Our visit to Chongqing was very short, the hour drive from the airport to the boat. During that time we had a local guide telling us about the city (which we didn't actually see much of). She proudly told us that the city was the largest in the world, which was a surprise since none of us had ever heard of it. I immediately googled it and found that in 1997 some enterprising local Chinese official had the idea of enlarging the boundaries of the city of about 5M to the size of Austria (!) so that the "city" was the largest in the world. No list of the largest cities in the world falls for this.
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