Talk:List of highest towns by country

message: How come there are two "world's highest cities"???
  Can we Change the name... I think it sounds grammatically painful...
That whole article looks like it was slapped together haphazardly. Why would you list the world's highest mines in a list of the world's highest cities? And it's got like 4 highest cities in the world... Peru, Tibet, Bolivia, the city in Nepal is higher than the one in Bolivia... I hope somebody re-writes the whole thing.
This list is towns right?
Well in that case Denali in Alaska is the highest point in the US, but it is in fact not a town. 
Leadville, Colorado is the highest incorporated city in the United States at 10,152ft(3,094m), Climax, Colorado is the highest settlement in the United States at 11,360ft.
Also, Lake Louise (which is officially a hamlet, not even a town) is marked as the highest on the continent, despite many being higher in Colorado. Not to mention the comment about "Many ski towns and villages are higher" is quite confusing. Finally, the elevation of LL doesn't even match their official elevation on the wikipedia page for them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.216.211.183 (talk) 17:59, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've given this a pretty severe trime; removing all but the highest claim for each country and rewording the intro to stress that any permanent settlement is accepted.  Citations are needed for the heights and for the claims to be the highest place in the nation. Warofdreams talk 23:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: name change

message: I've moved Alma up in the rankings because the original link went to information that is outdated (and maybe inaccurate). Alma is still the highest city in the US, but the new source puts it a few feet higher, which is all it needs to go from #21 to #17 and the source seems more legitimate than the old one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.192.163 (talk) 20:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alma 

message: It is claimed here that Juf (Switzerland) is the highest populated place in Europe (2126 m) This is probably not correct. There should be places in the Caucasus mountains higher than this, for example Kurush (Dagestan, Russian Federation) which also appears in this page (2480 m). The part of Caucasus that belongs to the Russian Federation  is actually a part of Europe, and the highest peak of Europe is Elbruz in this area. Antipoeten 21:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest populated place in Europe? 

message: Although controlled by Israel, according to public international law this place is still part of Syria. --81.62.68.243 (talk) 00:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. I have corrected it. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 13:32, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Majdal Shams 

message: The altitude claimed here for the city of La Paz, Bolivia is way too high.
I was unable to find the correct authoritative value(s) so I leave that to someone else.
Take care to use the average value not the highest point, on this city in particular.
Also take care to use numbers for the actual city, not entire La Paz Department.
This page currently says:
Bolivia El Alto Departamento de La Paz 4100 (13488 ft)[citation needed] [4] 
Citation [4] is a dead link to http://www.elalto.gob.bo/ (and should be fixed or replaced)
whereas:
The page for La_Paz,_Bolivia says Elevation 3,640 m (11,942 ft) 
and a casual websearch shows a range of numbers cited between ~3100-3820m, with 3510m and ">3600m" being commonly cited.
According to a couple of sources the airport is at 3900-4100m (higher than the city).
Another source claims the lowest point is 3100m and highest is 4060m, but that sounds like La Paz Department.
Smcinerney (talk) 12:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Altitude of La Paz is inaccurate 

message: When I saw this list I thought it was highly doubtful that a city of 1 million inhabitants was also the highest city in Bolivia. However, the bolivian government does not list official elevations for the 300+ municipalities on record. I've been scouring through geonames.org to look for populations in La Paz, Potosi and Oruro. The highest I found that was also listed in the Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (http://www.ine.gob.bo/indice/atlasmunicipal.aspx) was Colquechaca, Chayanta, Potosi.  There are various other localities in geonames that are higher but I have no other confirmation that they are permanent populations.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djescalera (talk • contribs) 19:53, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest town in Bolivia 

message: You put together cities, towns, villages and hamlets!.
Usually a city or town is defined by a minimum amount of inhabitants.
You should write two different articles: " list of highest settlements" and "list of highest cities and towns". The way the did with northest settlements.
Lele giannoni (talk) 13:10, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Towns or villages?

message: I agree. This list should only contain only towns with at least 10.000 habitants. Otherwise, any small settlement could be included.
Besides - this lists losses a lot of accuracy below the 2.000 m mark, since the list is obviously incomplete.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Izelpii (talk • contribs) 00:28, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Re:Towns or villages?

message: This article needs a population column.
Some settlements are too small to be on this list (some even less than 100 people).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Izelpii (talk • contribs) 00:33, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree Darwwin (talk) 06:53, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population column 

message: Cities at 300m are obviously very nice, but do not make any sense whatsoever. I mean there are like a dozen villages in the Alps around 1500+ meters. Therefore I think that this list should become a list of the highest 100 towns/cities in the world and then one could maybe make a separate list of the 5 highest villages/towns of each country, but the current list does not seem to make much sense, except if you want to have all villages above sea level on your, then extremely immense, list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mythicism (talk • contribs) 23:53, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top-50/Top-100 

message: The list is obviously being built over time, and there are many glaring omissions.  For instance, Denver, Colorado was not on the list (I've since added Denver and Leadville).  I think we need to constantly move the list around since it was obviously user-generated and no single user could be expected to know all of the world's highest cities.
Constructive suggestion: we don't need 80+ places listed, especially when the bottom entries are well under a half-mile high.  The "highest towns" moniker should be saved for truly high altitude towns/cities, of which there are plenty in the world. Also, the list should not be longer than 50 in my opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ABTsportsline (talk • contribs) 19:57, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's a work in progress, but needs help by virtue of constant updates from us! 

message: I disagree with places like Gorak Shep, Dingoboche, etc. as not being inhabited year round. In the past, this was true, but not anymore. Gorak Shep may be too small to be a town though. This is not true of Dingboche though. It's probably the 2nd largest town in the Khumbu, after Namche Bazaar, though I'm not 100% sure on this.  For sure it is large enough to be considered a town.  It is cultivated.  
Chukkhung is probably large enough too.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.82.251.229 (talk) 16:31, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nepal towns 

message: Davos  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragentsheets (talk • contribs) 23:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Davos is missing, should be "highest city in Europe" 

message: Northern Ireland is part of the UK ('United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'), not a dependency. There are many permanent settlements in Antarctica - research stations - do these not count?  Pgdave (talk) 10:37, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dependencies 

message: This list is a nice mixture of highest settlements (for example: Italy and Switzerland) and highest towns (or communes) - it should be standardized! --PatrickBrauns (talk) 13:20, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Towns? 

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message: Most of these highest towns are unreferenced. Also by looking at a topography map,  I was able to spot towns/villages higher than those listed here. YousefAbdollah (talk) 18:31, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
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Irregularities/Original Research
 

message: It is currently in the "Sovereign, fully recognized countries" list, but it is not a "fully recognized country", there are several countries and organizations that does not recognize it. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 13:29, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Israel is not a fully recognized country 

message: Hello, as far as I know the highest village in Liechtenstein is Malbun at an elevation of 1600m above sea level.--Hogü-456 (talk) 21:36, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest village in Liechtenstein