Tony Finch schrieb:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Claus Färber wrote:
If city is defined as municipality, the following are wrong:
Europe/London should be Europe/Birmingham
Not if it's London as in the Greater London Authority (or, historically, the Greater London Council, the London County Council, etc.), as opposed to the City of London which has been only a small part of the geography and government of the greater city for centuries.
The GLA is a super-city authority, covering multiple cities such as the City of London, the City of Westminster, etc. Well, that just proves my point that the term "city" introduces ambiguity. It's simply inconsistent to treat Greater London as a "city", which is made up of multiple municipalities like the City of London, Westminster, etc., but not the Ruhrgebiet (5.3 million and thus larger than Berlin, 3.4 million), which is made up of municipalities like Essen, Bochum or Dortmund and also has a super-city authority: the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR). It's also inconsistent to treat Greater London as a "city" and not Greater Milan (7 million), which would be substantially larger than Rome or Greater Rome (2.5 or 3.3 million). Bending the rules in similar ways, Shanghai (上海) suddenly has a population of 9.4 millions (the agglomeration, not the larger administrative area) and Beijing (北京) has 11.5 millions (the agglomeration, not the administrative area and not the "core city"). It does not work with Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) and Hanoi (Hà Nội), though. Claus