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All Megacities By Etymology - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 300 times
- The average score is 26 of 37
Answers on the Map
Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.
Answer Stats
| Etymology | Population | Agglomeration | % Correct |
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| Originally called Edo, meaning "estuary", with the word "capital" being later appended. | 40.4 m | Tokyo | 95%
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| Meaning "Saint Paul" in Portuguese. | 22.4 m | São Paulo | 94%
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| Named after the "Guang Province", which itself means "broad" or "expansive". | 46.7 m | Guangzhou | 92%
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| Named after Mexico. | 23.0 m | Mexico City | 92%
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| Named in honor of the Duke of York. | 22.1 m | New York City | 92%
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| Meaning "The Angels" in Spanish. | 17.7 m | Los Angeles | 90%
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| Meaning "Good Airs" (or less literally, Fair Winds). | 16.8 m | Buenos Aires | 88%
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| Named after someone named Johannes, though nobody knows which one. | 13.9 m | Johannesburg | 87%
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| Unknown. Probably corrupted from the Latinization of Brittonic Londinion. | 14.8 m | London | 87%
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| Meaning, "Where indigo is found" in Tagalog. | 25.7 m | Manila | 86%
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| Derived from the Moskva River. | 17.3 m | Moscow | 86%
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| Meaning "River of January" in Portuguese. | 13.2 m | Rio de Janeiro | 86%
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| Named after the patron goddess of the Koli community Mumbadevi. | 25.1 m | Mumbai | 84%
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| Hanzi characters translate to "Northern Capital". | 19.8 m | Beijing | 83%
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| Named after an indigenous tribe. the Parisii. | 11.4 m | Paris | 83%
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| Hanzi characters directly translate to "upon the sea". | 33.6 m | Shanghai | 83%
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| Derived from its official Arabic name, which means "The Vanquisher" in reference to Mars rising when the city was founded. | 21.0 m | Cairo | 79%
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| Meaning "lakes" in Portuguese. | 19.4 m | Lagos | 76%
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| Unknown. Potentially named after an ancient king, meaning "loose" in reference to Chandragupta II's iron pillar, meaning "eminence", named after a currency, or meaning "gateway". | 30.3 m | Delhi | 74%
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| Descended from the word Seorabeol, which might mean "metal/gold city". | 24.8 m | Seoul | 74%
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| Corruption of a settlement's name which translated to "Victorious Deed" or "Complete Victory", referring to a victory by Fatahilla against the Portuguese. | 31.3 m | Jakarta | 67%
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| Unknown. Potentially named after a type of tree, a musical instrument, or the hidden Hindu Goddess Dhakeshwari. | 20.2 m | Dhaka | 66%
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| Derived from an old Greek phrase meaning "to the city". | 16.4 m | Istanbul | 66%
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| Corrupted from Limaq, meaning "Talker" or "Speaker". | 10.1 m | Lima | 61%
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| Unknown. Potentially means "island village on a stream", or a "village on a stream" and makok, a plant that bears olive-like fruit. | 18.8 m | Bangkok | 57%
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| Derived from a Telugu ruler, Damarla Mudirasa Chennappa Nayakudu. | 11.3 m | Chennai | 57%
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| Unknown. Potentially meaning "Field of Kali", derived from Kalighat, derived from a word meaning "Flat Area", two words meaning "dug canal", or named in reference to regional production of quicklime and coir. | 16.8 m | Kolkata | 55%
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| Unknown. Potentially meaning "The Abode of Tir/Mercury", "a warm place", or "bottom of the mountain slope". | 15.3 m | Tehran | 50%
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| Meaning "Haydar's City" or "Lion City", named for Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, also known as Haydar. | 10.2 m | Hyderabad | 49%
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| Means "Large hill/slope". | 17.7 m | Osaka | 45%
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| Hanzi characters translate to "Heavenly Ford". | 12.7 m | Tianjin | 45%
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| Corrupted from an older name meaning "City of Guards" in Old Kannada. | 12.2 m | Bengaluru | 43%
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| Corruption of the original name, in honor of the father of a famed deadly crocodile slayer. | 17.8 m | Karachi | 43%
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| Named for a nearby village, whose name refers to marsh. | 12.4 m | Kinshasa | 43%
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| Unknown. Potentially corrupted from a name derived from the Ravi River, possibly meaning "Blacksmith", or maybe "City of Lava". | 13.0 m | Lahore | 39%
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| Named for a nearby castle, whose Hanzi characters translate to "Mansion Gate" or "Gate of China". | 10.0 m | Xiamen | 39%
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| Potentially meaning "Peaceful". | 10.5 m | Nagoya | 36%
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