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crazy! wont be too long until this is here for major cities as well.



Prague is the capital of Czech Republic and has over 1.3 million inhabitants, so I'd say it qualifies as a "major city"


I love Prague and I spent a quarter of century living there, but its status as a major city depends on context.

In the list of world cities by population, it ranks 403rd.

https://infocartography.com/world-top1000-pop

For Czechs or Central Europeans in general, it is a major city, but not in worldwide context.


On the other hand, Prague would be much higher if the official population number was accurate at all - since this official statistic in Czechia relies purely on the number of registered people and does no further analysis. There's over a million people more than the official number says - that's well known even to the government. Analysis of mobile device traffic and other stuff like that suggests multiple millions.

I'd definitely say it's a major EU city. Maybe even a major The West city. I agree that it's hard to compare it to places in Asia, though.


Hard to trust a map which places "Bali, Indonesia" where "Paris, France" should be.




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