Jakarta is now officially the biggest city on Earth 🤯 The UN just confirmed its metro population is 41.9 million, overtaking Tokyo after 60+ years. #jakarta #indonesia #geography

You're looking at the largest city in the world, not Tokyo, not New York, Jakarta, Indonesia. Recently confirmed by the United Nations as the most popular urban area on the planet. Almost 42 million people, more than the entire population of Canada, all living within a single urban area. To put that in perspective, that's roughly one in every 200 people on Earth. Living inside this one stretch of land, 60 years ago, this same region was home to under 3 million people. Since then, it's grown by more than 10 times over. One of the fastest urban expansions anywhere on the planet. From above, the scale is difficult to process. Block after block, with barely any gap. Stretching out in every direction as far as the camera can see. Tokyo held this title for over 60 years. Jakarta only just took it and it's still adding hundreds of thousands more people every single year.