Biggest City in Every Country

Try to name the most populous city and urban area in all 196 countries of the world.

City proper marked with (c). Urban area with (u).

According to citypopulation.de, with Wikipedia as a secondary source

The loosely-defined Ruhr area is filled in by default

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Country	City
Afghanistan	Kabul
Albania	Tirana
Algeria	Algiers
Andorra	Andorra la Vella
Angola	Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's
Argentina	Buenos Aires
Armenia	Yerevan
Australia	Sydney
Austria	Vienna
Azerbaijan	Baku
Bahamas	Nassau
Bahrain	Manama
Bangladesh	Dhaka
Barbados	Bridgetown
Belarus	Minsk
Belgium	c	Antwerp
	u	Brussels
Belize	Belize City
Benin	Cotonou
Bhutan	Thimphu
Bolivia	Santa Cruz
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo
Botswana	Gaborone
Brazil	São Paulo
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria	Sofia
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou
Burundi	Gitega
Cambodia	Phnom Penh
Cameroon	c	Douala
	u	Yaoundé
Canada	Toronto
Cape Verde	Praia
Central African Republic	Bangui
Chad	N'Djamena
Chile	Santiago
China	c	Shanghai
	u	Guangzhou
Colombia	Bogotá
Comoros	Moroni
Costa Rica	San José
Croatia	Zagreb
Cuba	Havana
Cyprus	c	Limassol
	u	Nicosia
Czech Republic	Prague
D. R. Congo	Kinshasa
Denmark	Copenhagen
Djibouti	Djibouti
Dominica	Roseau
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo
East Timor	Dili
Ecuador	c	Quito
	u	Guayaquil
Egypt	Cairo
El Salvador	San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea	Bata
Eritrea	Asmara
Estonia	Tallinn
Eswatini	Mbabane
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa
F. S. Micronesia	Weno
Fiji	Suva
Finland	Helsinki
France	Paris
Gabon	Libreville
Gambia	c	Brikama
	u	Banjul
Georgia	Tbilisi

Country		City
Germany	c	Berlin
	u	Ruhr area
Ghana	Accra
Greece	Athens
Grenada	Saint George's
Guatemala	Guatemala City
Guinea	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau
Guyana	Georgetown
Haiti	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Tegucigalpa
Hungary	Budapest
Iceland	Reykjavík
India	c	Mumbai
	u	Delhi
Indonesia	Jakarta
Iran	Tehran
Iraq	Baghdad
Ireland	Dublin
Israel	c	Jerusalem
	u	Tel Aviv
Italy	c	Rome
	u	Milan
Ivory Coast	Abidjan
Jamaica	Kingston
Japan	Tokyo
Jordan	Amman
Kazakhstan	Almaty
Kenya	Nairobi
Kiribati	South Tarawa
Kosovo	Pristina
Kuwait	Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek
Laos	Vientiane
Latvia	Riga
Lebanon	Beirut
Lesotho	Maseru
Liberia	Monrovia
Libya	Tripoli
Liechtenstein	Schaan
Lithuania	Vilnius
Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Madagascar	Antananarivo
Malawi	Lilongwe
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur
Maldives	Malé
Mali	Bamako
Malta	St. Paul's Bay
Marshall Islands	Majuro
Mauritania	Nouakchott
Mauritius	Port Louis
Mexico	Mexico City
Moldova	Chișinău
Monaco	Monaco
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro	Podgorica
Morocco	Casablanca
Mozambique	Maputo
Myanmar	Yangon
Namibia	Windhoek
Nauru	Denigomodu
Nepal	Kathmandu
Netherlands	c	Amsterdam
	u	Rotterdam
New Zealand	Auckland
Nicaragua	Managua
Niger	Niamey
Nigeria	Lagos
North Korea	Pyongyang
North Macedonia	Skopje
Norway	Oslo

