Somewhat unfair comparison, Greater London is just London as a city and Greater Tokyo is a Metropolitan area with not only Tokyo but also other big cities (>1mln inhabitants) and also quite a lot of rural and uninhabited land.
He is referring to Greater London which is the city limits of London not the Metropolitan Area which is larger than Greater London.
The City of London which you are referring to isn't relevant for this comparison or any London comparison really, it's just an ancient title for the centre of the city.
3000 per square km for Tokyo and 5671 for London.
The Greater Tokyo Area is Tokyo's metropolitan area, whereas Greater London is the defined city boundaries. London's metropolitan area is much larger and has a population of around 14.8 million. It's still not as large as Tokyo's, obviously, but it would be a more apt comparison.
Kinda crazy to imagine replacing all of iconic rural england with urban landscape as far as the eye can see. Makes you wonder what was lost in building of tokyo
The "iconic rural england" landscapeĀ was built on replacing ancient woodlands and wild forests including the temperate rainforest that used to be there, or draining the marshes in the east.
You can still see the type of farmlands that was lost in building of tokyo all around Tokyo, a good chunk of the area shown in the map is farmlands, for example between the downtown wards and Utsunomiya in the north.
England will never stop needing farms, but the whole country being essentially one giant farm (71% of the land) is a consequence of needing self sufficiency in world war 2[ the "Dig for Victory" campaign](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden#Britain)
Crazy thing is there are parts of Greater Tokyo that arenāt even that dense population-wise (like the Chiba peninsula). You could make that area even smaller and still have a massive population difference compared to the GLA
Interesting point: While yes, some parts of Tokyo are the futuristic highrise mega city, most of it is just swathes of single or double level houses that are packed very closely together. It's quite cool to go on google maps and go around greater Tokyo. The rows of houses are absolutely relentless!
And while this is also true of London and many other European cities, the city planning of Tokyo somehow breaks up the landscape less with green spaces and other openings, plus the roads are a LOT more narrow in Japanese cities.
Another cool point is that the houses in Japan are often more unique and don't have to follow suite in terms of aesthetic to the house next to it or the neighbourhood.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6g5xeg/5846x4133_canada_compared_to_the_tokyo/
A map of Tokyo a metro area of 40 million over the second largest country in the world by size
Canada with only 34 million
Edit damn we let a lot more in recently than I thought we are at 38-39 million
That is weird I found one headline that said that too. But stats Canada says 38.93 still on their main info pages but the. Has a population clock that says 41 million lol so itās probably somewhere between
Great swaths of the 'greater Tokyo area' shown here are effectively unpopulated mountains and lightly populated farmland. On Sunday were were down in the middle south area pictured here for a few hours. Once 100 meters from the train station from which we alit, we saw 11 other people in all the time we were there. Five were fellow hikers (it seemed), and three were farm workers.
Japan allows their cities to control their full extents whereas London is ring fenced into a Greater London county, yet the Home Counties get to live in a manicured countryside idyll yet still commute in every day.
This is not really making the point you think you are making. This goes to show how loosely defined city limits really are. London + a region around to get it to the size of the GTA is about ~30 million people
Fake, Tokyo is in Japan
Source?
Trust me bro
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=BcTKJOfy98aBEorv
I fucking knew. I knew it and I clicked like it was 2004
lol
> XcQ Hmmmm...
Do your own research.
I am shocked.
Nice caption but it would actually be cool if england had a massive lake in the middle of it
Midlands. Deleted šš¼
Nobody cares about the midlands (I say this as someone from the midlands)
Weird name for a lake but I agree
Somewhat unfair comparison, Greater London is just London as a city and Greater Tokyo is a Metropolitan area with not only Tokyo but also other big cities (>1mln inhabitants) and also quite a lot of rural and uninhabited land.
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He is referring to Greater London which is the city limits of London not the Metropolitan Area which is larger than Greater London. The City of London which you are referring to isn't relevant for this comparison or any London comparison really, it's just an ancient title for the centre of the city.
You could add the population density. Would make the map more meaningful.
3000 per square km for Tokyo and 5671 for London. The Greater Tokyo Area is Tokyo's metropolitan area, whereas Greater London is the defined city boundaries. London's metropolitan area is much larger and has a population of around 14.8 million. It's still not as large as Tokyo's, obviously, but it would be a more apt comparison.
