Biggest Cities in the World

No it's not. The Greater Toronto area has around 6.5 million people, and the Paris Metro Area has around 12 million.

According to citypopulation.de, Xiàmén is combined with Jìnjiāng and Quánzhōu.

The contiguous city of Seoul-Incheon covers 25 million, ignoring the city boundaries drawn on the map.

Houston pop is 2.2 million

If you connect all the parts of the city into one - this is how all the other cities are counted also, with all the connected towns and cities combined into one so long as they are touching. The NYC count for example takes in huge parts of the countryside, without even having to touch each other, that's the size of a small country. -Seoul is much more contiguous: https://www.dreamstime.com/high-resolution-satellite-image-seoul-metropolitan-area-south-korea-aerial-background-map-contains-modified-copernicus-sentinel-image155221570

I agree, the capital is New Delhi, but the urban agglomeration is centred in the larger Delhi, of which New Delhi is a part of. The city also includes: Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Gurgaon.

This isn't about capitals. This is about the city of Delhi.

Test yourself repeatedly, especially on the ones you forget. Watching videos is also helpful but practise as well.

It's 5 now

I had them all memorised and then three Chinese cities I haven't heard of enter the fray!

Why? I was born in Changsha but I dont think so.

Metro population. Not total population.

just started tho

It's the metro area population. Not the total population. The Guangzhou/Shenzhen metro area has more than 60 million people.

In 2015 the World Bank made Guangzhou the world's biggest city, pipping Tokyo with 41 million. If you check it out on Google Earth the city is now contiguously joined to Shenzhen via Dongguan, as in one can walk from one end to the other on urban streets surrounded by dense buildings. Look along the east side of the Pearl River, where a vast belt of urbanity has coursed down the river. This is not to be confused with a metro (that would count 60-86 million, in an area smaller than the San Francisco Bay Area, or Los Angeles), nor a megalopolis -its one contiguous city with several different centres. The CP does not count it as one city, due to the legal jurisdictions, but it is knitting up all the transport networks into one vast system.

The same phenomenon is happening to Shanghai, which has now conjoined with Suzhou via Kunshan, a distance of only 60 miles, but 40 million people. Check it out on Google Earth, head west towards the big Taihu Lake that Suzhou sits across from.

citypopulation.de updated all of their city populations, so all the quizzes had to be changed.

just type hcmc

just type saigon

Except the title of this quiz is not "cities you will hear mentioned the most if you visit Vietnam"

I'm not surprised you'd hear about the city you're in more than a bigger one at the other end of the country.

You may have heard of it under its traditional name in the West: Canton.

By itself it is a large city but not biggest-in-the-world tier. The source used here counts the whole Pearl River Delta urban areas, a continuously built-up region which also includes Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan and others.

There is a lot of arbitrary in how you define urban areas across different countries. Different sources can have different rankings without one being "wrong".

You may have heard of it under its traditional name in the West: Canton.

By itself it is a large city but not biggest-in-the-world tier. The source used here counts the whole Pearl River Delta urban areas, a continuously built-up region which also includes Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan and others.

There is a lot of arbitrary in how you define urban areas across different countries. Different sources can have different rankings without one being "wrong".