Five Biggest Cities by Country - Extreme

Try to guess the most populous urban areas in each of the countries below.
Urban area population, not city proper
According to citypopulation.de as of 2024 (and some other sources, mostly Wikipedia)
Some loosely-defined areas filled in by default
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Last updated: April 22, 2026
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United States 1-t.webp
New York City
Los Angeles
Chicago
Washington D.C.
Boston
 
Australia 3-t.webp
Melbourne
Sydney
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
 
Turkey 50-t.webp
Istanbul
Ankara
Izmir
Bursa
Adana
 
Italy 9-t.webp
Milan
Naples
Rome
Turin
Florence
 
Pakistan 53-t.webp
Karachi
Lahore
Faisalabad
Rawalpindi
Gujranwala
 
New Zealand 4-t.webp
Auckland
Christchurch
Wellington
Hamilton
Tauranga
 
Saudi Arabia 64-t.webp
Riyadh
Jeddah
Dammam
Mecca
Medina
 
Austria 75-t.webp
Vienna
Graz
Linz
Salzburg
Innsbruck
 
Greece 25-t.webp
Athens
Thessaloniki
Patras
Heraklion
Larissa
China 30-t.webp
Guangzhou
Shanghai
Beijing
Chengdu
Xiamen
 
Japan 15-t.webp
Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Fukuoka
Sapporo
 
Canada 5-t.webp
Toronto
Montréal
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton
 
Nigeria 183-t.webp
Lagos
Kano
Ibadan
Abuja
Port Harcourt
 
South Korea 16-t.webp
Seoul
Busan
Daegu
Gwangju
Daejeon
 
Ukraine 188-t.webp
Kiev
Kharkiv
Donetsk
Dnipro
Odessa
 
Philippines 97-t.webp
Manila
Cebu
Angeles
Davao
Cagayan de Oro
 
Taiwan 125-t.webp
Taipei
Taichung
Kaohsiung
Tainan
Hsinchu
 
Vietnam 31-t.webp
Ho Chi Minh City
Hanoi
Da Nang
Haiphong
Cần Thơ
Russia 6-t.webp
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
Yekaterinburg
Novosibirsk
Nizhny Novgorod
 
Mexico 70-t.webp
Mexico City
Monterrey
Guadalajara
Puebla
Toluca
 
Germany 65-t.webp
The Ruhr
Cologne / Dusseldorf
Berlin
Frankfurt
Hamburg
 
Indonesia 77-t.webp
Jakarta
Bandung
Surabaya
Medan
Semarang
 
Iran 89-t.webp
Tehran
Mashhad
Isfahan
Tabriz
Shiraz
 
Egypt 81-t.webp
Cairo
Alexandria
Port Said
Suez
Mansoura
 
Sweden 20-t.webp
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Malmö
Uppsala
Helsingborg
 
Venezuela 102-t.webp
Caracas
Maracaibo
Valencia
Maracay
Barquisimeto
 
Chile 123-t.webp
Santiago
Valparaíso
Concepción
La Serena
Antofagasta
France 8-t.webp
Paris
Lyon
Marseille
Lille
Bordeaux
 
Brazil 19-t.webp
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte
Brasília
Porto Alegre
 
India 71-t.webp
Delhi
Mumbai
Kolkata
Bengaluru
Chennai
 
Colombia 172-t.webp
Bogotá
Medellín
Cali
Barranquilla
Bucaramanga
 
Argentina 92-t.webp
Buenos Aires
Córdoba
Rosario
Mendoza
San Miguel de Tucumán
 
Poland 76-t.webp
Warsaw
Upper Silesia
Gdańsk
Łódź
Kraków
 
Bulgaria 12-t.webp
Sofia
Plovdiv
Varna
Burgas
Ruse
 
Portugal 176-t.webp
Lisbon
Porto
Coimbra
Braga
Funchal
 
Syria Flag_of_Syria_%282025-%29.svg
Damascus
Aleppo
Homs
Latakia
Hama
United Kingdom 2-t.webp
London
Birmingham
Manchester
Leeds
Liverpool
 
South Africa 67-t.webp
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Durban
Gqeberha
East London
 
