Jakarta is allegedly the new largest city in the world

Submitted by In2restingFacts on November 25, 2025
A U.N. population report now claims that Tokyo has fallen from the top spot and that Jakarta and Dhaka have surpassed it, taking first and second place, respectively. How are we feeling about this here?
19 Comments
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Level 63
Nov 25, 2025
“we’re sinking, we’re sinking!”

“this is the german coast gaurd, what are you thinking about?”

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Level 82
Nov 25, 2025
A thousand quizzes are now obsolete
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Level 27
Nov 25, 2025
realistically probably not because a lot of city quizzes use citypop.de that makes guangzhou/shenzhen the largest
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Level ∞
Nov 25, 2025
Zero featured quizzes are obsolete because we never used the UN as our primary source for metro population.
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Level 72
Nov 25, 2025
population is arduous to count, especially with these massive cities. there is no true correct source, so sticking to one is probably the best way to go about this. if citypop.de changes, then i think it's fitting for JetPunk to update as well.
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Level 27
Nov 25, 2025
fair
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Level 51
Nov 25, 2025
Wait isnt Guangzhou more populous
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Level 27
Nov 25, 2025
no
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Level ∞
Nov 25, 2025
Yes, nearly twice as large.
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Level 27
Nov 25, 2025
no
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Level 61
Nov 25, 2025
Don't say no to da Quizmaster! He is too scary to mess with!
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Level 68
Nov 25, 2025
The source JetPunk uses merges Guangzhou with some cities in it, so it's more of an Agglomeration.
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Level 56
Nov 25, 2025
citypopulation.de merges Guangzhou with the nearby cities Shenzhen, Foshan and Dongguan, that's why it's so populous according to JetPunk
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Level 65
Nov 25, 2025
I feel like my family makes up a huge chunk of that population. Every time I go to Jakarta it seems like I have about 700 trillion new elder relatives to visit that I've literally never heard of in my life
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Level 27
Nov 25, 2025
every Asian friend I’ve ever had always has like 5000 relatives that they’re in a perpetual state of visiting
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Level 65
Nov 25, 2025
That's so true (please save me I have another wave of perpetual visitation next month)
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Level 47
Nov 25, 2025
Lol, I was nearly created same topic!
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Level 72
Nov 30, 2025
why u deleting ur stuff man
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Level 27
Nov 30, 2025
i deleted the 2100 thread because the thought experiment was complete and the discussion was getting away from the topic. QM deleted the age one