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Top 20 largest world urbanised areas, 1991
| Rank |
Name |
Population |
Sq. miles |
Pop/sq. mile |
| 1 |
Tokyo-Yokohama |
27,245,000 |
1,089 |
25,018 |
| 2 |
Mexico City |
20,889,000 |
522 |
40,036 |
| 3 |
Sao Paulo |
18,701,000 |
451 |
41,466 |
| 4 |
Seoul |
16,792,000 |
342 |
49,099 |
| 5 |
New York |
14,625,000 |
1,274 |
11,480 |
| 6 |
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto |
13,872,000 |
495 |
28,024 |
| 7 |
Bombay |
12,101,000 |
95 |
127,379 |
| 8 |
Calcutta |
11,898,000 |
209 |
56,928 |
| 9 |
Rio de Janeiro |
11,688,000 |
260 |
44,954 |
| 10 |
Buenos Aires |
11,657,000 |
535 |
21,789 |
| 11 |
Moscow |
10,446,000 |
379 |
27,562 |
| 12 |
Manila |
10,156,000 |
188 |
54,021 |
| 13 |
Los Angeles |
10,130,000 |
1,110 |
9,126 |
| 14 |
Cairo |
10,099,000 |
104 |
97,106 |
| 15 |
Jakarta |
9,882,000 |
76 |
130,026 |
| 16 |
Teheran |
9,779,000 |
112 |
87,313 |
| 17 |
London |
9,115,000 |
874 |
10,429 |
| 18 |
Delhi |
8,778,000 |
138 |
63,609 |
| 19 |
Paris |
8,720,000 |
432 |
20,185 |
| 20 |
Karachi |
8,014,000 |
190 |
42,179 |
Source: www.demographia.com/db-wldurb91.htm
Top 20 largest American metropolitan areas, 1998
| Rank |
Metro area |
population |
% change since 1990 |
| 1 |
New York-N New Jersey-Long Island |
20,102,875 |
3.2% |
| 2 |
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County |
16,036,587 |
10.4% |
| 3 |
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha |
8,885,919 |
7.8% |
| 4 |
Washington-Baltimore |
7,359,044 |
9.4% |
| 5 |
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose |
6,873,645 |
9.5% |
| 6 |
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City |
5,999,034 |
1.8% |
| 7 |
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence-Lowell-Brockton |
5,901,589 |
3.8% |
| 8 |
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint |
5,469,312 |
5.4% |
| 9 |
Dallas-Fort Worth |
4,909,523 |
21.6% |
| 10 |
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria |
4,493,741 |
20.4% |
| 11 |
Atlanta |
3,857,097 |
30.3% |
| 12 |
Miami-Fort Lauderdale |
3,711,102 |
16.2% |
| 13 |
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton |
3,465,760 |
16.7% |
| 14 |
Phoenix-Mesa |
3,013,696 |
34.6% |
| 15 |
Cleveland-Akron |
2,910,616 |
1.8% |
| 16 |
Minneapolis-St. Paul |
2,872,109 |
13.1% |
| 17 |
San Diego |
2,820,844 |
12.92% |
| 18 |
St. Louis |
2,591,456 |
3.2% |
| 19 |
Denver-Boulder-Greeley |
2,417,908 |
22.1% |
| 20 |
Pittsburgh |
2,331,336 |
-2.6% |
Source: www.demographia.com/db-met99r.htm
Number of vehicles per 1,000 population
| Area |
Vehicles/
1000 people |
| USA |
767 |
| Japan |
535 |
| UK |
481 |
| Eastern Europe |
128 |
| Latin America |
90 |
| Africa |
22 |
| World Average |
115 |
Source: S. Potter, M.J. Skinner, Futures 32 (2000), p277.
Public transport rides per capita per year in industrial metropolitan areas
(1995 estimates)
| Largest urban areas |
Per capita rides |
| Moscow |
568 |
| Tokyo |
513 |
| Bombay |
346 |
| Osaka |
338 |
| Paris |
300 |
| Mexico City |
262 |
| Seoul |
204 |
| Cairo |
202 |
| Sao Paulo |
187 |
| Rio de Janeiro |
184 |
| Buenos Aires |
184 |
| London |
177 |
| Manila |
159 |
| Calcutta |
159 |
| New York |
105 |
| Los Angeles |
28 |
| Other urban areas |
|
| Sydney |
155 |
| Montreal |
118 |
| Toronto |
106 |
| Melbourne |
93 |
| San Francisco |
55 |
| Chicago |
55 |
| Washington-Baltimore |
53 |
| Philadelphia |
47 |
Source: www.publicpurpose.com/ut-wldua.htm
[Estimated from Jane's Urban Transport, US Federal Transit Administration
and individual operator reports.]
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