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Originally Posted by GirlySports
is metro in england about 20 places?
Manchester
City: 500,000
Metro 2,500,000
what's that mean? They were saying on BBC that Birmingham only has 700,000 eligible voters.
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Basically, almost every city in the world is different from Calgary, which encompasses every neighbourhood and region in the area under the heading "Calgary".
Toronto, for example, has about 6 million people in it, but most don't live in the city of Toronto - they live in the York regional district, the Peel regional district, etc., which altogether make up the GTA. Same with Vancouver - Vancouver city proper has about 600,000 people in it, but Metro Vancouver has 2.4 million (500,000 in Surrey, 200,000 in Richmond, 200,000 in Burnaby, and so on).
They're all contiguously attached. If you drive from Vancouver into Burnaby, for example, it doesn't seem as though you've left the city at all. It would be as if you were saying Calgary is just a village because only 8000 or so people live downtown.