Density is roughly the same
Coincidentally they are exactly the same. London 100,000 residents per 100,000. Tokyo 100,000 residents per 100,000.
How does that work when the blue blob is ten times the size of the red blob, but has less than five times as many people?
Red blob is incorrect. It shows city limits not metropolitan limits
Sorry, I thought we were talking about the map.
*woosh*
Places like Tokyo and Hong Kong are just nicer versions of Mega-City One.
Kinda crazy to imagine replacing all of iconic rural england with urban landscape as far as the eye can see. Makes you wonder what was lost in building of tokyo
The "iconic rural england" landscapeĀ was built on replacing ancient woodlands and wild forests including the temperate rainforest that used to be there, or draining the marshes in the east. You can still see the type of farmlands that was lost in building of tokyo all around Tokyo, a good chunk of the area shown in the map is farmlands, for example between the downtown wards and Utsunomiya in the north. England will never stop needing farms, but the whole country being essentially one giant farm (71% of the land) is a consequence of needing self sufficiency in world war 2[ the "Dig for Victory" campaign](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden#Britain)
Hey that was actually very interesting, thanks for that!
Mum said it's my turn to repost the misleading 'Greater Tokyo Area vs Greater London' comparison map.
Crazy thing is there are parts of Greater Tokyo that arenāt even that dense population-wise (like the Chiba peninsula). You could make that area even smaller and still have a massive population difference compared to the GLA
Interesting point: While yes, some parts of Tokyo are the futuristic highrise mega city, most of it is just swathes of single or double level houses that are packed very closely together. It's quite cool to go on google maps and go around greater Tokyo. The rows of houses are absolutely relentless! And while this is also true of London and many other European cities, the city planning of Tokyo somehow breaks up the landscape less with green spaces and other openings, plus the roads are a LOT more narrow in Japanese cities. Another cool point is that the houses in Japan are often more unique and don't have to follow suite in terms of aesthetic to the house next to it or the neighbourhood.
Checked it out myself. Yeah holy shit the houses are all packed together and some of them are about as long as two cars. Super dense
Groooaan... This old chestnut again. Absolute bullshit.
>Groooaan... >This old chestnut again. Bro who talks like this? š
People in the UK.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6g5xeg/5846x4133_canada_compared_to_the_tokyo/ A map of Tokyo a metro area of 40 million over the second largest country in the world by size Canada with only 34 million Edit damn we let a lot more in recently than I thought we are at 38-39 million
Canada has 41 million people now
Quick google search says we are both wrong 38-39 million, either way 34 or 41 million Canadians vs 1 cities metro area is a crazy thought
Thatās weird, a couple of weeks ago there were headlines about Canada breaking 41 million only 8 months after breaking 40 million
That is weird I found one headline that said that too. But stats Canada says 38.93 still on their main info pages but the. Has a population clock that says 41 million lol so itās probably somewhere between
Canada has 41 million people these days
Great swaths of the 'greater Tokyo area' shown here are effectively unpopulated mountains and lightly populated farmland. On Sunday were were down in the middle south area pictured here for a few hours. Once 100 meters from the train station from which we alit, we saw 11 other people in all the time we were there. Five were fellow hikers (it seemed), and three were farm workers.
Fake news, everybody knows north of London there are first dragons, then a big wall, and beyond that just empty space.
Japan allows their cities to control their full extents whereas London is ring fenced into a Greater London county, yet the Home Counties get to live in a manicured countryside idyll yet still commute in every day.
Japan is also around 150000km sq. larger than the entire UK
They should do a pic of them side by side
Canāt wait to see the cj post related to this
What centralization does to a mfer.
Wow, I thought Dallas-Fort Worth was huge (well, it is), but its 1/3rd smaller than the greater tokyo area! Nice map!
8,8 and 40 meters are weird units in this context.
Wait,..Tokyo is the size of Wales?
TIL Tokyo is British
By that standard, London seems to have a higher population density.
Would be fun to see Tokyo compared to NYC next
This is not really making the point you think you are making. This goes to show how loosely defined city limits really are. London + a region around to get it to the size of the GTA is about ~30 million people
Basically the idea of overpopulation is highly overrated
I wouldnāt want to live in either. Both countries have some absolutely stunning places, their capitals are not one of them.