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Biggest Cities in the World Quiz

How many of the world's 50 most populous urban areas can you name?
As of January 2023 according to citypopulation.de
Urban area population, not city proper population
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: March 1, 2023
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First submittedMarch 25, 2012
Times taken521,109
Average score52.0%
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Population
Urban Area
67.8 mil
Guangzhou / Shenzhen
40.8 mil
Tokyo
40.0 mil
Shanghai
33.4 mil
Delhi
28.9 mil
Jakarta
26.7 mil
Manila
26.6 mil
Mumbai
24.9 mil
Mexico City
24.9 mil
Seoul
23.1 mil
New York City
23.0 mil
São Paulo
22.2 mil
Cairo
21.4 mil
Lagos
21.3 mil
Dhaka
20.9 mil
Beijing
20.5 mil
Bangkok
19.1 mil
Karachi
Population
Urban Area
18.8 mil
Moscow
17.7 mil
Los Angeles
17.7 mil
Osaka
17.4 mil
Kolkata
16.7 mil
Buenos Aires
16.6 mil
Chengdu
16.2 mil
Tehran
16.1 mil
Istanbul
15.0 mil
Kinshasa
14.8 mil
Johannesburg
14.8 mil
London
14.5 mil
Xiamen
14.4 mil
Lahore
13.7 mil
Bangalore
13.5 mil
Ho Chi Minh City
13.4 mil
Hangzhou
13.4 mil
Rio de Janeiro
Population
Urban Area
12.3 mil
Xi'an
12.2 mil
Chennai
11.8 mil
Wuhan
11.6 mil
Lima
11.4 mil
Paris
11.4 mil
Tianjin
11.1 mil
Hyderabad
10.5 mil
Changsha
10.5 mil
Chongqing
10.5 mil
Nagoya
10.2 mil
Bogotá
9.90 mil
Chicago
9.45 mil
Zhengzhou
9.30 mil
Ahmedabad
9.20 mil
Taipei
9.15 mil
Riyadh
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Level 87
Sep 10, 2015
I have an inkling that if accurate demographic data would be available we would see some more western African cities
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Level 74
May 16, 2016
Such as? I don't think Dakar, Abidjan, Accra, Kano, Ibadan or any of the other possibilities are that big, even if defined as loosely as the source sometimes does.
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Level 87
Mar 4, 2019
West like in west coast, and Luanda, my first thought, has now made the list. Abidjan for sure will not be too far off, once we get some proper estimates. We have no idea how many people actually live in these cities, and we usually grossly underestimate them.
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Level 33
Sep 10, 2015
Why are so many people asking to allow the misspelling "Sao Paolo"? LOL. Is there somwhere in the world that they actually spell it this way? Should I ask for Londres, Pequim and Nova Iorque?
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Level 47
Sep 10, 2015
Bengaluru should be accepted for Bangalore. Please, follow this link.
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Level 65
Jul 28, 2016
seconded. it's the spelling that shows up the most in modern maps.
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Level 75
Jan 17, 2017
Yes. I was in Bengaluru last month and that really is its name! Bangalore, Bombay and Calcutta were renamed to Bengaluru, Mumbai and Kolkata between 1995 and 2006. For consistency's sake, all three new names should appear as answers here.
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Level 38
Sep 13, 2015
37/50
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Level 35
Sep 24, 2015
37/50 - Got Nagoya but missed LA?!
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Level 52
Sep 29, 2015
How did I get Shenyang but forgot Chengdu
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Level 66
Oct 7, 2015
Finally 50/50 with 01:24 left
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Level 18
Dec 22, 2015
The quiz says that Guangzhou was #1... is this accurate, because D.C. doesn't have 8.3 million people...
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Level 78
Dec 30, 2015
URBAN AREAS. That's different from City Proper.
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Level 35
Jan 6, 2016
Monterrey, NL and Guadalajara, Jal, in Mexico and Madrid in Spain, Sidney, Australia, among others should be in the list
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Level 93
Oct 9, 2017
No they should not. They should not be included if they don't qualify.
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Level 69
Dec 5, 2017
As a Sydneysider, I can confirm that: No, we don't belong on this list. We have only a little over 4 million.
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Level 78
Jun 23, 2020
Sydney*
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Level 37
Aug 17, 2023
Melbourne is the largest city in Australia (yes, bigger than Sydney) and still doesn't come close to these cities.
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Level 17
Feb 14, 2016
No way Boston is bigger than Toronto, Philadelphia or Chittagong to name a few
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Level 39
Feb 19, 2018
Metropolitan areas are included
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Level 53
Feb 29, 2016
This one seriously needs to be updated
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Level 33
Mar 16, 2016
This list is very different to the Wikipedia's urban agglomeration list.

