Is Guangzhou bigger than Tokyo?
Last updated: Tuesday January 5th, 2021
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Many Quizzes on Jetpunk insist that Guangzhou is the biggest city in the world by population with approximately 45.6M people. Does it really have that many though? Jetpunk includes Foshan, in the Guangzhou metropolitan area. If you google Foshan it is a city in China within the Guangdong province. So maybe Jetpunk is getting Guangdong and Guangzhou confused? It isn't though because the Population of Guangdong is approximately 113M which is far more than Jetpunk insists the population of Guangzhou is. If you google Guangzhou Metropolitan Area Population 2020 it says it is 13M. This isn't nearly as much as 45M. If you google the population of the Foshan Metropolitan Area, it says it is 7.3M. Even if you add those together to get 20.3M it isn't nearly as much as Jetpunk insists the population of Guangzhou is. This is just below the current Population of Beijing, which is 20.4M according to World Population Review.
So maybe, Jetpunk includes another city close to Guangzhou as part of the city. Two other major ones close by are Dongguan and Shenzhen. The Population of Dongguan is 7.4M. If you add that you get 27.7M. Then, if you add the population of Shenzhen, (which is 12.3M), it gets to exactly 40M. Which is just above Tokyo's population. This still isn't 45M though. So maybe Jetpunk includes some other small neighbouring cities such as Zhongshang. The population of Zhongshan is 2.9M which would add up to get 42.9M. Another small neighbouring city is Zhaoqing, which has a population of approximately 1M people. This brings the total up to 43.9M people. Qingyuan, one of the last neigbouring cities, has a small population of 700,000. If you add this to 43.9M you get 44.6M, 1M below Jetpunk says the population of Guangzhou is. Probably the last small neighbouring city is Huizhou, which has a population of 2.6M. If you add this you get 47.2M.This is very close to what Jetpunk says the Population of Guangzhou is. So lets just say this:
Jetpunk includes Foshan, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing, Qingyuan and Huizhou as part of the Guangzhou metropolitan area. All of the above are their own cities so I would definitely say that Tokyo is more populous than Guangzhou.
What do you think?
Also don't compare apples to oranges, we use citypopulation.de on JetPunk
It is citypopulation.de that groups together Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other smaller cities, not JetPunk. cp.de might be the only website that lists Guangzhou's population as including Shenzhen and the other cities, not JetPunk. JetPunk just agrees and rolls with it.
Yes, but you keep referring as if it is JetPunk who groups these together which, as I explained above, is citypopulation.de that groups it and not JetPunk. Yes, the Guangzhou agglomeration that cp.de and JP does include Foshan, but it is more of an agglomeration than confusing it with a province.
Let me take another example. The Birmingham-Wolverhampton (aka West Midlands) agglomeration extends into Worcestershire and Staffordshire, despite Birmingham staying in the West Midlands county. Why? Because the urban area continues out of the county. It may include a town that is 15 miles south of it, but that is because the urban area hasn't stopped.
we do here
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/6121/100-biggest-cities-on-a-world-map
city proper
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/6121/20-biggest-cities-in-china-on-a-map
Shēnzhèn - 13,374,300
Guăngzhōu - 13,233,500
Dōngguān - 7,795,800
Fóshān - 7,750,700
Zhōngshān - 2,987,900
Jiāngmén - 1,650,000
This adds up to 46,792,200, which is around 46,700,000