Country	City
Oman	Muscat
Pakistan	Karachi
Palau	Koror
Panama	Panama City
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby
Paraguay	Asunción
Peru	Lima
Philippines	c	Quezon City
	u	Manila
Poland	Warsaw
Portugal	Lisbon
Qatar	Doha
Rep. of the Congo	Brazzaville
Romania	Bucharest
Russia	Moscow
Rwanda	Kigali
Samoa	Apia
San Marino	Dogana
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh
Senegal	Dakar
Serbia	Belgrade
Seychelles	Victoria
Sierra Leone	Freetown
Singapore	Singapore
Slovakia	Bratislava
Slovenia	Ljubljana
Solomon Islands	Honiara
Somalia	Mogadishu
South Africa	Johannesburg
South Korea	Seoul
South Sudan	Juba
Spain	Madrid
Sri Lanka	Colombo
St. Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre
St. Lucia	Castries
St. Vincent and Grenadines	Kingstown
Sudan	c	Omdurman
	u	Khartoum
Suriname	Paramaribo
Sweden	Stockholm
Switzerland	Zürich
Syria	c	Aleppo
	u	Damascus
Taiwan	New Taipei City
Tajikistan	Dushanbe
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Thailand	Bangkok
Togo	Lomé
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa
Trinidad and Tobago	Chaguanas
Tunisia	Tunis
Turkey	Istanbul
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat
Tuvalu	Funafuti
Uganda	Kampala
Ukraine	Kyiv
United Arab Emirates	Dubai
United Kingdom	London
United States	New York City
Uruguay	Montevideo
Uzbekistan	Tashkent
Vanuatu	Port Vila
Vatican City	Vatican City
Venezuela	Caracas
Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City
Yemen	Sana'a
Zambia	Lusaka
Zimbabwe	Harare

Level 52

Jan 9, 2014

I am part of the 1% who got Weno…didn't cheat just one of those names that you can remember..

Level 56

Jan 17, 2014

For those who got correct the 1 percentile answers. How? Have you lived in/visited the place(s)

Level 85

Apr 18, 2014

Because you have to personally visit a place to know its name.

Actually, I got 118 without going near ANY of these cities.

Level 83

Apr 20, 2014

The most obscure one I got was Bassaterre. That's just from practicing for the country capital quizzes on the site, I've never been there. It always helps if you have visited a place to remember it, of course. Easier than just trying to memorize a list of names that you know nothing about. Many people who have taken a cruise around the Caribbean have probably visited some of the more obscure answers on this quiz. The least-known place I have been to here is Manama. Actually I have an apartment there.

Level 50

Jul 30, 2018

I got 189 and the only ones on this list I've been to are London, Toronto and Rotterdam. I'm just really interested in cities.

Level 49

Jan 2, 2020

I'm super late here, but I'm just super interested in travel. I've only been to New York though, but my most obscure answers were Bata and Koror

Level 65

Apr 19, 2020

My score isn't fantastic I got 126, I have yet the learn some of the world capitals (and others I know but slip my mind on a quiz like this.), my most obscure one was Yaren, and non capital one bujumbura (only because I read a wikipage about it last week, and cant believe I actually remember it and how to spell it haha! I thought I probably wont get it right..)

if you exclude former capitals aswell you go quite a distance up.

(was thin of apia though, but couldn't quit get it.. I knew 4 letters with an i and an a... praia might ve blocked that answer though.. used up my a's i's and p's)

Level 60

Oct 30, 2020

I got 179 but would have got most of them only I ran out of time typing on my phone.

I've only been to Sydney, Johannesburg and Gaborone.

Level 78

May 26, 2022

I’ve been to exactly zero of these :( I got 200 though and still only beat 85% of people. I somehow just skipped over Japan though

Level 28

Mar 8, 2020

lol saaame

Level 82

May 17, 2022

Weno you cheated

Level 85

May 17, 2022

lol

Level 55

Feb 28, 2023

I got Weno right too

Level 62

Mar 28, 2014

Guangzhou is the 7th biggest city in china - the biggest city is chongqing with 30 Million people!!!

