IMAG STS Comparing California and Sudan

California		Sudan
Los Angeles	3,831,868	Umm Durman	1,849,659
San Diego	1,306,301	Al-Khartum	1,410,858
San Jose	964,605	Al-Khartum Bahri	1,012,211
San Francisco	815,358	Nyala	492,984
Fresno	479,921	Bur Sudan	394,561
Sacramento	466,687	Juba	372,413
Long Beach	462,604	Al-Ubayyid	345,126
Oakland	409,184	Kassala	298,529
Santa Ana	340,340	Wad Madani	289,482
Anaheim	337,896	Al-Qadarif	269,395
Bakersfield	324,463	Al-Fashir	217,827
Riverside	297,859	Kusti	213,080

The problems with
urbanization are
growing cities tend to
absorb arable land;
the number of food
producers decreases;
it becomes
progressively more
difficult to scale up
infrastructure; and
disasters and diseases
have increasingly
juicier targets. On the
other hand, humans
have been building
cities for at least
10,000 years.

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Largest cities by population.

The arguments among geographers about what defines a city, especially as distinguished from a
metropolitan area are endless. Stockton, Chula Vista, Irvine, Fremont, Modesto, San Bernardino
and Glendale all have over 200,000 people. The LA-LB-SA metro statistical area has 13 million.

Fewer cities, smaller cities. Advantage: Sudan.