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Five Biggest Non-Capital Cities by Continent

For each continent, what are the five most populated cities that are NOT the capital of their country?
Using urban areas from citypopulation.de (2019) and Wikipedia (2017)
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Last updated: July 21, 2019
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Africa
18.8 mil
Lagos
13.7 mil
Johannesburg
6.15 mil
Dar es Salaam
5.70 mil
Alexandria
5.45 mil
Abidjan
 
 
Asia
45.6 mil
Guangzhou
35.9 mil
Shanghai
24.7 mil
Mumbai
17.7 mil
Osaka
17.3 mil
Karachi
Europe
10.3 mil
Istanbul
5.60 mil
Saint Petersburg
5.20 mil
Milan
5.00 mil
Cologne
4.73 mil
Barcelona
 
 
North America
22.4 mil
New York City
17.8 mil
Los Angeles
9.75 mil
Chicago
7.85 mil
San Francisco
7.65 mil
Boston
Oceania
5.20 mil
Sydney
4.85 mil
Melbourne
3.08 mil
Brisbane
2.05 mil
Perth
1.49 mil
Auckland
 
 
South America
22.2 mil
Sao Paulo
13.1 mil
Rio de Janeiro
4.98 mil
Belo Horizonte
4.10 mil
Porto Alegre
3.95 mil
Medellin
17 Comments
+3
Level 28
Jul 20, 2019
Great quiz, but Berlin is a capital.
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Level 65
Jul 20, 2019
Thanks, fixed
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Level 53
Jul 22, 2019
Dar es Salaam is also a capital.
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Level 65
Jul 22, 2019
The capital of Tanzania is actually Dodoma.
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Level 41
Jul 21, 2019
I tried for Lagos but it filled it for LA, not a problem. Great quiz.
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Level 29
Feb 16, 2020
Same
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Level 82
Jul 21, 2019
Great quiz! Should Istanbul be included? (Europe)
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Level 65
Jul 21, 2019
I wasn't sure whether to include it, but after looking it to it I've included the 65% of the full city's population. Thanks to both of you!
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Level 79
Jul 21, 2019
Great idea for a quiz
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Level 65
Jul 21, 2019
Thank you :)
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Level 15
Jan 11, 2020
I'm afraid Boston is wrong. It has only about 700,000 people. 7.65 million is more than all of Massachusetts!
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Level 65
Jan 11, 2020
This quiz uses urban areas.
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Level 40
Jan 31, 2020
Cologne is wrong, it has only about 1 million inhabitants.

If you want to count it as the rhine-ruhr area, name it like that!

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Level 29
Feb 16, 2020
I’m pretty sure Adelaide is larger than Auckland
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Level 65
Feb 16, 2020
Auckland has roughly 100k more people.
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Level 63
Sep 29, 2021
Whoever put 5 million people into the urban area of Cologne should really rethink their definition of an urban area.
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Level 85
Jul 25, 2023
Don't think the definition of Cologne works. Number for Istanbul looks a bit small.