9. At number 5 is
Mexico City with 19,460,000
inhabitants in its metropolitan area
This was the total population
throughout Mexico in 1939)
10. At number 4 is Bombay (India)
with 20,041,000 inhabitants
11. At number 3 is Sao Paulo (Brazil) with
20,262,000 inhabitants
A city that is growing by leaps and
bounds.
12. At number 2 is Delhi (India)
with 22.157.000 people
(All India has a
population of 1,100
million)
13. And in Position 1, the undisputed champion,
Tokyo, Japan, with 36,669,000 inhabitants
A demographic explosion!
14. 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 57 million inhabitants.
Lets look at some of the conditions People
live in big cities, especially in Asia ...
15. Here live thousands
of families!
Transport and
living -make
people feel…
compressed, crowded, small,
drowned in a small space.