Chongqing wird oft als die größte Stadt der Welt mit über 30 Millionen Einwohnern beschrieben.
Tatsächlich umfasst die Gemeinde jedoch etwa 82.400 km², was in etwa der Größe Österreichs entspricht (rot schraffiert).
Diese Grenzen umfassen Berge, Ackerland, Dörfer und ganze Landkreise, nicht nur den dichten städtischen Kern, den sich die Menschen normalerweise vorstellen.
Wenn man also die Bevölkerung von Chongqing mit Städten wie Tokio oder New York City vergleicht, misst man nicht wirklich dasselbe.
Ich habe ein Video erstellt, in dem erklärt wird, wie das funktioniert, falls es jemanden interessiert:
Von Many-Philosophy4285
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Creo que te refieres al area metropolitana, no a la ciudad en si.
Lo mismo pasa en Tokio, Nueva York, CDMX, etc.
Chongqing is one of the starkest examples, but China in general defines municipal boundaries very generously, such that most Chinese municipalities are equivalent to counties or prefectures in other countries. Some encompass an area bigger than a typical metropolitan area: Beijing’s municipal boundaries contain 22 million people and an area about 20% larger than Greater Tokyo, population 38 million.
Living in Austria, I can confirm that my country’s borders include mountains, farmland and villages.
What a chonger
Friendly reminder that Chongqing municipality used to be four of Sichuan’s prefectures before 1997: Chongqing proper in the southwest, Fuling in the center, Wanxian in the northeast, and Qianjiang in the southeast
And then we have the opposite phenomenon with the City of London.
Which is why the metropolitan area or urban core or even just “urbanized area”measurements make so much more sense to me.
Though, fun fact, in the case of Chongqing, the population of any of those areas still exceed Austria’s total population.
That’s almost 3 times bigger than [La Tuque, Quebec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tuque,_Quebec)
Although the built up area is 1/50th of the polygon
Yeah using your map as a reference, the urbanized part of Chongqing (so the city) in the municipality would be around the state of Salzburg (but covering less than half of the state)
Beijing is not much smaller than North Macedonia.
>You’ll often see Chongqing described as the largest city in the world
I don’t know… somehow I always seem to get the short end of the stick.
[This photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Gorge_at_Snowy_Jade_Cave%2C_Fengdu_County.JPG) was taken close to the geographic centre of Chongqing Municipality.
Chinese „cities“ are often the districts.
Chongqing is a „directly administered city“, which is a province-level jurisdiction, not city. It’s kinda like Washington DC in that it’s not governed by any province/state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-administered_municipality
I was there last week and you can drive for an hour through rural areas and still be in the same district.
It’s 96% countryside.
Damn it, I read *half* of the sentence and I’m already on youtube blasting “Megacity One” and of course I will end up watching the damn thing *again*…
Lmao did they really call it chong ching