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Biggest Cities in the World on a Map - Extreme

With the help of a map, try to name every urban area with a population over 2 million.
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Two loosely-defined areas around the Ruhr have been filled in
According to citypopulation.de, ref. date 1/1/23
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Population
Urban Area
67,800,000
Guangzhou
40,800,000
Tokyo
40,000,000
Shanghai
33,400,000
Delhi
28,900,000
Jakarta
26,700,000
Manila
26,600,000
Mumbai
24,900,000
Mexico City
24,900,000
Seoul
23,100,000
New York
23,000,000
São Paulo
22,200,000
Cairo
21,400,000
Lagos
21,300,000
Dhaka
20,900,000
Beijing
20,500,000
Bangkok
19,100,000
Karachi
18,800,000
Moscow
17,700,000
Los Angeles
17,700,000
Osaka
17,400,000
Kolkata
16,700,000
Buenos Aires
16,600,000
Chengdu
16,200,000
Tehran
16,100,000
Istanbul
15,000,000
Kinshasa
14,800,000
Johannesburg
14,800,000
London
14,500,000
Xiamen
14,400,000
Lahore
13,700,000
Bangalore
13,500,000
Ho Chi Minh City
13,400,000
Hangzhou
13,400,000
Rio de Janeiro
12,300,000
Xi'an
12,200,000
Chennai
11,800,000
Wuhan
11,600,000
Lima
11,400,000
Paris
11,400,000
Tianjin
11,100,000
Hyderabad (IN)
10,500,000
Changsha
10,500,000
Chongqing
10,500,000
Nagoya
10,200,000
Bogota
9,900,000
Chicago
9,450,000
Zhengzhou
9,300,000
Ahmedabad
9,200,000
Taipei
9,150,000
Riyadh
9,100,000
Kuala Lumpur
9,050,000
Nanjing
9,000,000
Luanda
8,800,000
Washington, D.C.
8,550,000
Shenyang
8,050,000
Santiago
8,000,000
Shantou
7,950,000
San Francisco
7,850,000
Boston
7,750,000
Singapore
7,550,000
Dallas
7,550,000
Philadelphia
7,550,000
Pune
7,550,000
Toronto
7,500,000
Baghdad
7,500,000
Hefei
7,450,000
Surat
7,300,000
Hong Kong
7,250,000
Qingdao
7,100,000
Ningbo
7,050,000
Houston
7,000,000
Hanoi
6,900,000
Bandung
6,850,000
Khartoum
6,850,000
Madrid
6,600,000
Dubai
6,550,000
Abidjan
6,550,000
Nairobi
6,450,000
Miami
6,400,000
Saint Petersburg
6,350,000
Accra
6,350,000
Jinan
6,250,000
Kunming
6,100,000
Alexandria
6,100,000
Atlanta
6,100,000
Milan
6,000,000
Dar es Salaam
6,000,000
Shijiazhuang
6,000,000
Yangon
5,900,000
Surabaya
5,850,000
Amman
5,850,000
Detroit
5,850,000
Monterrey
5,750,000
Guadalajara
5,750,000
Taiyuan
5,650,000
The Ruhr
5,500,000
Jeddah
5,400,000
Harbin
5,200,000
Ankara
5,200,000
Kano
5,150,000
Belo Horizonte
Population
Urban Area
5,150,000
Dalian
5,100,000
Nanning
5,100,000
Wenzhou
4,975,000
Cologne / Düsseldorf
4,950,000
Barcelona
4,950,000
Melbourne
4,925,000
Sydney
4,900,000
Changchun
4,900,000
Colombo
4,850,000
Guiyang
4,825,000
Phoenix
4,800,000
Kabul
4,800,000
Nanchang
4,775,000
Berlin
4,750,000
Tampa
4,725,000
Urumqi
4,700,000
Casablanca
4,650,000
Chittagong
4,625,000
Seattle
4,600,000
Addis Ababa
4,550,000
Fuzhou
4,450,000
Cape Town
4,375,000
Montreal
4,300,000
Linyi
4,275,000
Jaipur
4,225,000
Medellin
4,200,000
Dakar
4,200,000
Kuwait City
4,200,000
Porto Alegre
4,175,000
Algiers
4,175,000
Brasilia
4,175,000
Puebla
4,175,000
Santo Domingo
4,150,000
Medan
4,100,000
Abuja
4,050,000
Naples
4,000,000
Busan
4,000,000
Lucknow
3,975,000
Bamako
3,975,000
Kampala
3,950,000
Denver
3,950,000
Faisalabad
3,925,000
Ibadan
3,925,000
Recife
3,800,000
Caracas
3,800,000
Damascus
3,800,000
Zibo
3,775,000
Fortaleza
3,725,000
Orlando
3,725,000
Rawalpindi / Islamabad
3,700,000
Salvador
3,700,000
Yaounde
3,650,000
Douala
3,600,000
Kanpur
3,600,000
Tashkent
3,575,000
Durban
3,550,000
Athens
3,550,000
Curitiba
3,525,000
Indore
3,525,000
Port-au-Prince
3,475,000
Kiev
3,450,000
Luoyang
3,450,000
Nagpur
3,450,000
Rome
3,400,000
Lanzhou
3,375,000
Rotterdam
3,350,000
Isfahan
3,350,000
Mashhad
3,325,000
Campinas
3,325,000
Guatemala City
3,300,000
Minneapolis
3,300,000
San Diego
3,275,000
Brisbane
3,275,000
Frankfurt
3,275,000
Guayaquil
3,250,000
