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Douglas Daily Dispatch
Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
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Authorities in Tokyo are planning to incorporate 84 surrounding towns and villages, potentially making Greater Tokyo the third-largest city worldwide with 4,880,000 residents, behind Greater New York and Greater London.
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Third Among All
Cities Of World
By GLENN BABB
(Associated Press Correspondent)
TOKYO (A.P.)--Greater Tokyo with
a population of nearly five million
may claim third place among the
world's cities shortly. City and na-
tional authorities are studying
plans for the incorporation of 84
surrounding towns and villages with
the capital, to make an adminis-
trative unit of what is already an
economic and transportation aggre-
gation.
This would more
than double
Tokyo's present population of 2,218,-
000, crowded into the 15 original
wards of the city with an area of
only 31.3 square miles. Greater
Tokyo would have 4,880,000 citizens
in an area of 223 square miles,
which is less than Los Angeles' 390
square miles, Greater London's 700
square miles or Greater New York's
299 square miles.
Japanese newspapers claim that
Greater Tokyo would be the sec-
ond largest city in the world, ex-
ceeded only by Greater New York.
but they reckon without Greater Lon-
don. The Tokyo papers claim the
capital has regained first place
among Japanese cities, which it lost
to Osaka as the result of the great
earthquake of 1923 and Osaka's ab-
sorption of adjacent communities
to make a greater city that counts
2,330,000 inhabitants in 68.8 square
miles, almost three times the area
of Tokyo proper.
The figures quoted for Tokyo were
compiled in a census just com-
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greater tokyo would have 4,880,000 citizens in 223 square miles, potentially third largest city worldwide.
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City and national authorities are studying plans to incorporate 84 surrounding towns and villages with Tokyo, doubling its population from 2,218,000 to nearly five million and creating an administrative unit for the existing economic and transportation aggregation. Japanese newspapers claim it would be second largest after Greater New York, but overlooks Greater London; Tokyo has regained first place among Japanese cities over Osaka, which has 2,330,000 in 68.8 square miles following 1923 earthquake.