Biggest Cities in the World Quiz

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Level 36

Mar 31, 2014

forgot to mention, the biggest metro statistic inflation on the list is Los Angeles. The city is really about 12.8 million, increased to 15 million if you count the commuter habits, and increased all the way 17 million if you loosen up those commuter criteria even more, including large areas of desert, scrub and mountain. Double that and you get over 18 million in an area the size of a small country, say Scotland, Jordan or Serbia, with the actual urban area a fraction of it. The NYC area count is even larger. The commuting criteria are so loose now that for the town or area to be included they do not even need to commute to the central city, merely the next town or county along, which creates a hop-a-long effect (and as low as 10% of that town's population for the other 90% to be counted).

The US is the only country to base it's counts on commuting habits, if other cities round the world would do the same places like Istanbul, Beijing, Cairo would increase to well over 20 million etc

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Level 89

Jul 13, 2014

Exactly zupermaus, if these geographic sample sizes were used in China the entire Pearl River Delta could be counted as one city, with a population approaching 100 million.

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Level 51

Apr 10, 2014

Philly should count for Philadelphia

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Level ∞

Apr 10, 2014

Okay

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Level 36

Apr 10, 2014

When I was in Chongqing, China, many people told me that it was the largest city in China. It says 29.4 million on Wikipedia...

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Level ∞

Apr 11, 2014

That's cute. Chongqing is a "municipality" that covers an area 3 times the size of Belgium. It's definitely not one continuous urban area.

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Level 89

Jul 13, 2014

It's cute that you blast this while defending the numbers you use for the US. The CSA numbers used in this quiz certainly do not represent "one continuous urban area".

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Level 89

Jul 13, 2014

@Quizmaster, Thank you for the quiz though, I'm just ornery and it gives me something to grumble about.

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Level 84

Jul 16, 2016

Pretty much the entire Eastern seaboard from Boston to the Northern Virginia DC suburbs is a continuous urban area.

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Level 74

Nov 18, 2016

Plus, Chongqing is historically a major city in Sichuan, I suspect China converted the city and surrounding valleys as a special municipality just to face less administrative hurdles in building the Three Gorges Dam. They're not called "direct-controlled municipalities" for nothing, after all...

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Level 24

Dec 24, 2016

definitely not 3 times the size of Belguim, the same size at most!!

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Level 47

Sep 27, 2021

chongqing is 82,300 square kilometres and belgium is 30,689 square kilometres. Clearly, the same size.

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Level 18

Dec 26, 2014

Chongqing is Largest in China? OMG WHO ARE YOU KIDDING? Guangzhou, HongKong, Beijing, and Shanghai are so much larger

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Level 48

Sep 11, 2015

He just repeated what other people told him. OMG, why are you so ignorant?

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Level 34

Nov 26, 2020

Chongqing is the biggest. His urban area is 20.000.000 but its municipal's area it's more than Canton, otherwise Shangai, Guangzhou, Taipei ecc. are smaller than here shows.

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Level 42

Jan 26, 2023

Chongqing's population is about 30 million (making it the largest city in China), but the area is so large that often Quizmaster won't count it as a single city. This does bug me, and I dislike strongly that Shenzhen and Hong Kong are counted as part of Guangzhou. Tokyo is the largest city in the world, and Guangzhou shouldn't include these other urban areas. But whatever, it's up to Quizmaster.

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Level 22

Apr 11, 2014

I wonder what is the populaton of qingdao. Shandong's population is 95 million.

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Level 66

Apr 11, 2014

Qingdao urban population is only 4.8 million

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Level 18

Dec 26, 2014

Shandong does not have a population of 95 million, maybe you meant 9.5 million?

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Level 74

Jun 23, 2016

Nope. (S)he meant 95 million and was correct. You know Shandong is a province, right?

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Level 83

Aug 18, 2016

9.5 million would make it tiny by the standards of Chinese provinces. At a guess I'd say that's roughly the population of Hainan.

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Level 22

Apr 11, 2014

There couldn't be more Us cities than indian citie and there needs to be houston,toronto and ahmadabad

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Level 83

Aug 8, 2016

India's population may be much bigger than that of the US, but the US is far more urbanised.

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Level 55

Apr 15, 2014

I'm proud that even though we're only the 20th Largest City in the World, We're still the second most guessed.

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Level 79

May 11, 2014

Damn I am good. Forgot ALL ABOUT LONDON! (also Paris and Istanbul, but...). How can anyone non-Chinese manage to get all the Chinese cities right? Kudos.

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Level 83

Aug 8, 2016

Yep. Got 'em all. But repeated trips to China and an Asian Studies degree probably helps.

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Level 42

Jan 26, 2023

I learned all these literally by doing JetPunk quizzes LOL

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Level 46

Jul 13, 2014

please correct the "Sao PaUlo" typo :)

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Level 52

Jul 13, 2014

It's Sao Paulo. Look it up.

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Level 19

Dec 20, 2016

He was talking about the capital letter mistake.

