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jl6 on June 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/lon...

I wonder if London could be the largest city in two boxes. The zero meridian line goes through Greenwich, which leaves most of London in the western box, but a still sizeable chunk of East London in the eastern box.

Is East London bigger than Hamburg?

Are there any other large cities that straddle the bounding boxes?

colourgarden on June 25, 2020 | [–]

Brussels (c.1.2m) and Cologne (c.1.1m) are both in that box, I believe.

It seems the population of the parts of Greater London east of the Meridian is something around one million[1] so it would be close.

1. https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/greaterlondon/

sdflhasjd on June 25, 2020 | [–]

And Hamburg at 10°E is also split, so really the question is: Is East London bigger than West Hamburg

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