Looking for some anecdata for a project I'm working on - if you're up for it, reply with what you think the minimum population of a place should be before it's considered a "city" rather than a "town". (Ignore any actual legal definition of what a city is in various countries, and go off of vibes)

@andrew well, I think of Lawrence as a "town”, and it has a shade under 100k people living there, but I think of Kansas City as a city, and it a population around 500k people. So the line's in between there somewhere, probably closer to lower end... so I guess the line's around 150-200k for me.

@jacob I was tempted to make a web app that prompted people with a set of places and asked "town or city", but it relies a lot on regional knowledge.

@jacob @andrew Just looking at the list of WA cities by population and what I call a town vs. a city, it’s ~100k, although there are some surprises in there that I’d consider a town/city that are on the wrong side of that line.

@andrew Around 250K. That said, I'm probably skewed by the AU interpretation of "city”, which leans a lot bigger than what I've seen in UK/US.

@freakboy3742 Yeah, there's definitely a LOT of regional variation on this. The World Bank says 50k, which feels way too low to me, but probably isn't in many countries.