China has some large unknown cities

Where's OweO? There's a want for good topics here lately. In his absence, I'll attempt to get a little something rolling.

Let us all contemplate china for a moment. China is so gigantic that it contains eight of the top twenty largest cities in the world.

Imagine for a moment a city with 11 million people in it and never having heard of it before.

Well that's me with Wuhan. Wuhan has 11 million people and prior to this disease, I never knew it existed.

We all know about the largest cities in places like Europe and South America for instance. But China however is so immense, that they can have numerous megalopolis cities that are as globally obscure as any small or medium sized American city.

Chengdu
Guangzhou
Tianjin
Baoding
Wuhan

Those are all Chinese cities with 11 million or more people and I'm only recently aware of one of them and peripherally aware of another.

I'm sure some of you OT globe trotters know all about Wuhan and these other obscure Chinese cities but honestly. Who here actually knew of Wuhan China prior to all this?

It's interesting to imagine a city containing 11 million people and not knowing it exists.

A city larger than New York but as obscure to americans as a small american city would be to the Chinese.

Let's all just sit with this for a moment.

Let's all just meditate on the enormity of china.

Oh and good morning.