You know whats interesting...China only has about 600 cities with over 100k population. India has 450.
That makes sense, China and India have large land masses and, despite huge populations, are significantly rural (China 36%, India 68%). Like all modernizing nations, their migration from rural to urban has greatly accelerated over the last 50 years. The US rural population is 20% while Europe's is 25%.
plus there’s the dick grasso risk. he got paid a lot of money but it was over like 30 years and then wh everyone saw the 200mm figure and said “what the hell”