The city of Saint Petersburg in Russia is home to one of the largest museums in the world; The Hermitage Museum. It measures 1.4 million square feet.
However it seems that both The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (at 2.05 million square feet) and the National Museum of China in Beijing (at 2.07 million square feet as of 2011) are even larger.
Mexico City is the city with the most museums in the world :). Above paris.
The British Museum is the third-largest single location museum. It comes in behind the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The largest European city in 1200 was likely Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the Byzantine Empire. It was a major cultural, economic, and political center in the medieval world, with estimates of its population ranging from 300,000 to over 500,000 inhabitants at that time.
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Moscow City, Russia
It had an extensive library the largest in the ancient world and people wanted to go to Alexandria's museum.
It had an extensive library the largest in the ancient world and people wanted to go to Alexandria's museum.
London was the largest European city from about 1675-1975.
Moscow
Moscow, Russia is the largest European city.
The largest city in the European Union is London, the capital city of the United Kingdom.
Karachi, Pakistan is the second largest city in the world by population.