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    You're gonna change your mind once you see the Seoul public transportation network. From a Western perspective, yes, the Japanese system is great, especially due to its cleanliness. But when compared to Seoul, Japanese public transportation is no match. The Seoul subway is even cleaner, more comfy, and better organized.
    Yeah it's possible that it's not the number one, but still - chaotic/a true nightmare is a bit much considering it's the biggest city in the world and it's public transit system is widely held to be one of the best.

    Got to say though, taxis here are ridiculously pricey, especially compared to in Korea.


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    Seoul is absolutely not the biggest city in the world lmao

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    Tokyo is.


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    Ahh, I guess you mean area and not purely population then?

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    Population of the whole metropolitan area. Also area is second biggest, I believe.


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    Wikipedia says that there's several cities ahead of it in regards to population. Notably Chongping, Beijing, Shanghai and Karachi.

    Do we need to send a few more nukes over there, Inkie?

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    My country is several times bigger than all of Japan, and we don't have to deal with earth quakes and only a few unexploded nuke drops, yet Tokyo has twice as many people living in it as my entire country.

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    yeah but your country sucks

    so, yeah

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    Oh yeah?! Then why did Tennessee name a city after it?

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    Wikipedia says that there's several cities ahead of it in regards to population. Notably Chongping, Beijing, Shanghai and Karachi.

    Do we need to send a few more nukes over there, Inkie?
    Strictly Tokyo Metropolis is only a small sliver of the whole city though, which when taken in its totality as the Greater Tokyo Area is number 1 at 38 million.

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    My country is several times bigger than all of Japan, and we don't have to deal with earth quakes and only a few unexploded nuke drops, yet Tokyo has twice as many people living in it as my entire country.
    What's even more surprising is that it was already the world's biggest city when Japan was mostly closed off from the world in the 19th century. Thriving economy, excellent aqueduct system supplying people with clean water from nearby mountains, good hygiene and waste removal, lack of animals in the city etc.

    This is when Britain, arguably the most advanced country in the world at that time, had the Great Stink of London and thousands of its inhabitants dying of cholera.


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    I still think we should have firebombed Tokyo. Damn you Hirohito

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    Akar, I think you mean Chongqing, not Chongping you bigot. Or Ch'ung-Ch'ing as we true Chinese say.
    How did Chongqing get that big anyway? It is literally a city in the middle of nowhere but it has a population of over 30 million.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Oda Nobunaga View Post
    Akar, I think you mean Chongqing, not Chongping you bigot. Or Ch'ung-Ch'ing as we true Chinese say.
    How did Chongqing get that big anyway? It is literally a city in the middle of nowhere but it has a population of over 30 million.
    Easy: It's not located nowhere, but on the confluence of Yangtze and some other river, and between mountains, so that people can't really avoid passing through the city. Similar things go for most other cities as well. The dominating factors for most of them are 1) water & 2) mountains, if there are any. If these factors aren't dominating the landscape enough, such as in semi-northern France, you can see a very interesting pattern there, with cities somewhat evenly spaced out and forming lots of triangles in between.

    Anyway, Chongqing is hard to avoid. It's Chengdu after it that's hard to sell as it really has nothing west of it.

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    So you be saying that... because it was a city in the middle of nowhere it attracted all of those people in that far off barbarous corner of the world? Makes sense.

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    You said its in the middle of nowhere. I say nowhere starts after Chengdu.

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    Anyone seen American Factory? Was pretty great IMO.


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    When you have 1.5 billion people it's incredibly hard to not have cities of 30m people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inkie View Post
    Anyone seen American Factory? Was pretty great IMO.
    The picture looks quite depressing.

    I like American Made a lot more, very bright like classic american dream!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Akar View Post
    When you have 1.5 billion people it's incredibly hard to not have cities of 30m people.
    Some chinese cities have very generous "metro" areas and .

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