Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-24
IN THE DAYS NEWS
The Worlds Largest City,


 What is the largest city in the world?
 The question arises again with the British census announcement which ascribes to Greater London T,476,Iss people" says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C.. headquarters of the National Geographic Society.
 Since the 1920 census gave New York City a population of 5,62o,o4S, ,> there would seem to be no question re- garding the relative size, of the two cities. But if one seeks to know what is the largest population center in the world. then New York can advance a tenable claim against London for the honor.
 Strictly speaking the municipality Of New York has more people than the municipality of London. For legally, as a municipal unit. London refers only to the area within the boundaries | of the County of London. Thus the municipal London, which corresponds to the municipal New York, comprises about 116 square miles and, in 1911, l had a population of four and a half million. Only the Greater London | figures are carried in dispatches, but i at the rate of growth they indicate. ! London proper still is under the five million mark.
 ] ''The Greater London which has
 nearly seven and a half million has
 an existence as a metropolitan and police unit. IL is municipal London plus the so-called Outer Ring" The 1 7,476, 16S people of Greater London are
 distributed over 69S square miles. an area six times that of municipal Lon
 don, and more than twice that of | municipal New York.
 Tn passing it should be noted that
 not only is there a distinction between
 Greater Lonaon' and plain London
 but that the ity of London is some
 thing yet again. The City of London
 covers only 675 acres and has a resi-
 dent population of fewer than 25,0eo.
 The day population, however, exceeds
 5oo.000. The Gig of London is the
 London of history, with its o5sasat gov ernment forms, including its lord
 mayor which is installed annually with
 a time honored ceremony known as the 1 lord-mayor's show.
 New York of today is an agglomer-
 ation of towns. All have been am-
 algamated with the original New York. comprised in what now is the borough of Manhattan. or the county of New |. York. The New York which includes the boroughs of Manhattan. Brooklyn. I bEOnN, queens ana hlClmOnO. IS a . municipal unit with an area of 326 square miles and population of B. 2 s2o.04s.
 2 The Greater London includes all the suburbs within a radius Of i5 miles around Charing Cross. By this
 definition New York also should in- ] clude Jersey City, Hoboken and Bay s onne. across the Hudson, and Yonkers = Mt. Vernon and New Rochelle to the s north.
 T Suppose New York were to add to : miles of Hudson. Essex and Union c counties in New Jersey. It still would . be a hundred square miles smaller than Greater London but would pass the seven million mark in population. Were
 il then to ''Eions of Westchestel . County the Bronx) and oi l. Nassau C'.. ,on Long Island) il ' would pass i.sndon's population vel s within a like area
 II Summing up, then. municipal New . York is larger than municipal Lon- U don. A mythical Greater New York extending as far into its envirn as doe, Greater London would be larger thar
 Greater London Aside from munici. 1, pal definition New York and the terri. U tory about it constitutes a greatei !, population center than London. , Within fifty miles of City Hall, New . York, there now live more than min. ii million people, and within a hundred ' mile radius lives one-ninth the entir, r population of the United States"