Template talk:Largest cities of Greece

Piraeus as a city in the template
It has been suggested that the city of Piraeus, which is part of the Athens Urban Area, be added as a separate city in the template. Personally I am against that move because, even in official statistics it appears as part of the Athens Urban Area. Additionally, the Piraeus City website states that "The wider area of Piraeus is constituted of the Municipality of Piraeus and six other municipalities-suburbs, with a population of 466,065 and an area of 50.4 square kilometers, and constitutes the south-west part of the Athens urban area, which constitutes the Capital Periphery". According to the Kallikratis Reform, Piraeus has its own Peripheral Unit.

Also, this list includes urban populations, therefore the population of Piraeus is already included in that of Athens. Whether or not Piraeus is a different city is irrelevant; everyone knows Piraeus is a city by itself, but it is part of the Athens urban area. It can also be seen in this government press release that Piraeus is regarded as part of the Athens urban area. --Philly boy92 (talk) 23:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Urban area
You reverted my edit without giving any explanation, so I will have to assume that you either did not read my edit summary or that you did not understand it. I will try to explain better. The population number for Heraklion that IP195.134.65.195 added to the template, is not a relevant number in this context. All the other numbers in the template are population numbers for urban areas (according to the census of 2011), while the newly added number is the population of the municipality of Heraklion, which includes more that the urban settlement. Using the municipality count for just one city makes the numbers not comparable. --T*U (talk) 22:40, 16 September 2019 (UTC)


 * What you are mentioning here makes no sence. You insist that using the municipality count does not make sence for Heraklion but all you did was just change the images (also the one for Patras where there is no similar issue). I reverted to the previous edit because your explanation is not sufficient AlbusTheWhite (talk) 23:10, 16 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I am sorry that I did not notice that the picture of Patras had been changed. I was only concerned about the numbers. I will try again to explain: The correct number for Heraklion is not 173,993 (which is for the whole municipality), but 140,730 (which is the population of the urban area and comparable to the other numbers). This makes Heraklion number five in the list, after Larissa. I will make these corrections – again.
 * Since it is the four largest cities that have pictures, we should remove the Heraklion picture and have a picture for Larissa, like it was before the incorrect number was introduced. You seem to feel very strongly about the pictures, so I will leave that to you to sort out. --T*U (talk) 23:56, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Addition: I could not find a way to keep the Heraklion picture, so I had to do the change to the former Larissa picture. I hav enot touched the Patras picture. --T*U (talk) 00:05, 17 September 2019 (UTC)