From: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM (Peter Taylor)
Subject: Re: Largest cities by area
Reply-To: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:19:26 GMT


crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:
> ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
> >dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
> >> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> >> >Daniel Blum (blum@news.ils.nwu.edu) writes:
> >> >>
> >> >>I prefer not to discuss suburbs,
> >> >>etc., since they're impossible to define consistently.
> >> >
> >> >And so are cities. Some places are divided into a number of
> >> >small cities and boroughs like London. Others takes the whole 
> >> >and a lot of wasteland around it. You call that consistent?
> >> 
> >> And indeed, Jacksonville and Juneau have expanded to take in rural
> >> areas.  Jacksonville more or less merged with its county and someone
> >> has already described what Juneau did.  Virginia Beach, Virginia also
> >> merged with its county.  Another case like this, although I don't know
> >> the exact details, is Toronto.  Any Ontarions want to fill us in?
> >> 
> >There exists a "City of Toronto" within a Metro Toronto, which is a 
> >group of cities (Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York) and the 
> >Borough of East York (which I'll call a city for convenience).  The 
> >individual cities are separate municipalities but some of their
> >councillors are on a Metro Council that deals with issues that they
> >have agreed to share, eg transit, emergency services.  
> >
> >I don't know where the individual cities or Metro rank in size, except
> >that Metro Toronto is the largest "city" in Canada at about 2.5 - 2.6 
> >million people.  Metro does not even come close to encompassing all of
> >the suburbs of Toronto.......one would have to include 3 neighbouring 
> >"regions" (counties) in order to do so.  
> 
> Does every city have a mayor?  How about defining the city to include the
> regions subject to the mayor?
> 

In Metro Toronto's case, yes........each city has a mayor.  Metro is headed
by a "Metro Chairman", though.

Mark Brader wrote (BTW, nice posting, Mark!):
..The City of Toronto has a population a little over 600,000, still the
..largest component of Metro but not by much.  Metro has about 2.3 million,
..and I believe the census metropolitan area runs to about 3.8 million.
..
..ALL numbers and facts in the foregoing are FROM MEMORY, but should be
..substantially correct.

Mark's numbers are probably better than mine.  By going with the arbitrary
rule that a "city" is run by somebody elected to the post of "mayor", Toronto
would likely not be the largest city in Canada.

The point:  I'm not sure that there is one.  I guess it's that there's no
objective way to settle this thread.

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