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Can you name the Most Populous Transborder Metro Areas?
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Almasa
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Source:
List of Transborder Agglomerations
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Population
City(ies)
Countries
19,000,000
China/ *(Special Administrative Region)
12,000,000
Democratic Republic of Congo/Republic of Congo
7,000,000
/Malaysia
5,700,000
USA/Canada
5,300,000
Poland/Czech Republic
5,105,000
USA/Mexico
4,861,000
Italy/Switzerland
3,900,000
Belgium/Germany/Netherlands
Population
City(ies)
Countries
3,732,000
Denmark/Sweden
3,000,000
Austria/Slovakia
2,300,000
USA/Mexico
1,905,000
France/Belgium
1,500,000
USA/Canada
1,300,000
Colombia/Venezuela
800,000
USA/Mexico
700,000
France/Germany
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Most Populous Transborder Metro Areas Quiz
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chriskotx
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Jan 17th, 2011 at 22:58 GMT
4 points
Wow..I've never heard of Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (what cities does that include?) or Cucuta-San Antonio del Tachira. Plus, I still can't spell Strasbourg right. Lastly, wondering why McAllen/Hidalgo County-Reynosa isn't included with Brownsville-Matamoros - which would bring the total population of that area to over 2 million.
Almasa
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 00:30 GMT
2 points
The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion includes Maastricht, Liege, Aachen, Hasselt and Eupen. I didn't come across the McAllen/Hidalgo County-Reynosa in the research I did for the quiz, but after looking at it, it looks like it could be included assuming it is considered a metro area.
Onno
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 09:20 GMT
1 point
Kortrijk is misspelled. Although I disagree that Maastricht and Liège are in the same metro area (even Maastricht-Aachen is a stretch if you'd ask me) it's a nice quiz.
codejlandt
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:52 GMT
1 point
Basel? Vancouver?
tahitiwahini
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:22 GMT
0 points
#codejlandt: Basel would seem like a good candidate with 830,000 population in Switzerland, Germany, and France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel Vancouver on the other hand seems to lack a sufficient transborder character, Vancouver, BC and Vancouver, Washington are over 300 miles apart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington
AlexRandom
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:24 GMT
-2 points
Rome/Vatican?
tahitiwahini
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:30 GMT
1 point
@jammero: I would say the Milan Metro Area doesn't have a sufficient transborder character, for instance, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) territorial review of 2006 doesn't consider any Swiss territory in the Milan Metro Area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_metropolitan_area
folio1701
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT
3 points
Definition of "transborder area" and link to source?
codejlandt
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 18:41 GMT
1 point
@tahitiwahini Vancouver, BC, and Vancouver, WA, are indeed over 300 miles apart. But Vancouver, BC, is ~30 miles from the US border. And White Rock, BC, considered part of Metro Vancouver is
on
the US border, with Bellingham, WA, not far beyond.
codejlandt
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 18:43 GMT
1 point
@tahitiwahini And metropolitan Basel, including areas of the agglomeration in France and Germany, is actually about 2.3 million.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transborder_agglomeration.
gowhere
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 22:30 GMT
0 points
I would be interested in the source, as well. While Kinshasa and Brazzaville are across the river from each other, I am not at all certain there is enough interaction between them to call them a single metro area. I certainly didn't see the kind of physical links which would suggest that they function in any way as a single entity.
Almasa
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Jan 19th, 2011 at 03:49 GMT
1 point
I have posted a link to the source of part of the list...Basel could definitely be put on the list - I did not make this list exhaustive. The only discretion I made was to have a decent size city on the otherside of each border, which is why I left vancouver and vientiane off the list.
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