At number 12 is Los Angeles

12,762,000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area

The number 11 is Buenos Aires, Argentina,

reaching the 13,074,000 inhabitants

At No. 10 is Karachi (Pakistan)

with 13,125,000 inhabitants

The number 9 is Dhaka (Bangladesh)

with 14,648,000 inhabitants

The number 8 is Calcutta (India)

15,552,000 souls

The number 7 is Shanghai (China)

with 16,575,000 inhabitants

As a country, China has 1,300 million,

the same population Worldwide in 1939

The number 6 is New York 19,425,000

people

The number 5 is
Mexico City with 19,460,000
inhabitants in its metropolitan area

THis was the total population

throughout Mexico in 1939)

The number 4 is Bombay (India)

with 20,041,000 inhabitants

The number 3 is Sao Paulo (Brazil) with

20,262,000 inhabitants

A city that is growing by leaps and

bounds.

The number 2 is Delhi (India)

with 22.157.000 people

(All India has a

population of 1,100
million)

And in the Station 1, the undisputed champion,

It is Tokyo, Japan, with 36,669,000 inhabitants

A demographic explosion!

There are some important observations:

- No European city on the list. Moscow is the
most populous city in Europe (10.5 million) and
is ranked 19
- In India there are millions in three cities: Delhi,
Bombay and Calcutta. Among the three exceed
the 57 million inhabitants.

Lets look at some aspects of the conditions

you live in big cities, especially in Asian ...

Here there live thousands

of families

Transport and
living -make people
feel

compressed, crowded, small,

drowned in a small space.

The multi resemble

huge beehives

A saturated beach
of bathers