where is the biggest town found in the world?

Question

where is this town found,in which continent precisely and in which country and on what latitude.

Answer 1

Biggest in what sense?
Population or area?
By population the biggest city is Mumbai (Bombay) India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population

The biggest population in metropolitan areas is Tokyo (Greater Tokyo Area)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population
The biggest city by surface area is Chongqing in China
See in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_size_%28area%29

Answer 2

This, of course, depends very much on your definition of a town.

Mexico City, Jakarta, Tokyo, New York, Sao Paulo etc. are many things, but a town is not one of them.

In addition you must be clear as to whether you mean population, geographical size or something else entirely (average building height?) when you say biggest.

Answer 3

When the Spanish Conquerors came from Spain to Mexico....Mexico was already a metropoli (That is there were too many people concentrated in a small space of land)

So Mexico City was then a metropoli and now its the biggest city in this world with 22,000,000 people living there

Answer 4

Largest City by Land Area - Mount Isa

From: http://www.walkabout.com.au/locations/QLDMountIsa.shtml
Located 1829 km from Brisbane, 883 km from Townsville and 356 m above sea-level, Mount Isa proudly claims to be the largest city in the world; a fact born out by its accreditation in the Guinness Book of Records. The argument is that the city extends for 40 977 sq. km, and that the road from Mount Isa to Camooweal, a distance of 189 km, is the longest city road in the world

Answer 5

Mexico City.

Answer 6

mexico which is most qualified can also be disqualified cos it takes a lion share of the country to, making more than a town. like a metropolitan city. but the biggest in africa is cairo.egypt.

Answer 7

The biggest city you mean? From the point of view of geographical area, Mexico City. From a population point of view, Jakarta.


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I stand corrected. The largest from the point of view of geographical area goes to Tokyo. See link.

Forget about my bla about Jakarta's population. Jakarta's thing is density.

Answer 8

largest by population is Tokyo.
Largest by area is Kalgoorlie-Boulder,Australia

Answer 9

Two of the world’s cities, Seoul and Sao Paulo, have offiicial populations of more than ten million people. But probably there are two or three more cities that can claim to have reached the 10 million mark in 2003. Bombay, Jakarta and Karachi, all had populations well in excess of nine million at the end of the 20th century. (Please note: Our city rankings provide population figures for cities with legally defined boundaries, with recognised urban status and with its own local government. The figures do not take into account suburban settlements or other heavily populated areas outside city boundaries. We describe and rank greater urban areas on separate pages.)

These findings emerge from research carried out by City Mayors during June and July 2003. The aim of the research was to establish a ranking of all world cities with populations of more than one million, ‘Millionenstädte’, as they are called in Germany. City Mayors' researchers identified almost 300 cities that are home to more than one million citizens. In total, more than 640 million people live in the world’s 300 largest cities. They represent slightly more than ten per cent of the world’s population of 6.3 billion.

While the large majority of data is based on censuses carried out since 1995, there are instances where population figures are based on counts carried out in the 1980s. In addition, some of the figures do not take into account mass movements of people due to recent upheavals in the Middle East, Africa and parts of South-East Asia as well as inter-European emigration following the conflicts in former Yugoslavia.

With a population of more than 10.2 million, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is the world’s largest city in terms of population. Sao Paulo (Brazil), the world’s second-largest city, has a population of just over ten million. Three other cities, Bombay (India), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Karachi (Pakistan), have grown to more than nine million people.

Moscow, the Russian capital, is, according to City Mayors, the largest European city. London is in second place. In The Americas, Sao Paulo and Mexico City are ranked above New York City and Bogota (Colombia). Cairo (Egypt), with a population of 6.8 million, is Africa’s largest city.

Almost 100 Chinese cities each house more than one million people. Other countries with a significant number of ‘Millionenstädte’ include India (18), Indonesia (16), Japan (12), the US (9), Brazil (13) and Russia (12).

Some 36 European cities have populations of more than one million people. Most are the countries’ capital cities such as Moscow (8.3 million), London (7.1 million), Berlin (3.4 million) and Paris (2.2 million).

In The Americas, 45 cities can claim Millionenstadt status. Here, the top ranking cities are Sao Paulo (10 million), Mexico City (8.2 million), New York City (8.0 million), Bogota (6.4 million), Lima (5.7 million), Rio de Janeiro (5.6 million), Santiago di Chile (4.8 million) and Los Angeles (3.7 million). Toronto is Canada's largest city with a population of 2.5 million.

More than half of Asia’s ‘Millionenstädte’ are in China. Out of 194 Asian cities with populations of more than one million, some 98 are on the Chinese mainland and on Taiwan. Asia’s ten largest cities are Seoul (10.2 million), Bombay (9.9 million), Jakarta (9.4 million), Karachi (9.3 million), Shanghai (8.2 million), Tokyo (8.1 million), Bangkok (7.5 million), Beijing (7.4 million), Delhi (7.2 million) and Hong Kong (6.8 million).

Africa has 19 cities with more than one million people in each. Cairo, the Egyptian capital, is, with 6.8 million inhabitants by far the largest. African cities with more than two million residents include Alexandria (Egypt) Kinshasa (Congo), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Casablanca (Morocco) and Giza (Egypt). (Please note, some of the population figures for African cities are more than 15 years old. For example, the population figure for Kinshasa does not take into account the fall of the Mobutu regime and the subsequent civil upheaval in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.)