Cities That Beat London

For each category, name any city in the world that ranks higher than London.

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First submitted	June 15, 2022
Times taken	50,864
Average score	72.2%
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Rank	Category	Answer
14	Most populous national capital by urban area	Tokyo \| Delhi \| Jakarta \| Manila \| Mexico City \| Seoul \| Cairo \| Dhaka \| Beijing \| Bangkok \| Moscow \| Buenos Aires \| Tehran \| Kinshasa
18	Largest stadium	Ahmedabad \| Pyongyang \| Ann Arbor \| State College \| Columbus \| College Station \| Baton Rouge \| Knoxville \| Austin \| Tuscaloosa \| Melbourne \| Barcelona \| Johannesburg \| Cairo \| Athens (GA) \| Lusail \| Dallas
15	Southernmost city in England with official city status	Truro \| Plymouth \| Exeter \| Portsmouth \| Brighton and Hove \| Chichester \| Southampton \| Winchester \| Salisbury \| Wells \| Canterbury \| Bath \| Bristol \| Westminster
7	National capital closest to French territory (excluding Paris)	Monaco \| Luxembourg \| Andorra la Vella \| Bern \| Brussels \| Paramaribo
7	European national capital with the lowest elevation	Amsterdam \| Monaco \| Copenhagen \| Riga \| Dublin \| Oslo
7	Most populous urban area in the Commonwealth of Nations	Delhi \| Mumbai \| Dhaka \| Karachi \| Lagos \| Kolkata
5	Most Michelin star restaurants	Tokyo \| Paris \| Kyoto \| Osaka
4	City with the busiest airport by # of passengers (2023)	Atlanta \| Dubai \| Dallas
4	First city to host the Olympics	Athens \| Paris \| St. Louis
4	Tallest skyscraper in Europe	St. Petersburg \| Moscow \| Warsaw
3	Most embassies	Brussels \| Washington D.C.
3	Most international tourists (Euromonitor, 2024)	Bangkok \| Istanbul
3	Most populous urban area starting with L	Lagos \| Los Angeles
2	Most populous urban area above 50° N	Moscow
2	Most populous urban area in the year 1950	New York City
2	Most populous urban area in the year 1800	Beijing
2	National capital closest to Scotland	Dublin
2	Most English Premier League championships	Manchester

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43 Comments

Level 63

Jun 15, 2022

Apparently I scored 44%. Apparently this beats 0% of test takers. Apparently I scored 5/5. Erm...

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Level 68

Jun 15, 2022

Yeah, on the first day the stats are kinda weird, they should sort themselves out though.

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Level 89

Jun 15, 2022

I like how most of these answer lists are "the usual suspects" as far as JetPunk city-related quizzes go, but then you get to "Largest Stadium" and . . .

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Level 68

Jun 15, 2022

The funny thing is, that one is a category that the Quizmaster added when he featured this quiz, so I genuinely don't know whether "Athens" refers to Greece or Georgia. XD

Level 89

Jun 15, 2022

Haha! I do believe it is Georgia.

Level 72

Jul 8, 2022

Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia, USA has nearly 93,000 in capacity, I'm guessing any stadium in Athens, Greece doesn't come close to that

Level 89

Feb 9, 2025

You'd be correct, the largest stadium in Greece is the Olympic Stadium in Athens, but it only holds ~69,000

Level 64

Feb 14, 2025

Go Dawgs!

Level 81

Jun 21, 2022

I was very pleased that my city (Melbourne) was a valid answer to this one!

Level 71

Jul 7, 2022

I was even more pleased to see that my small college town (State College, PA) was also a valid answer!

Level 72

Feb 12, 2025

I was the most pleased to see my alma mater (Knoxville) as a valid answer! GO VOLS!

Level 56

Jan 16, 2024

As a Melbournian was stoked to see that question. Knew it would be mostly college towns and pyongyang but was stoked to write the city that is home to the G. Watched many a game of footy there!

Level 59

Aug 21, 2025

Boxing Day Ashes Test there is pretty special too

Level 77

Jun 15, 2022

I think the answer to "Most populous city in the year 1800" should accept Peking, as it was the name at the time

Level 68

Jun 16, 2022

Fair enough, from what I can tell, the Chinese called it Beijing at the time (or, to be more accurate, "北京") but in the west it was called Peking, so I think that's reasonable, thanks for the suggestion!

