#though it's still much smaller than either by total urban population

Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi] (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019.[1]

Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ (listen), locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/), officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States.

TIL Chicago has more people than Paris, which feels wrong somehow.

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The populations of administrative “cities proper” are often not very compareable at all between countries… China has some particularly egregious examples where these actually reach higher than the real urban population, e.g. Chongqing has about 30M people administratively, but only about 18M within its own urban area; Hefei has 7,8M+ people administratively, but only a bit over 3,7M within its own urban area.

#statistics #geography #a bit closer by Toronto still narrowly beats Chicago on this metric #though it's still much smaller than either by total urban population