Does anyone know why?

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Level 57
Mar 1, 2021
He didn’t use Wikipedia as a source.
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Level 15
May 6, 2016
You are high if you think guangzhou is larger than tokyo. Its not even the largest city in China.
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Level 60
Jan 18, 2017
You're misinformed if you think that Tokyo is the biggest urban area in the world.
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Level 37
May 18, 2016
Guys this list is for the continuous, contiguous urban area. As in all urban areas that are joined and conjoined to each other continuously.

Thus it ignores 'city proper' populations (that's the count of people within the official city boundaries). For example the City of San Francisco is only 800,000 but it continues well past these boundaries as one large urban area of 7-8 million.

It also tries to ignore 'agglomerations' or 'CSA' counts which lumps separated cities and towns together -these usually get counted together as one due to proximity or commuting habits. Truth be told some CSA counts have slipped through into here such as NYC's inflated figure (it really should be below 20 million, but gets an extra million or two by doubling its catchment size that takes in smaller communities in large tracts of open farmland and forest). Likewise as people have ponited out Boston is also a misnomer, a 4.7 million urban area that draws in 8 million via its 'commuter' belt.

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Level 37
May 18, 2016
Additionally there are some citiies here that have conjoined into each other - as in they are physically merged without a need to inflate via commuting habits or proximity. One can walk on urban roads with dense, continuous buildings (read: urbanity) on either side from one city to the next. These fully merged cities include San Francisco-Oakland, Washington DC- Baltimore, Tokyo-Yokohma and of course Guangzhou-Shenzhen.
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Level 35
Jun 9, 2016
It's a rather long walk from San Francisco to Oakland.
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Level 74
Oct 8, 2017
I'm still amazed that San Francisco metro is one of those places where the core city (San Francisco) is actually not the largest in the Urban Area anymore - that title goes to San Jose. Yet for historical purposes, San Francisco will remain the core city. Brussels is another example, where the core is not the largest city in the urban area.
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Level 43
Feb 25, 2023
Just like London, who has below 9,000 people as of 2021 (learned that here!)
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Level 37
May 18, 2016
In short this is a city count based on the city(s)' single urban area.
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Level 37
May 18, 2016
And btw Toronto only has 5.5 million at it's most generous count based on its single urban area.
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Level 60
May 21, 2016
You should accept "LA" for Los Angeles
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Level 48
Jun 9, 2016
Nah, if that were acceptable, people who were going to type "Lahore" would get that one by accident.
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Level 48
Dec 1, 2016
Well, that happens when you type Dominica for Dominican Republic in the Countries of the World Quiz.
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Level 40
Aug 26, 2023
for that you can just write "DR"
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Level 65
Jun 18, 2017
And niger for nigeria
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Level 43
Mar 21, 2019
And UK for Ukraine
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Level 83
Aug 8, 2016
I've seen this occasionally come up, including in the comments section here. For those wondering - Shenzhen is now contiguous with Guangzhou and Dongguan as well as a host of smaller cities in the Pearl River Delta area. Hong Kong is not included in this not just because it is an SAR and has a border separating it, but also because most of the New Territories (i.e. the northern part of the HKSAR) is sparsely populated. Of HKSAR's 1000+ sq km, only about 15% is urbanised - large areas like the Saikung Peninsula and many outlying islands are devoid of human habitation. For this reason it makes sense to consider HK separately, but include Shenzhen and Dongguan in the Guangzhou figure.
