More people live in Tokyo than in all of Canada

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  1. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    This is an article that focuses primarily on energy consumption of cities now and in the future, but it had this one fact that I found fucking mind boggling.

    Today, there are 20 so-called megacities, whose populations -- and therefore energy needs -- easily exceed that of countries, according to Earth Policy Institute (more people now live in Tokyo than Canada, for example).

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    http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/31/eco.cities/index.html
     
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  3. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Mumbai is set to beat Tokyo by 2020.


    Current populations (2000)
    Tokyo: 26.4m
    Mexico City:18.1m
    Bombay: 18.1m
    Sao Paulo: 17.8m
    New York: 16.6m
    Source: United Nations Development Programme
     
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  5. Myles Registered Senior Member

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    What is your point ? More people use more energy; geographical distribution is irrelevant
     
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  7. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    My point? Only to express my shock at the concept of a population that can span the entirety of Canada living in one densely packed city like Tokyo. Energy really has little to do with it. I'm sure such a concept has been a reality for some time now, but I've never really thought about it and it still seems mind boggling.
     
  8. globenstein Registered Senior Member

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    Not that it changes that fact that Tokyo IS a megacity, If the data above is correct, then the population of Canada is larger than Tokyo's:

    Total Canadian population in 2006: 31,612,897
    Source: 2006 Canadian Census, StatCan
     
  9. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    My info is from 2000

    Current population (2007-09-30) of

    Tokyo: 33,600,000
    Seoul : 23,400,000
    Mexico City: 22,400,000
    New York: 21,900,000
    Mumbai (Bombay): 21,600,000

    http://www.citypopulation.de/World.html

    Canada — Population: 33,390,141 (July 2007 est.)
     
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  10. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/PROFILE/overview03.htm


    TOKYO POPULATION
    With a population of over 12 million, or about 10 percent of Japan's population, Tokyo is by far the country's most populous and most densely populated prefecture. The centre of Tokyo is located at 35°41' North, 139°46' East (35.68333, 139.7667).

    From 2003

    http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/tokyo/tokyo_population.htm

    The surrounding prefectures are part of the sprawl and the population with those included is about 28-30 million
     
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  11. otheadp Banned Banned

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    33M people in Tokyo? No freaken way... I heard that Mexico City was the most populous city with about 18M people... and they have it pretty bad. You're only allowed to drive your car twice a week, unless you're rich and can afford to pay for the extra sticker. The smog is terrible, and the people must be really irritable with the streets being so crowded.

    Though I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Tokyo consumes more energy than Mexico City. A huge source of consumption is office towers that have their lights and internal systems on 24/7... and there are lots of them in Tokyo.
     
  12. Cazzo Registered Senior Member

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    The problem with these numbers, is they're all estimates, and not the actual real numbers. Additionally, for many of these "cities", they're actually combining nearby areas to make the numbers seem larger.

    I'm not disputing they're overpopulated areas, I'm just disputing the numbers and the regions they're covering.
    Should we add all of California as a suburb of L.A. and say L.A. has a population of 30,000,000

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  13. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    I had the actual numbers in my post....
     
  14. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Its more representative however; the "real" city of Bombay for instance is what is commonly known as South Bombay, however, residents of the suburbs would be incredibly surprised to learn that they are not residents of Bombay.

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  15. TheCareTaker BBUURRIITTOOSS!!! Registered Senior Member

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    well alot of people that live in canada are from Tokyo and Korea
     

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