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The Shanghai Metro is both the world's longest metro network at 896 kilometres (557 mi) and the busiest with the highest annual ridership reaching approximately 2.83 billion passenger trips. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The New York City Subway has the greatest number of stations, with 472.
The nine lines now make up one of the world’s largest metro networks, covering 500 miles (312 kilometers) and 288 stations and carrying almost seven million passengers per day. New York City Subway
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on road network density and the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
A "city cluster" is defined as "[a]n area in which cities are relatively densely distributed in a certain region". In an older standard, the term was mistranslated as " agglomeration ". [ 12 ] [ 11 ] In 2019, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published guidelines and made a distinction from a similar concept " metropolitan area ...
Satellite image of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States and one of the largest in the world, with Long Island in the east and Manhattan at the center of the densest part of the image A metropolitan area usually includes a main city and a series of smaller satellite cities as can be seen in this map of Madrid's metropolitan area (click on the map to ...
It is the second-largest single metropolitan area in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 8,547 km 2 (3,300 mi 2), behind only the New York City metropolitan area at 11,642 km 2 (4,495 mi 2). [5] With over US$2 trillion in GDP, Tokyo remains the second-largest metropolitan economy in the world, also behind New York.
Urban area Country Built-up land area (km 2) Population Urban population density (per km 2) Greater Los Angeles United States: 87,940 18,316,743 541.1 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (Bay Area) United States: 26,390 9,710,000 953 New York City (New York City Metropolitan Area) United States: 12,093 20,902,000 1,728 Boston–Providence United ...