Which one of the following cities was the first to attain the status of a ‘megacity’?
London
Paris
New York
Washington
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UPSC NDA-1 – 2022
While London was the first city to reach a population of 1 million (around 1800), the term ‘megacity’ refers to a metropolitan area with a population exceeding 10 million. The New York metropolitan area is generally considered to be the first in the world to reach a population of 10 million, doing so by the late 1930s or early 1940s, depending on the definition of the metropolitan area used.