| Hint | Pop. | City | % Correct |
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| 5) Home to Hollywood and celebrity elites | 17.5 m | Los Angeles | 100%
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| 1) Aka the Big Apple | 19.5 m | New York | 100%
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| 11) The City of Lights | 13 m | Paris | 100%
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| 3) The largest city in South America and the Western Hemisphere | 23 m | Sao Paulo | 100%
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| 27) Home to the Oriental Pearl tower | 27 m | Shanghai | 100%
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| 24) Japanese megacity that was formerly theworlds most populous | 36 m | Tokyo | 100%
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| 23) Called Krung Thep in its native language | 11.5 m | Bangkok | 93%
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| 30) The Forbidden City is located here | 23 m | Beijing | 93%
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| 15) The most populated city in Africa | 25 m | Cairo | 93%
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| 25) Sits on the island of Java, one of the most densely populated islands on Earth | 42 m | Jakarta | 93%
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| 19) Often called Joburg | 10.5 m | Johannesburg | 93%
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| 10) The Shard, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey | 15.1 m | London | 93%
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| 12) The largest city entirely within Europe | 20 m | Moscow | 93%
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| 8) Home to Copacabana beach and Christthe Redeemer | 11.8 m | Rio De Janeiro | 93%
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| 20) The most populous city in South Asia | 35 m | Delhi | 87%
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| 28) Located on the island of Luzon | 15.5m | Manila | 87%
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| 2) Built upon the Azteccapital of Tenochtitlan | 21 m | Mexico City | 87%
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| 22) Formerly called Bombay during British rule | 23 m | Mumbai | 87%
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| 9) Sits in an upland basin in Columbia at8,660 ft | 11.5 m | Bogota | 80%
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| 7) Spanish for Good Air or Fair Winds | 13 m | Buenos Aires | 80%
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| 6) Chinese megacity on the Pearl river, alsoknown as Canton | 18.7 m | Guangzhou | 80%
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| 13) Straddles the Europe-Asia continental line | 16.4 m | Istanbul | 80%
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| 16) Sits on the Congo river across from Brazzaville, RC | 21 m | Kinshasa | 80%
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| 17) Nigerias financial center and one of Africas largest ports | 17.5 m | Lagos | 80%
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| 4) Coastal megacity founded by FranciscoPizarro in 1535 | 11.6 m | Lima | 80%
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| 21) Costal megacity where the Indus rivermeets the Arabian Sea | 21.2 m | Karachi | 73%
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| 14) Known as the mega hub of western China | 21.4 m | Chengdu | 60%
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| 26) One of Chinas biggest cities on theconfluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers | 31 m | Chongqing | 60%
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| 29) Home to the Tsūtenkaku tower | 18.8 m | Osaka | 53%
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| 18) Often called the "Paris of Africa" | 10.4 m | Luanda | 47%
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