Spain 66-t.webp
Madrid
Barcelona
Valencia
Seville
Málaga
 
Iraq 82-t.webp
Baghdad
Basra
Mosul
Erbil
Kirkuk
 
Morocco 177-t.webp
Casablanca
Rabat
Fés
Agadir
Tangier
 
Belgium 43-t.webp
Brussels
Antwerp
Liège
Ghent
Charleroi
 
Switzerland 42-t.webp
Zürich
Geneva
Basel
Lausanne
Bern
 
D.R. Congo 49-t.webp
Kinshasa
Lubumbashi
Mbuji-Mayi
Kananga
Kisangani
 
Norway 22-t.webp
Oslo
Bergen
Stavanger
Trondheim
Drammen
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51 Comments
+7
Level 82
Apr 18, 2020
Great quiz with challenging timing. Another minute would be appreciated.
+3
Level 76
Apr 18, 2020
I added 3 more minutes. No pressure.
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Level 70
Apr 19, 2020
Should accept "Tucuman" for San Miguel de Tucumán
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Level 77
Sep 15, 2020
Some countries which could be added: Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, Israel, other Nordic countries, etc.
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Level 82
Mar 11, 2022
In Germany, you're missing the Ruhr Area, which is (according to your source) the biggest urban agglomeration of the country.

Nitpicking aside, this is a great quiz :) Goes beyond the usual range of countries and also visually pleasing

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Level 54
Mar 11, 2022
In Munich live far more people than in Stuttgart.
+3
Level 55
Apr 8, 2022
they're talking about the urban area
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Level 36
Mar 11, 2022
Berlin

Hamburg

Munich

Cologne (without Düsseldorf)

Frankfurt

would be the correct ranking for Germany.

+6
Level 67
Mar 11, 2022
the quiz is about urban areas not cities proper
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Level 62
Mar 20, 2023
I agree that the Munich urban area has more than Stuttgart. I looked up the populations of Stuttgart and its main suburbs/attached towns, and it was only a million or so. I think they are including Heilbronn, Tübingen and Reutlingen, but there is a lot of countryside between those places and Stuttgart.
+7
Level 68
Mar 11, 2022
Accept Gqeberha for Port Elizabeth pls
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Level 88
Mar 11, 2022
What a great quiz! I've been working on learning cities, and this is super helpful. Thanks for making it!
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Level 50
May 1, 2022
Dang, the average is 130?!?! You all are smart people! I even thought I did pretty decent, but no! Only had 82!
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Level 81
Jul 10, 2022
China should be Chongqing (31 m), Shanghai (24 m), Beijing (21 m), Chengdu (20 m) and Guangzhou (18 m). Xiamen is a rather small city with six million inhabitants.
+8
Level 65
Jul 10, 2022
Metro area populations
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Level 62
Mar 20, 2023
Chengdu does appear to be more highly populated than Xiamen by any measure, according to multiple different web pages I found. (I've never been there, mind you.)
+3
Level 65
Jul 10, 2022
Fun quiz! You should add Algeria
+4
Level 72
Mar 20, 2023
We need a part 2 :)
+1
Level 42
Feb 21, 2025
Me, seeing this comment: “good idea”
+3
Level 92
Jul 12, 2022
Good quiz. I like these kinds of long quizzes where I can put my obscure knowledge to use:)
+1
Level 92
Jul 12, 2022
I was a little skeptical of the Filipino data, which didn't match what I previously thought, as well as data from sources I looked into.
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Level 53
Mar 6, 2025
There’s a few different countries in this quiz where the quiz maker I think either has skewed or outdated Data or has classified the definition of what constitutes the boundary of an “Urban Area” as different than it actually is. Good quiz for the most part but that’s why you don’t use Wikipedia as a main source lol.
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Level 52
Aug 13, 2022
Rousse could be accepted for Ruse no?
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Level 63
Feb 22, 2023
163/200, over 80% of them, it'll do me.
+4
Level 54
Apr 1, 2023
great quiz but m*tro areas are the worst invention in all of humanity
+9
Level ∞
Feb 3, 2025
Even worse than arbitrary city proper boundaries that given London a population of a few thousand?
+2
Level 63
Sep 2, 2023
I would recommend not having both Brazil and Portugal since Porto Alegre and Porto overlap. Although I would guess most people who know Porto Alegre know Porto.
+1
Level 37
Jun 14, 2024
isn't quezon city the biggest city in the Philippines?
+3
Level 89
Feb 3, 2025
*Urban area*
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Level 92
Feb 3, 2025
Not enough time.
+3
Level 78
Feb 3, 2025
Not that it's that huge a deal, but in case this quiz gets some edits in the near future, the Syrian flag should be updated as well. Nice quiz to feature regardless!
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Level 89
Feb 3, 2025
Fantastic quiz, very challenging time constraints too, I think I wasted a bit too much time trying to do the first few country-by-country instead of just boxing off all the ones I knew immediately and then working on stragglers. Got 172/222; think I could've gotten that up to the 4-point boundary with better use of my time, some glaring omissions on my part from rushing towards the end (I got Coimbra and Kaohsiung but missed Gdansk and Innsbruck lol)
+2
Level 99
Feb 4, 2025
What's the source for Xiamen being the 5th major urban area in china?