Level 49

Jul 6, 2022

So can you accept 北京 too maybe?

Level 68

Jul 6, 2022

Sure, but it has to go through the Quizmaster first, since this is featured.

Level 49

Jul 7, 2022

Level 49

Jul 7, 2022

It works now! Thanks!

Level 68

Jul 7, 2022

No problem!

Level 68

Jul 7, 2022

I still have no idea what "the Commonwealth of Nations" is, despite seeing it on like 50 quizzes. I thought it was countries that are technically under the dominion of the Queen of England, but now I see Bangladesh involved and I have no idea what is going on.

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Level 57

Jul 7, 2022

It's an organization, mostly consisting of the UK and its former colonies - it used to be only those, but Mozambique (a former Portuguese colony) joined in 1995, and Togo and Gabon (former French colonies) earlier this year.

Level 64

Jul 7, 2022

There is no such person as the Queen of England by the way.

Level 68

Jul 7, 2022

Yes, yes. I know. It's the United Kingdom. Thanks for your sterling contribution.

Level 45

Apr 15, 2025

only because shes dead. The ruler of any place is the ruler of the place.

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Level 58

Jul 7, 2022

If only there was a way of finding things out quickly at the touch of a few buttons...

Level 68

Jul 7, 2022

If only there was a way to contribute without being a sarcastic a-hole.

Level 55

Mar 8, 2025

It takes one to know one...! ;-)

Level 45

Apr 15, 2025

why is everyone being so rude to you. is it because these are the British. God bless the British.

Level 71

Jul 7, 2022

@Jmellor: Sorry that the answers here are so snarky, but to answer your question, there are no hard and fast rules to belong to the Commonwealth other than a desire to have ties to the Anglosphere. That's why it's mostly former colonies but with some exceptions in either way. For example, the US has always dissociated itself from the British Empire and thus is not interested. In contrast, countries like Rwanda aren't part of the Anglosphere historically but are actively seeking better ties with the UK for political and economic reasons. As for Bangladesh, even though the country didn't directly declare independence from the UK, British influence from the days of the Raj is still strong, much as it is in India (India is also not under the Crown for the record). So, basically to wrap up my long-winded answer, any country can join, as long as they have (or want to have) ties to the UK.

Level 57

Jul 14, 2022

As the others have mentioned, there is the Commonwealth of Nations which is just an organization of countries that have close ties to the UK/English world. But, you are thinking of Commonwealth Realms, which are the countries whose head of state is the Queen. The Commonwealth Realms include the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and a few others.

Level 23

Jul 7, 2022

I love these quizzes. It shows me how pathetically little I know.

Level 82

Jul 7, 2022

Hong Kong only beats London in "Most international tourists" because they count mainland Chinese as "international", but they shouldn't.

Since 1997 HK is part of China, and after the passing of the National Security Law in 2020 the city became almost as any other regular city in the PRC, maybe even more repressive.

Level 64

Jul 9, 2022

According to my admittedly brief research the European capital of Lisbon has an elevation of 2 meters compared to London's elevation of 11m

Level 74

Jul 11, 2022

Most populous cities beginning with L according to citypopulation.de:

1. Los Angeles (13,000,000)

2. Lagos (12,550,000)

3. Lahore (11,120,000)

4. Lima (10,800,000)

5. London (10,735,000)

This quiz was apparently updated very recently as well.

Level 68

Jul 11, 2022

I was using the Jetpunk largest world cities quiz, and that quiz does use citypopulation.de, but using 2021 data, not the new 2022 data. Just to keep stuff consistent, I'm not going to update it yet until that quiz is updated, but I'll tell the QM about it.

Level ∞

Jul 11, 2022

The quiz is correct based on urban population.

http://citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/

I've amended the quiz to specify urban area.

Level 16

Jul 11, 2022

the MCG is australia should be an answer

Level 71

Sep 5, 2023

This quiz is for cities, not countries. Therefore an acceptable answer is Melbourne, not Australia.

Level 83

Jun 16, 2023

shoot, missed a couple on 1st try. thought it was for capital city only...

Level 93

Feb 9, 2025

It those get confusing at one point, jumping from capitals to non necessarily capitals.

Level 48

Feb 9, 2025

please add nyc as a type-in and I believe lahore is bigger than london

Level 63

Mar 6, 2025

I threw out Istanbul in desperation...was very surprised when it worked!