knowledge equals chocolate
Something for the travelers out there from the land of Oz.. I found the most common questions to be asked were:
“How big is Melbourne and what is the population of Australia?”
After being asked these kind of questions like 12 times, I decided to look it up.
FYI
Munich = ~1.3 Million
Syd = ~4.8 Million
Melb = ~4.3 Million
DE = ~ 84 Million
Aust = ~ 24 Million
So one can say that Melbourne is almost 4 times bigger than Munich (even if it doesn’t seem like it).
Sydney and Melbourne are the 2 biggest cities in Oz… almost the same size (people don’t get that Melbourne could be as big as Sydney because most know Sydney).
Germany has almost 4 times the population of Australia.
Germany is about the same size as Victoria.
All this came in incredibly handy when I was quizzed (at my DE school) on it for a Christmas chocolate prize. The poor American that had lived in Munich over a year guessed 1 Million but it was 1.3 that got the goods!
Finding out the population of Australia and therefore Munich really paid off…. those many little chocolates didn’t make it back from Egypt.
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Well, the city itself has somewhat ‘historical’ extends. I don’t know when last a surrounding town was made part of the actual “city”. The administrative distinction is somewhat arbitrary (while it is a good way to get well-defined numbers; you can actually count the people who have registered with the Munich administration as primary residence).
The urban zone of Munich is usually considered to have 2.5 – 3 Million inhabitants. The city totally blurs into neighbor towns, which often range in the 20k-100k range. That sums up quickly. The metropolian area is given with 4 – 5 million (that might include Augsburg though. But in fact I know many people who live in Augsburg and work in Munich or the other way round).