Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Largest metro areas and languages of the WORLD!

LARGEST METRO AREAS OF THE WORLD!

Numbers shown are the population within the immediate surrounding area of the established border of the city, and also include the city limit population figures. Revised (10/01/04)

Toyko, Japan
31.2 million
New York City - Philadelphia area, USA
30.1 million
Mexico City, Mexico
21.5 million
Seoul, South Korea
20.15 million
Sao Paulo, Brazil
19.9 million
Jakarta, Indonesia 18.2 million [I live here, previously I lived in San Francisco]
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, Japan
17.6 million
New Delhi, India
17.36 million
Mumbai, India (Bombay)
17.34 million
Los Angeles, USA
16.7 million
Cairo, Egypt
15.86 million
Calcutta, India
14.3 million
Manila, Philippines
14.1 million
Shanghai, China
13.9 million
Buenos Aires, Argentina
13.2 million
Moscow, Russian Fed.
12.2 million

LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
Languages spoken by the most people (Native speakers only)

Chinese Mandarin
1 billion +
English
512 million
Hindustania
498 million
Spanish
391 million
Russian
280 million
Arabic
245 million
Bengali
211 million
Portuguese
192 million
Malay-Indonesian
160 million
Japanese
125 million
German
100 million
Korean
78 million
French
77 million
Chinese, Wu
77 million
Javanese
75 million
Chinese. Yue
71 million

2 comments:

jomama said...

I've heard that English is the most widely spoken even tho there are still more native Mandarin speakers.

Irwan Hartanto said...

Not really, with the emerging super power (China). More and more people ar learning Mandarin from already the most widely spoken languange. Chinese are not only thos who stay in China. There so many Chinese people in Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia and America who are stuill preserving their Mandarin.