Nantong
3,225,000
Birmingham
3,175,000
Bhilai
3,125,000
Manchester
3,100,000
Cleveland
3,075,000
Gujranwala
3,075,000
Kathmandu
3,075,000
Sana'a
3,075,000
Weifang
3,025,000
Izmir
3,025,000
Jiangyin
3,025,000
Vancouver
3,000,000
Xuzhou
2,975,000
Pyongyang
2,950,000
Antananarivo
2,925,000
Cali
2,925,000
Coimbatore
2,925,000
Tel Aviv
2,900,000
Hamburg
2,875,000
Quito
2,850,000
Kumasi
2,850,000
Patna
2,825,000
Cincinnati
2,800,000
Fukuoka
2,800,000
Ouagadougou
2,775,000
Conakry
Population
Urban Area
2,775,000
Kaohsiung
2,775,000
Tunis
2,750,000
Brussels
2,750,000
Daegu
2,750,000
Dammam
2,750,000
Handan
2,750,000
Maracaibo
2,750,000
Phnom Penh
2,700,000
Cebu
2,675,000
Baku
2,650,000
Budapest
2,650,000
Lubumbashi
2,650,000
Tangshan
2,650,000
Toluca
2,625,000
Hohhot
2,625,000
Salt Lake City
2,600,000
Bhopal
2,600,000
Harare
2,600,000
Peshawar
2,600,000
Port Harcourt
2,575,000
Chandigarh
2,575,000
Charlotte
2,575,000
Haikou
2,550,000
Almaty
2,550,000
Goiania
2,525,000
Taizhou
2,525,000
Xinxiang
2,500,000
Agra
2,500,000
Amsterdam
2,500,000
Lisbon
2,500,000
Portland
2,500,000
Sapporo
2,475,000
Warsaw
2,475,000
Yiwu
2,450,000
Asuncion
2,450,000
Doha
2,450,000
Hyderabad (PK)
2,450,000
Maputo
2,450,000
Taichung
2,450,000
Yantai
2,450,000
Zhuhai
2,425,000
San Jose
2,400,000
Stuttgart
2,375,000
Las Vegas
2,350,000
Anshan
2,350,000
Liuzhou
2,350,000
Lome
2,350,000
Saint Louis
2,350,000
Vadodara
2,350,000
Visakhapatnam
2,325,000
Manaus
2,325,000
Mbuji-Mayi
2,325,000
Mecca
2,325,000
San Antonio
2,325,000
Santa Cruz
2,300,000
Yinchuan
2,275,000
Barranquilla
2,275,000
Belem
2,275,000
Multan
2,275,000
Munich
2,275,000
Nashik
2,275,000
Vienna
2,250,000
Katowice
2,250,000
Lusaka
2,250,000
Stockholm
2,225,000
Havana
2,225,000
La Paz
2,225,000
Leeds
2,225,000
Leon
2,225,000
Perth
2,225,000
Vijayawada
2,200,000
Brazzaville
2,200,000
Bucharest
2,200,000
Tijuana
2,200,000
Yangzhou
2,175,000
Austin
2,175,000
Bursa
2,175,000
Okayama
2,175,000
Sacramento
2,150,000
Baotou
2,125,000
Gaza
2,125,000
Mogadishu
2,125,000
Rabat
2,100,000
Indianapolis
2,100,000
Kansas City
2,100,000
Semarang
2,100,000
Xining
2,075,000
Baoding
2,075,000
Jiaxing
2,075,000
Ludhiana
2,075,000
Pittsburgh
2,075,000
Rajkot
2,075,000
Valencia
2,050,000
Kaduna
2,050,000
Minsk
2,050,000
Varanasi
2,025,000
Bhubaneswar
2,025,000
Cotonou
2,025,000
George Town
2,025,000
Jacksonville
2,025,000
Lyon
8 Comments
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Level 60
May 19, 2021
Updated to reflect 2021 data! 17 new cities were added.
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Level 60
May 27, 2023
Updated again to reflect 2023 data! Next update in 2025.
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Level 26
Feb 1, 2021
I got 215. The least guessed one I got was Huizhou
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Level 60
Oct 25, 2021
Still, Cixi is placed near Vancouver?
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Level 60
Oct 25, 2021
Sorry, I forgot to update the dot for Cixi in this quiz - I'll do that Asap
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Level 54
Oct 26, 2022
and here I thought tokyo was the biggest city in the world
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Level 76
Jun 21, 2023
I never understand the boundaries that City Population uses for their metro areas. They seem to lump a lot of cities together in some instances and in others, consider them distinct, when most sources combine them. Just wish it made more sense to me.

Point the area they count as Guangzhou, most don't count. And they vastly undercount the area I live in compared to most sources.

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Level 21
Sep 29, 2023
I missed Vijayawada and 20 Chinese cities but besides that I got all of the other ones correct.