Shanghai Expressed

As one of the minor boons of Chinese membership in the United Nations. that organization's annual Demographic Yearbook, published last week, was finally able to get its population statistics for the mainland's cities straight. For more than a decade it had only outdated figures from China, and consequently had listed Tokyo and New York as rivals for the title of world's largest city. In fact, as the Yearbook disclosed, that dubious honor now belongs to Shanghai, with a population, according to official figures, of 10,820,000. Tokyo is next with 8,841,000, followed by New York with 7,895,000, Peking with 7,570,000 and London with 7,379,000. One city for which no figures are given at all: Taipei (pop. 1,803,000). The China with official membership in the U.N. insisted that Taiwan be entirely ignored.

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