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Delete Santiago

Santiago is not a city, it is a metropolitana.... It has many cities (municipios), such as Santiago, Vitacura, Providencia, Estaciono Central, etc. Needs to be deleted from this list — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.128.26 (talk) 16:48, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fix Philadelphia and Phoenix

Someone needs to fix Philadelphia and Phoenix. The 2010 census shows that Phoenix did not overtake Philadelphia as the 5th largest city in the US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.132.160 (talk) 07:58, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source?

What source do the populations come from? TimBentley 19:28, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder. Also, no pages link to here at all. - Zepheus 17:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Philadelphia

Philadelphia has less than 1,500,000 people. Is the number here the metropolitan area? What is the source for the other population numbers? --DThomsen8 (talk) 02:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Changes

I changed the list so that the numbers are for the city and not the metropolitan area. It also now goes to fifty, about the cut off at one million. SoCal L.A. (talk) 00:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Buenos Aires is in 9th place, instead of Toronto (pictures)--81.36.211.132 (talk) 13:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Santo Domingo de Guzman

Why isn't Santo Domingo de Guzman in the Dominican Republic on the list of the largest cities in the Americas?

/// Exactly, Santo Domingo should be the 9th largest city according to the lastest population numbers. http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html

Guayaquil

|- | 16 || Guayaquil || Ecuador || 2,366,902^[1] || 2008 |-

It was originally ranked 12th, and since it's population is not higher than Toronto orginally at 14th .. I moved it down to its respective spot #16 --+Zack 00:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)AddZack

^ "Guayaquil population" (in Spanish). Municipalidad de Guayaquil. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

Update

This list needs to be updated with Census information released in the year 2010. This includes data from American, Brazilian, and Mexican agencies. 08OceanBeach^S.D. 01:39, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They already look updated? Elockid ^(Talk) 01:45, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Upon review, American and Brazilian cities are, but Mexican cities are not. For instance, Tijuana's population is off by about 300 thousand. Also, don't know what other countries have released 2010 census information, so that may need to be checked. 08OceanBeach^S.D. 01:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

INEGI looks to be down at the moment. The data here is upon the first release of the 2010 census. I don't know if they revised their city populations, if they did they could be different. Canada I know has their census this year, so we can probably await their data late this year or next year. Some Spanish-speaking countries also do 2011 censuses I think. Elockid ^(Talk) 01:55, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I updated Mexican cities with census references found in List of largest cities in Mexico. 08OceanBeach^S.D. 04:01, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Populations

Why are the populations different on this page from the ones on the cities' pages? Does it have to do with the 2011 estimate? --[[User:UnknownFork|<span style="color:green">'''UnknownFork'''</span>]] [[User_Talk:UnknownFork|<span style="color:black">'''Talk'''</span>]] (talk) 01:23, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Because a vandal decided to vandalize the page. I've reverted them. Elockid ^(Talk) 01:28, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is it population by city limits or metro area?

This list badly needs to be corrected. Some cities are measured using the total metropolitan population (like Santo Domingo) which is wrong. Cities are defined by city proper. If metro area populations are included then NY would have more than 21 million people not 8.

LordBeerus (talk) 21:12, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 7 December 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved(closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 14:58, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

– Title is more specific. 173.166.74.233 (talk) 18:39, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:CONCISE, WP:COMMONNAME, and MOS:JARGON. The current titles are shorter, more natural, and consistent with Category:Lists of cities by population and Category:Lists of cities by country and the articles listed therein. Also, please note that List of largest cities in Central America gives two lists, one on cities proper and one on urban agglomerations. However, List of largest cities in the Arab world should be moved to List of largest urban areas in the Arab world, since it's citing a source on urban areas. Cobblet (talk) 23:50, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Note Fixed malformed RM request Hhkohh (talk) 01:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose adamantly. Usage of "proper" is an utterly superfluous and unnecessary disambiguator. A city is a city. A metropolitan area is a metropolitan area. An urban area is an urban area. Let's not dumb this encyclopedia down for the few that need to be spoon-fed because they can't be bothered to know or understand the differences, or those that are sympathetic to the few that choose to not be bothered. Also, what Cobblet said. Hwy43 (talk) 01:59, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

[1] "Guayaquil population" (in Spanish). Municipalidad de Guayaquil. Retrieved 1 February 2011.

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