Biggest Cities in the World - Extreme

How many of the world's 200 most populous urban areas can you name?

As of January 2024 according to citypopulation.de

Urban area population, not city proper population

Two loosely-defined areas around the Ruhr have been filled in

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First submitted	January 23, 2016
Times taken	86,662
Average score	49.2%
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Population	Urban Area
70.1 m	Guangzhou
41.0 m	Tokyo
40.8 m	Shanghai
34.6 m	Delhi
29.2 m	Jakarta
27.2 m	Manila
27.1 m	Mumbai
25.1 m	Mexico City
25.1 m	Seoul
22.5 m	Cairo
22.5 m	Dhaka
22.1 m	São Paulo
22.0 m	New York
21.2 m	Bangkok
21.2 m	Beijing
20.9 m	Karachi
20.7 m	Lagos
19.1 m	Moscow
17.7 m	Kolkata
17.7 m	Osaka
17.3 m	Chengdu
17.2 m	Los Angeles
16.7 m	Buenos Aires
16.5 m	Tehran
15.9 m	Istanbul
15.6 m	Kinshasa
14.9 m	London
14.9 m	Xiamen
14.6 m	Johannesburg
14.5 m	Lahore
14.2 m	Bangalore
13.9 m	Hangzhou
13.9 m	Ho Chi Minh City
12.8 m	Xi'an
12.6 m	Chennai
12.5 m	Rio de Janeiro
12.2 m	Wuhan
11.8 m	Lima
11.5 m	Paris
11.5 m	Tianjin
11.4 m	Hyderabad
11.0 m	Changsha
10.9 m	Chongqing
10.5 m	Nagoya
10.4 m	Bogota
9.95 m	Taipei
9.80 m	Zhengzhou
9.65 m	Chicago
9.60 m	Ahmedabad
9.35 m	Luanda
9.30 m	Kuala Lumpur
9.30 m	Nanjing
8.70 m	Shenyang
8.55 m	Washington DC
8.25 m	Santiago
8.00 m	Shantou
7.85 m	Singapore
7.80 m	Hefei
7.75 m	Pune
7.75 m	Surat
7.70 m	Boston
7.70 m	Toronto
7.65 m	Baghdad
7.65 m	Dallas
7.50 m	Philadelphia
7.50 m	Riyadh
7.45 m	Qingdao

Population	Urban Area
7.45 m	San Francisco
7.30 m	Ningbo
7.25 m	Hong Kong
7.15 m	Hanoi
7.05 m	Houston
7.05 m	Khartoum
6.95 m	Bandung
6.80 m	Abidjan
6.70 m	Nairobi
6.65 m	Madrid
6.60 m	Accra
6.55 m	Jinan
6.50 m	Kunming
6.50 m	Saint Petersburg
6.30 m	Miami
6.25 m	Dar es Salaam
6.20 m	Alexandria
6.20 m	Shijiazhuang
6.15 m	Yangon
6.10 m	Atlanta
6.10 m	Milan
6.00 m	Amman
6.00 m	Monterrey
5.95 m	Dubai
5.95 m	Taiyuan
5.90 m	Surabaya
5.85 m	Guadalajara
5.75 m	Detroit
5.65 m	(The Ruhr)
5.45 m	Bamako
5.45 m	Harbin
5.30 m	Dalian
5.30 m	Nanning
5.20 m	Kano
5.15 m	Ankara
5.10 m	Wenzhou
5.05 m	Changchun
5.05 m	Guiyang
5.05 m	Kabul
5.00 m	Chittagong
5.00 m	Melbourne
5.00 m	(Cologne / Dusseldorf)
4.97 m	Cape Town
4.97 m	Nanchang
4.97 m	Sydney
4.92 m	Belo Horizonte
4.92 m	Colombo
4.92 m	Tampa
4.90 m	Phoenix
4.87 m	Barcelona
4.85 m	Berlin
4.85 m	Urumqi
4.77 m	Casablanca
4.77 m	Kuwait City
4.72 m	Addis Ababa
4.65 m	Fuzhou
4.47 m	Seattle
4.45 m	Linyi
4.42 m	Montreal
4.40 m	Jaipur
4.27 m	Medellin
4.25 m	Algiers
4.22 m	Puebla
4.20 m	Medan
4.12 m	Kampala
4.12 m	Lucknow
4.05 m	Faisalabad

