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Some cities with urban area population over 5 million are not included

Some cities with urban area population over 5 million are not included. Is the 2018 UN estimate list the best source here?

Examples of population:

Kuala Lumpur - city proper: 1,982,112 - metro area: 7,564,000

Busan - city proper: 3,331,444 - metro area: 7,000,699

Taipei - city proper: 2,494,813 - metro area: 9,078,000

Zhengzhou - city proper: 6,650,532 - metro area: 10,260,667

For some reason Kuala Lumpur is in the list, but Busan, Taipei and Zhengzhou are not.

Marcos [Tupungato] (talk) 10:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing data

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Add Cairo metro area population: 22,000,000 people Source: https://population.un.org/wup/DataQuery/ Kaemo42 (talk) 11:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The website you have linked to does not back this up. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 07:01, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Khartoum's city proper area is incorrect; seems to be the area of Khartoum state.

The listed city proper area for Khartoum makes it the third largest in the world, which already seems very implausible, but the mark that it's clearly wrong is that its city proper area is greater than its urban area. The listed area seems to come from the state instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_(state)).

The city proper area appears to be around 1000 km^2, per the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum. 50.111.125.68 (talk) 02:46, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Khartoum's city proper area is incorrect; seems to be the area of Khartoum state.

The listed city proper area for Khartoum makes it the third largest in the world, which already seems very implausible, but the mark that it's clearly wrong is that its city proper area is greater than its urban area. The listed area seems to come from the state instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_(state)).

The city proper area appears to be around 1000 km^2, per the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum. 50.111.125.68 (talk) 02:46, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification of the definition of "City proper".

As evidenced by the error of granularity in source 81 for the "City Proper" population of Santiago where the Region (Santiago Region Metropolitana), the Province (Santiago), the City (Santiago) and the Comune (Santiago, a.k.a. Santiago Centro) are being confused with each other, this may be happening in other entries where the number is not as obvious as in the case of Santiago (City) with over 7 million people and Santiago (Comune) with a little over 200 thousands or do we keep this logic and for example change the City Proper population of London to be the one of the City of London the Ceremonial County and not London the city. 2800:150:10D:1A43:C041:A268:3146:DF8C (talk) 04:52, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No Sydney or Melbourne

They seem to be missing from this list, anyone know why? 120.18.114.69 (talk) 02:29, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Istanbul city proper's population based on latest consensus data (2022) is 15,907,951 https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=The-Results-of-Address-Based-Population-Registration-System-2022-49685 Veledi (talk) 18:30, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done -Lemonaka‎ 22:43, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Change to "most populous"

Strongly recommend (implore) this is changed to "most populous". That would prevent misleading and confusing information. These are certainly not in order of largest to smallest. For example, Alaska is the largest state, but certainly not the most populous. So Chonqing is the most populous, not the largest.Paisan1 (talk) 19:15, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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	Strongly recommend (implore) this is changed to "most populous". That would prevent misleading and confusing information. These are certainly not in order of largest to smallest. For example, Alaska is the largest state, but certainly not the most populous. [[User:Paisan1\|Paisan1]] ([[User talk:Paisan1\|talk]]) 19:15, 1 June 2023 (UTC)		Strongly recommend (implore) this is changed to "most populous". That would prevent misleading and confusing information. These are certainly not in order of largest to smallest. For example, Alaska is the largest state, but certainly not the most populous. So Chonqing is the most populous, not the largest.[[User:Paisan1\|Paisan1]] ([[User talk:Paisan1\|talk]]) 19:15, 1 June 2023 (UTC)