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all of that is one city?
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@twinspin6 @chjara It's a potemkin village they send white monkeys so they can shill CCP propaganda and post it on tiktok
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@buster @twinspin6 is this a bit
oh actually wow you're actually that stupid my condolences
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@chjara my understanding is that basically, sichuan had two 20m+ person cities in it plus all of the 100m (?) surroundings, and that's too many people to administer in one province, so they broke off chongqing and its surroundings into its own province. since it's a provincial level city that also administers its surroundings, the urban area itself is actually much smaller, it includes lots of rural area too
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@chjara @twinspin6 Haha imagine believing low-effort CCP propaganda. I bet you believe China eradicated poverty, there's no homeless and that their streets are free of potholes, too. 白猴子
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@chjara essentially, china draws its city and municipal borders differently than other countries do. chongqing is technically 30m people but its urban population is "only" 20m
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@dysfun @astrid "city you've never heard of in china, larger population than most european countries" meme is real
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@dysfun @chjara huh til it also has the longest monorail system and the longest single monorail line in the world. china keeps getting away with building the biggest things wtf
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@dysfun @chjara it turns out the monorail is not, in fact, a gadgetbahn, and is actually needed because the city is extremely hilly
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@chjara @dysfun @astrid surely people who aren't giant fucking nerds have still heard of chongqing neofox_googly_shocked

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@chjara don't look up tokyo metropolitan area
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@snacks tokyo is still only 1/6 the size of chongqing
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@chjara just "tokyo" or the whole thing?
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@chjara greater tokyo area has a little bit more people crammed in a much smaller space
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@snacks well the size wikipedia gives for the whole tokyo metropolis, 13000 km2, vs chongqing municipality at 82000 km2
both are still obscenely large ofc
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@chjara @dysfun @astrid No no, the market will do it better. We just need to BELIEVE more! Let’s sign another $4B contract with Elon Musk the genius that money will definitely not just disappear into a hole

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@chjara@akko.tuxcrafting.xyz i recently heard chongqing has a thriving queer community, complete with top shortage

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