Wols Lists <[email protected]> writes: > On 31/07/16 14:02, David Kastrup wrote: >> 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. > > Well, I thought Kansas WAS a city.
Well, there may be a few minuscule towns named "Kansas", but the "proper" Kansas is a state. You were probably thinking of Kansas City. > And the city boundaries are well big - although most of it is land > earmarked for development, and is actually pretty rural - not even > suburbs. Uh, what? >>> But it looks like my general knowledge may be a little out of date - 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. >> > Whoops. I meant, of course, 400M :-) Ah, so you were thinking about the 1950s. Of course, London was still smaller than Shanghai even then. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
