“Davao City is reputedly the biggest city in the world.”
What Vera Files found
Based on land area, at least one city in Asia alone -- Shanghai City in China -- outsizes Davao city, which has a total land area of 2,443.61 square kilometers, according to Philippine Statistics Authority data. Shanghai, with a total land area of 6,340.5 square kilometers, according to its municipal statistics bureau, is almost three times the size of Davao City.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 15 November 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 21 November 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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