[@ghostyidk9383]

@@zonaryorange8734 even then I feel like city proper is a lot more accurate because they are showing the actual city itself unlike metros which with the definition alone you can tell they aren’t cities but rather a bunch of cities

[@ricardomilos9330]

SALUDOS DE BSAS ARGENTINA 🇦🇷🇦🇷👋👋👋

[@FernandoLiendo]

JAJAJAJA yo adelantando todo el video para ver si aparecía Bs As, re orgullosos éramos xD

[@halospartan199]

@@simuedits incluyo de la plata hasta tigre ? o flashe ?

[@gustavelli]

@@halospartan199 si puso todo, Gran buenos aires, La plata un poco mas hasta Chascomús jajajaj

[@halospartan199]

@@gustavelli jajaja epico, igual esta bien, a esta altura del partido ya se considera megalopolis.

[@marceloveridico]

Amba papaaa

[@deadvolume]

Nice, was hoping you'd put New York next to York but I guess the difference in size is just too much.

[@MN12warbird]

Imagine them joined as one huge interconnected mega city

[@117big117]

Interesting how sometimes the actual city bounds are shown, and then in other examples, what would be referred to as metropole region.

[@phoenix21studios]

its stupid. also its stupid because google earth actually does a really decent job at showing were city limit lines are.

[@inodesnet]

Different countries measure their cities differently

[@nobrakes7892]

@@phoenix21studios not really its really hard to define whats part o the city and whats not

[@phoenix21studios]

@@nobrakes7892 it absolutely is not. If a property pays city tax they are in the city limits. Every city knows where their border are.

[@chinesebeef911]

Also, he didn't count Hulunbuir which is like the size of britain

[@Duzinfa]

If we're talking about municipal area, the top of the list should be Altamira, Brazil. Its extension is 159,533 km².

[@mds_8_878]

O mano tem a foto de um srt8 e manja de geografia 😎

[@davidbio1]

@@mds_8_878 O pior é que é verdade, em área, Altamira é a maior cidade do Brasil.

[@jpalvessccp3664]

@@davidbio1 vídeo é sobre a cidade perímetro urbano,altamira e grande área de municipio

[@kerryemiya9189]

Já ia comentar isso, Altamira é top 3 maior município do mundo

[@hmmokkk]

Acho que ele quis dizer áreas urbanas

[@andresulloabrenes]

Dallas - Ft Worth is the 4th largest metro area in the US. But you got Phili, Atlanta and Boston ahead! I am scratching my head right now.

[@TerribleTezza]

The greater Brisbane (Australia) area is about 15,842 km2 with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

[@diyabadoune]

everyone is waiting to see their city🤣

[@exception_1751]

true)

[@fabriciosshittychannel6782]

I iquique chilet

[@jhondaniel0934]

Madrid doesn't feel that small lol

[@carlostovar7962]

Tijuana 😭

[@gabrieljosefg6289]

I saw it haha

[@ernest1443]

I’m impressed with the cities who managed to preserve their green belts despite of booming urbanization. Salute!

[@taylorwilson6655]

its because they aren't the cities, its the metropolitan area,

[@MN12warbird]

Cities like Chicago were built to be a "city in a garden". The cook county forest preserve and Chicago park district has some very nice desirable land in Chicago with wonderful natural retreats. Theres even a Japanese garden in Jackson park

[@Stickman_Productions]

Felt the same when I went to the Houston Airport The closest skyscraper was fading away as were literally surrounded by forest.

[@merlinoner]

There should be a ratio size/inhabitants, because when you see Atlanta next to Tokyo-Yokohama you see that there's a problem...

[@DCX103]

In terms of structural density it would have to go to #2 L.A. and then Tokyo at #1 for sheer size

[@stefanorossini6323]

2:35 here is a very serious mistake, Milan is a small city, it is only 181 km2 large, and it has not 5 million inhabitants, but 1 million. I live in Milan and I was amazed to see this, especially because you didn't put Rome, the capital of Italy, which is at least 6 times the size of Milan.

[@JDS-Dalton]

A lot of these were wrong, especially the US cities. The city I live in is over twice as large as Atlanta, and in reality if it was on here, it'd be within the first 5.

[@fastfatfood1477]

@@JDS-Dalton using metropolitan landmass, this video is statistically correct

[@JDS-Dalton]

@@fastfatfood1477 ahh, I seewhat you mean, though it doesn't use the metropolitan area itself as that'd definitely make no sense. But even then, it's definitely more than just the cities themselves.

