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Five Most Populated Capital Cities by Continent

We provide each continent. You name the five capital cities with the largest population.
Source: Wikipedia
Only counting proper populations
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Last updated: July 15, 2015
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Africa
Cairo
Kinshasa
Addis Ababa
Luanda
Pretoria
 
Asia
Beijing
Tokyo
Seoul
Jakarta
Tehran
Europe
Moscow
London
Berlin
Madrid
Rome
 
North America
Mexico City
Havana
Santo Domingo
Guatemala City
Managua
Oceania
Wellington
Canberra
Port Moresby
Suva
Honiara
 
South America
Lima
Bogotá
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Brasilia
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20 Comments
pctjunkie
+1
Level 92
Jun 17, 2015
Pretty sure you mean Havana, not Cuba.
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2015
Pretty sure you're correct :)
donniedarko
+6
Level 55
Jun 19, 2015
This is really off and should include Paris over Berlin, Delhi over Tehran, Washington D.C. etc.
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 66
Jun 19, 2015
Blame our source, not us!
Chargerfan007
+3
Level 35
Aug 13, 2016
New Delhi, not Delhi.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Jul 15, 2015
You should specify that you are only counting city proper populations, because Delhi is way bigger than Tehran.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Jul 15, 2015
And to preempt the typical response: New Delhi is a neighborhood within the city of Delhi.
kolp
+2
Level 84
Nov 9, 2015
Yeah it serves as a district of Delhi but also as the capital. Population 250.000, metro 22.000.000. Completely ridiculous but if you're going by capital cities proper, technically correct. Same nonsense as Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 66
Nov 9, 2015
...and Monte-Carlo.
Symmetrik
+1
Level 56
Jul 15, 2015
Port-au-Prince should be ahead of Managua, Guatemala City, and Santo Domingo.
StringsRule
+1
Level 59
Aug 5, 2015
I'm so sorry for taking your quiz idea - I didn't realize it already existed before I made the quiz and I deleted it :(
Vincentdc
+1
Level 84
Sep 3, 2015
according to wikipedia, khartoum has 2 million inhabitants, and pretoria not even 1 million.
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 66
Sep 3, 2015
Our source says otherwise.
TheNewPotato
+1
Level 48
Feb 13, 2017
Found it. I was searching all the wrong combinations of words... Sorry about that Quizzer6794.
jarlewski
+1
Level 43
Aug 2, 2018
If this was easy, try my least populated asian capitals : https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/281073/least-populated-capitals-of-asia
RhymingCouplet
+1
Level 72
Apr 20, 2024
Cape Town's population is much more than Pretoria.
GoblinOfCooz
+3
Level 79
Apr 20, 2024
more garbage on spotlight, need some moderation here
sumguy
+5
Level 87
Apr 20, 2024
"Guatemala" works for Guatemala City, but "Mexico" doesn't work for Mexico City. As always, accept Jetpunk type-ins.

Using city proper populations makes the quiz harder, so 3 minutes isn't enough. I can do 30 answers in 180 seconds if the answers are what you would expect, but when "Washington" isn't correct because it's city proper, and Mexico City isn't correct because "Mexico" isn't accepted as a type-in, all assumptions are out the window and you end up typing 60 answers to get the 29 that it's possible to get. (You'll assume that Mexico City is somehow wrong, so you won't get that one.)

SupBroDude
+1
Level 56
Sep 26, 2024
that literally almost happened to me. but I decided to type in city after Mexico so I knew this was going to be a problem.
JarBar
+2
Level 67
Apr 21, 2024
UPDATE PLEASE???
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