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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't understand this graph. Does it mean directly North? All cities combined? Why isn't there one city for every longitude?

Edit, nevermind, I got it. It's by latitude, the next biggest number as it travels south. The title is confusing, though.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 11 months ago

Maybe this clarifies for others: there's no City south of Tokyo with a population bigger than Tokyo. Tokyo and Seoul are the only cities south of NY that have larger populations. And etc.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Excluding southern hémisphère I guess.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago

Excluding southern hémisphère

No settlement in any hemisphere has a population larger than the Tokyo area’s

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Yep makes sense now, I let myself get bamboozled by the logic of this (not about the fact Tokyo is the biggest city).

[-] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I’m glad you wrote this because it was exactly what I needed to wrap my head around it too.

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