As of today Feb.4th.2025 you mention citypopulation.de (which has different data) and wikipedia (which has different data - Xiamen is not even mentioned in the top 20 urban areas). And yes, I looked for urban areas, not city proper.

Honestly, it's pretty frustrating having to go through tenths of city names, since china has so many eligible cities, only because the definition is so loose, at least I hope this is the reason.

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Level 49
Feb 24, 2025
I believe City proper is a far better metric than urban area... alas, that is the only flaw of jetpunk
+3
Level 68
Feb 23, 2025
It is truly mind-blowing how much we still need to explain to people what an urban area is.
+3
Level 26
Feb 23, 2025
It´s DÜsseldorf, not Dusseldorf
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Level 73
Feb 23, 2025
They don't use umlaut in English...
+1
Level 89
Feb 23, 2025
20 days later, increased my score by 10, didn't miss any that I got last time either so that's good progress. Still a couple here I should be remembering (Lausanne, Dnipro, and Stavanger spring to mind) but a lot of the others are just unknowns that I need to learn haha
+2
Level 65
Feb 23, 2025
It would be nice if you accepted Torino for Turin.
+1
Level 76
Feb 23, 2025
I got Cần Thơ because I had a map on the ceiling above my bed as a teen and I remembered seeing it there.... but I missed Chicago
+1
Level 49
Feb 24, 2025
you need to double the time, i couldnt get to 14 of them because of time
+2
Level 48
Feb 28, 2025
Boston is not top 5 it should be Houston
+1
Level 61
Apr 6, 2025
How is Xiamen #5, I looked at Wikipedia and the source you mentioned and it’s urban/metro area isn’t even close to some other cities that weren’t on the list. Did you merge the two populations on accident? Please give me a better source so I can confirm that Xiamen is the fifth most populated urban area city in China.
+2
Level 29
May 23, 2025
houston is the 3rd biggest us city
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Level 62
Jun 11, 2025
You should add "Taizhong" as a spelling for Taichung. For those of us that know the name in Chinese, that is the most direct Latinized spelling (while you're at it add "Taibei" for Taipei).

Also, I agree with the other commenters, you are using a very odd definition of metro area for Xiamen to end up anywhere in the top 10 Chinese cities, let alone top 5. It's a pretty small city by Chinese standards. Honestly not even in the top 20 by most definitions of metro area. What list are you using?

+1
Level 25
Jun 24, 2025
How did you put the flags on the quiz; it didn't work when i made a quiz with countries in it :(
+1
Level 89
Sep 14, 2025
I know that Kwangju is now more commonly Romanized as Gwangju, but it still hurt to be marked wrong for that since it's one letter different.
+2
Level 69
Oct 10, 2025
Challenging quiz. I feel like a nice round 20 minutes would be better than 18, but perhaps that's part of the difficulty. Also, would you consider accepting "Antofogasta" for "Antofagasta"?
+1
Level 66
Oct 21, 2025
I don't understand how Boston is on this quiz. I understand its based on urban area, but I checked both Wikipedia and citypop and neither of them listed Boston as top 5 in urban population. I also noticed the urban area of Boston extends considerably into southern NH, almost into the town I'm from, which is a literal hour drive from the city.
+1
Level 65
Dec 19, 2025
Why is "Novgorod" not accepted for "Nizhny Novgorod"? I think it works for almost all quizzes on Jetpunk.
+1
Level 62
Jan 19, 2026
Usually, the type-in is just "Nizhny"