Megacities by Clue

Difficultly level: hard. For each selected clue, guess the urban area which has a population of at least 10 million people.

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

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29 Comments

Level 67

Mar 14, 2026

Love the quiz!!!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️

Level 79

Mar 14, 2026

1st half of the quiz I was great, 2nd half of the quiz not so much. Really need to work on my Asian city knowledge (and spelling!)

Level 69

Mar 14, 2026

I feel like this quiz will reset right after I get my points

Level 81

Mar 14, 2026

Luckily, we won't know of any new megacities until next year. Rest easy.

Level 81

Mar 14, 2026

Interesting how a lot of these massive cities are almost unknown in the global consciousness. There are over ten million people living in Changsha or Ahmedabad, but you'd be hard-pressed to find someone on the street who's even heard of them.

Level 72

Mar 14, 2026

How did this get featured?

Level 65

Mar 14, 2026

Might be helped by the fact QM made it ;)

Level 93

Mar 14, 2026

I think Angola is no longer in OPEC as of 2024?

Love the quiz, a tougher one!

Level 89

Mar 21, 2026

Wikipedia concurs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC#Lapsed_members

Level ∞

May 17, 2026

Updated

Level 78

Mar 14, 2026

Great quiz, with the challenge of yellow boxes. A good reminder of how many Chinese cities are greater than 10 million, but not ones you know much about.

Level 94

Mar 16, 2026

Where did you get your population figures for Ahmedabad? Everything I can find shows the current metro area estimates between 8.4 and 9.5 million, and the last census was waaaaay back in 2011.

Level 78

May 17, 2026

citypopulation.de

Level 81

Mar 19, 2026

I think there is a spelling mistake here:

Where you'd find 30 St Mary Axe, commonly known as "The Gherkin"

Level 86

Apr 12, 2026

no, the address is also the name of the building

Level 53

Apr 10, 2026

We need more time

Level 50

May 17, 2026

omg, i got everything so easily, and then couldnt think of beijing in a couple minutes

Level 73

May 17, 2026

The Gherkin is not a very prominent building in London anymore. It’s mostly obstructed by other skyscrapers.

Level 59

May 17, 2026

Pretoria is not part of the Johannesburg metropolitan area. It is adjacent to the Johannesburg metro area, but it is a separate city with its own metropolitan area.

Level ∞

May 17, 2026

Good thing we didn't use the term "metro area" then.

Level 59

May 18, 2026

I know, you used the term "urban area". But the concept still applies. Pretoria is its own urban area.

Level 65

May 17, 2026

46/49, needed a little bit of extra time haha. Great quiz!

Level 46

May 17, 2026

This quizz is nice but clearly needs extra time

Level 78

May 17, 2026

Would like an extra row/caveat for the Rhine/Ruhr area.

Level 61

May 17, 2026

Kolkata represent! (Man, the city has seen better days)

Level 79

May 17, 2026

banger quiz

Level 47

May 17, 2026

Taipei????

Level 20

May 18, 2026

how is taipei the capital of China, my guy?????

except for that, really great quiz!!!

Level 60

May 18, 2026

People's Republic of China = China

Republic of China = Taiwan