What is the largest city in the world (by population) - on an island - on a fresh water lake?
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First bid here:\n\nLindau is a German city and an island in the eastern part of the Lake Constance, the Bodensee. It's population is approx 25000.\n\nWho can do better?
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Manila, official named the City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila) is the capital city of the Philippines. The city stands on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the largest Philippine island, Luzon. Despite pockets of grinding poverty, it is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world and its metropolitan area is the country's economic, cultural, educational, and industrial center.
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LARGEST CITIES ON THE PLANET!\nNumbers shown are the population within the recognized city limits, and do not include people living in the immediate surrounding area outside of the established border of the city. For the largest metropolitan areas refer to the list below this one.\nRevised (10/01/04)\nShanghai, China 13.3 million\nMumbai (Bombay), India 12.6 million\nBuenos Aires, Argentina 11.92 million\nMoscow, Russia 11.3 million\nKarachi, Pakistan 10.9 million\nDelhi, India 10.4 million\nManila, Philippines 10.3 million\nSao Paulo, Brazil 10.26 million\nSeoul, South Korea 10.2 million\nIstanbul, Turkey 9.6 million\nJakarta, Indonesia 9.0 million\nMexico City, Mexico 8.7 million\nLagos, Nigeria 8.68 million\nLima, Peru 8.38 million\nTokyo, Japan 8.3 million\nNew York City, USA 8.09 million\nCairo, Egypt 7.6 million\nLondon, UK 7.59 million\nTeheran, Iran 7.3 million\nBeijing, China 7.2 million\n\n\n\nThen again, this site (http://www.citypopulation.de/World.html) lists Toyko, Japan as being the city with the largest population (about 35 million people)!
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FINLAND\n\nLand of Thousand Lakes \n10 days combining Helsinki with Santa’s Midnight Sun Country and the Finnish Lake District -  there are 187,888 of them dotted all over Finland.
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Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in central Africa (3° 20' to 8° 48' South and from 29° 5' to 31° 15' East). It is estimated to be the second largest lake in the world by volume, after Lake Baikal in Siberia.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tanganyika
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While New York City is the most populous city in the United States, Sitka, Alaska is the largest city in area.
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According to the U.S. Census's 2004 estimates, these are the 10 largest cities (NOT metropolitan areas) by population:\n\nNew York City\nLos Angeles\nChicago\nHouston\nPhiladelphia\nPhoenix\nSan Diego\nSan Antonio\nDallas\nSan Jose
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Alaska.\n\n"The state with the most lakes is Alaska and not Minnesota despite the "10,000 Lakes" slogan on its license plates. Alaska is home to more than three million lakes."
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Michigan.\n\nSure, lots of it is water, but it is largest in total area east of the Mississippi.\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108355.html
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At 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), Greenland is the world's largest island.\n\nAlthough Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent.
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Greenland!\nits also the world's largest natural park!
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I'd say Minnesota ... "Land of 10,000 lakes"
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Monaco has the highest density of people. China has the most people but, it is also very large lowering the population per acre
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what exactly it means to be the "biggest city." Is it by land area? Is it by population? The former seems a little arbitrary, but the latter might be hard to pin down, especially since once-distinct cities have begun to merge into huge sprawling "metropolitan areas."\n\nThe InfoPlease Almanac, which listed Mumbai(Bombay), India, as the most populous city in the world. They went on to list Shanghai,China in second place and Sao Paolo, Brazil, in third , but they chose to only count inhabitants of within the actual city limits. Later, it became apparent that most sources prefer to judge "urban areas" rather than "cities proper."\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762524.html\n\nCity Population, an entire site dedicated to "the largest cities in the world." list Tokyo as the largest city, with more than 34 million inhabitants. New York City is second and Seoul third.\nhttp://www.citypopulation.de/\n\nFrom http://worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm\nLARGEST CITIES ON THE PLANET!\nNumbers shown are the population within the recognized city limits, and do not include people living in the immediate surrounding area outside of the established border of the city. For the largest metropolitan areas refer to the list below this one.\nRevised (10/01/04)\nShanghai, China 13.3 million\nMumbai (Bombay), India 12.6 million\nBuenos Aires, Argentina 11.92 million\nMoscow, Russia 11.3 million\nKarachi, Pakistan 10.9 million\nDelhi, India 10.4 million\nManila, Philippines 10.3 million\nSao Paulo, Brazil 10.26 million\nSeoul, South Korea 10.2 million\nIstanbul, Turkey 9.6 million\nJakarta, Indonesia 9.0 million\nMexico City, Mexico 8.7 million\nLagos, Nigeria 8.68 million\nLima, Peru 8.38 million\nTokyo, Japan 8.3 million\nNew York City, USA 8.09 million\nCairo, Egypt 7.6 million\nLondon, UK 7.59 million\nTeheran, Iran 7.3 million\nBeijing, China 7.2 million\ndot\narrow LARGEST METRO AREAS IN THE WORLD\nNumbers shown are the population within the immediate surrounding area of the established border of the city, and also include the city limit population figures.\nRevised (10/01/04)\nToyko, Japan 31.2 million\nNew York City - Philadelphia area, USA 30.1 million\nMexico City, Mexico 21.5 million\nSeoul, South Korea 20.15 million\nSao Paulo, Brazil 19.9 million\nJakarta, Indonesia 18.2 million\nOsaka-Kobe-Kyoto, Japan 17.6 million\nNew Delhi, India 17.36 million\nMumbai, India (Bombay) 17.34 million\nLos Angeles, USA 16.7 million\nCairo, Egypt 15.86 million\nCalcutta, India 14.3 million\nManila, Philippines 14.1 million\nShanghai, China 13.9 million\nBuenos Aires, Argentina 13.2 million\nMoscow, Russian Fed. 12.2 million
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Lake Geneva is the largest lake in Switzerland.  It's not near any oceans really.  It's just North of Italy, so the Mediteranean Sea would be the closest salt water body.
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Baikal is the largest (by volume), deepest and oldest freshwater lake in the world. It contains over 20% of the world's liquid fresh water and more than 90% of Russia's liquid fresh water. A World Heritage Site, it lies in Southern Siberia in Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk. The name derives from Tatar "Bai-Kul" - "rich lake". It is also known as the Blue Eye of Siberia. In Russian, it is called О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal), and in the Buryat and Mongol languages it is called Dalai-Nor, or "Sacred Sea".
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TORONTO!!!!!!!!!\nBest city in the world.