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Level 37
Nov 17, 2016
49/50...never thought that I'm that good...
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Level 29
Nov 17, 2016
This REALLY needs to be updated
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Level 48
Nov 20, 2016
Not really. All the cities appear to be the same. I only gave it a quick once over, but the order seems to be the same too. Only difference is the populations have changed slightly.
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Level 48
Nov 20, 2016
Oh and the reference: https://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html
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Level 69
Dec 9, 2016
I got 49 and missed beijing. On my way to take clorox shots...
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Level 64
Dec 30, 2016
Manilaaaa...
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Level 60
Jan 10, 2017
That took foooooooorever to finish!
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Level 41
Jan 23, 2017
Good quiz I always forget the Chinese cities, 1 of these days
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Level 49
Feb 5, 2017
Ho Chi Minh = Saigon
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Level 68
Feb 8, 2017
Saigon, 1975. Charlie came to town named it after Uncle Ho
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Level 82
Jan 31, 2018
Many of the other quizzes do accept "Saigon" instead of "Ho Chi Minh City". When you visit Vietnam most of the Vietnamese refer to it as "Saigon", although Communist Party members tend to insist upon its formal name of "Ho Chi Minh City."
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Level 55
Jan 19, 2023
Been to Vietnam last year and learned that only the inner city center is referred to as Saigon. And northern Vietnamese never call it Saigon for historical reasons.
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Level 46
Mar 6, 2017
43 out of 50.... forgot NYC.... the pictured photo
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Level 57
Mar 11, 2017
Got 40/50 first try, mainly forgot Chinese and Indian cities, same as y'all. Cool quiz.
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Level 57
Mar 11, 2017
Allow 'Saigon' for Ho Chi Minh City?
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Level 65
Mar 11, 2017
It's astonishing to me the number of people taking these quizzes that still don't know what an urban area is.
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Level 85
Mar 11, 2017
So you stopped accepting Saigon for Ho Chi minh City? :(
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Level 76
Mar 12, 2017
42 correct. I have only been to 8. 34 cities correct which I have never visited. Good, right? ... I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BOSTON AND MISSED IT!!! I MISSED MY HOMETOWN!!!
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Level 18
Mar 13, 2017
Typed 'shangai 'several times...fun quiz
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Level 64
Apr 22, 2017
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the US.
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Level 64
Apr 22, 2017
Houston is the fourth-largest city, by population, in the US but not on the list.
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Level 64
May 7, 2017
Both Houston and Dallas have metro areas with higher populations than DC, Philadelphia, and Boston.
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Level 64
May 10, 2017
Houston is the fourth-largest US city and Dallas is about as large. Both have more residents than Boston or DC.
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Level 62
Jun 1, 2017
Urban areas not cities
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Level 72
Jul 9, 2017
Still, Dallas would have more than Boston with Fort Worth part of the urban area of Dallas.
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Level 61
Jul 17, 2017
By MSA, Dallas/Ft.Worth is the 4th largest in US. I think

DC and San Francisco jump it in CSA.

