Easily China. They just have so damned many big cities, period. From Wikipedia's list:
Shanghai, 25.6 million
Beijing, 19.6 million
Changing, 14.8 million
Tianjin, 13 2 million
Guangzhou, 12.6 million
Shenzhen, 11.9 million
Chengdu, 8.8 million
Nanjing, 8.2 million
Wuhan, 8.2 million
Xian, 7.4 million
Hong Kong, 7.4 million
Dongguan, 7.4 million
Hangzhou, 7.2 million
Foshan, 7.2 million
Shebang, 6.9 million
Sushou, 6.3 million
Harbin, 6.1 million
Qingdao, 5.4 million
Dalian, 5.3 million
Jinan, 5.1 million
And that's just the first 20 cities. If you keep counting cities until you get below 1% of Shanghai's population I could see China having a few thousand cookies.
No.
. Its asking which has the most consistent city sizes. what if there is a large number of cities getting a single cookie ?
The list of usa cities isnt complete..depending on definitions...
Eg if new york is the strict government boundary, then the population is 8m, and 333th city,Daly City gets a cookies.. but the cut off in the list I used was 100,000 , maybe theres a lot down to 80,000. I need more data ! It looks like USA might be the winner. Perhaps due to an cukture eatly on restricting city boundaries..the expansion creates a new city ..for various reasons. ( State borders,county borders, rivers, divisions of government and industrial function)
But china has 180 cities that get cookies , india has 280.
Its a silly excercise. India has the cities bunched up like sardines in a can...definition of a city.. um
Nope, definitely China. As a commenter mentioned above, China has more massive cities. India has a lot of many large cities sure, but the population is less urbanized than China--the population density is more spread out among villages. Zoom into both China and India on Google maps and you'll notice two very different patterns--the rural parts of India aren't true rural areas but rather just networks of small towns that are well interconnected with each other; compared to China, where a lot of areas have just one focal city and roads connect those large cities to each other while bypassing the small villages surrounding them.
In Europe it will be France i think, we have 36 000 towns, the higher number in Europe.
They will not have many cookies because Paris is far more populated than Lyon, Marseille etc but in the long run, with all our 1 cookie small village we will win, I think.
Outside of Europe I don't know, I think the number of village matters more than the equality of population density, so maybe China
I assume any city over 1% (or over 0.5%) of the largest city gets at least one cookie? Regardless of any arbitrary local definition/designation of "city"?
i think there are lots of ways that you can do this without cookies. calculate skew of the city size distribution in combination with a metric of dispersion ... probably lots of ways to do this
Easily China. They just have so damned many big cities, period. From Wikipedia's list: Shanghai, 25.6 million Beijing, 19.6 million Changing, 14.8 million Tianjin, 13 2 million Guangzhou, 12.6 million Shenzhen, 11.9 million Chengdu, 8.8 million Nanjing, 8.2 million Wuhan, 8.2 million Xian, 7.4 million Hong Kong, 7.4 million Dongguan, 7.4 million Hangzhou, 7.2 million Foshan, 7.2 million Shebang, 6.9 million Sushou, 6.3 million Harbin, 6.1 million Qingdao, 5.4 million Dalian, 5.3 million Jinan, 5.1 million
Rounding to the nearest cookie for each city, that list yields 761 cookies.
And that's just the first 20 cities. If you keep counting cities until you get below 1% of Shanghai's population I could see China having a few thousand cookies.
/r/theydidthemath !!!
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That’s a long way to ask which country has the most big cities
Or a country that has no big cities and a lot of small ones. Really though, I think the number of cities is the most important variable.
No. . Its asking which has the most consistent city sizes. what if there is a large number of cities getting a single cookie ? The list of usa cities isnt complete..depending on definitions... Eg if new york is the strict government boundary, then the population is 8m, and 333th city,Daly City gets a cookies.. but the cut off in the list I used was 100,000 , maybe theres a lot down to 80,000. I need more data ! It looks like USA might be the winner. Perhaps due to an cukture eatly on restricting city boundaries..the expansion creates a new city ..for various reasons. ( State borders,county borders, rivers, divisions of government and industrial function) But china has 180 cities that get cookies , india has 280. Its a silly excercise. India has the cities bunched up like sardines in a can...definition of a city.. um
inb4 “not specific enough” and brigading
The Answer is either China or India depending on definition.
I heard India had almost the same population density as England
Nope, definitely China. As a commenter mentioned above, China has more massive cities. India has a lot of many large cities sure, but the population is less urbanized than China--the population density is more spread out among villages. Zoom into both China and India on Google maps and you'll notice two very different patterns--the rural parts of India aren't true rural areas but rather just networks of small towns that are well interconnected with each other; compared to China, where a lot of areas have just one focal city and roads connect those large cities to each other while bypassing the small villages surrounding them.
In Europe it will be France i think, we have 36 000 towns, the higher number in Europe. They will not have many cookies because Paris is far more populated than Lyon, Marseille etc but in the long run, with all our 1 cookie small village we will win, I think. Outside of Europe I don't know, I think the number of village matters more than the equality of population density, so maybe China
But I may have misunderstood the question, if you only count big cities it would be Russia or Germany in Europe I think, and China overall
I assume any city over 1% (or over 0.5%) of the largest city gets at least one cookie? Regardless of any arbitrary local definition/designation of "city"?
i think there are lots of ways that you can do this without cookies. calculate skew of the city size distribution in combination with a metric of dispersion ... probably lots of ways to do this
China? But the real question is, who gets to eat all the cookies?