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Originally Posted by getbak
The crazy thing about Melbourne being the southernmost city over a million people is that its latitude is roughly the same as San Francisco in the northern hemisphere.
Think about how many big cities there are in the US and Canada that are north of San Francisco, not to mention virtually every major city in Europe.
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This has so much more to do with land distribution than anything. There is approximately 102m km2 of landmass in the Northern Hemisphere, and only 51m km2 in the Southern Hemisphere. 10m km2 of that is occupied by the Southern portion of Africa. Asia on it's own occupies 44.6m km2.