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Level 61
May 21, 2017
Rhine-Ruhr in Germany is listed as 11.3 million, if you ever feel like adding it.
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Level 63
Jun 20, 2017
Rhine-Ruhr is a metropolitan area. As you may know metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas.
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Level 48
Jul 2, 2017
I'm a little confused. As far as I know Tokyo is the largest city in the world and definitely not Guangzhou, which has a population of 14 million. Also, Xiamen is a very small city with a population of 3.5 million. There also are a lot more cities that have way too much population as shown, which is how I only got 50/50 on my fifth try.
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Level ∞
Jul 3, 2017
The source is listed. Where do you get your information?
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Level 22
Mar 21, 2019
Guangzhou merged with 3 other cities to create a mega-city with pop. 47.2 mil.
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Level 83
Jul 15, 2017
Some of the numbers in this quiz are beyond bizarre. The supposed source, citypopulation.de, lists the urban area population of Boston as 4.2 million (not 7.5 million - which is larger than the state of Massachusetts). This makes Boston the 10th largest U.S. urban area, well behind Dallas, Houston, Philly, Phoenix and others. San Francisco isn't in the top 10. Seriously, please accurately reflect the sources you cite.
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Level ∞
Jul 15, 2017
http://citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html
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Level 83
Jul 15, 2017
An "agglomeration" is not a technical demographic term. In the Boston case, to get to 7.55 million, you have to include the entire populations of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Level 40
Jul 31, 2017
Please allow Saigon for Ho Chi Minh City in your quizzes
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Level 68
Sep 1, 2017
Please accept Saigon for HCM City, thank you!
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Level 40
Sep 9, 2017
Pls check the data of other sources too, they show a lot different
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Level 47
Sep 15, 2017
So close at 49!!
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Level 50
Mar 21, 2018
Sad
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Level 75
Oct 8, 2017
Baghdad's population is about 8.7 million...... Not on this list?
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Level 53
Oct 12, 2017
Harbin, China. Over 9 Million
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Level 37
Oct 31, 2017
That's not an urban count, but takes in outlying towns also that lie within its jurisdiction (much like US metros). The contiguous city count for Harbin is 5.3 million.
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Level 37
Oct 31, 2017
Chongqing should be in there, it's city proper has 8.5 million

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

Also Baghdad, 8.765 million has swollen with refugees, up from 7 million.

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

and Xian, 8.55 million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an#Demographics

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Level 37
Oct 31, 2017
^and those aren;t agglomerations, but urban city proper counts.
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Level 28
Dec 4, 2017
i think "peking" should be accepted for beijing
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Level 79
Feb 1, 2019
And New Amsterdam for New York.
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Level 56
Jul 10, 2020
And Muscovy for Moscow and Constantinople for Istanbul lol
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Level 47
Dec 11, 2017
FINALLY got 50/50 (with just one second left)!
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Level 44
Jan 17, 2018
44/50... but I forgot Beijing. Welp i give up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Level 54
Jan 24, 2018
Boy this one takes a few tries, huh?
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Level 16
Feb 17, 2018
This is not true: How can a city in Guangdong be #1
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Level 83
Mar 14, 2018
49/50. Got Shantou... missed Beijing. Thirty seconds remaining and trying to work out which giant, 20 million plus metropolis I've missed. Was quite sure I'd already entered Beijing. Almost missed Ho Chi Minh, because I typed Saigon (which is how most people actually from there still refer to it) and it wasn't accepted.
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Level 11
Aug 8, 2018
I also did saigon Got 48/50
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Level 50
Mar 21, 2018
Boston!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Level 56
Jun 12, 2018
Nowhere can I find a source that states Xiamen has 10 million people. Even the source for this quiz shows an urban population of less than 4 million people. I have visited and that city is nowhere near that population. It isn't even the biggest city in Fujian Province.
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Level 53
Jul 4, 2018
Saigon for Ho Chi Minh?
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Level 49
Dec 11, 2018
Not it's name though, like saying Leningrad or Petrograd for St Petersburg
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Level 49
Sep 17, 2020
It is the informal name that Vietnamese generally use, more so than Ho Chi Minh City. A very different situation to one where very few people still call St Petersburg Leningrad.
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Level 82
Feb 16, 2019
Saigon is accepted, but it's not official name.
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Level 11
Aug 8, 2018
I got 48/50 and I am in 5th grade

I missed Nagoya and some Chinese city.

I don't get how D.C is on this list I have been to d.c several times and it is not big

Quizmaster, please update the statistics of the city to make it better

Great JetPunk!!!

