New York City has more people in its urban area than Mexico City. New York is rated at number eight and Mexico City is rated at number 10.
Mexico City
In 1996, the third largest urban area in the world was Tokyo, Japan. It was preceded by Mexico City, Mexico, and New York City, USA, in the first and second positions, respectively.
It is when people move from one urban area or city to another.
Currently, the largest city in the world by population is Tokyo-Yokohama Japan with a population of over 33,000,000 people. The largest urban area is the area around Mexico city, Mexico with a population of over 22,000,000 people. The largest city by land area is Jiuquan, Gansu in China with almost 65,000 square miles (though most of it is unpopulated forest).
Because the larger urban area has a population of over 21.16 million people, and includes the Mexico City proper, as well as several municipalities (akin to U.S. counties) from two other federal states (State of Mexico and Hidalgo).
In Mexico city, on the Aztec Stadium (nowadays renamed as Guillermo Cañedo Stadium)
No. The metro area of Mexico City is inhabited by almost 9 million people. Greater Mexico City contains almost 20 million people, but such extension is comparable to that of urban conglomerates such as WashBos (Washington-Boston) or SanSan (San Diego-San Francisco)
Monterrey has 1,300,000 people and the metropolitan area is 8,000,000 people is the third city with more population in Mexico after Mexico City 1, and Guadalajara 2.
Chicago is neither suburban or rural. Suburban means area that is outside of a city. Because Chicago is a city it is a urban area.
You do not need a number of people for an urban area. The rough definition for a rural area is somewhere where nature is not greatly affected by human beings, such as a large forest area. Urban is the complete opposite, meaning somewhere in, say, a city. There could be 1 person in a city or there could be 1000's. Both would mean its an urban area.
Mexico City is the cultural, political and economic capital of Mexico. Built atop the ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, throughout the years it has become the largest city in Mexico, and its greater metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world. According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), greater Mexico City is composed by the whole Federal District (16 boroughs), 59 municipalities of the state of Mexico and 1 municipality of the state of Hidalgo. This area is home to roughly 18% or almost one fifth of total Mexican population (est. 2010):City (Federal District only): 8,841,916Greater Metropolitan Area: 21,163,226
Mexico City is an urban area of over 21 million inhabitants with little to non-existing natural resources. Most of these were depleted since the time of the Aztecs, and modern Mexico City has only a couple of sand and stone quarries to the west of the city.