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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Does anyone know why?
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.
DC and San Francisco jump it in CSA.
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
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!!!
Corona Virus-I'm gonna end this town's whole career
Chengdu 11,940,000 (2019)
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
Sorry if I am wrong
there might be some grammatical errors
I think maybe Luanda could have made the list instead of Riyadh.
*thinks how much he took to write the answers on comment*
34/50 and the cities that I missed were Asian
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