. . . is added, but has 2,000 people, not 1,500, according to one of my atlases.
If your able to change populations, I could go through all the cities and find which ones need to be updated.
Zinc, out.

Yep, sounds like a fun job for ya :)


Problem is that it needs to be transparent. One example was that Amsterdam was given the population for the Randstad of 7.1 million except it's own population of 1.5 million.

I guess you could go through them all, but I would need access to your sources aswell to verify them, instead of just your atlas....

The problem with Wikipedia is that it is updated by everyone and anyone but this doesn't necessarily mean it IS updated periodically. We have both seen populations dated for 1991 and 1989 for example.

http://population.mongabay.com/ is a source I use a bit for ambiguous populations on wiki

Don't ask me what mongabay means........ :cheesy

Problem with wikipedia is that it can even be quite wrong unfortunately.
But we don't really have to have the EXACT population all the time.
But with Amsterdam the difference was too big.
7 million, while it really is almost 1 million(it's still a bit off but who cares).

Use www.citypopulation.de

It's fairly up to date

I can use my 2006 almanac (2000 populations for outside of the USA), the World Gazetteer online or the CIA world factbook online, if Wikipedia is unreliable. Oh, and my atlas is a reliable source, as it was printed in 2002, and most of its populations are 1999-2001.

Use www.citypopulation.de (http://www.citypopulation.de/)

It's fairly up to date

Amazing....it actually is correct there about Amsterdams numbers.
Nice site.

Yep, I use that extensively when I see a country that has open spaces.

http://www.citypopulation.de/cities.html

click on a coutry, then the flag and tis would come up (for example)

http://www.citypopulation.de/Algeria.html

I don't like it's population figures though - they can be old or based on estimates I can't verify.

Mongabay uses UN estimates.

Someone linked a site called "the gazeteer" or something which also seemed quite good, though I haven't need it or used it.

Yeah found another good one.
I always thought i knew a lot about Cairo, Egypt but was shocked to see that it has 15 million people instead of half of it what i thought...
According to this, Cairo indeed only has 7,629,900.
But there are problems...i think there are no metropolitan areas in this site.
New York only has about 8 million here.

The World Gazetteer (http://www.gazetteer.de/)
This is the World Gazetter and it is one of my sources. Click on a country, and it will give you the most populous cities in every country, with accurate calculated 2005 population estimates and census populations for usually the last 20 years. Unfortunately, I cannot get metro populations with this.
Zinc, out.

We also decided as with Tokyo as a prime example of the fact that their are some places with 2 or more MASSIVE cities that cannot all be added due to their proximities that we would base populations of some cities on the urban agglomeration - that is the combined total of the large cities.

Cairo and New York are near enough correct by this.

http://www.citypopulation.de/World.html
and
http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_urban_01.html

Cairo is out by 5,000,000 between these two sites - I'd always prefer the bigger estimate :)