A view of Jakarta in August last year. The Indonesian capital has surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations. — Nicola Longobardi/The New York Times
By John Yoon
JAKARTA, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the United Nations, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