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Level 24
Dec 4, 2018
Guangzhao's population is only about 13000, not 46000, get your facts straight please
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Level 37
Feb 6, 2019
GZ is the centre of the Pearl River City, which recently formed when GZ (14 million) connected up to Shenzhen (12 million) via Dongguan (8 million). 3 smaller cities also on the sides. The World Bank declared it the worlds biggest single, contiguous city in 2015. You can walk from one end to the other on city streets surrounded by buildings - or catch a commercial flight even.
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Level 49
Dec 11, 2018
Missed L.A
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Level 18
Jan 13, 2019
Who in the world is "Kolkata"? Tried like 20 different spellings
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Level 27
Jan 18, 2019
San francisco has about a million citizens not 8
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Level 79
Feb 1, 2019
Urban area, not city proper.
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Level 79
Feb 1, 2019
I was focusing so hard on the Chinese and Indian cities that I forgot New York.
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Level 52
Feb 4, 2019
43/50 Not that bad, I guess. I missed 1 Indian and 6 Chinese cities.
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Level 24
Feb 14, 2019
Inaccurate data and information. Metro Manila population is only 21 million and that includes other provinces. Please check your source. And stop spreading fake information.
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Level 82
Feb 16, 2019
Source checked. If you have a better one (for the whole world, not local), post it here.
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Level 73
Feb 27, 2019
49/50 only 4 points. Wow.
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Level 64
Mar 21, 2019
Houston is the fourth largest U.S. city and it is more populous than DC. I’ve been in DC the past 20 years and lived in Texas for more than 33 years before that. My Census contacts work in a dangerous area here and provide many federal employees with accurate data.
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Level ∞
Mar 21, 2019
I don't personally know any census employees, nor have I ever lived in Texas or DC. However, I don't believe that this matters. The source of the quiz is listed, and if you go there, they list their sources as well. Ultimately, this data is coming from the U.S. government.
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Level 47
Mar 3, 2023
UGH
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Level 37
Apr 12, 2019
It doesn’t let you just put LA in for Los Angeles
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Level 58
Feb 1, 2021
yeah cause you could get that fill i on accident by typing in anything that starts with L-A
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Level 47
Mar 3, 2023
Such as Lagos
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Level 83
Apr 21, 2019
Luanda moving up the rankings...
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Level 45
May 5, 2019
Somehow I missed Seoul and Taipei and that's it
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Level 40
Jul 29, 2019
spent way too long trying to spell Ahmedabad...
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Level 69
Aug 17, 2019
Geez – 28 average, and I only got 1 point at 27. Tough crowd!
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Level 83
Jan 12, 2020
On my latest go at the latest version of this quiz I got 48/50, missing Chennai and Luanda. This despite having hung out with someone from Chennai just two nights ago. Oh well. It seems everyone of these larger list quizzes, there's always one obvious answer I miss. At least this time it was't Beijing like on a past attempt.
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Level 43
Jan 24, 2020
Why is there so much complaining on this quiz? Just appreciate the fact that Quizmaster made this for us!
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Level 65
Feb 6, 2020
I'm sure the number of people who get Wuhan is rising :-(
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Level 62
Feb 8, 2020
Wuhan-Makes the 50 most populated cities in the entire world list

Corona Virus-I'm gonna end this town's whole career

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Level 37
Apr 16, 2020
As of 2016, the central city of Chongqing (urban area, central) had 8.5 million. As of 2018 Wuhan had 9 million. Hangzhou now has 9.2 million (2019).

Chengdu 11,940,000 (2019)

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Level 65
Apr 28, 2020
Missed Tehran.
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Level 45
May 28, 2020
I got everything but Shenyang :/
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Level 35
May 31, 2020
i SWEAR i typed in ho chi minh city but it said i didnt :(
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Level 44
Aug 12, 2020
You sure you typed it right
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Level 29
Jul 30, 2020
I got all correct but how is Guangzhou on top and how has Delhi not passed Shanghai?
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Level 78
Jan 8, 2021
The Guangzhou Agglomeration, which has a population of 46,700,000 includes the cities of:

