The population of Canada in 2018 is 37.59 million people living on 9.985 million km2 of land.
The population of Tokyo is 39 million and the square kilometres are 2,194.
I hadn't realized that Tokyo is the largest city in the world in population. Nor had I thought about what the footprint of a large city might be. This make us aware of how we in Canada live in relatively large amounts of space. Tokyo's total population increases daily by 2.5 million workers and students. How many additional people are there for the Olympics? Competitors alone are over 11,000.
It is also the largest urban economy in the world by gross domestic product and is an Alpha+ city. It has the world's tallest tower - Tokyo Skytree, and the world's largest underground floodwater diversion facility. It has the busiest train station in the world. I guess Tokyo would be biggest, busiest in quite a few categories.
Tokyo consists of 62 municipalities: 23 special wards, 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages.
In comparison Ontario has 52 cities and 444 municipalities fitting into 139,931 km².
There is a long list of "interesting facts" about Tokyo - for travellers, for kids, things you should know, crazy facts, and on and on. It has a lot of the biggest, the most, and the best. What I notice is that every picture is full of people - crowds of people. All squashed into that "footprint".
Today's abstract is derived from motion blur pictures of birch trunks.
