Jesse0100 t1_j6dmjhd wrote on January 29, 2023 at 4:36 PM

Reply to comment by Spudcommando in TIL Yanjin is the narrowest city in the world by Spudcommando

Anchorage, Alaska is the longest city in the world. It has only 221k people and is 85 miles long.

codyt321 t1_j6dtrt1 wrote on January 29, 2023 at 5:23 PM

Is that 85 mi of actual city or are we counting long stretches of tundra?

blay12 t1_j6eb1j9 wrote on January 29, 2023 at 7:14 PM

Easy to be the "longest city" when you stretch your city limits to include almost all of a mostly uninhabited state park that's 2/3 the size of Rhode Island lol.