Just for fun: how many of these very large world cities have you ever been to ?

[steve2470]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities

I could type them all out, but the list is topped by Tokyo, and ends with Guadalajara, Mexico.

eta: You have to scroll down the page a little to see the list.

[pdxflyboy]

1. 11

[jmbar2]

2. 11

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. 8

[happybird]

4. 5

[Kali]

5. 5

but one was just a flight change, and one was when I was too young to remember.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. 7

[kimbutgar]

7. 9

[nocoincidences]

8. 10

[Bobstandard]

9. In literature...

I ve been to most, save the lesser Chinese cities.

Publishers, could you get on that?

[The Roux Comes First]

10. 10

But North America definitely bumps my count up.

[conscientiouscitizen]

11. 11

[elleng]

12. 15

[Duppers]

18. You've done a lot of traveling!

[elleng]

19. Much incidental the U.S., it turns out;

Europe too.

[The Wizard]

13. 9

[TreasonousBastard]

14. 12, but half are in the US

[Duppers]

15. 11

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Lot of traveling in China, in England, been in France, & across the U.S. a few times.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. 14. I'm surprised it was that many.

Especially given that China is over represented because of very populous cities.

[NNadir]

17. First I said 13, but I forgot Mumbai, so it's 14.

There are some things about Mumbai I'd like to forget.

[csziggy]

20. 7, if driving through Los Angeles counts nt

[mbusby]

21. 4

[question everything]

22. 16. Was amazed myself

[dawg day]

23. 13

They have Paris as HUGE-- bigger than London in population. I'm ... surprised.

[DFW]

46. The Paris mertopolitain area goes on forever

They are including that in the size, which explains the presence of Washington, DC on the list. DC proper doesn't even have a million people, but again, the metro area, including the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, is immense. Where I grew up as a small child was so far out in the Boonies that we only had unpaved dirt roads. "Go to the end of the world, turn right, and we're about 3 miles beyond that." These days, it's not even outside the Beltway.

[dawg day]

48. I think of London like that-- just sprawling over the countryside

I remember back in 1820, the essayist William Cobbett called it "The Great Wen".

I think a wen is like a pimple or boil.

Even more so now-- but I love London.

[comradebillyboy]

24. 14 for me...

[HubertHeaver]

25. I have nineteen.

[dawg day]

49. Wow! Did you have some in Asia?

That's the part I'm really missing, never been west of Hawaii.

[HubertHeaver]

68. One trip to China,

Three cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

While I was in the Air Force: Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok, Saigon. I got to Seoul when my son was stationed in Korea.

I live in Texas so I get to Dallas and Houston regularly.

My youngest son was in Madrid for a summer so we visited him. On another European trip we went to Barcelona and Paris among other places not on the list.

We passed through London going to and from Ireland. We drove across the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Az, on the return trip from Los Angeles.

We made it to Atlanta, DC and Philadelphia on other trips.

Health permitting, we will get to Key West via Miami one of these days.

[petronius]

26. Only 8 (maybe 9, if Ft. Worth counts as Dallas)

Guess I should be spending more time at Orbitz, and less time at DU...

[Layzeebeaver]

27. 13

It may likely stay that way.

[ret5hd]

28. 12

[Polly Hennessey]

29. 12

[DFW]

30. Nineteen for me

I have flown over some of the ones on the list, but have actually spent time in only nineteen of them. My wife and daughters have, interestingly enough, been to several cities on the list that I have never been to.

[Laffy Kat]

31. 10, I need to get out more!

[secondwind]

33. Seventeen.

[bamagal62]

34. 18. And lived in 8.

[Demovictory9]

71. Wow.

[bamagal62]

73. It's been a fun ride!

[jimfields33]

35. 19 of them

[steve2470]

36. 15

1- Tokyo (airport only)
2- Cairo
3- Beijing
4- New York City
5- Buenos Aires
6- Los Angeles
7- Moscow
8- Paris
9- London
10- Chicago
11- Madrid
12- Houston (drove through only)
13- Dallas
14- Miami
15- Singapore (airport only)
16- Philadelphia
17- Atlanta
18- Washington D.C

I envy you all with more ! I love, love, love big cities ! Rural areas can be very beautiful of course, but I do love big cities.

[DFW]

38. We overlap on all but three

I have not been to Buenos Aires, Cairo or Beijing.

I have been to Barcelona (lived there, which is why I speak Catalan), Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Mexico City

Isn't it interesting--the biggest economic powerhouse in Europe, namely Germany, doesn't have one city on the list!

[steve2470]

39. yes that is interesting, no Berlin or Frankfurt etc !!

I hope you and your family are doing well !