+18

Level ∞

Apr 3, 2014

Chongqing is an entire region spanning an area three times the size of Belgium. It is not a continuous urban area.

Level 45

Jul 30, 2018

I still think it is chongqing and if its not, it should at least be shanghai

Level 45

Jul 30, 2018

plus on citypopulation.de, your going of the 2010 census and its 2018

Level 55

Feb 28, 2023

Guangzhou is combined with Shenzen population, normally.

Level 68

Apr 18, 2014

Well, well. I've been spending most of my spare time doing quiz for the past two months, and only today did I learn the correct English spelling for Kathmandu - I'd been spelling it Katmandu and it had always been accepted so I thought it was right. Uh. I also didn't know there was any other city than Vaduz in Liechtenstein. I had always surmised it was close to being a city-state. I learn new things today! :)

Level 74

Apr 18, 2014

Thanks for making this quiz! I was worried I was going to run out of time, but fortunately I got all the ones I knew it time. Didn't know any of the 1% answers, but got all the others easily enough.

Level 55

Apr 18, 2014

Basically the same test countries' capitals !

Level 83

Apr 20, 2014

It's similar but there are some notable differences.

+11

Level 74

Jun 16, 2018

Actually about 30 different ones, including larger ones like China, USA, Canada, Australia and Turkey.

Level 68

Apr 18, 2014

I got 184, which I guess isn't half bad.

Level 49

Apr 18, 2014

This quiz is almost impossible.

+12

Level 75

Oct 2, 2019

Then I almost did the almost impossible

Level 75

Apr 18, 2014

Thanks for making this quiz!!

Level 28

Jun 18, 2014

The problem with Vaduz andSan Marino, among others, is that in those countries there is not a classification of urban areas, so the data for the municipality (city proper) is taken into account, with the result that uknown suburbs wins because they have more population than the capital.

Anyway, for Liechtenstein I have a reliable swiss source, claiming that Vaduz is the most important city (being the first named) of the transnational agglomeration of Vaduz-Buchs! Schaan it is only a part of it. It's in french, but really easy to understand. http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/fr/index/regionen/11/geo/analyse_regionen/05.html

Level 37

Sep 28, 2014

Would appreciate if you would accept the former American English spellings Kishinev for Moldova and Ashkabad for Turkmenistan. I have NatGeo maps from the 90s that spell them that way.

Level 53

Nov 23, 2022

Do you still call Istanbul Constantinople

Level 86

Nov 4, 2014

only city of milan is 1,3 million; rome 2,7 million.........

Level 63

Mar 25, 2021

This quiz uses urban area populations, those are city proper

Level 36

Nov 23, 2014

So I'm supposed to believe that 45% of people guessed that the largest urban area in Mongolia was "Ulaanbaatar"? I swear, JetPunk makes me feel so bad about myself when I take geography quizzes

+15

Level 65

May 3, 2018

I didn't guess it; I knew it.

+19

Level 65

Aug 24, 2019

Well it IS the capital and actually the ONLY city i could name in mongolia..

Level 65

Aug 24, 2019

And it is fun to say :) so easier to remember than other obscure (and perhaps others feel the same and that is the reason it is actually notso obscure anymore on jetpunk)

Level 70

Jul 8, 2021

lol the only other Mongolian city I know is for its name: Moron.

Level 85

May 17, 2022

Not to mention that people who 1) are on JetPunk to begin with, and 2) are inclined to take this particular kind of quiz, are mostly self-selected geography buffs who enjoy learning this kind of info. So it's perfectly logical that nearly half would know the capital of a fairly large Asian country.

Level 75

Jun 28, 2023

Red hero is an unforgettable city name.

Level 61

Dec 3, 2014

Please accept some version of reykjavjk!