Shēnzhèn - 13,374,300

Guăngzhōu - 13,233,500

Dōngguān - 7,795,800

Fóshān - 7,750,700

Zhōngshān - 2,987,900

Jiāngmén - 1,650,000

This adds up to 46,792,200, which is around 46,700,000

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Level 63
Mar 1, 2021
No, it's in Guangzhou's.
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Level 47
Mar 3, 2023
Shenzhen isn't part of Guangzhou!!!
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Level 30
Aug 13, 2020
34/50 argh
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Level 40
Sep 3, 2020
46/50 missed Taipei, Shenyang, Hangzhou and Kuala Lumpur
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Level 54
Oct 27, 2020
how did I get Shenyang and miss Moscow smh
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Level 44
Nov 15, 2020
The list cites the 2019 version of the website, but that version is no longer accessible - only the 2020 version. I suggest updating the quiz to match. It involves a few citiies changing places, and removed Riyadh in favour of Shenyang. Also, it gives local names and English names. Some of the English names are accepted, some are not. E.g., the list gives Tianjin=Tientsin, but this quiz rejects Tientsin. At the same time, it the quiz accepts Calcutta (=Kolkata). I suggest that all English names given be accepted alternates.
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Level 62
Apr 10, 2021
Tientsin is not the English name for Tianjin (which is the english name), as opposed to 天津。 "Tientsin" is just a romanisation which as fell out of use.
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Level 53
Mar 13, 2022
Yes. citypopulation.de says that the "English Names" are the former names (eg Madras for Chennai, Bombay for Mumbai, Bangalore for Bengaluru), but I call them by their (now common in English) names.
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Level 57
Nov 30, 2020
42/50 but i forget beijing smh
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Level 63
Mar 1, 2021
I forgot Shanghai. I always forget it's there, because in the south there is the Pearl River delta and Hong Kong, and in the north there is Beijing and Tianjin, but there isn't really anything in between other than Shanghai and the cities surrounding it.
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Level 65
Feb 28, 2021
Laughably innacurate numbers😂😂
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Level 71
Feb 28, 2021
I mean the source is approved by many organizations dude. Calm down
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Level 55
Aug 27, 2022
They're accurate.
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Level 43
Feb 28, 2021
Toronto is larger than Paris.....
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Level 63
Mar 1, 2021
No it's not. The Greater Toronto area has around 6.5 million people, and the Paris Metro Area has around 12 million.
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Level 47
Mar 1, 2021
forgot xiamen and bengalore...
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Level 63
Mar 29, 2021
I'm sure that Karachi has an urban population of about 30 million.
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Level 15
May 8, 2021
I lived in Xiamen a few years - it isn't that big. I'm guessing it was combined with Zhangzhou and maybe another? Most Xiamen folk would be surprised to be on this list.
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Level 53
Mar 13, 2022
According to citypopulation.de, Xiàmén is combined with Jìnjiāng and Quánzhōu.
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Level 48
May 19, 2021
Wait... Why does Seoul has 25 million populations? Seoul only has 9.8 million... 25 million populations are in the South Korea's Metropolitan area which contains Seoul.

