It was also known as Kwangchow. It's at the center of a giant megalopolis just north of Hong Kong and adjacent to Shenzen, one of the largest population centers in China and the world.
Just curious, but who decides how the English understanding of Chinese spellings changes? Some of these cities have changed at least three times during my lifetime. I can't keep up.
And the spellings in English are indecipherable to most people rendering it garbled mush mouth to everybody. Nor would anyone pronounce it within a row of bungholes of being correct in Chinese. And even if they did, so what because you need to learn 1,000s of other words, grammar, idioms, etc, etc, etc to communicate. So let's stick to Canton, English speaking world, huh? Everyone's heard of the Cantonese language and food, so at least there's a tangible connection to the city.
There is a standardized transliteration system for Mandarin called pinyin, which ties the characters to their pronunciation, hence producing official readable names, which are the ones generally used. Of course, there are also traditional names such as Canton, which are also correct in English language, and also accepted in this quiz.
New Delhi is a district or neighborhood of Delhi, but sometimes counted as a separate city. The government has its address in New Delhi, but the urban area is centered around the city of Delhi.
I have allways been taught new delhi (and it is like that on many maps) I researched after this quiz though, and it seems I have always been taught incorrectly. (and many with me it seems)
Weird how many people can get the wrong idea. there are several examples of this.
Yes and it is ofcourse without a doubt that the people that missed an answer are totally oblivious to the existence of that city. Same on other quizzes, people that missed australia as an answer have obviously never heard of the country, silly people..
I'm unfamiliar with Hyderabad, but the metro population for Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is about 20 million. The quiz says "urban area," which I assume means the metro area, so Ho Chi Minh City should be the answer for H.
It depends on what exactly is considered part of the city agglomeration and what isn't. The source used gives 8.25 million for Ho Chi Minh City, noting explicitly that that includes Biên Hòa
I kept thinking "what's a big city in Europe that starts with P" and was stuck on that question for over a full minute and just couldn't think of the answer.... *facepalm*
I kept trying to spell Ahmedabad with more 'h's in there. Ughhh the ignorance in me is showing. On another note, taking all of these country/city quizzes makes me want to visit all of them.
I wish it were easy to just pack up a bag and travel the entire world for a few years. It wouldn't even need to be fancy -- I have no problem camping/couch-surfing/staying in hostels as long as it's reasonably safe and there's some vegetarian food. (Frankly, I think grand hotels can sometimes deprive travelers of a purer and truer experience of a place.) I did read about a couple who traveled and worked odd jobs to keep up the money to continue traveling... maybe one day.
Los Angeles has dropped from the list, the over population of Africa now begins, by the end of the century Lagos is expected to have over 80 million people living in it.
This is not meant to stir debate, but was Yangon renamed Naypyidaw, or did the capital actually move to another city? I put Yangon as a wild guess and was astounded it was right because I thought the city no longer existed. In any case, I apologize for my ignorance on this issue.
Yangon/Rangoon is a huge and ancient city on the coast of Myanmar. Naypyidaw is a relatively new planned city in central Myanmar, famous for being eerily and almost totally empty in spite of its massive wide boulevards; large temples, buildings and public spaces. The government moved there in 2006.
Yeah, I had never heard the phrase "near east" before. I spent more time trying to figure out what part of the world it refered to than I should have.
Personally, I did find the regions distinctly unhelpful, although that's more because of the plethora of various asian ones. I understand why QM uses them though.
Personally, they helped me a lot. No way I would've figured out E or V (or many of the other ones) if it didn't explicitly state they were in North America.
Though you have, commonly and repeatedly, elsewhere on the site spoken for others claiming (wrongly) that certain questions were impossible to get for non-Americans... you didn't do that here... but that's irrelevant anyway as "speak for yourself" is a common rhetorical device not an admonishment.
Citypopulation.de lists Wuhan as larger than Washington, and its numbers are if anything conservative (most figures elsewhere seem to say 11 million - they've been quoted in the media a lot recently for some reason...)
Just wondering, why Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan etc. are still considered with Guangzhou for urban area, while Chongqing which is today supposed to be the biggest urban agglomeration in the world (at least according to some Chinese sources) is still listed with few million inhabitants?
Chongqing is actually still quite far from being the biggest. Yes, it can be considered be the biggest, but only if you count the population based on city proper. The area of the municipality of Chongqing legally is about the size of Austria, so it makes sense why it has a lot of population. But not all parts of Chongqing are urban areas though, hence, its urban area population are actually smaller than its city proper population. Even Chinese cities like Shanghai, Beijing & Guangzhou are still bigger in terms of urban areas population.
For your information, the top 3 biggest urban agglomerations in China are : Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta & Jing-Jin-Ji Region. You may look them up and look for their population size, which are tens of millions of people, the size comparable to countries like Spain, Italy or UK (size varies by sources). Each of them consist of multiple large cities with their own metropolitan areas. They are also among the world's largest urban agglomerations
I am pretty sure that you are wrong about Edmonton having 1.3 million people. As far as I know, Canada only has 3 cities with over 1 million; Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary (Where I live.)
Ho Chi Minh City has more people than Hyderabad now. Is it not included for a reason (because it's also called Saigon) or was it just missed during the update?
I don't like calling Saigon "Ho Chi Minh". he was a bad guy and should not have this great city named after him. I'm glad JetPunk accepts Saigon for HCMC.
Thought I was getting them all. Then I hit Z. Chinese cities are all way too similar to remember, and so many. I tried Zhenzhen, Zhenzhao, Zhaozhang, Zhenzhou...
Claiming Urumqi is in East Asia misled me. Even if it's part of China, I don't think it's a suitable definition when one wants to define the location of the city.
The population of Fuzhou is a typo surely? 4.55 million would make a lot more sense than 45.5 especially considering that Fujian (the province Fuzhou is in) apparently has a population of 38.56 million and also contains Xiamen.
Weird how many people can get the wrong idea. there are several examples of this.
...that Ahmedabad mistake trying to do this quiz
I wish it were easy to just pack up a bag and travel the entire world for a few years. It wouldn't even need to be fancy -- I have no problem camping/couch-surfing/staying in hostels as long as it's reasonably safe and there's some vegetarian food. (Frankly, I think grand hotels can sometimes deprive travelers of a purer and truer experience of a place.) I did read about a couple who traveled and worked odd jobs to keep up the money to continue traveling... maybe one day.
Personally, I did find the regions distinctly unhelpful, although that's more because of the plethora of various asian ones. I understand why QM uses them though.
Who the hell else would I be speaking for!?
Nowhere in my message do I imply I speak for anyone other than myself.
If we go off of citypopulation.de, here are a few more cities that I think are incorrect:
-Chongqing over Cairo, 28.8 million vs. 18.2 million
-Harbin over Hyderabad (and Ho Chi Minh), 10.2 million vs. 9.6 million
-Wuhan over Washington DC, 10.8 million vs. 8.6 million
Xiamen 2016 estimate; 3,920,000
Xi'an 2016 estimate; 8,832,100
For your information, the top 3 biggest urban agglomerations in China are : Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta & Jing-Jin-Ji Region. You may look them up and look for their population size, which are tens of millions of people, the size comparable to countries like Spain, Italy or UK (size varies by sources). Each of them consist of multiple large cities with their own metropolitan areas. They are also among the world's largest urban agglomerations
Perhaps I missed it because 'zh' in standard Mandarin is pronounced similarly to 'j' in English.
I don't like calling Saigon "Ho Chi Minh". he was a bad guy and should not have this great city named after him. I'm glad JetPunk accepts Saigon for HCMC.
Not in East Asia like the majority.