largest city
Most populous municipality
The largest city in a region is its most populous urban area.
The phrase functions as a geographic identifier: Tokyo is the largest city in Japan.
Context determines the scope—a country, state, continent, or the world.
Largest city often implies economic or cultural prominence, though it may not be the capital: Sydney is Australia's largest city, but Canberra is its capital.
- metropolisLarge important city
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- population densityInhabitants per unit area
- skyscrapersExtremely tall urban buildings
- high riseMultistory urban building
urban · sprawl · downtown · megacity · hub · density · traffic · public transit · skyline · bustling · cosmopolitan · crowded · rush hour · borough · landmark · bright lights · subway · millions
- geographic datapopulation density, land area, square miles, area, highest point
- country factspopulation, area, capitals, language, flag
- recordsbirth records, world record, record, Guinness, documents
largest cityhamlet
Tiny rural settlement
small town · village · backwater · forgotten town · settlement
largest cityrural village
Small countryside settlement
countryside · rural area · farmland · hinterland · remote village
large, larger, largely, largeness, enlarge, enlargement, enlarged, enlarging, city