The document lists and ranks the 12 most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Tokyo, Japan is ranked as the most populous with 36.7 million inhabitants, representing a demographic explosion. Delhi, India and Mexico City are the next most populous with over 20 million inhabitants each. Notably, no European cities make the top 12 most populous list, with Moscow ranked 19th at 10.5 million inhabitants. The document observes that living conditions in large Asian cities can feel compressed and crowded, with families crammed into small spaces and highways overwhelmed with traffic.
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1. Would you like to know what? Follow me here, if you please ... The 12 clustersworld's most populous
2. At number 12 is Los Angeles 12,762,000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area
3. The number 11 is Buenos Aires, Argentina, reaching the 13,074,000 inhabitants
4. At No. 10 is Karachi (Pakistan) with 13,125,000 inhabitants
5. The number 9 is Dhaka (Bangladesh) with 14,648,000 inhabitants
6. The number 8 is Calcutta (India) 15,552,000 souls
7. The number 7 is Shanghai (China) with 16,575,000 inhabitants As a country, China has 1,300 million, the same population Worldwide in 1939
9. The number 5 is Mexico City with 19,460,000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area THis was the total population throughout Mexico in 1939 )
10. The number 4 is Bombay (India) with 20,041,000 inhabitants
11. The number 3 is Sao Paulo (Brazil) with 20,262,000 inhabitants A city that is growing by leaps and bounds.
12. The number 2 is Delhi (India) with 22.157.000 people (All India has a population of 1,100 million)
13. And in the Station 1, the undisputed champion, It is Tokyo, Japan, with 36,669,000 inhabitants A demographic explosion!
14. There are some important observations: - No European city on the list. Moscow is the most populous city in Europe (10.5 million) and is ranked 19 - In India there are millions in three cities: Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta. Among the three exceed the 57 million inhabitants. Lets look at some aspects of the conditions you live in big cities, especially in Asian ...
15. Here there live thousands of families Transport and living -make people feel compressed, crowded, small, drowned in a small space.
19. Highway Watch is saturated and say with sincerity if not much better to live in smaller cities. One City, to be "livable" should not have more than 500,000 ... WHAT HORROR!