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These three places all have about the same population size (lemmy.world)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

How to define a city is a huge thing, and there's actually a laundry list of different techniques geographers can use.

It's a concentration of people, but settlement patterns vary, and the way they're politically organised or locally referred to varies even more.