Population	Urban Area
4.05 m	Naples
4.00 m	Busan
3.97 m	Brasília
3.92 m	Dakar
3.92 m	Jeddah
3.92 m	Porto Alegre
3.87 m	Damascus
3.87 m	Zibo
3.85 m	Denver
3.85 m	Durban
3.85 m	Santo Domingo
3.82 m	Caracas
3.82 m	Yaounde
3.80 m	Orlando
3.80 m	Rawalpindi
3.77 m	Douala
3.77 m	Tashkent
3.67 m	Baku
3.67 m	Recife
3.65 m	Kanpur
3.62 m	Indore
3.62 m	Port-au-Prince
3.60 m	Luoyang
3.57 m	Athens
3.57 m	Fortaleza
3.50 m	Lanzhou
3.50 m	Nagpur
3.47 m	Kiev
3.42 m	Curitiba
3.42 m	Mashhad
3.42 m	Rome
3.40 m	Rotterdam
3.37 m	Isfahan
3.35 m	Brisbane
3.35 m	Guatemala City
3.35 m	Nantong
3.32 m	Ibadan
3.30 m	Frankfurt
3.30 m	Guayaquil
3.30 m	Ouagadougou
3.27 m	Bhilai
3.25 m	Birmingham
3.25 m	Campinas
3.22 m	Minneapolis
3.20 m	Salvador
3.20 m	San Diego
3.17 m	Sana'a
3.17 m	Weifang
3.15 m	Gujranwala
3.15 m	Manchester
3.12 m	Kathmandu
3.10 m	Jiangyin
3.07 m	Vancouver
3.07 m	Xuzhou
3.05 m	Antananarivo
3.05 m	Cleveland
3.00 m	Coimbatore
3.00 m	Izmir
3.00 m	Pyongyang
2.95 m	Cali
2.95 m	Tel Aviv
2.92 m	Hamburg
2.90 m	Abuja
2.90 m	Patna
2.87 m	Conakry
2.87 m	Kumasi
2.82 m	Quito

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108 Recent Comments

Level 65

Mar 9, 2016

I feel like everyone would have one city that they arompletely embarrassed they missed...mine is Lagos.

Level 65

Mar 9, 2016

Mine's Johannesburg

Level 50

Mar 9, 2016

Mine's Buenos Aires

Level 74

Mar 11, 2016

All the US cities I missed - Philly, Detroit, and I tried Columbus and Toledo then decided none of the Ohio cities would make the list and didn't even try Cincinnati or Cleveland. Surprised that San Jose and San Antonio weren't on the list since they always make the list of top ten US cities by population - must be the "urban population" caveat that knocked them out. Still, I'm surprised not to see them.

Level 48

Mar 24, 2016

Exactly - Seoul here. Even worse is, i correctly remembered of Pyongyang. Facepalm.

Level 83

Jul 9, 2016

Washington DC and Dubai. :-\

Level 80

Jul 22, 2016

Athens and Seattle for me

Level 62

Nov 13, 2016

Lisbon and Brasilia.

Level 58

Aug 4, 2017

Bangkok, San Francisco, Lisbon among many others. I always overthink on these quizzes and end up missing really obvious ones (although I could have sworn that I guessed Bangkok).

Level 19

Aug 4, 2017

Cairo here xD

Level 75

Aug 19, 2017

Manila and Toronto

Level 19

Sep 15, 2017

I guessed Hefei but somehow forgot Paris *whack*

Level 89

Feb 22, 2019

Miami :(

Level 65

Jun 4, 2020

Forgot London lol

Level 71

Feb 9, 2021

The entirety of Canada. Vancouver and Montreal are excusable perhaps, but missing Toronto is quite embarrassing :P

Xi'an and Xiamen are also kinda embarrassing for me because they're usually some of the first Chinese cities I think of.

Level 42

Aug 9, 2021

Mine is London

Level 55

Jan 30, 2022

algiers and tunis

Level 82

Sep 6, 2022

Brasilia :(

Level 24

Sep 6, 2023

Beijing -.-

Level 59

Jun 23, 2024

Mines are Madrid and Kabul

Level 25

Sep 9, 2024

Mine's Cairo...

