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Biggest Spanish-Speaking Cities

Name the most populous urban areas in the world where Spanish is the most commonly-spoken language.
Urban-area population, not city proper
According to citypopulation.de, January 2023
No U.S. cities are on this list
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First submittedApril 25, 2011
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Population
City
24.9 m
Mexico City
16.7 m
Buenos Aires
11.6 m
Lima
10.2 m
Bogotá
8.05 m
Santiago
6.85 m
Madrid
5.85 m
Monterrey
5.75 m
Guadalajara
4.95 m
Barcelona
Population
City
4.23 m
Medellín
4.18 m
Puebla
4.18 m
Santo Domingo
3.78 m
Caracas
3.33 m
Guatemala City
3.28 m
Guayaquil
2.93 m
Cali
2.88 m
Quito
Population
City
2.75 m
Maracaibo
2.65 m
Toluca
2.45 m
Asunción
2.43 m
San José
2.33 m
Santa Cruz
2.23 m
Havana
2.23 m
La Paz
2.23 m
Leon
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85 Comments
Quizmaster
+48
Level ∞
Apr 8, 2014
Just in case you are wondering, Miami proper has more native Spanish speakers than English. However, in the larger urban area, there are more English speakers. All the major California and Texas cities are also predominantly English-speaking if we go by urban area.
tschutzer
+7
Level 91
Apr 14, 2014
I was wondering the same thing about San Diego, Los Angeles, and El Paso.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Apr 20, 2014
did an older version of this quiz have Miami on it? Or was that a different quiz that I'm thinking of?
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Feb 28, 2021
Yes, it did.
MasAjo773
+2
Level 16
Apr 22, 2019
Was struggling to get the last two... shamed to say that even Latinos forget about Paraguay. I started typing in US cities with big Latin populations out of desperation....
PenguinTorpedo
+5
Level 49
Apr 1, 2020
im paraguayan and I only wrote Asuncion when as last resort after i had no other ideas.

I was preatty sure urban area Asuncion was smaller than that. I knew that the metro area was around that much so i thought the urbam area would be smaller, but i guess there's not much difference.

