Biggest Cities in Canada

I'm British (and 11) and I could only get about 10 of these, whereas I could probably list about 120 American settlements.

Americans are no more ignorant of geography (or anything, really) than Canadians, Europeans, Asians or Arabs. Many years of international teaching experience speaking here. You could make a video like "Jay Walking" in any country in the world. The stereotype that Americans are ignorant is clung to because it helps shore up prejudice, that's all. In terms of geography, Americans, on average, know geography that is relevant to them- i.e. the geography of their state and those near to it, to a lesser extent their country, to a lesser extent the countries bordering their country, and to some extent the geography of the world that has come up in the news or in history class. Same as everybody else in thew world. Many people in the USA *are* ignorant, but that's true literally everywhere. I'm the only American in the office where I work and I'm sure nobody here could beat me in a geography bee.

so where abouts is andorra then?

Australian, got 6 (and recognised only a few more). I'd say that, obviously, some places' populaces are less educated in geography and others more so (e.g. western/central Europe more so, USA/undeveloped world less so), but that's the extent of it.

Its funny because Ottawa-Gatineau make up Canada's national reason and is one of the reasons why our country exists today; to balance our french and english population. If it wasn't for Ottawa-Gatineau, you guys would have at least 2 northern neighbours.

How's that for not important? But I do agree. Their are more american cities that are important because there's more american cities in general; both by number and population.

Definitely. I got 7/24 in this quiz as a person from Czech R., however i am able to get around 30/50 in the usa quiz. Not really fascinated by any of those two countries.

These cities are relatively big. For example, France has smaller cities, albeit with higher population. Mild weather allows people to distributed in rural areas.

I agree with iamtheiconoclast - using city proper includes many suburbs that most nonlocals, regardless of country, just haven't heard of even though they may have been to the city. Going with metro populations brings its own set of problems, however, so I usually chalk these up to learning experiences. To do well on these types of quizzes we just have to memorize those city proper cities, such as Miami, Miami Beach, South Miami, North Miami Beach, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, St Louis, East St. Louis, St. Louis County, etc, - no matter how frustrating. Even in rural areas of southeast Missouri we have very small villages such as Wardell and North Wardell or Lilbourn and North Lilbourn, some with populations under 50 which were divided to take advantage of government grants - by dividing into two towns they could get double the money.

I meant to say region, not reason. My bad. And absolutely it's similar to Canberra but the careful balance of English Canada and French Canada is a big part of Canada's history. Ottawa as the capital and Gatineau being part of the National Capital Region have a big part in that.

i got 13 so i'm happy & why is victoria not on here i looked it up and the metro area has a population of 398,000 people, i could be wrong though

What evidence do you have that kal is the exception to the rule? Who says most Americans don't know geography? The article you cited is a fake news site. It's a satire. As kal said, Americans know the geography that's relevant to them. Europeans know the geography of other European countries because they're smaller and they're all near each other. Many of them are smaller than U.S. states.

Wait a week.

Technically cities, as are all those on this list. But, like Mississauga and Brampton and Vaughan and Longueuil, they're burbs, practically speaking.

https://www.google.com/search?&q=city+limits

Even though Surrey and Burnaby and Richmond are all separate cities, they often get clumped into "Vancouver." I think that might account for some confusion and discrepancies, depending upon how folks are counting population maybe?