[@KingAsa5]

This Is metro population not city

[@KingAsa5]

@@JDS-Dalton this Is going by metro population

[@rebeccamarsh7311]

So we're talking about Metropolitan areas AND cities not just cities.. bc DC and Baltimore are separate cities

[@vereadoressensatos]

Altamira - PA - Brazil: 161,445.9 km²

[@MogekoAttack]

La CMDX se encuentra dentro de la ZMVM (Que es el conjunto de varias ciudades que funcionan como una sola) y esta mide 5,954 km², y si entra ya que en ciudades de USA estas contando toda la zona metropolitana y no solo una ciudad. Además faltó la Zona de San Diego-Tijuana que mide 12,496 km².

[@carlosbarragan1673]

En ciudad de Mexico su imagen hasta mal esta.. Le falta un montón de áreas urbanas. Y en otras hasta le duna zonas rurales.. Entonces que el mamador ponga hasta Cuernavaca y hasta Toluca y en el norte hasta Pachuca jajajajaj... Ahí si se vería inmenso.. En la pura imagen se ve que ni siquiera bordes bien los límites de la ciudad.

[@bennetxia8707]

my guy for america you just put 3 whole ass states. I thought the title said "city"

[@alfredmartinez2510]

This is conurbations or metropolitan areas, the real populations of cities

[@Ghost10221987]

@@alfredmartinez2510 except he uses DFW, which is 2 main cities, a very large suburb, and about 50 smaller suburbs and towns. You can't really use Vatican City and then the entire DFW metroplex

[@ghostyidk9383]

@@alfredmartinez2510 sorry but no, a metro/urban area includes surrounding cities, another invalid argument

[@chatteyj]

Obviously there is no readily available true urban area ranking data on the internet for this channel to make a video with. The idea that the city of Milan is bigger than London is a joke.

[@DavidV104]

I always look at your work and it's amazing. But being a New Yorker, we are separate from new jerseys and Connecticut. What you showed is the tri state area

[@Aiza19]

Baghdad actually has around 10m citizens in the year 2020

[@getdadoe5135]

This really gave me a prospective on how much space is used for cars in The United States.

[@adalmar]

Mid video there is a switch from city borders to metropolitan areas, makes the comparison completely useless.

[@BobymcFerrum]

Thats not Buenos Aires, not even the shape, these are just some districts

[@martinbogado4924]

I know, the real Buenos Aires has a population of 2.000.000. But he's showing the Metropolitan Áreas, so, Gran Buenos Aires.

[@francoesquivel5848]

@@martinbogado4924 Exactly, and probably they did the same for every city.

[@miroslavbozic9829]

Que onda con buenos Aires yankees

[@martinbogado4924]

@@miroslavbozic9829 Wut, But i'm Argentinean, not yankee...

[@miroslavbozic9829]

@@martinbogado4924 que?

[@garrick3727]

There's just something really funny about Paris being in Wales. I was less pleased to find that I now live in Delhi, although at least we might have a decent Indian restaurant now.

[@kja427]

You should do one for Olympic cities( one for The Summer Olympics; One for The Winter Olympics).

[@sakeburyojo4218]

I thought that in the end it would zoom out and give the city of Coruscant.

[@ballisticmissl7919]

Some areas were not cities, they were generally denser areas that happened to stretch across the areas

[@AFT_05G]

The moment when The Crew 2 USA map is smaller than real life Los Angeles Urban Area.

[@strictlylethal]

Would love to see video game maps being compared to irl cities

[@upshotMusicTV]

I was waiting patiently for Houston :(

[@rylan_reviews6493]

This is such an underrated channel that can be low key educational at times

[@MuriloFlavioMoreira]

I do not know about the other cities, but this is Rio's metropolitan area, not just the city itself.

[@renanrenanrenanrenanrenan]

all cities there are the metropolitan region. The population of the city of São Paulo is bigger than that of Cidade do México.

[@regnumreq3617]

@@renanrenanrenanrenanrenan São Paulo is also bigger than NY city proper (not sure about metro)

[@efrainl]

@@regnumreq3617 If you compare Mexico City's entire metropolitan area (including all inhabited areas outside of CDMX "state" but part of the city) to Sao Paulo via google maps, you can see clearly that SP is smaller than MC. NYC is also clearly the largest in the world once you combine NY, NJ, Long Island and CT. Gmaps lets you calculate the area of the (irregular) shape of each city to easily compare them.

[@ed.samitov]

Moscow 2511 km² also it's a little bit bigger than Paris 😉 There is a mistake in this video. Here does not show the Moscow urban area (2511), but the Moscow metropolitan area. And these are different things.

[@CheshireNoir]

It would be interesting to see a version of this with the "Z" height be population. Eg Vatican city: paper thin. London: Twice as tall as Milan despite being smaller in surface area. Dense cities would look like towers, with less dense cities looking flatter (My home city would be another pancake. Perth - Same size as London, 1/5 the population))