Damangio
+4
Level 64
Mar 9, 2021
Asunción is the only Spanish-speaking city where I have lived, and yet I also forgot it. At least I'm not the only one.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
May 10, 2014
Only missed 3. Got the top 13.
brandybuck96
+7
Level 83
Oct 20, 2015
Thanks to JetPunk, I now know the three biggest cities in Colombia. I can only hope that it will one day be of use.
Antofagasta
+19
Level 70
Jun 2, 2017
Thanks to Jetpunk, I know the five biggest cities in Colombia. It is no more useful.
MyMindWentBlank
+5
Level 61
Apr 17, 2023
Says the fifth-biggest city in Chile :)
pkerr116
+10
Level 72
Feb 18, 2019
Colombia is a wonderful country. Beautiful landscapes, beautiful people.
Momillo
+24
Level 61
Dec 14, 2019
I met a Colombian girl yesterday, she was from Barranquilla, and thanks to Jetpunk I knew where it was (and I think she was impressed)
toowise
+6
Level 78
Mar 12, 2023
Was it Shakira ?
imanew
+22
Level 63
Mar 8, 2021
Well don't leave us hanging. How did it go?
IceLemonTea
+20
Level 64
Mar 9, 2021
Are you married now ?
pkerr116
+5
Level 72
Dec 31, 2021
Las consteñas....ellas son muy lindas....Such beautiful women on the coast. And so very nice. I really miss that place.
ChocolateMoose
+4
Level 28
Dec 27, 2015
😱😱😱 i only got 2!!
cesareandraistlin
+3
Level 27
Jan 28, 2016
Sucre should be accepted for La Paz
mburucuya
+50
Level 76
Mar 19, 2016
Sucre and La Paz are different cities in totally different parts of Bolivia. La Paz has over 2 million people, and Sucre has a few hundred thousand at most.
IsleAuHaulte
+61
Level 89
Dec 6, 2019
Seattle should be accepted for New York City.
Baxtergrad
+22
Level 51
Dec 17, 2020
Vancouver should be accepted for Toronto
barmanitan
+27
Level 79
Feb 17, 2021
Mars should be accepted for Earth
pctjunkie
+19
Level 89
Apr 30, 2021
42 should be accepted for every answer on every quiz.
toowise
+4
Level 78
Mar 12, 2023
After all it is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
vdbjdj
+12
Level 42
Nov 22, 2021
Andromeda should be accepted for the Milky Way
Kenneth3748
+16
Level 53
Apr 14, 2022
Pyongyang should be accepted for Tegucigalpa
PoetsCorner
+4
Level 86
Mar 7, 2023
The horse is dead!
AwesomePotato170
+2
Level 54
Feb 29, 2024
the creamer has expired
Clark1
+4
Level 25
Apr 16, 2023
Mao Zedong should be accepted for George Washington.
KennethTAA
+5
Level 61
Apr 19, 2023
Visakhapatnam should count for Berlin.
SparrowhawkJr1
+5
Level 53
Apr 20, 2023
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon should be accepted for the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
PavPanesar
+4
Level 55
Apr 17, 2023
The Legend of Zelda should be accepted for Madrid
HydratedMite
+3
Level 66
Feb 8, 2024
Bro actually thought that the two capitals were just two names for the same capital lmao
dakgrl
+2
Level 57
Sep 2, 2016
would have had 3 more if I could spell..
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Sep 5, 2016
The only one I consistently miss is Maracaibo and that's usually just because I don't remember how to spell it.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Dec 6, 2019
This time I missed Toluca. Is that new?
vinsuse77
+11
Level 71
Feb 21, 2017
Surprised me that Panama City was not on the list.
jbro
+1
Level 70
Sep 22, 2020
same
Omnikin
+5
Level 67
Apr 18, 2017
Is it possible to do a quiz with the french-speaking cities please ?
redsplat
+4
Level 73
Feb 21, 2019
Great idea. If you make it we will come.
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Feb 28, 2021
Too difficult probably. I'm not sure I can figure out what languages are actually spoken in France's African colonies. Most people in those countries speak indigenous languages. But then, if there are multiple indigenous languages, would French be the most spoken? How many people in Kinshasa speak French as a first language? It's just too difficult to untangle.
Wachipunk
+1
Level 55
Apr 28, 2022
Montréal, Québec for the win!!
Vivelageo
+2
Level 36
Apr 15, 2023
Y'a plus de gens dans l'agglomération de Paris que dans celle de Montréal (et encore plus à Kinshasa même si tous ne parlent pas français)
gtj31
+1
Level 87
Aug 3, 2018
I cannot spell Guayaquil properly. The first "a" gets me every time. Oh well...
APHill
+4
Level 75
Feb 18, 2019
Every time I take this quiz, I am astonished that no cities in Spain below Barcelona make the cut.
cornflakesfu
+28
Level 87
Feb 18, 2019
Quiz strategy:

1. Spend 4.5 minutes guessing cities in Latin America.

2. With 30 seconds left, suddenly remember that Spain exists.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
May 8, 2024
For me it was think of places starting with san, try to think of the capitals (which I am very bad at, but remembering some capitals are named after the country helped) and well of course the two most well know from spain (I tried 2 more cities I could name from spain and then I was out, was thinking man I can hardly name any cities in spain, luckily it wasn't necessary)
loganite
+8
Level 89
Apr 3, 2019
San Juan, Puerto Rico? Urban population is around 3.5 million...
kalbahamut
+22
Level 81
Apr 21, 2019
Quizmaster's father was killed by some Puerto Rican guy
NorwegianQMaster
+1
Level 53
Jul 9, 2019
Really? I trust you kalbahamahut but i question this...
Sifhraven
+13
Level 72
Jul 17, 2019
Thought it was belgian
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Apr 9, 2020
He may have been of mixed heritage
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 89
Dec 6, 2019
Even citypopulation.de doesn't stretch it that far. In a case of the U.S. Census Bureau's metropolitan statistic nearly matching its actual urban area statistic, San Juan came in at around 2.1 million and 2.2 million in those categories in 2010. All of Puerto Rico has sustained significant population losses since then, having dropped from an official count of 3,726,157 in 2010 to a Census Bureau estimate of 3,195,153 in 2018.
Alacave
+1
Level 56
Apr 21, 2019
Does Manila with over 3 million Spanish speakers not qualify ?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Apr 21, 2019
Spanish is definitely not the most commonly-spoken language in Manila. The numbers here are total population, not population of Spanish-speakers. And besides, there's no way that there are 3 million Spanish speakers in Manila.
vdbjdj
+1
Level 42
Nov 22, 2021
T a g a l o g = Filipino

Filipino = the most commonly spoken language in the Phillippines.