+14

Level 79

Jul 30, 2018

They do: the correct one :)

Level 58

Jan 8, 2023

I believe they also accept “raccoon pelvic”

Level 72

Dec 11, 2014

Serekunda should be Serrekuda. Two r's, not one.

Level 66

Dec 13, 2014

184/196, 17 years old.

Level 65

Aug 24, 2019

So you didnt even get them all in the prime of your life? :0 I am so sorry for you.

Level 18

Dec 31, 2014

PARIS is underrated

Level 50

Jul 30, 2018

Hardly

Level 77

Oct 8, 2015

Great quiz to learn :-) I'm pretty happy with 179/196 at first try although some capitals slipped my mind.

If you ask for the biggest urban area in Germany, Ruhr Area should be the correct answer. Or Düsseldorf, if you want the answer to be a city.

Level 35

Dec 9, 2015

50% my geography knowledge has declined a little

Level 49

Feb 8, 2016

I counted 25 that I absolutely should have known.

Level 60

Feb 28, 2016

Rotterdam is not the biggest city of the Netherlands, even when deciding to count metro

Level 72

Jun 6, 2016

Katmandú should do, so as Kathmandu. There should be some consistence in the same answers among quizzes

Level 70

Jul 20, 2016

178/196, proud of myself for doing this good.

Level 83

Aug 22, 2016

Missed ten, though I was a little surprised at Malta. As far as I'm aware Valletta has an urban area encompassing about 350,000. Given this is the vast majority of Malta's population, it seems surprising to find another town is bigger. I'm assuming this is just using the population of the historical town of Valletta (only about 6,000 or so), as opposed to its urban area.

Level 74

Sep 1, 2016

Valletta is not the biggest city in it's urban area, that's the trick.

Level 64

Oct 9, 2016

True, there are a lot of unheard of ones here. I can assume it is annoying when you realise that Palikir doesn't work for Micronesia.

Level 50

Jul 30, 2018

True, but I feel like perhaps it should be accepted, even if it doesn't fill in the answer as Valletta.

Level 60

Aug 6, 2020

@QRU Going by that logic, the San Francisco urban area should be renamed the San Jose urban area.

Level 83

Aug 22, 2016

Interesting to note here that some of these cities have populations larger than the nation that hosts them - Singapore, for example. I'm assuming that means Johor Bahru's population is being incorporated.

Level 60

Sep 29, 2016

188 first attempt not bad. Surprised with the answers for San Marino, Malta and Trinidad and Tobago. Good quiz!

Level 69

Mar 1, 2017

Wow not even 1% made +190...

Level 61

Mar 12, 2017

I'm in 6th grade. I wish we studied things like this. 196/196!

Level 53

Nov 12, 2022

name checks out

Level 71

May 7, 2017

Great quiz, needs more time though. A lot more time. I spent far too long having to scroll up and down, bloody Ipads. So many answers I just couldn't pull from the back of my head in the time allowed.

Level 57

Apr 27, 2023

Yep, I didn't have enough time to think. I think a minute or so more would be great :)

Level 41

Dec 13, 2017

could you accept "ougadougou" for "ouagadougou" I was trying ougadougou for like 5 minutes

Level 66

Apr 21, 2020

It also justs accepts Ouaga.

Level 43

Feb 10, 2018

People learn that Monaco is a country and Monte Carlo is a city.

Level 79

Jul 30, 2018

Those people have learned something that was correct in 1911, but since then Monte Carlo has become one of several wards of the Municipality of Monaco, part of and geographically (but not administratively) identical to the Principality of Monaco.

Level 82

Feb 10, 2018

Please allow more time. This should be a test of knowledge not typing speed.

Level 68

Apr 11, 2018

How is Chaguanas the biggest city in Trinidad & Tobago???????????????????????????????

Level 68

Apr 11, 2018

Also the biggest city in Gambia is misspelled.

