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originally posted by: rajas
At the COP21 in Paris the subject will be that; The world is almost at a boiling point and will be under water if we dont reduce emissions from developing countries
Over a 100 leaders including Vladimir Putin will attend, to work out a solution during the three day meeting.
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originally posted by: Revolution9
a reply to: Revolution9
4037 Cities In The World With Over 100,000 People apparently. It is a long way short of seven million coastal cities isn't it!
How many towns and cities are there in the world?
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David Nivala
David Nivala, Worked and traveled in Europe, Asia, North America and South Africa.
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Here is one way of looking at your challenge!
There are 192 countries in the United Nations. Check out the details at How Many Countries?
The populations of the world is approximately 7,300,000,000 (7.3 billion) at the start of 2015. See PopulationPyramid.net
There are only about 100 cities with about 4,000,000 people or more (making up about a tenth of the worlds total population. City Populations, Largest Cities of the World
Approx. 54% of people live in towns and cities (urban) in 2015.
If USA is used as the yardstick:
USA has approx. 27k cities for 300 million people there would be 600,000 towns and cities
If India is used as the yardstick:
India has approx. 650k cities for 1.3 billion people, there would be over 3,000,ooo towns and cities.
The true answer will be in between - perhaps 2,000,000
Written 4 Oct
originally posted by: rajas
The world is almost at a boiling point and will be under water if we dont reduce emissions from developing countries
originally posted by: ChesterJohn
Sorry not a chance seeing we were told in 99 that costal cities would have a sea rise of 1 meter by 2015 and it never happened