Tokyo, world’s 3rd-largest city, according to U.N. rankings

Where does your city rank among the world’s largest?

Three Kyodo News reporters — Junko Horiuchi,  Donican Lam and Mayuka Ueda — talk about U.N.-tallied rankings of the world’s largest cities, in which Tokyo slipped to third place, overtaken by the rapidly developing Jakarta and Dhaka. Listen as they discuss Tokyo’s demotion in the report and how life is changing in the Japanese capital.

Article mentioned in the podcast:

Jakarta ranks world’s largest city as Tokyo slips to 3rd: U.N. report

Kyodo News presents a bilingual podcast for English learners about the ins and outs of news writing and how to translate tricky Japanese phrases into English. Have fun listening to journalists discuss recent articles as they occasionally go off on unrelated tangents.