Day 257: City Stats

At work today one of my coworkers, Tim, gave me a sheet full of really cool stats that he printed off from online. It's a list of every single city on the planet that has a population of a million or more. And in case you're curious, there's 416 of them. Wow, that's a lot! The stats are pretty cool (at least for urban planning geeks like myself) and for your own interest here's the Top Ten - do you rank among them?

1) Tokyo - 33.8 million (shit that's more than all of Canada!)
2) Mexico City - 22.1 million
3, 4) (tied) Seoul and New York City - each at 21.8 million (wow I live in #3!)
5) Sao Paulo - 19.9 million
6) Mumbai (Bombay) - 19.1 million
7) Delhi - 18.6 million
8) Los Angeles - 17.7 million
9) Osaka - 16.7 million (who knew Osaka was so big? I sure didn't)
10) Jakarta - 16.6 million

For all my buddies scattered throughout the world, here's where you rank:

*For Marcio in Rio de Janeiro - you're #20 at 11.9 million
*For Steven, Matt, Adam, and Eric in London - you boys are also tied at 11.9 million strong
*For my same-name buddy Scott in Chicago - congrats, you're # 26 with 9.7
*For Becky who lives on the outskirts of San Francisco - you're #35, 7.3 million baby
*For Benny, Elaine, Craig and Kate who live in the loved and loathed city of Toronto, Canada's biggest city places globally at #58 with 5.1 million
*My Nana lives in Phoenix, #84 at 3.8 million
*For all my Seattle buddies - Toby, Stephen, Arion, and Alicia - the Emerald City pulls in at #87 with 3.7
*For Jason, J-P, Christina and Andre who live in Canada's coolest city - Montreal - you're at #90 with 3.6
*Hey Ryan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan! You're at #121 with 2.9 million
*And of course I can't forget all my many, many friends (and sis!) who live in the greatest city on the planet - VANCOUVER - who hold the #171 spot with 2.2 million
*For Joey in Liverpool, you Scouser you, you're at #302 with 1.4 million
*For Jakub and Jarek in Prague - the next major stop on The S2H World Tour - pull in at #323 with 1.3 million
*I don't have any friends in Ottawa, but Canada's capital is #367 with 1.1 million
*Which is just ahead of Mark and Rolly in Calgary at #388 with just over 1 million
*Canada's last city to rank the charts is for my other friend Scott who lives in Deadmonton, errr....Edmonton, placing #408 at also just over 1 million

For all my other friends out there who didn't get mentioned...sorry...you just don't live anywhere that placed on this chart, baby! And if I forgot anyone who lives in a major urban centre that I somehow forgot to place here, big apologies to you - and please let me know who and where you are! ;-)