[DFW]

45. Or even Vienna!

We are all doing well, thanks!

We were all together briefly in April in New York when our younger daughter managed to get enough work done so she could sneak over to America for 3 days to see her new nephew. We plan to meet up together on Cape Cod in July, too. As usual, she and her partner will probably working 80% of the time, but we will get in some real family time somehow. This time, the gang will truly "all be there," as my sister and her husband will be coming up, and even my brother, who is no longer required to kill us if he inadvertently blabs what he has been up to recently. He retired earlier this year, and gave up his top security clearance. I don't even think he misses it!

[Wolf Frankula]

37. 14

13 if you don't count just the airport in Lima.

Wolf

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. 30

[steve2470]

41. wow... may I ask, your job or the military or ? nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. For work in the eighties and nineties. Pleasure following retirement.

[steve2470]

53. I hope in the years I have left, to catch up with you !

I salute you, fellow traveler !

[Floyd R. Turbo]

72. Go for it Steve. I've found that the best way to visit a lot of places is cruising. I know some here

decry cruising but I like the idea of not having to pack and unpack daily and being in a different location every day or so.

[Glorfindel]

43. Eight

Tokyo
London
New York City
Miami
Atlanta
Washington, DC
Houston (changing planes only)
Ho Chi Minh City (it was called "Saigon" then)

[DashOneBravo]

44. 11

[zanana1]

47. 2

I really need to get a life.

[Niagara]

62. You beat me.

I've been too many amazing places, just not the ones listed. I've only been to Chicago with this list.

[wnylib]

66. Wow. You make me feel well traveled

with my 4 cities.

[IcyPeas]

50. 7

[TomWilm]

51. Just eight...

(had expected to say fewer)

[bikebloke]

52. 12

[sarge43]

54. Eight n/t

[Wicked Blue]

55. 10

NYC (born there)
LA
London
Chicago
Houston
Miami
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Toronto
Washington DC (live in the suburbs)

Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Helsinki and Tallinn are too small to make the list

[Mr.Bill]

56. Six, all in the USA.

[smirkymonkey]

57. 7

US and Europe, but have been to lots more cities that didn’t quite make the list.

[Harker]

58. Four. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

59. 11, but if you mean something other than just the airport, 10. NT

[Boomerproud]

60. 8 hopefully more in the future.

Nt

[LeftInTX]

61. 9

I lived in Tokyo for a few years...

The rest have all been in the US
Surprised to see DC on the list

My sister has been to a bunch of them.
She's currently an international law professor in Doha Qatar...Prior to the she was an international law professor here in the US.

She was also a Rhodes Scholar.

So, she knows people from all over the world.
She used to do this tour: Get invited to speak in India and Dubai. Dubai would pay her air fare. (Business class..LOL)
She would then go to India and speak over there. In India she would stay in 5 Star places. (India paid her accommodations, but Dubai always paid for her air fare no matter where she went on the way home)

She's been all over though...She also frequently goes to Japan and London.

[Niagara]

63. One. Chicago on multiple occasions. (n/t)

[Generic Brad]

64. 5

I’ve lived in Los Angeles. Visited the other four.

[3catwoman3]

65. 17

Tokyo
Osaka
NYC
LA
Moscow
Paris
Bangkok
Nagoya
London
Chicago
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kong
Houston
Dallas
Toronto
Singapore
Wash DC

[UTUSN]

67. 12 - not too shabby?

Mx City, Hong Kong, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Barcelona, D.C., Guadalajara, LA, London (airport only), Saigon, Madrid, 

[electric_blue68]

69. 6

I'm a born & bred 💖 NYC'r so won't count that.

Phillidelphia
Washington DC
LA
Atlanta
Toronto
Paris


Chicago 💖 is hopefully my next city to visit! 👍

I've been in other USA cities (plus Montreal, and Geneva) that aren't on the list.

I love, and have been parts of the USA deep 💖 countryside, too.

[Demovictory9]

70. 8

😊

[Totally Tunsie]

74. 9, having lived in 2 (LA and Chicago)

[sinkingfeeling]

75. 23

[steve2470]

76. another wow !... may I ask, jobs and or military or ? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

78. Job for US cities and the rest from international travel.

[FakeNoose]

77. 9 not counting Atlanta, where I've only flown into the airport

I'm wondering where's Berlin, Germany on this list?
Berlin should be on there, I think it's over 6 million, am I right?

[steve2470]

79. it's the way the UN counts

Berlin certainly is a huge city. I am surprised it's not on the list, but maybe further down a bit.

Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr.[3] The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has over six million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin

https://population.un.org/wup/Publications/Files/WUP2018-Highlights.pdf