Sorry if I am wrong

there might be some grammatical errors

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Level 37
Dec 7, 2021
The contiguous city of Seoul-Incheon covers 25 million, ignoring the city boundaries drawn on the map.
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Level 43
Jul 18, 2021
please double check these as Houston is way bigger than DC, yet "Washington/Baltimore" is included but Houston is not.
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Level ∞
Jul 18, 2021
The quiz is accurate.
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Level 40
Feb 1, 2023
Houston pop is 2.2 million
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Level 61
Jul 20, 2021
Kuala Lumpur does not have 9.15 million people. If you include all the suburbs, at most it has about 3.5 million people.
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Level 30
Aug 16, 2021
How could I miss Mexico City?????!!!!!
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Level 30
Aug 16, 2021
And also Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad!?
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Level 48
Sep 3, 2021
I don' think Seoul has 25 million populations.. It is not even a megacity now! I think the population of Seoul included Gyeongi-Do whose land covers Seoul. If I am wrong, please tell me why :)
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Level 37
Dec 7, 2021
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
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Level 36
Oct 9, 2021
I really took the L with that; 29
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Level 60
Nov 9, 2021
Got all except Washington....
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Level 26
Dec 9, 2021
Got 46 on the first try, those last 4 were the same 4 the rest of the people forgot too! Ahmedabad, Luanda, Xiamen and Hangzhou. I would've never thought about them, in fact, I think I've never heard of Xiamen in my entire life. Either way, I kinda did well
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Level 32
Feb 17, 2022
How did I miss Tokyo, I'm a failure.
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Level 54
Oct 4, 2022
You’re god damn right
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Level 39
Feb 28, 2022
india's capital is actually called NEW Delhi, not just Delhi
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Level 53
Mar 13, 2022
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.
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Level 55
Aug 27, 2022
This isn't about capitals. This is about the city of Delhi.
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Level 33
Mar 5, 2022
I got 30/50. There's room for improvement, but my dream is to become really good at geography. Any of you guys have any pointers?
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Level 54
Oct 4, 2022
I got all right. I am better than you. Lol
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Level 53
Mar 12, 2022
I think citypopulation.de has been updated. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-etc. agglomeration has grown by 17.5 million!
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Level 54
Oct 4, 2022
No
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Level 32
Aug 5, 2022
I focused so much on getting the hardest cities that i forgot about Paris and London, got 48/50
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Level 54
Oct 4, 2022
I got them easily HAHAHAHAHA
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Level 43
Aug 18, 2022
I forgot Washington...the city I LIVE IN
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Level 54
Oct 4, 2022
Stoooopi
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Level 29
Sep 28, 2022
3:10 100%
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Level 58
Oct 23, 2022
AUGH FORGOT SEOUL
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Level 50
Jan 2, 2023
This definitely needs an update. Guangzhou is 60+ million according to the source.
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Level 43
Jan 12, 2023
i missed moscow ;-;
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Level 65
Jan 16, 2023
missed the H in Riyadh
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Level 65
Feb 3, 2023
Qingdao has a population around ~9 million
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Level 45
Feb 7, 2023
pls accept "guangzho" for "guangzhou" i literally just forgot the u
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Level 78
Mar 1, 2023
How can 48/50 only be worth 4 points...
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Level 59
Mar 2, 2023
these new populations for china are screwing with my head lol
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Level 65
Mar 3, 2023
I had them all memorised and then three Chinese cities I haven't heard of enter the fray!
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Level 66
Mar 2, 2023
Got 37, the average
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Level 59
Mar 3, 2023
Pleeeeease accept Changsa for Changsha
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Level 47
Mar 3, 2023
Why would he?
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Level 64
Mar 3, 2023
The only two cities that I missed are two cities that I actually visited, Xi'an and Zhengzhou.

I think maybe Luanda could have made the list instead of Riyadh.

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Level 47
Mar 3, 2023
Please stop using citypopulation.de for these, mostly because it is wrong about Guangzhou. Guangzhou is large, but it is not larger than Tokyo, and Shenzhen is its own city, it is not part of Guangzhou.
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Level 69
Mar 28, 2023
These are urban agglomerations, not the city proper or an urban area. An urban agglomeration follows a different ruleset; such as a connected population geographically, culturally, lingually, and politically. Shenzhen would fall under Guangzhou's UA in this case as they are one large area of continuous urban area, speak the same language, are under the same government, and travel between the two is very easy. Urban agglomerations are NOT the same thing as urban areas.
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Level 22
Mar 18, 2023
bro why did u list the answers we just cant copy

*thinks how much he took to write the answers on comment*

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Level 65
Apr 6, 2023
46/50 and I forgot Delhi but got every other Indian city on the list 😐, surprised Riyadh made it so I decided to skip it, never would've guessed changsha
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Level 61
Apr 11, 2023
somehow forgot the city i live in ahahahahahahaa
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Level 66
Apr 19, 2023
It's very demoralizing to get 48/50 and miss Beijing and Tehran
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Level 66
Apr 20, 2023
42/50
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Level 28
Jul 3, 2023
I really need to know my Asian geography…

34/50 and the cities that I missed were Asian

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Level 52
Jul 13, 2023
Number of cities per UN geoscheme group:

Eastern Asia: 17

Southern Asia: 11

South Amercia: 5

Southeastern Asia: 4

Northern America: 3

Western Asia: 2

Central America, Northern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Southern Africa: 1

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Level 57
Aug 17, 2023
Huh. I didn't realize Hangzhou was a megacity.
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Level 15
Aug 18, 2023
Guangzhou does not have that many people. It's Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Guangzhou about 15 or 20th.
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Level 33
Aug 20, 2023
have you considered accepting CDMX as a write-in for Mexico City?