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Originally Posted by JManc
So is London as we all know it, technically called "Greater London"?
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Yeah, that's pretty much the definition everybody here uses. The former county of London was expanded in the 1960s to incorporate parts of surrounding counties which had become part of the urbanized area, but not the distinct and separated towns which were part of the commuter belt even back then, more so today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_London
The County of London was 117sqm compared with 606sqm for the current Greater London.
Much of Greater London it's suburban in nature, but then so are parts of NYC (Staten Island for example), there is no apples to apples comparison between the two based on any legal boundaries I would agree, and to me the most reasonable metro definition for London is the LUZ of around 13m people so on that measure it is several million behind NY MSA.