Never mind countries, states - how about cities?

Everything else
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Thread rule: You actually have to have spent some time in the city, for business, pleasure, or otherwise - traveling through its airport or cruising though it on the highway to somewhere else doesn’t count…

10 Largest U.S. Cities (Metro Area)

1 	New York 	18,709,802
2 	Los Angeles 	12,925,330
3 	Chicago	         9,391,515
4 	Philadelphia 	 5,800,614
5 	Dallas           5,700,256
6 	Miami            5,361,723
7 	Houston	         5,180,443
8 	Washington       5,139,549
9 	Atlanta          4,708,297
10 	Detroit          4,493,165

10 Largest World Cities & Urban Areas (Populations in millions)

1   Tokyo           Japan         35.53
2   Mexico City     Mexico        19.24
3   Mumbai (Bombay) India         18.84
4   New York        USA           18.65
5   São Paulo       Brazil        18.61
6   Delhi           India         16.00
7   Calcutta        India         14.57
8   Jakarta         Indonesia     13.67
9   Buenos Aires    Argentina     13.52
10  Dhaka           Bangladesh    13.09

As far as I can remember (possibly excluding trips as a small kid), I’ve been to 8 of the top 10 U.S. (all but Miami and Detroit) and 2 of the top 10 world (New York and Sao Paulo)

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2/10 US (NY and Dallas)
2/10 World (Tokyo and NY)

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I’ve been to Sao Paulo and that’s it on the list. Will get the US as soon as entering the place is less like being arrested and more like having my fat tourist wallet welcomed into the place.

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Cool - I get a spiffy 0/10 & 0/10.

I will endeavour to find a new ranking, that places the cities I have visited higher.

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4/10 US (DC, NY, Philly, lived in Chicago)
2/10 World (NY, Tokyo)

I do a lot better in the top 10 EU cities, all but Warsaw:

  1. London, United Kingdom 7,428,600
  2. Berlin, Germany 3,396,990
  3. Madrid, Spain 3,155,359
  4. Rome, Italy 2,547,932
  5. Paris, France 2,144,700
  6. Hamburg, Germany 1,744,215
  7. Warsaw, Poland 1,697,596
  8. Budapest, Hungary 1,697,343
  9. Vienna, Austria 1,655,274
  10. Barcelona, Spain 1,612,237

Edit: original highlighting was left over from the cut-and-paste from Wikipedia, which marked the capital cities. Changed to reflect which ones I’ve been to, as Hanzii did.

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Thanks. Much better:

  1. London, United Kingdom 7,428,600
  2. Berlin, Germany 3,396,990
  3. Madrid, Spain 3,155,359
  4. Rome, Italy 2,547,932
  5. Paris, France 2,144,700
  6. Hamburg, Germany 1,744,215
  7. Warsaw, Poland 1,697,596
  8. Budapest, Hungary 1,697,343
  9. Vienna, Austria 1,655,274
  10. Barcelona, Spain 1,612,237
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Here’s a usefull list. Best countries to live in according to the Economist Intelligence Unit:

Ireland
Switzerland
Norway
Luxembourg
Sweden
Australia
Iceland
Italy
Denmark
Spain
Singapore
Finland
United States
Canada
New Zealand
The Netherlands
Japan
Hong Kong
Portugal
Austria
Taiwan
Greece
Cyprus
Belgium
France
Germany
Slovenia
Malta
Britain
South Korea
Chile
Mexico
Barbados
Czech Republic
Costa Rica
Malaysia
Hungary
Israel
Brazil
Argentina

Bottom (don’t know why it’s not the absolute bottom)

60 China
65 Morocco
71 Indonesia
80 Egypt
92 South Africa
93 Pakistan
105 Russia
108 Nigerie
110 Haiti
111 Zimbabwe

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Largest US:
NY, LA, Chicago, Detroit.

Largest World:
New York.

Largest EU:
London, Berlin, Warsaw. (wtf? I was sure Munich, Frankfurt, Lyons, Stockholm are bigger than Warsaw).

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Yeah, I was surprised to see Warsaw there too.
I think the list I quoted was the population strictly within the city limits and not the metropolitan area, so there are unexpected artifacts – e.g. the original wiki page notes that Brussels doesn’t make the top 100 because the city limits of Brussels are apparently quite small, but the sprawl around it is pretty big.

Okay, I see now the wiki also has pages about the largest metro areas in the EU and Europe, although the methodology appears to differ between them – e.g. Paris and London are flip-flopped in rank, and one counts Amsterdam as part of one giant region including Rotterdam and The Hague, and the other (more sensibly IMO) keeps it separate. Either way, Warsaw is much further down the list by this accounting.

Edit: Ah, I see the first page makes the distinction of only counting urban areas: “Urban areas are contiguous built-up areas where houses are not more than 200 metres apart (discounting rivers, parks, roads, industrial fields, etc.). A metropolitan area is an urban area plus the satellite cities around the urban area and the agricultural land in between.”

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Aha:

Ireland
Switzerland
Norway
Luxembourg
Sweden
Australia
Iceland
Italy
Denmark
Spain
Singapore
Finland
United States
Canada
New Zealand
The Netherlands
Japan
Hong Kong
Portugal
Austria
Taiwan
Greece
Cyprus
Belgium
France
Germany
Slovenia
Malta
Britain
South Korea
Chile
Mexico
Barbados
Czech Republic
Costa Rica
Malaysia
Hungary
Israel
Brazil
Argentina

Bottom (don’t know why it’s not the absolute bottom)

60 China
65 Morocco
71 Indonesia
80 Egypt
92 South Africa
93 Pakistan
105 Russia
108 Nigerie
110 Haiti
111 Zimbabwe