Wikipedia: City listing

Note: Within the United Kingdom, the status of city is conferred upon a settlement by the government (technically, by the reigning monarch, although the decision is made by the government). Settlements with cathedrals? within them automatically qualify [or past tense?], such as [St. David's]?, in West Pembroke on the extreme south-west of Wales, which is a tiny city (the smallest within the United Kingdom) based around the cathedral of St. David's built to commeorate Wales' patron saint. Also, the City of London is a square mile, basically the financial district, with a resident population of only 5,000, within Greater London.

United States

Cities by number of inhabitants

Shanghai, China - 13,700,000 / 14,200,000 metro area
[São Paulo, Brasil]? - 9,800,000 / 16,800,000 metro area
[Mexico City, Mexico]? - 9,800,000 / 16,900,000 metro area
[Tokyo, Japan]? - 7,800,000 / 27,000,000 metro area
New York City - 8,000,000 / 20,000,000 metro area
Beijing - ? / 12,000,000 metro area
Hong Kong - 7,110,000 / 7,110,000 metro area
London, England - ? / 7,000,000 metro area
[Calcutta, India]? - 4,300,000 / 11,000,000 metro area
Guangzhou, China - 4,050,000 / 6,850,000 metro area
[Fuzhou, China]? - 1,300,000 / 5,750,000 metro area

Cities (alphabetical)

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