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Two Largest Cities by First Two Letters

Can you name the 2 largest cities by urban area population if I give you their first two letters?
Based on the city's English language name
Urban population according to citypopulation.de, January 2025
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First submittedSeptember 18, 2017
Times taken83,322
Average score46.7%
Rating4.53
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Pop.
Urban Area
TO
41.2 m
Tokyo
7.85 m
Toronto
SA
22.6 m
São Paulo
8.40 m
Santiago
TU
2.73 m
Tunis
1.59 m
Turin
OS
17.7 m
Osaka
1.27 m
Oslo
HO
14.3 m
Ho Chi Minh City
7.50 m
Hong Kong
 
Pop.
Urban Area
MI
6.30 m
Miami
6.15 m
Milan
TE
16.8 m
Tehran
3.00 m
Tel Aviv
DU
6.05 m
Dubai
3.90 m
Durban
LU
9.65 m
Luanda
4.23 m
Lucknow
DE
35.7 m
Delhi
5.75 m
Detroit
 
Pop.
Urban Area
JA
29.5 m
Jakarta
4.53 m
Jaipur
MA
27.8 m
Manila
6.70 m
Madrid
PH
7.50 m
Philadelphia
4.95 m
Phoenix
LO
17.1 m
Los Angeles
15.1 m
London
XI
15.4 m
Xiamen
13.4 m
Xi'an
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44 Comments
travelfan
+10
Level 67
Sep 27, 2017
Really interesting and original! This was an excellent challenge.
cafrance1089
+31
Level 67
Sep 28, 2017
this was surprisingly really hard
Qikiq
+6
Level 89
Jan 10, 2018
I've taken this quiz twice and missed Delhi twice. It never enters my mind because I think of it as New Delhi. When will I learn?
jpcol
+3
Level 56
Jan 10, 2018
What a wonderful quiz. Surprisingly difficult.

Keep them coming!

PotatoBoy
+4
Level 66
Jan 10, 2018
I thought Tucson, AZ, was bigger than Turin, so after I hit Turin I typed Tucson over 5 times. Checked the source and found that I was monumentally wrong.
iuvas
+1
Level 99
Jan 10, 2018
loved this one! great and original idea!

i admit i tried more than twice chongqing and chengdu, but i got Turin!

CorkSpork
+2
Level 71
Jan 10, 2018
Really enjoyed this quiz, pretty challenging. Only got 20, but that included Lucknow so I'm happy.
quizzicalguy
+1
Level 69
Jan 10, 2018
Great quiz! Loved it
Soph1
+2
Level 51
Jan 10, 2018
This was really hard! (but good)
Froststar101
+10
Level 73
Jan 11, 2018
That was insanely difficult for me - I only got 9. I thought of a bunch that didn't work, like Kunming, Denver, Tulsa, Calcutta, and Hohhot. I feel some dumb seeing the answers, but trying to think of cities based on their letters was much harder than I would have thought.
PrinceEric
+4
Level 56
Jan 12, 2018
Usually, the picture shown in the thumbnail is of the first answer on the page. But this picture of not of Tokyo, it is of Osaka. Not a mistake by any means, as they both appear on the list, but I just didn't want anyone thinking that the top picture was Tokyo. The world needs to know!
luxint
+1
Level 67
Jan 12, 2018
Nice one, cheers.
Lemondance
+7
Level 67
Jan 12, 2018
Huh, I would've thought Phnom Penh would've placed.
TravelingMama
+1
Level 72
Sep 2, 2019
Nice! Pretty challenging.
NauruPalau
+2
Level 48
Feb 6, 2020
That was really hard. Got mostnby just guessing random cities. 16/30
maxism
+4
Level 70
May 4, 2020
Deceptively difficult!
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Oct 13, 2022
That's exactly the comment I was going to write!
Xenobiologista
+4
Level 59
Sep 15, 2020
What! Toronto has 7 million? That's like a fifth of Canada.
Badeghut
+2
Level 75
Apr 5, 2021
Yeah as far as I'm aware the GTA is closer to just over 6 million in population. Not quite sure where the 7 million number comes from.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Sep 16, 2022
50% of Canada lives below this line which is at about the same latitude as Portland, Oregon.
Geopro
+2
Level 59
Apr 5, 2021
Surprisingly I got 24 correct and 5 points. I don't usually do very good at these kinds of quizzes!
luxint
+1
Level 67
Apr 5, 2021
Much more difficult than it looked...and going by the average mark I am not the only one. Thanks, good quiz.
geographysmart
+1
Level 23
Apr 5, 2021
I missed so many obvious ones like cairo, toronto, hongkong, and detroit
YouLoveEagle
+7
Level 48
Apr 30, 2022
me thinking “hmm,to,Togo,nope it’s a country, and skip,then CA,California!Nope,that’s a state
Kenneth3748
+2
Level 52
Oct 12, 2022
chongqing?
KennethTAA
+1
Level 61
Mar 17, 2025
lol
InterAlia
+1
Level 83
Apr 27, 2025
What's the frequency?
Spb3590
+3
Level 71
Dec 8, 2022
I'm literally sitting in Tel Aviv and didn't think of it LOL
EmreBozkurt
+1
Level 67
Apr 15, 2023
17/30 missed Madrid...
EmreBozkurt
+1
Level 67
Apr 4, 2025
improved to 24/30 but somehow i missed los angeles...
ng218
+3
Level 50
Jun 29, 2023
I never think of Delhi as a city, as it's technically a "capital region." I only think of New Delhi.
Froststar101
+6
Level 73
Oct 26, 2023
What?
luxint
+2
Level 67
Mar 16, 2025
What what?
DIALKIA
+1
Level 71
Sep 14, 2023
More difficult than I thought, but I managed to get all of them :)
JJRN
+1
Level 73
Mar 14, 2025
Tough enough that I didn't guess 10 of them, and of those 10, I've been to 3 of them! Toronto, Phoenix, and Oslo, all worth a visit for sure!
luxint
+1
Level 67
Mar 16, 2025
Very good. Thank you.More please?
mbnz
+2
Level 76
Mar 16, 2025
Would be great to make this a random one so the letters changed every time! Great quiz
chirpydave
+4
Level 84
Mar 20, 2025
Saint Petersberg?
KWOrpheus
+1
Level 79
Apr 6, 2025
Just another example of why I should read the directions first lol

"Miami? Over 6 million!? But I lived there and other quizzes put it ... ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, damn."

ManicBrown
+1
Level 57
Apr 26, 2025
That was a tough quiz. I got 17 even though I knew basically all of the cities.
idontkn1
+1
Level 94
Apr 28, 2025
Raise your hand if you got the second most populous city with "LO" and completely blanked on the most populous one. I imagine that a lot of Yanks struggle with that one since it's hardly used.
bearwife2
+1
Level 32
Oct 18, 2025
Really enjoyable quiz! The answers motivated me to read up about the cities i don’t know
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Nov 24, 2025
Fun quiz
Newroadgirl
+1
Level 69
Apr 6, 2026
Really enjoyed the quiz, great idea.

However...confusing for me as USA definition of a city is so different from the UK definition of a city. No Brit would think of London as having a population of 15 million.

I checked on the website you used - citypopulation.de UK and that gave London's population as 8m+ so how did you translate that into over 15m?

Thank you.

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