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fivemack[Poll #518184]
I may have missed out some really obvious destination 'near' Australia; never sure as to the value of 'near' to use in that part of the world.
I never cease to be amazed at the number of huge cities in Indonesia whose names are not household words; Bandung's bigger than Liverpool, Ujung Pandang the size of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And just how big places that you know as 'what's the capital of Sudan?' pub-quiz answers are: more than seven million in Bogota or Lima or Kinshasa; nearly six million in Khartoum, which I know only as a small desert settlement in a Flashman novel.
I may have missed out some really obvious destination 'near' Australia; never sure as to the value of 'near' to use in that part of the world.
I never cease to be amazed at the number of huge cities in Indonesia whose names are not household words; Bandung's bigger than Liverpool, Ujung Pandang the size of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And just how big places that you know as 'what's the capital of Sudan?' pub-quiz answers are: more than seven million in Bogota or Lima or Kinshasa; nearly six million in Khartoum, which I know only as a small desert settlement in a Flashman novel.
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Date: 2005-06-23 10:48 am (UTC)Maybe it's more that it just doesn't occur to that so many people live in Indonesia. The population's apparently 240 million. I knew it had the largest number of muslims of any country, but I've never thought of it as country with a population that large. China's population is 1.3 billion but the distribution among cities will be wildly different I guess.