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Level 72

Jul 22, 2014

Chongqing should make this list soon. Some sources already list it being the biggest city in the world but that's a bit of a stretch.

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Level 83

Aug 8, 2016

A European-country-sized area is included in the statistics for Chongqing municipality. Only a small minority of that number actually live in the city.

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Level 45

Jul 23, 2014

48/50. Forgot Hangzhou and.... Washington D.C.!

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Level 27

Aug 15, 2014

could you accept sao paolo?

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Level 37

Jan 23, 2019

it's são paulo, not sao paolo

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Level 48

Sep 22, 2014

guangzhou has a population of 14 mil

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Level 32

Apr 2, 2017

but the combined metro area with shenzhen and other smaller cities gives it a combined population of 40 mil

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Level 48

Sep 22, 2014

proud of 20/50 for 10 yr old

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Level 52

Aug 26, 2021

this guys an adult now, how cool

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Level 19

Oct 2, 2014

All 50 and im 12 and i had one minute 51 seconds!!!!

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Level 67

Mar 18, 2020

I got 51 and I am a 2 year old who only types in translated Swahili!

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Level 36

Aug 24, 2021

brave man

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Level 46

Jan 25, 2015

Wow...

I got all the hard Chinese cities that I just recently new of so it was hard and I missed out the more obvious ones like Bangalore and Kinshasa

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Level 20

Feb 11, 2015

How is New York's population 21.6 Million while its population of right now is just above 8 million?

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Level 20

Feb 11, 2015

Is it including suburbs or something?

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Level 83

Aug 8, 2016

This may not be helpful a year and a half later, but in short: yes. That 8 million figure is only the five boroughs. This figure includes the vast sprawl beyond that, both in New York and New Jersey. Same with all of these cities.

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Level 27

Mar 11, 2015

Any possibility of allowing Djakarta as an alternate spelling for Jakarta?

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Level 36

Oct 5, 2016

I've never heard it being spelt that way...

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Level 83

Dec 20, 2016

The "D" was dropped from the official spelling in about 1972. (Djibouti, however, still clings to their D!)

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Level 66

Apr 3, 2015

42/50. I'm 17.

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Level 66

Jan 7, 2022

43/50. I'm 16.

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Level 59

Mar 19, 2022

48/50. I'm 15.

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Level 57

Jun 3, 2015

should accept "Sao Paolo"

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Level 66

Oct 7, 2015

But that's Italian, is not too hard to remember the Portuguese name, is just one letter.

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Level 34

Nov 8, 2022

in italian it's San Paolo

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Level 65

Jul 2, 2015

Darn it!

Missed San Francisco

*Facepalm*

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Level 85

Jul 15, 2015

There are some major changes including a new #1 city in the world. Can you update?

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Level 31

Jul 16, 2015

Missed 3... one of them was Beijing.... sigh...

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Level 36

Mar 18, 2017

Missed 5, Shanghai and Chicago Included...... More Sighing

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Level 32

Aug 13, 2017

also missed 5...and DC was among them...://

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Level 46

Sep 5, 2017

Missed Seoul...

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Level 50

Aug 4, 2015

please accept Sao Paolo for Sao Paulo

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Level 36

Aug 13, 2015

Guangzhou-Foshan is now considered the biggest city in the world as of this year, with 41 million, as its just merged contiguously with Shenzhen-Dongguan (you can check it out on Google Earth). These 4 cities have grown so quickly they're now one continuous mass (not to be confused with a CSA or megalopolis).

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Level ∞

Aug 16, 2015

The quiz has been updated.

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Level 64

Aug 17, 2015

I'm surprised Shenzhen dropped off the list. Did some of the districts merge with Guangzhou? So we trade that and Philly for Xiamen and Shantu... Neither of those was familiar to me but I'll remember them now.

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Level 64

Aug 17, 2015

Also lost HongKong and gained back Ahmedabad.

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Level ∞

Aug 17, 2015

They merged Shenzhen with Guangzhou, which seems reasonable. Hong Kong is still separate, but isn't big enough to qualify anymore.

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Level 48

Sep 11, 2015

Some people count Hong Kong to the Pearl River Delta, but the case with HK is very peculiar as it is a SAR (Special Administrative Region).

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Level 83

Mar 14, 2018

Hong Kong (the city) is separate. The part of the SAR that abuts Shenzhen is not built-up. In fact only about 15% of the SAR is urbanised.

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Level 58

Sep 10, 2015

Ugh, missed some of the obvious ones!

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Level 56

Sep 10, 2015

Ironically considering the country of origin of the source, citypopulation.de, not one city in Germany on the list.

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Level 73

Sep 10, 2015

German cities are very decentralised. Instead of having one massive city like London/Paris and lots of small cities, Germany has lots of medium sized cities.

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Level 81

Dec 5, 2015

Why? They would hardly lie about the population of their cities just because they own the website.

