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Mount Isa lays claim to being the largest city in the world by area, with an area of 42,904 sq. km being administered by the Mount Isa City Council. The town of Camooweal, located 188 km to the west, is in fact a 'suburb' of the city.

This is a factoid and is actually not true. There is another city in Australia which is larger than Mount Isa. It also, incorrectly, claims to be the largest city in the world in terms of its area.

Firstly, this proves the statement incorrect. This comes from the Mt Isa's city council web site...

Often labelled Australia’s premier mining city, Mount Isa holds a number of other impressive titles such as “world’s second largest city”, with its main street stretching some 188 kms to Camooweal, a small township that is part of the Mount Isa local government area of some 43,010 square kms. http://www.mountisa.qld.gov.au/welcome/The_City_Today/the_city_today.html

The city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder web site used to claim it was the worlds largest city. Now they settle for suggesting they're Australia's largest city. Their size is 95228.5 sq kms. http://www.councils.wa.gov.au/directory/council_websites/kalgoorlie_boulder/council_profile_folder_view

Now to disprove the mt isa council's claim to 2nd largest city in the world we have the chinese city of Chongqing. They also, incorrectly, claim to be the worlds largest city. This city is bigger than mount isa and smaller than Kalgoorlie-Boulder. http://www.china.org.cn/ChinaToday/Today/ChinaToday/ct98/ct98-10-5.html

To be honest, there are a great number of cities claiming to be the worlds largest in terms of area. I have no idea which one actually is the largest but it certainly isn't Mount Isa (which doesn't even come second).

Sorry to Burst your Bubble Mount Isa Factoid Killer 16:16, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've started an article listing the world's largest cities in terms of area.

List of cities by size (area)

So far Mount Isa is in 4th place. Factoid Killer 11:49, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

At present count, Mount Isa is in third place. Zamboanga never claimed any larger area than 2,780 sq km (which was in 1937). The size of Zamboanga now is only slightly larger than the size of Brisbane. Figaro 04:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't really the right place to discuss that article, however, the source i provided states that Zamboanga city is 278 thousant hectares. There are 10 000 Sq metres in 1 hectare which means there are 2780000000 sq metres in Zamboanga. This equates to 2 780 000 sq Kms unless I missed something.Factoid Killer 10:57, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You did miss something. A square kilometre is a million square metres, not a thousand. Figaro 12:02, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A point that has been missed in all these claims, is that Mt Isa claims to be the largest city in the world becuase the main street is the longest (ie 188 klms long) User:isaboy 54

Mount Isa is served by Macair and Qantas. Qantas flights are straight ISA-BNE routes, but Macair has flights which visit many outback towns while en route to Cairns, Townsville, and Mt Isa. This is plainly obvious when you look at the Macair webpage. Why the need for a citiation tag?

And what exactly do you wish cited in the "suburbs" section? The list of suburbs seems to be accurate. Myself, I always considered the railway line to be the boundary between "mineside" and "townside", but I live in Cloncurry and only visit Mt Isa for work/shopping etc. The "unsourced information by amateur editors" summary on your previous Mt Isa edit would suggest that these citation tags are more to do with your dispute with MichelleCrisp than anything else. Johnmc (talk) 03:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]