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Originally Posted by Minato Ku
No Shiro this report use metropolitan or urban area for European city.
The two largest city named are London and Paris, not London and Berlin if city limits were used.
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Obviously they made a change there, but not for other cities. Western Europe has ~300 >150,000 metro areas (do you want me to list them?
) and not just 186.
France alone has over 50 and this is by the INSEE method of 40% commuters. If we were to truely compare apples to apples and apply US Census methods (25%/15%) we'de end up with even more (maybe 500?, see how much GDP is generated in European "cities" then...)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aire_ur...aires_urbaines
EDIT-
This is my quick estimate of Western European metro areas >150,000:
Germany 80
UK 70
Italy 50
France 50
Spain 50
Netherlands 28
Belgium 12
Switzerland 9
Finland 7
Portugal 7
Greece 6
Austria 5
Norway 5
Sweden 5
Denmark 4
Ireland 2
Iceland 1
Luxemburg 0
Total: 391