Megacities by Clue - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"The Big Apple"	New York	97%
Most populous city in South America	São Paulo	93%
Most populous city in Africa	Cairo	86%
Pretoria and Soweto are part of this city's urban area	Johannesburg	85%
Straddles Europe and Asia	Istanbul	82%
Where you'd find Shibuya Crossing, sometimes called the world's busiest pedestrian crossing	Tokyo	81%
India's film production capital	Mumbai	80%
"The City of Lights"	Paris	80%
In 2028, it will host the Summer Olympics for the third time	Los Angeles	79%
Where an ayatollah met his end in 2026	Tehran	79%
Located just south of a demilitarized zone	Seoul	74%
Overlooked by the Christ the Redeemer statue	Rio de Janeiro	73%
FIFA World Cup host city in 1970, 1986, and 2026	Mexico City	70%
Capital of the Republic of China	Taipei	64%
City that exploded onto the world's consciousness in March 2020	Wuhan	64%
Lost its capital city status to Abuja in 1991	Lagos	63%
Captured by the U.S. in 1898 and Japan in 1942	Manila	63%
Formerly known as Canton	Guangzhou	62%
As a Dutch possession, it was known as Batavia	Jakarta	61%
Buddhist temples here include Wat Arun and Wat Pho	Bangkok	56%
Setting of the musical "Evita"	Buenos Aires	56%
The largest city in India prior to independence	Kolkata	53%
Where you'd find 30 St Mary Axe, commonly known as "The Gherkin"	London	53%
Home to the Red Fort, the former residence of Mughal emperors	Delhi	51%
The "last helicopter" fled the U.S. embassy in this city in 1975	Ho Chi Minh City	49%
In 1947, it had a slim Hindu majority. By 1951, it was 96% Muslim.	Karachi	48%
Where the first emperor of China is buried	Xi'an	48%
The largest city where French is an official language	Kinshasa	47%
Gorky Park is located here	Moscow	47%
Lies on the Ganges Delta	Dhaka	44%
Gives its name to a type of bean	Lima	43%
The urban area includes the city of Toyota	Nagoya	42%
Home to a stadium known as "The Bird's Nest", completed in 2008	Beijing	41%
The largest Kannada-speaking city, located in the center of Southern India	Bangalore	39%
Major city in India sharing its name with a major city in Pakistan	Hyderabad	38%
Capital of India's Tamil Nadu state	Chennai	36%
Port city near Beijing	Tianjin	36%
Home to the world's premier panda breeding facility	Chengdu	34%
Has the highest elevation of any city on this list (2,640 m)	Bogotá	33%
On China's side of the strait of Taiwan	Xiamen	33%
There's a trendy neighborhood here called "Amerika-mura"	Osaka	31%
The largest city in the Punjab region	Lahore	30%
A word in the English language meaning "to kidnap for forced service on a ship"	Shanghai	29%
31 bridges cross the Yangtze River in this city – 29 built since 1995	Chongqing	25%
Located southwest of Shanghai, it is home to Alibaba and DeepSeek	Hangzhou	25%
Home to the world's largest stadium, Narendra Modi Stadium	Ahmedabad	21%
Southernmost capital of a country that has ever been part of OPEC country	Luanda	15%
Capital of the Shang dynasty, it was formerly Anglicized as Chengchow	Zhengzhou	15%
The capital of China's Hunan province, it is home to a giant statue of Mao's head	Changsha	13%

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