adding to what Christoph has explained, as we try to have globally meaningful and comparable tags, I believe we should focus on functional (which services + functions are present) and maybe cultural (how is the place regionally seen/valued, which often has also to do with political and historical significance) distinction between inhabited places, and give less importance to population numbers.
As a maybe less important point, official population data can sometimes be distorted because it usually counts registered inhabitants, not everybody who lives in a place. Cheers, Martin
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