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Second Biggest Cities Quiz

For each country, name the second biggest city by urban area and by city proper.
Source: citypopulation.de and Wikipedia
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First submittedJuly 31, 2012
Times taken38,288
Average score59.4%
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Country
Urban Area
City Proper
Japan
Osaka
Yokohama
United States
Los Angeles
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Pakistan
Lahore
no data
Russia
Saint Petersburg
Egypt
Alexandria
Mexico
Guadalajara
Ecatepec
Spain
Barcelona
Turkey
Ankara
Australia
Melbourne
no separate data
Italy
Naples
Milan
South Africa
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Country
Urban Area
City Proper
Canada
Montreal
Colombia
Medellín
United Kingdom
Birmingham
Leeds
France
Lyon
Marseille
Bolivia
Santa Cruz
El Alto
Portugal
Porto
Kenya
Mombasa
no data
Belgium
Antwerp
Ghent
Sweden
Gothenburg
Greece
Thessaloniki
Norway
Bergen
Ireland
Cork
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40 Comments
mac212121
+3
Level 30
Aug 11, 2012
awesome quiz! If you liked this I also have a second largest cities on my page, you should check it out. It has a lot more countries then those above!
xolkan
+1
Level 49
Aug 11, 2012
d'oh, missed Melbourne
vladi98
+2
Level 15
Aug 13, 2012
15/24

I couldn't write Thessaloniki correctly.

Osaka didn't came into my mind, same as Alexandria.

ayad217
+5
Level 24
Mar 27, 2013
why wasn't China on this quiz????? 100% anyways. :)
fitheach
+20
Level 58
Mar 13, 2017
Yeah, and why isn't Tonga on this quiz? How dare a quiz of just a few countries miss out the country I'm interested in, don't they know just how much the world must revolve around my part of the world...?
Arp2600
+2
Level 87
Dec 12, 2014
Got everything but the second city proper in Bolivia. I tried "Alto", though... I knew it would be the upper part of La Paz.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Jan 22, 2015
Bolivia stumped me, too. Was close to acing this one but didn't get either of the Bolivian cities.
kRISTIBAHENA
+5
Level 46
Dec 22, 2014
I kind of think of Ecatepec to be a Mexico City suburb, not so much a city in its own right.
angrobper14
+3
Level 85
Jan 23, 2015
It depends on how you consider "urban area" and "city proper". Ecatepec (as well as every other Mexico City suburb) is a municipality, with a Municipal President (mayor) and everything else. Since each municipal government is based on a city proper (that normally shares the same name), Ecatepec counts as a city proper. However, it's normally considered into the Mexico City metro area when listing the largest cities in Mexico, making it quite obscure for many people (even in Mexico).
thecoolestdude2
+1
Level 68
Jan 22, 2015
Nice quiz!
kolp
+2
Level 86
Jan 22, 2015
Your data for Belgium is incorrect. Antwerp proper has twice as many inhabitants as Ghent, so should be included in both columns.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 22, 2015
The quiz is correct. Antwerp is the #1 largest city proper in Belgium.

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

kolp
+1
Level 86
Jan 23, 2015
I assumed you would take the borders of the region of Brussels (Brussels-Capital Region, +1000000 inhabitants) into account, as is standard, rather than the borders of the city of Brussels, an outdated remnant of Belgian history. Both can be argued to be correct, so I won't press the issue.
kolp
+1
Level 86
Jan 23, 2015
To quote the wikipedia article on Brussels, just to show the ambiguous nature of the issue:

"Brussels [...], officially the Brussels-Capital Region[...] is the capital and largest city of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union (EU)."

"The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium."

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

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 23, 2015
Yeah, but the article for Antwerp says "With a population of 510,610 it is by far the most populous city in Belgium."
rawe
+1
Level 66
Jan 22, 2015
23/32
itsthebarg
+2
Level 66
Jan 22, 2015
I highly doubt that Bergen's urban area (stated as 238 k) is smaller than the city proper (stated as 272 k).
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 90
Jul 18, 2018
Large city limits? China is notorious for city limits extending beyond the urban build-up. The USA has both extremes.
ChineseChen
+1
Level 67
Jun 11, 2020
Like on Chongqing - it's city proper is 30 mil but its urban area is only 7 mil.
MrEdgar
+3
Level 43
Jan 22, 2015
Johannesburg is second biggest? What's bigger?
kolp
+2
Level 86
Jan 23, 2015
Only Soweto used to be bigger, but the municipality is now part of the city of Johannesburg, I believe.
kolp
+1
Level 86
Jan 23, 2015
So it depends whether you take into account the "municipality" or the "metropolitan municipality"
CripplingVelocity
+1
Level 58
Sep 14, 2016
Johannesburg is still the biggest metro area. It is just not the biggest city proper.
DE60
+1
Level 66
Jan 23, 2015
I tried Gothenborg and Gothenberg but didn't think to try Gothenburg
Sulps
+2
Level 56
Mar 12, 2017
I always type "Göteborg" and if that doesn't work (which is rarely the case any more), "Gothenburg".
tazz676
+1
Level 60
Jan 24, 2015
awesome quiz!!
AllenY
+1
Level 68
Apr 17, 2015
I did the quiz two times in a row, reading Ireland as Iceland, despite mentally noting not to do that the first time round...
sealsi6
+1
Level 58
Mar 12, 2017
very tough quiz, liked it a lot!
FamousRob
+1
Level 85
Mar 12, 2017
Funny that this was just featured. I just spent some time yesterday making a quiz about Second Largest Cities. Literally just posted it. http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/66830/countries-by-second-biggest-city
celloninja
+2
Level 42
Mar 12, 2017
Can you please accept Joburg as Johannesburg? This is a common abbreviation, especially in South Africa.
fitheach
+2
Level 58
Jul 19, 2017
I take it that Salonika is no longer a valid name for Thessaloniki. Oh well, was just being a bit lazy and didn't want to type out Thessaloniki in full!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Aug 29, 2017
I think that's the Ottoman name for it. Spent a few months living next to One Salonica Mall there.
obmeb
+1
Level 59
Aug 29, 2017
I managed to be in two of those cities today. Any guesses?

No, that is too cruel -- a hint: perhaps two extremes of Europe.

I suspect that both were early capital cities in their effective countries (economic regions).

IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 90
Jul 18, 2018
Nope.
jpcol
+1
Level 57
Oct 31, 2017
Great quiz. Big fan. It’s a nice change of pace
Martinza
+3
Level 62
Sep 4, 2018
That Leeds appears is pretty confusing. I guess it is caused by the partition of London in 32 districts here:

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

Citywise I consider Birmingham second after London. Although there are two cities in London considering the British city definition (place with a catthedral) - City of London and City of Westminster. London divided by two is still bigger as Birmingham I guess. Very confusing this stuff. Furthermore, I think it depends on how you count if Greater Manchester or the West Midlands are the bigger urban area.

MustardCustard
+2
Level 66
Sep 5, 2018
The best answer I could find for an Australian city proper would have Brisbane be first and Gold Coast at second.
MindBlank
+1
Level 49
Feb 9, 2020
Did not do so well, but I got more than 3/4 correct especially Porto because I have been there and it is beautiful!
ChineseChen
+1
Level 67
Jun 11, 2020
Can Petrograd be an accepted type-in for Saint Petersburg?
Hardeep
+2
Level 68
Sep 19, 2021
Birmingham is larger then Leeds by city proper as well.

Birmingham-1.1m

Leeds- 750k

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