Winnipeg is tiny...

...when compared to the largest cities in the world. After visiting Chicago, I became curious about the populations of various cities around the globe, and decided to compile a list of the top ten largest cities. The statistics I found are as of 2010, and the totals have been rounded either up or down. Numbers reflect the entire metropolitan area - not just the city centre - and also include suburbs.

1. Tokyo - Yokohama, Japan: 33,200,000
2. New York Metropolitan Area, United States: 17,800,000
3. Sao Paulo, Brazil: 17,700,000
4. Seoul-Incheon, South Korea: 17,500,000
5. Mexico City, Mexico: 17,400,000
6. Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, Japan: 16,425,000
7. Manila, Phillipines: 14,750,000
8. Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay): 14,350,000
9. Jakarta, Indonesia: 14,250,000
10. Lagos, Nigeria: 13,400,000

To put things into perspective, Paris is number 20 on the list, with 9,645,000. Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States, and has over nine million residents in the metropolitan area. In Winnipeg there are just over 740,000 people in the metropolitan area (which includes West & East St. Paul, Headingley, St. Francois Xavier, etc...)

We are literally just a dot on the globe...