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    10 months ago

    No, the state of new york has ~20m. The city and suburb is closer to london around ~8m. The graphic is wrong

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      10 months ago

      The metropolitan area around New York City includes ares in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. The best I can tell that’s what this graphic is basing it’s population of NYC on.

      Edit: actually I can guarantee is the metropolitan are because Tokyo is the same way. The city has a listed population of 13 million but the metropolitan area is around 40 million, this map shows 37 million.

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        10 months ago

        Oh wow I had no idea it was that built up outside of the city. This must be what Gibson calls the sprawl