Level 70

Jun 16, 2018

189/196 Missed: The Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, Trinidad & Tobago, Malta, Micronesia, Palau, San Marino

Level 50

Jul 30, 2018

I did exactly the same thing, except I got Equatorial Guinea and missed Liechtenstein.

Level 66

Jul 30, 2018

88%. ran out of time

Level 59

Jul 30, 2018

One of the best quizzes! Now do one with the second biggest city of each country :D

Level 80

Dec 6, 2018

I'm pretty sure I typed Belize (without "city".) Is that type-in not accepted?

Level 61

Dec 28, 2019

It's sort of easy. I've been to most of these places.

Level 59

Jan 13, 2020

This quiz is outdated.

Level ∞

May 16, 2022

Finally updated it!

Level 40

Jan 14, 2020

Nice quiz! It does need updating though, it still says Swaziland, and the population are smaller than they are now, very good quiz, but please update it!

Level 75

Jan 15, 2020

The least guessed one (and the only one) of these that I have been to is London. And I don't even live in the UK...

Level 65

Apr 19, 2020

Ougadougou.. I am sad now :( I wonder how many of these are not the capital, not really up to counting atm (not because of my nearly right but still wrong spelling though ;) )

Level 39

Apr 19, 2020

Lusaka = Lusaca ?? Please make it count.

Level 37

Apr 22, 2020

137. Bad at Africa and Oceania

Level 60

May 17, 2020

186, not bad. Typed Rouseau instead of Roseau

Level 67

May 23, 2020

Please accept Belize for Belize city.

Level 58

Jun 16, 2020

This needs to be updated.

Level 58

Jun 23, 2020

Denigomodu is now the largest city of Nauru

Level 56

Aug 5, 2020

I got 187 and I never heard of the cities in the smaller countries like Liechtenstein or San Marino.

Level 73

Sep 22, 2020

Everything needs to be updated. Country names, city pops, formatting...

Level 60

Oct 30, 2020

I agree. It looks like it has been the same since maybe 2010. It's 2020 now.

Level 66

Mar 28, 2022

This quiz was made in 2013, so unless the stats used at the time were 3 years old, the populations are slightly more recent by at least a few years.

Level 74

Feb 7, 2021

Yes the population numbers really need to be updated.

Level 60

Jan 9, 2021

I got 194!!!!! And quizzy, Malta’s largest city is not birkirkara anymore. St. Paul’s bay overtook it. Please look at it....

Level 61

Feb 14, 2021

This really needs to be updated...

Level 64

Apr 9, 2021

Change Swaziland to Eswatini

Macedonia to North Macedonia

Level 56

Jun 18, 2021

hehe got all because I played a World War 2 Alternate History Strategy game and most of these cities were in there.

Level 26

Jul 30, 2021

I got 188! I’ve only been to New York, Nassau, & London. I didn’t get China since I was too dumb to realize this wasn’t city proper. I was just spamming Shanghai XD The one I got that had the smallest percentage of people answered was Douala, Cameroon

Level 44

Jan 25, 2022

I expected some, but only 25 % on Almaty? Seriously?

Level 65

Apr 12, 2022

You should really update this

It's very outdated.....

Level 81

May 16, 2022

As probably already noted, Oslo is not the largest city in Sweden

Level 88

May 16, 2022

It's St. Ockholm.

Level ∞

May 16, 2022

Fixed

Level 85

May 16, 2022

"Norway | Sweden Oslo"

Seems legit.

Level 90

May 17, 2022

If Kuwait, Mexico, and Guatemala work without "City", then so should Belize.

Level 90

May 17, 2022

Not enough time. Only got as far as Sudan. I can type okay, but not at professional level. Needs at least another 5-10 minutes.

Level 66

May 17, 2022

The largest city in China is Chongqing.

Level 66

May 17, 2022

The largest city in China is Chongqing.

Level 64

May 17, 2022

One minute more would be nice.

