Wols Lists <[email protected]> writes: > On 31/07/16 12:46, David Kastrup wrote: >> Wols Lists <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Bearing in mind I live on the edge of London (the largest city in the >>> world?) >> >> Well, if "the world" is just the Commonwealth and we skip over India, >> Pakistan, and Nigeria (after all, an urban administration not able to >> recognize the Queen as head of state is suitable for a hamlet rather >> than a city, even if some of them play a mean Cricket). >> >> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_cities#List>. >> > Well, I believe that according to certain criteria, Kansas is the > largest city in the world ... :-)
I would have imagined that any criteria for "largest city in the world" would include "has to be a city". Without that restriction, I would imagine Asia to be a bigger city than Kansas. > But it looks like my general knowledge may be a little out of date - I > don't think the population of London has changed (much) over my > lifetime, but I suspect my figures date from when the population of > India was closer to 400K than its current figure ... :-) India. 400K. That would likely have been a few millennia before Christ, in the early stages of the Indus civilization. I hope you are exaggerating your age. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