Level 59

Sep 10, 2024

Mine's Sydney

Level 44

Nov 23, 2024

Mine is Boston

Level 24

Dec 4, 2024

mine are Delhi, Dhaka, Milan and Rome

Level 72

Mar 9, 2016

Hard quiz, needed five tries to get them all... Crazy that 20% of the cities in this quiz are from China. I have some objection about Jiangyin since it's part of Wuxi...

Level 67

Apr 29, 2024

Yeah, including cities that are under other cities is a bit messy

Level 60

Mar 12, 2016

I think there may need to be some leeway when it comes to spelling because I tried Delhi multiple times but it didn't work

Level 56

Mar 14, 2016

Damn all those chinese cities!

Level 77

Aug 17, 2016

158/200. I only missed about 8 Chinese cities...

...but one of them was Beijing?!?

Level 49

Oct 25, 2016

197 on the second attempt, gonna get them all! So hard this is without the country hint. Missed tampa, kiev and kampala.

Level 48

Jan 23, 2017

Have you ever thought about adding one column for countries (or maybe making another copy of this extreme quiz with them added)? It could be amazing improvement, that would help us focus directly on the countries, that we have missed their representatives.

This is my point: the quiz would be more like: "do you know all the big cities of US/India/Pakistan/China/whatever" rather than "do you know, if there are exactly 18 or 19 of their cities in the top200 and can you count, if you already typed in all"?

Interested in your opinion.

Level 32

Aug 4, 2017

I remembered Shijiazhuang, but forgot Sydney...

Level 66

Nov 23, 2017

173, highest yet, and I still see "should've gots" like Dubai and Amman. Some of the Chinese cities under 2.5 million in population I will never remember.

Level 71

Feb 5, 2018

186/200. Missed: Manchester, Brasília, Birmingham, Cleveland, Kathmandu, Amman, Cincinnati, Puebla, Kunming, Zibo, Guiyang, Anshan, Jiangyin and Huizhou

Level 71

May 27, 2018

176 this time. Missed: TorontoXD, VancouverXD, Brasília, MontrealXD, Budapest, Damascus, Quito, Orlando, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Izmir, Yaoundé, Fortaleza, Guayaquil, Fukuoka, Curitiba, Dalian, Isfahan, Douala, Kanpur, Campinas, Lanzhou, Zibo, Changzhou, Nanchang, Bhilai, Jiangyin, Huizhou. Pretty bad round for me.

Level 68

Feb 20, 2019

You forget Canada existed?

Level 40

Jul 5, 2021

I dont think you should judge this boy, I always forget UK exist.

Level 77

Jul 9, 2018

I come back to this quiz every few weeks and 186 has been my max score on 2 different occasions now.

Level 81

Jun 2, 2019

I matched your score of 176. Missed a lot of obvious ones. Including Algiers, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince, Rotterdam, Maputo, Bamako, Qingdao, Surat, Shantou, Wenzhou, Medan, Fuzhou, Nanning, Daegu, Ibadan, Indore, Taiyuan, Coimbatore, Kumasi, Xuzhou, Tangshan, and Gujranwala (I think those last three are all new, though). This cluster of comments will be a treasure trove for all the cheaters.

Level 60

Jun 2, 2019

The least guessed city is in my country, so it was no problem for me, as i typed in all of MY country's cities first!

Level 81

Feb 5, 2018

The most obscure one that I routinely get is Ningbo. Probably helps that I dated a girl from there once.

Level 77

Jul 9, 2018

Ningbo's not a bad city. Probably one of the nicer "small" Chinese cities.

Level 81

Jun 2, 2019

"small." :) That's funny. She came to study in the USA in part because she wanted to start dating and she was afraid if she did this in Ningbo, hamlet of 3 million people, her parents would find out about it.

Level 49

Jun 21, 2022

You have a colourful life Kalbahamut. Though it looks like from your map that you never got round to visiting Ningbo

Level 81

Sep 5, 2022

I did not. We met in person first in South Dakota, where she was going to school.

Level 48

May 27, 2018

Got 85/200 first try, missed Toronto and Washington D.C. and I'm from the US *facepalm*. But nice quiz

Level 63

Feb 20, 2019

I got Isfahan but missed Paris.....

