Comments by "" (@mukrifachri) on "How big can cities get?" video.

I think there was a mismatch at 0:21 - it says "Jakarta, Indonesia" but at 1:58 the same picture is used for Karachi. I live around Jakarta and I don't recognize the landscape in the picture either (Jakarta is largely flat and devoid of any large open space closer to the coast, plus the coastline is just straight with a slight curve to it), so I presume it is actually Karachi and not Jakarta being shown.
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@tortoise-chan Yeah, this particular series of stock videos he was using claims footages of Istanbul for Karachi, Dhaka and Jakarta as well. https://www.istockphoto.com/search/stack/797330614?assettype=film Footage at 0:21 is looking over the Asian side of Istanbul on the approach path to Attaturk airport rwy 23.
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@ccc310 My subdistrict (populated by ~ 50k people) is only 1.6 sq km (0.6 sq mi) in size - so that's 31,300 ppl/sq km (81,000 ppl/sq mi), and we don't have any high-rises, all just 2-story houses (largely housing estates at that, if it weren't for the housing estates it won't be a subdistrict of it's own right). If a 30 km (~ 20 mi) radius circle area (assuming 30 kph [20 mph] travel speed) was to have the same density, you're looking at population in the tens of millions (88 million straight out of maths but in reality you're probably looking at only a third or a quarter - 22 million to 30 million - given the need for commercial and industrial areas as well as infrastructure). Asian cities can occupy an order of magnitude smaller areas and still have an order of magnitude higher population compared to western cities, even without high-rises.
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I think there was a mismatch at 0:21 - it says "Jakarta, Indonesia" but at 1:58 the same picture is used for Karachi. I live around Jakarta and I don't recognize the landscape in the picture either (Jakarta is largely flat and devoid of any large open space closer to the coast, plus the coastline is just straight with a slight curve to it), so I presume it is actually Karachi and not Jakarta being shown.
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@berkeylmaz1778 Good point, Karachi is also flat as well so no hills. I think this must be landing at Sabiha Gokcen International Airport ?
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@berkeylmaz1778 I was thinking that before but it's pretty difficult to match the somewhat pointed hill within the open space.
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@FarrasOctara Yeah sure as heck that's not Jakarta. Jakarta's airport is located either to the northwest (so you'd see it from the coastline) or to the southeast (but it's rare to land from the west for that airport, plus it'd mean the sunlight would strike to the sides of the buildings in view, and the most striking feature will be the National Monument). Also I just realized they're not the exact same picture at 0:21 and 1:58, however it was a series where it claims to take footage from Karachi, Dhaka, Istanbul and Jakarta : https://www.istockphoto.com/search/stack/797330614?assettype=film I can confirm that the Istanbul one really is Istanbul (the coastline matches perfectly), but I can say that the Jakarta one is mistaken, and I'm not sure about the others. Given the lighting matches closely with each other it must be from a single day take however, and given only the Istanbul one was correct it was probably of Istanbul.
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