Where did the source website get their data? Guangzhou is nowhere close to the biggest city by any measure. It's certainly much smaller than Shanghai, Chongqing, or Beijing.
The Pearl River delta is one of the most densely populated regions on Earth. The only debate is where to draw the boundaries of urban regions. Guangdong has a population of over 100 million!
Guangzhou is the city within Guangdong, it's not a surprise to see Guangdong having a population over 100 million. We Sichuan used to have a population over that as well, but because Chongqing split with us. We aren't anymore. Also there's a state in India has a population over 200 million
Also when it comes to population, under certain circumstances Guangzhou is more populated than Shanghai, but in overall, Guangzhou the city itself is only about 12 million at least while Shanghai is about 17 mil at least. In general Shanghai is China's largest city.
Guangzhou is the biggest agglomeration in China - it includes Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Macau and parts of Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhuhai, and Huizhou. As per some sources, in February 2015 the Pearl River Delta Megacity has already surpassed the agglomeration of Tokyo and now it counts more than 42 million people.
Macau can never be considered part of Guangzhou. It's a Special Administrative Region with a different law, a different currency, different official languages, different police and it even has a border with mainland China. It's like if it were another country...
Still part of China. And, being part of the same agglomeration doesn't really mean it is under the core city (Guangzhou, in this case). It is pretty much like Euroregions in Europe. Yeah, actually the urban agglomeration is named Pearl River Delta Region, not Guangzhou, hence the confusion (maybe).
I can never completely finish this quiz. This time, I got them all except Wenzhou. Not too bad you might think, since it's the least guessed answer, but I'm living in Wenzhou right now...
It happened the same time Peking/Nanking/Canton etc changed to Beijing/Nanjing/Guangzhou respectively, so it's been called Qingdao for a long time now.
I think westerners are still struggling! The idea of using "q" for that particular sound may make sense, but I'm afraid for newcomers it's more of an obstacle than a help to getting it right.
Hawaii is definitely part of the US as one of its 50 states. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico is only one of the territories of the US. And legally, Hong Kong is part of China, just with much greater autonomy, like Macau.
I know, me too. While I could name almost all of them (thanks to these quizzes), I could probably locate only 8 or 9 on a map without really searching.
I'm a Chinese-Australian and on my first try got all but Shantou. Nice but challenging quiz, and I will be the first to say I got this result because I'm partly Chinese!
Only missed three, which I'd be reasonably happy with if one of the three weren't HK. Kinda an obvious one, especially considering I used to live there (although back then it wasn't part of China).
Combining Guangzhou with Shenzhen and Zhuhai areas is like combining san diego with Los Angeles or baltimore with DC. Nobody does that so you should probably get a better source.
It's a single urban agglomeration - you can drive all the way up from Shenzhen through Dongguan to Guangzhou without leaving a built-up area. The same way it's Tokyo-Yokohama, Leeds-Bradford etc. That's nothing like LA-San Diego.
Chongqing has over 30 million people, not 7. Also, I live in Xiamen and the metro population is 5 million (with only three million on the island), not 9.7 million.
I've taken this quiz so many times and still can't remember Zhengzhou and Hangzhou! Don't know what it is about those two but they aren't sinking into my brain
Where the heck do these numbers come from? Xiamen is crazy high and Changsha is crazy low. Some cities are counted together as urban agglomerations, while others have been tabulated independently despite being physically conjoined. Crazy, crazy stuff in these numbers!
Looks like the stats on that German site were done by somebody who doesn't know China except through a computer screen.
In general, the Chinese name has been the accepted spelling. But according to the 2020 edition of citypopulation.de, the Chinese spelling for Harbin is Hā'ĕrbīn (or from keyboard minus accents, Haerbin). The quiz does not accept Haerbin. Why not? All the other Chinese spellings are accepted.
Never knew that.
The beer is still called Tsingtao though.
Also, Peking/Nanking should be allowed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_metropolitan_area
On a different not, surprised not to see Taipei on here... (ducks)
Me, knowing I’ll only get 2: Is that a challenge?
Looks like the stats on that German site were done by somebody who doesn't know China except through a computer screen.