Level 63

Feb 28, 2019

washington dc doesnt even have 1 million...

Level 59

Jun 2, 2019

Definitely need to brush up on my Indian, Chinese and Brazilian cities. And Ohio. Literally got all the U.S. cities except Cleveland and Cincinnati lol.

Level 65

Jun 3, 2019

I noticed something interesting in the advanced stats. The second most common score, after 199/199, is 100/199. I guess there were a lot of people who set their goal at 50% and were content to give up once they reached it.

Level 74

Jun 15, 2019

"Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2.5 million" (Wikipedia)

"Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 4.33 million in its city proper, and a total resident population (as of 2013) of 10.58 million in its administrative area" (Wikipedia)

Level 82

Feb 8, 2021

In Brisbane's case it's complicated by the issue of where one draws boundaries. Locally (it's my home town), 2.5 million, as reported on Wikipedia, is the commonly accepted figure. However it also merges with the cities of Sunshine Coast to the north and Gold Coast to the south, between them home to an additional million or so people. It also stretches out ambiguously to the west with the city of Toowoomba at the far edge of what's known as Southeast Queensland. I'm assuming the figure given here includes the Local Government areas of Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, and Gold Coast - the last of which is usually counted separately in Australia (and is Australia's sixth largest city, if so counted).

Level 37

Sep 7, 2019

Missed Valencia Seville and Turin and Hong Kong and Toluca and Atlanta And Arkansas City and Indianapolis

Level 73

Jun 29, 2020

and commas

Level 82

Feb 8, 2021

Was going to say the same thing. I'm fascinated as to the process that decides whether an 'and' will be inserted or not. Perhaps they were all meant to be separated thusly, but it got missed between Valencia and Seville...

Level 62

Jan 17, 2023

I dont think Valencia, Seville and Turin ever had enough people to make it on the quiz.

Level 65

Jan 21, 2020

We need a scambigol version with a map :P

Level 49

Jan 21, 2020

Ugh. Easy Misses were Kabul, Bangalore, Colombo, Guatemala, Ankara, Tashkent, Kolkata, and Jeddah. Got 126 though which I’ll take

Level 40

Jul 6, 2021

Tashkent is the opposite of ''easy''.

Level 62

Apr 24, 2023

yeah those are pretty easy

Level 51

Mar 18, 2020

LOL @me for missing Tokyo and NYC because they were so obvious that I HAD to have already guessed them

Level 60

Mar 22, 2020

I missed Wuhan. I mean, among others. Stay safe, everyone!

Level 43

Mar 22, 2020

Thank you for remembering my dear Belo Horizonte! When I saw that the minimum was 2 million, I was already happy, since BH (as it is known here in Brazil), has 2.501.576 million people, even more people than Paris for example.

Level 72

Apr 1, 2020

Rotterdam bigger than amsterdam? seriously? haha that would piss people in amsterdam off, I wouldnt show your face there if I were you ;) (just kidding, but there is known to be some rivalry between the cities and calling the smaller one bigger would cause an uproar ;) )

. You havent used urban area as you stat, cause even going by urban it is "only" about 1,2 million and smaller than amsterdam at about 1,4/ 1.5.

I am not sure where the problem lies, with the quizzes or the sourcesite. But many quizzes claim to list urban, while they list metro or just a random conglomeration of cities just because they are in the same general region (side of the country..) but might be 50 miles apart and don't have much to do with eachother (beside being in the same country).

3,6m is the entire population of the provence of Zuid-Holland in which Rotterdam is located.

Level 72

Apr 1, 2020

These are the definitions used by citypopulation.de : link to glossary

Level 76

Apr 12, 2020

What was your super obvious one that you missed? I forgot San Diego and I've been there twice haha

Level 65

Jul 8, 2020

I missed Denver but I got Kaohsiung and Taiyuan somehow. 164 first try wasn't too bad though.