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Level 69

Nov 6, 2017

They actually do (kinda). They include Parts of the Rhein-Ruhr to Cologne-Bonn, which are two seperate Urban Areas in their opinion

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Level 84

Sep 10, 2015

This update I missed Lima, Xiamen (which is on my History by Letter - X quiz... shame), Shantou, and Shenyang. Not as good as my last performance. Never would have thought of Shantou.

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Level 84

Mar 11, 2017

This time got all of those. Missed Wuhan and Lahore.

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Level 86

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 86

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 64

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 37

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 19

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 79

Dec 30, 2015

URBAN AREAS. That's different from City Proper.

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Level 34

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 92

Oct 9, 2017

No they should not. They should not be included if they don't qualify.

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Level 68

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 77

Jun 23, 2020

Sydney*

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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 37

Feb 19, 2018

Metropolitan areas are included

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Level 51

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 58

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 61

Jan 18, 2017

You're misinformed if you think that Tokyo is the biggest urban area in the world.

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Level 36

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 36

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 73

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 36

May 18, 2016

In short this is a city count based on the city(s)' single urban area.

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Level 36

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 59

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 47

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 65

Jun 18, 2017

And niger for nigeria

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Level 41

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 38

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 67

Dec 9, 2016

I got 49 and missed beijing. On my way to take clorox shots...

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Level 62

Dec 30, 2016

Manilaaaa...

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Level 57

Jan 10, 2017

That took foooooooorever to finish!

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Level 42

Jan 23, 2017

Good quiz I always forget the Chinese cities, 1 of these days

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Level 50

Feb 5, 2017

Ho Chi Minh = Saigon

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Level 67

Feb 8, 2017

Saigon, 1975. Charlie came to town named it after Uncle Ho

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Level 80

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 53

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 56

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 63

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 84

Mar 11, 2017

So you stopped accepting Saigon for Ho Chi minh City? :(

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Level 74

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 65

Apr 22, 2017

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the US.

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Level 65

Apr 22, 2017

Houston is the fourth-largest city, by population, in the US but not on the list.

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Level 65

May 7, 2017

Both Houston and Dallas have metro areas with higher populations than DC, Philadelphia, and Boston.

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Level 65

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 70

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 62

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 60

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 47

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 82

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 82

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 41

Jul 31, 2017

Please allow Saigon for Ho Chi Minh City in your quizzes

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Level 67

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 74

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 36

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 36

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 36

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 78

Feb 1, 2019

And New Amsterdam for New York.

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Level 55

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 53

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 61

Jan 19, 2022

because its not

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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 48

Dec 11, 2018

Not it's name though, like saying Leningrad or Petrograd for St Petersburg

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Level 50

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 81

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 36

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 48

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 78

Feb 1, 2019

Urban area, not city proper.

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Level 78

Feb 1, 2019

I was focusing so hard on the Chinese and Indian cities that I forgot New York.

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Level 48

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 81

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 65

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 34

Apr 12, 2019

It doesn’t let you just put LA in for Los Angeles

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Level 57

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 84

Apr 21, 2019

Luanda moving up the rankings...

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Level 46

May 5, 2019

Somehow I missed Seoul and Taipei and that's it

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Level 41

Jul 29, 2019

spent way too long trying to spell Ahmedabad...

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Level 70

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 44

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 61

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 36

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 62

Apr 28, 2020

Missed Tehran.

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Level 46

May 28, 2020

I got everything but Shenyang :/

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Level 36

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 30

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 76

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 62

Mar 1, 2021

No, it's in Guangzhou's.

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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 52

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 62

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 57

Feb 28, 2021

Laughably innacurate numbers😂😂

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Level 68

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 41

Feb 28, 2021

Toronto is larger than Paris.....

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Level 62

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 48

Mar 1, 2021

forgot xiamen and bengalore...

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Level 64

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 52

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 36

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 58

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 36

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 61

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 33

Feb 17, 2022

How did I miss Tokyo, I'm a failure.

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Level 35

Oct 4, 2022

You’re god damn right

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Level 32

Feb 28, 2022

india's capital is actually called NEW Delhi, not just Delhi

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Level 52

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 35

Oct 4, 2022

I got all right. I am better than you. Lol

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Level 52

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 35

Oct 4, 2022

No

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Level 33

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 35

Oct 4, 2022

I got them easily HAHAHAHAHA

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Level 37

Aug 18, 2022

I forgot Washington...the city I LIVE IN

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Level 35

Oct 4, 2022

Stoooopi

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Level 27

Sep 28, 2022

3:10 100%

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Level 58

Oct 23, 2022

AUGH FORGOT SEOUL

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Level 48

Jan 2, 2023

This definitely needs an update. Guangzhou is 60+ million according to the source.

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Level 37

Jan 12, 2023

i missed moscow ;-;

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Level 65

Jan 16, 2023

missed the H in Riyadh

First submitted	March 25, 2012
Times taken	443,801
Average score	50.0%
Rating	4.78