FILIPINO-PHILLIPPINES

explorer97
+8
Level 65
Apr 21, 2019
Isn't Catalan more spoken than Spanish in Barcelona?
naloi
+1
Level 56
Apr 22, 2019
Spanish is the official language in all Spain. All people in Cataluña speak Catalan and Spanish.
hispanoangloaustrofenicios
+1
Level 52
Jul 20, 2019
It might still be in the city of Barcelona but in the urban area as a whole Spanish is predominant
QORQUT2003
+1
Level 96
Jul 1, 2020
yeah quizzer is just ...
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Feb 28, 2021
According to this, more people speak Spanish than Catalan in the region as a whole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Catalonia

46.6% identify as Spanish speakers, 36.3% as Catalan speakers, and 6.9% as both.

dawn06
+1
Level 21
Apr 27, 2019
No they don't only 70% of catalans actually speak catalan, and it's Catalunya unless you are speaking spanish...
hispanoangloaustrofenicios
+3
Level 52
Jul 20, 2019
Actually almost 100% of Catalans speak Catalan, although the numbers for those who can read and write it are lower and closer to the figure you mentioned
ReAvSi9278
+1
Level 48
Apr 9, 2020
Manila?
kalbahamut
+7
Level 81
Aug 24, 2020
surely not. They speak English and Tagalog in Manila. If you wanted to converse in Spanish you'd probably have to track down a college graduate or retired government official over the age of 60. and even then it wouldn't be a guarantee.
Szatan
+1
Level 62
Sep 7, 2020
14/22 I almost forgot Madrid and Barcelona lol
TMK613
+1
Level 57
Mar 8, 2021
San Juan Puerto Rico?
FlyingG
+5
Level 69
Apr 30, 2021
"no us cities"
buck1017
+2
Level 78
May 25, 2021
HAHA I completely forgot about Spain. Wow. I was making my way down central and South America and didn't even think about Spain. Wow.
MalyJacus
+2
Level 57
Apr 7, 2022
Barcelona != spanish speaking. CATALAN!
Ferbin
+1
Level 76
Sep 28, 2023
Both.
Pambaso7
+1
Level 37
Nov 3, 2022
Metro area of Valencia (Spain) is now 2.522.000. It should figure in the list.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 1, 2023
The source has Valencia at 2.08 million.
DoktorApplejuce
+4
Level 65
Jan 2, 2023
I'm so dumb. I specifically didn't put Asuncion because "there's no way they have more than 2 million people". Doi.
AntiMatter8192
+3
Level 68
Mar 2, 2023
Impressive, stats say 100% of people guessed Mexico City
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 75
Mar 3, 2023
Other sources give the San Juan (Puerto Rico) urban area population as about 2.5 million. I can't find the urban area info on citypopulation.de though, only the smaller municipality population which from the map provided clearly cuts off a huge amount of the urbanised zone.
Mari0oo
+3
Level 46
Mar 6, 2023
wait which santa cruz is meant here?
angrobper14
+6
Level 84
Mar 10, 2023
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Politte
+3
Level 53
Mar 6, 2023
En español, la capital de Cuba es La Habana. Si el quiz es en español, la respuesta correcta es La Habana y no Havana que es en Inglés.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 69
Apr 18, 2023
True
mrputter
+3
Level 82
Jun 13, 2023
...but the quiz isn't in Spanish. It may be about Spanish-speaking cities, sure. But the quiz itself is in English, on the English-language part of JetPunk. So "Havana" is correctly the accepted answer.
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 68
Mar 5, 2024
'It's too difficult' is a bad argument. Indian cities have English and local spellings as accepted type-ins, why not for Spanish cities?
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 69
Apr 18, 2023
19
SantiagoDelgado
+1
Level 8
Jun 7, 2023
You should accept "la habana"
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