+265 It's crazy that the city of Tokyo has a larger population than all of Canada, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I saw this map type thing the other day where a country's physical size was proportional to its economic value, and I remeber Japan was the size of Canada. Hectic!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Am I misunderstanding something? Because I got the entire population of Canada to be around 35,000,000 and the population of Tokyo as around 13,000,000.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://esa.un.org/unup/index.asp?panel=2 Its metropolitan area has ~36,000,000 people—thus making it the largest metropolitan area in the world.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ah, all right. Thank you for clearing that up. :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

well it's not necessarily surprising considering most of Canada is too cold and therefore inhabitable, but it's definitely interesting.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not quite. The population of Canada is around 34 million, while Tokyo is around 13 million. It only topped 13 million around 2010, so I doubt it more than tripled its population in a year.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yah, well it's weirder to think the population of New York area has a larger population than Canada...

by Anonymous 12 years ago