Level 81

May 17, 2022

I know this was only updated/reset yesterday, but a score of 130/209 only earning 1 point is so on brand for this site. Love it

Level 79

May 17, 2022

According to the source www.citypopulation.de/en/sanmarino/

Serravalle is the largest town in San Marino - which I kept trying to enter (with varied spelling).

Dogana not even mentioned.

Level ∞

May 17, 2022

Dogana is located with Serraville. Serraville will be accepted now.

Level 93

Aug 9, 2022

It's "Serravalle," not "Serraville." Currently, the quiz only accepts the latter, incorrect spelling as a type-in.

Level ∞

Aug 9, 2022

Fixed

Level 82

May 18, 2022

More time please! When typing on my phone I simply can’t reach the bottom ones in fifteen minutes…

Level 79

May 18, 2022

I agree. The Countries of the World is 15 minutes, which is tight unless you are good typist, and this one is making you think more, has a dozen more answers, and some of those are not cities you know the spelling of off the top of your head.

Level 82

May 21, 2022

Can we accept Belize for Belize City? It works for Panama City, Guatemala City, Mexico City, etc.

Level 58

Aug 24, 2022

The statistics on this are weird. More guessed Kabul than Paris and Rome? More guessed Jakarta, Kabul, and Toronto than NYC, which was only a point ahead of Reykjavik.

The six most guessed are Sydney, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, and Kabul. Wacky. and 85% got Schaan, two points behind New York, but I got Schaan while typing another city so I understand that more.

Level 53

Nov 12, 2022

Maybe people do Afghanistan first because it's the first on the list, then realize that they dont want to spend 15 minutes of their life on a jetpunk quiz so they give up

Level 57

Sep 12, 2022

me when the capital isn't the largest city :0

Level 39

Nov 8, 2022

Quick correction that the largest city in Kuwait (in terms of city proper) is actually Hawalli

Level 39

Nov 8, 2022

I know this is minor, but anyway...

Level 53

Nov 12, 2022

I only got Schaan because i was typing Shangai and "shan" is a type-in for some reason

Level 32

Nov 25, 2022

I was just wondering, you said that Gitega, the administrative capital of Burundi was the biggest city, but by most sources I have seen, Bujumbura is the largest by population.

Level 72

Nov 28, 2022

Came here to say the same thing. The listed source also has Bujumbura in the lead.

I'm guessing this quiz was accidentally selected as one of the quizzes to turn "Bujumbura" answers into "Gitega" answers when the capital changed.

Level 91

Mar 24, 2023

Right, Bujumbura is actually a city. Gitega is a much smaller village.

The quiz is wrong here.

Level 42

Jan 5, 2023

I'm sorry, but how can Brikama be the largest city in Gambia when Serekunda has almost 4x its population?

Level 55

Feb 28, 2023

Serekunda is FAR bigger

Level 89

Feb 20, 2023

If "panama" and "guatemala" and "mexico" and "kuwait" (etc.) all work, can we please allow just "belize" instead of "belize city"?

Level 68

Feb 23, 2023

you messed up burundi!!!! its Bujumbura not gitega!!!!

Level 55

Feb 28, 2023

I got 204/209, but I think you have some answers that need looking at. Gambia's biggest city is "Serekunda", Burundi's biggest city is "Bujumbura"

Level 46

Mar 17, 2023

burundi s biggest city is bujumbura and serrekunda should at least be a typein for gambia

Level 52

Apr 27, 2023

Consider accepting "Quezon" for "Quezon City"?

Level 66

Apr 27, 2023

150

Level 66

May 25, 2023

Anyone else get Liechtenstein's by accident?

Level 51

Jun 14, 2023

same

Level 36

Jun 9, 2023

If Mexico is acceptable for Mexico city why wasnt Quezon accepted for Quezon city.

Level 70

Jul 19, 2023

And Belize City.

Level 70

Jul 19, 2023

I think this needs more time.

Level 39

Aug 31, 2023

Burundi is incorrect. Gitega is the capital, but Bujumbura is the most populous city.

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