Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2016 February 3

= February 3 =

Cities in China with one million people in the metro area
This article says there are 105 Chinese cities with one million or more people in the metropolitan area. When I count this wiki list for Chinese cities by "built up area" (which I believe corresponds to metro area) with over a million people, I get about 70. List of cities in China by population and built-up area Who is then correct? Muzzleflash (talk) 21:14, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe both. One is using 2015 population and the other using 2010.  RudolfRed (talk) 21:20, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * If it helps, the statistical definition of "built up area" in China (according to Chinese Wikipedia) is apparently "within the administrative area of a city, areas of non-agricultural production or development which has been expropriated by the government and actually built and developed, including the concentrated and connected parts of the urban area and inner suburban areas which have a close connection with the city centre, which possesses areas for civic construction of basically comprehensive civic public facilities (such as airports, waste water treatment plants and communication radio stations". It's not quite clear what this means, but based on the way they are drawn on maps, a "built up area" only includes the city centre and the somewhat urbanised inner suburbs. I don't know how closely this matches metropolitan area. Certainly, what is described as the "metropolitan area" of big cities in Anglophone countries may well contain swathes of forests or farmland that I wouldn't call "built up", but I might be reading the definition too literally. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 21:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Shrinika Purohit
Today's featured picture was of Shrinika Purohit (right). How old is she? She looks quite young in the picture. J I P &#124; Talk 21:33, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * According to the picture's caption on the Odissi page, she was four when this picture was taken. This agrees with this newspaper article. Tevildo (talk) 21:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Cool pic! Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 02:55, 4 February 2016 (UTC)