Level 40

Jul 5, 2021

London *sips tea*

Level 51

Apr 17, 2020

China

Level 70

Jul 12, 2020

163 and i could do 10 more if my memory would've helped me

Level 79

Sep 2, 2020

I got Gujranwala but not Los Angeles

Level 65

Apr 16, 2021

I got 100, first time ever :D

Level 40

Jul 6, 2021

I forgot Ghangzhou. I didnt even knew that existed,

Level 49

Jun 21, 2022

You're right - "Ghangzhou" doesn't exist

Level 44

Sep 2, 2021

I got 88 on my first try. The biggest one I missed was manila. I also forgot how to spell Riyadh so I didn't get that one

Level 69

Jan 14, 2022

GREAT QUIZ!!

I believe Belo Horizonte is missing, with its 2.75 million people

Level 56

Jan 18, 2022

Once I got to 100, my brain went blank. Somehow managed to pull 107 with no brain cells left lol

Level 69

Dec 20, 2022

How on earth did I forget Paris. Also, I thought I had typed in Johannesburg and hadn't.

Level 62

Jan 17, 2023

I got 196 but missed 2 I thought I already typed and the ever so forgettable (for me) Patna. I missed Seattle and Chicago lol

Level 54

May 1, 2023

arent quito and guayaquil in the same metro area

Level 50

Jun 7, 2023

Got Gujranwala but missed Rome R.I.P.

Level 60

Jun 22, 2023

In México, Monterrey has now outgrown Guadalajara

Level 69

Jul 24, 2023

That moment when you get Patna and Kaohsiung but forget Frankfurt, even tho you live just two hours away :')

Level 28

Aug 4, 2023

that moment hahahah

Level 69

Jul 28, 2023

180/199. The biggest city on the list I forgot was Shantou, but the most obvious were Minneapolis, and even worse... Hong Kong. I also completely forgot about Cameroon's existence, as well as Recife and Urumqi, cities I should've gotten. The rest I didn't get were more obscure Chinese and Indian cities I don't mind missing.

Level 28

Aug 4, 2023

chill

Level 28

Aug 4, 2023

Please remove chinese cities, no one really knows them

Level 68

Sep 19, 2023

Love how I got lots of Chinese/Indian cities but still somehow missed Atlanta, Detroit, and Cleveland lol

Level 68

Jul 24, 2024

Its Extreme mode for a reason

Level 57

Jan 26, 2024

Kaohsiung and Bhilai but forgot Moscow =///

Level 76

Mar 4, 2024

Shanghai is catching Tokyo!

Why are there 199 answers but two have been filled in? Does that not make 201 cities?

Also DC type in

Level 51

Mar 4, 2024

how the hell did I miss Patna and Kampala.

Never heard of Jiangyin though. Only city here.

Level 85

Mar 4, 2024

So, All 3M Cities on the World Map with 8 extra cities and no map.

Level 65

Mar 4, 2024

Can you make "DC" a type-in for Washington? Most people in the US either call it "DC" or "Washington DC"

Level ∞

Mar 4, 2024

Yes, fixed

Level 81

Mar 5, 2024

198 and still only 4 points (:

Missed Kumasi

Level 91

Mar 12, 2024

Snap, 198 for 4 points!

It’s only cos I just did the 3 Million plus cities quiz that I got that.

Great quiz

Level 67

Mar 13, 2024

I don't think I'm ever gonna be able to learn all of these Chinese cities!..

Level 59

Apr 6, 2024

I've said this before in another quiz but Jiangyin is part of Wuxi.

Level 59

May 20, 2024

Update: 166/199 but I miss dc, riyadh, brasilia, phoenix, Damascus, pyongyang, etc. So embarrassing

Level 34

Jun 1, 2024

First try I got Shijiazhuang but missed Boston. *facepalm*

Level 55

Jul 23, 2024

I got Nanning, Fortaleza and Antananarivo among others, but failed to get Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur, Orlando, Frankfurt, Damascus or Taipei :(

Level 22

Sep 9, 2024

i hate citypopulation.de

Level 57

Sep 10, 2024

There is not 7.85 million people in Singapore. It should be under 6 million.

Level 72

Nov 17, 2024

It's urban areas according to the description so it most definitely is counting Johor in Malaysia

Level 72

Nov 17, 2024

This quiz would be infinitely more fun if it showed the countries.

Level 46

Nov 22, 2024

Oh India and China, my good old friends.

Level 48

Dec 11, 2024

Missed Beijing and San Diego :(

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