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The UN source is misleading, why using it?

Why is the population ranking in this article using the UN source as the main source? The UN source is very wrong and outdated (still using the 2018 figures), the so-called "City of Tokyo" in the UN source is actually a metropolitan area (the Greater Tokyo Area) rather than a proper city. It contains Yokohama (the second-largest city in Japan) and numerous nearby satellite cities. The real Tokyo City (consisting of the 23 special wards) only has approx. 9.7 million people. As a matter of fact, Tokyo is not the largest city in the world, not even close of being one.

This article spends a lot of energy explaining that there are mainly three different types of cities: city proper, urban area, and metropolitan area. If we study the UN source carefully, we would notice that it has mixed up these different types of cities and used all three in their population ranking. That's just misleading information for the readers. Although it was published by the UN, I reckon we should cast it away and use a better source as the main source instead. 2001:8003:9100:2C01:F5EF:C921:7B13:49DD (talk) 23:29, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Karachi Population is outdated

The current entry for Karachi in the list states its population to be 15 million, however according to the Wikipedia page on Karachi, as well as the Pakistan 2023 Census, the population is over 20 million. Please correct the population and the ranking of Pakistan accordingly. Thank you. 39.43.180.233 (talk) 20:44, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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change Kuala Lumpur to "Capital City" instead of "City" Dvorakuser1 (talk) 04:26, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Ultraodan (talk) 15:08, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you make 300 cities on the chart. Because the chart just has plain 81 cities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasGut (talk • contribs) 16:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

London is weird

The City of London is the square mile including only a small part of the population - little over 10,000. It doesn't include either the Houses of Parliament or Buckingham Palace which are in Westminster!

Greater London is an administrative unit above that

Defining the wider area is very problematic

Given this, should the first column on the table show the 10k figure? Ender's Shadow Snr (talk) 14:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request: New York City's population is incorrect by approximately 10 million people.

Major discrepancy. Listed is the population of the State of New York, not New York City. 145.224.65.65 (talk) 13:41, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]