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Originally Posted by driveway
Fun facts: at 1.23 million people, Calgary would be the 105th largest city in China; the 29th largest city in India; the 50th largest "metropolitan area" in the United States; the 22nd largest city proper in Europe; the 46th largest "urban agglomeration" in Africa; the 35th largest city proper in South America; the 30th largest metropolitan area in the Middle East; and the 6th largest metropolitan area in Australia.
According to wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_population
Calgary was the 403rd largest urban area in the world in 2013; the new number of 1.23 million would bump the city up to 388th, tied with Chifeng, China and Hama, Syria. |
Those two surprise me. I didn't know there were relatively few big cities in Europe, or so many in the Middle East.