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Population of your city?

Less then a 1,000	4%	[ 2 ]
Between a 1,000 and 5,000	8%	[ 4 ]
5,000 to 10,000	4%	[ 2 ]
10,000- 100,000	39%	[ 20 ]
100,000- 1,000,000	22%	[ 11 ]
1,000,000- 25,000,000	16%	[ 8 ]
500,000- 1,000,000	8%	[ 4 ]

Total votes : 51

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24 Jul 2008, 9:22 pm

La Mirada, California. 50,993 according to the signs.

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24 Jul 2008, 11:19 pm

Dozen years ago I moved here, from a "tri-city" area with population of perhaps 300,000.
Where I live now has around 13,000-officially it's a "town".
Grew up in "city" (officially designated as such) of 6,000.
Curious that "town" has twice the population of the "city"-I usually consider a city to be more populous than a town.

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24 Jul 2008, 11:23 pm

In PA, anything over 50,000 is considered a city.

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24 Jul 2008, 11:35 pm

Belfast wrote:

The difference between a "city" and a "town" in the US is generally more of a governmental thing. For example, in New Jersey, we have the city of Corbin with a population of 468, while one of our largest municipalities is the township of Edison with a population of 100K. I am not sure what the official difference is, but it is obviously not related to the colloquial use of the word "city".

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25 Jul 2008, 1:25 am

The last entry in your poll doesn't fit.

I'm in Sydney Australia which is approx 4.3 million for the metropolitan area

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25 Jul 2008, 1:33 am

twoshots wrote:

Belfast wrote:

In the UK a 'city' has tradionally been anywhere that had a cathedral or a royal charter.This
led to a number of small villages calling themselves 'cities' whereas newer towns with populations as high as 100,000 didn't have that privelege.
Nowadays it's generally accepted that when people in the UK talk about cities they mean the
big metropolitan areas.

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25 Jul 2008, 3:01 am

melbourne has about 3 million people as far as i know.
could be wrong, i have heard about the number going up..

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25 Jul 2008, 6:01 am

I live in the middle of nowhere. It can't be called a city. The population here is around 10. However if you want to include cows then probably in the tens of thousands.

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25 Jul 2008, 8:21 am

Why only up to one million? My city has over two million.

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25 Jul 2008, 9:13 am

45,000-50,000 and is not technically a city yet (stupid council won't call it one)

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25 Jul 2008, 10:07 am

blue_bean wrote:

45,000-50,000 and is not technically a city yet (stupid council won't call it one)

Which town would you be from? Or do I have to guess?

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25 Jul 2008, 6:08 pm

around 80,000 in the town proper, and 120,000ish in the borough/surrounding villages and hamlets.

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25 Jul 2008, 6:58 pm

I am guessing the 100,000 - 1 million option should be 100,000 - 500,000. Because then you have 500k - 1m.

So, 100-500k is what I chose.

Edinburgh - population 430,000, but it's on the rise. I'm guessing people would be surprised the city's population is as little as that.

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25 Jul 2008, 7:16 pm

Keeno wrote:

Wow

Yeah, I knew it was a small city compared to say London, but I expected it to be in the region of 900k-1m

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25 Jul 2008, 7:33 pm

blue_bean wrote:

45,000-50,000 and is not technically a city yet (stupid council won't call it one)

Milton Keynes (pop. 180,000) isn't technically a city yet. It can only be a city once the Queen wants it to be a city.

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25 Jul 2008, 7:43 pm

I think in England, traditionally, it has to have a cathedral to be a city (and a village is a town without a church, a hamlet a village with a chapel, etc...) but I'm not sure how true that is now.

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