Jing-Jin-Ji, the largest city you’ve never heard of

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Mark Matassa Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Jing-Jin-Ji, the largest city you’ve never heard of</h1>
                <h2><p>Officially the population of Beijing is just over 21 million, but that’s not counting the suburbs and other large cities that make up the Chinese capital metropolis. Now a proposal to knit them all together with improved high-speed transportation and more dispersed services would create a new supercity, Jing-Jin-Ji,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mmatassa-mac-com/">Mark Matassa</a></p> 
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            <p>Officially the population of Beijing is just over 21 million, but that’s not counting the suburbs and other large cities that make up the Chinese capital metropolis. Now a proposal to knit them all together with improved high-speed transportation and more dispersed services would create a new supercity, Jing-Jin-Ji, with a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/world/asia/in-china-a-supercity-rises-around-beijing.html?hp=&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">population of 130 million </a>over an area about the size of Kansas, reports <em>The New York Times.</em></p>
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Officially the population of Beijing is just over 21 million, but that’s not counting the suburbs and other large cities that make up the Chinese capital metropolis. Now a proposal to knit them all together with improved high-speed transportation and more dispersed services would create a new supercity, Jing-Jin-Ji, with a population of 130 million over an area about the size of Kansas, reports The New York Times.

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