Wow. I guessed Washington DC through sheer dumb luck. To get this size of "urban area" they must include Baltimore and a big chunk of northern Virginia?
I always get confused about the differences among city proper, metropolitan, and urban areas. I know city proper is the population of a city only, but I have no idea where the boundaries are for most, and it's the same with metropolitan and urban areas. No idea what is included for each city, and that can make a big difference in which cities make the list and which do not.
@ander217 I don't know the difference either, but I've done enough Jetpunk quizzes (and tried my hand at writing a couple of my own) that I've started to learn which cities are biggest according to citypopulation.de. Like Guangzhou as the "biggest city in the world."
Exactly. It uses broadly defined "metropolitan areas" which take in large areas of rural and non-contiguous population. The statistics come from government definitions which vary immensely from country to country.
I don't think distance is the key factor here. If that entire area is built up, then yes, it should be included. Having spent a lot of time in the area I can confirm it is one contiguous urban expanse. The Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area includes places a similar distance apart and is much less dense than the Guangzhou-PRD metro area.
only missed Guangzhou! Let me compensate my failure to name the most crowded city by stating that I started with Africa and naming the five cities in correct order, without any mistakes in between. Legendary! :D
Historically, Baltimore was the larger city - though it isn't any longer. Both populations (City proper) in the 600,000's; DC at ~670k, Baltimore at ~625k.
Only missed Auckland. Tried Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle, Darwin, Wellington, Christchurch and even Port Moresby. Facepalm, i forgotten something like Auckland even exist :D
The Washington DC metro area is extremely large and includes counties north of Fredricksburg Virginia and most of the state of Maryland, including the Baltimore metro area. While DC proper is not that large population-wise, its surrounding counties are heavily populated with the adjacent Montogomery, Prince George's, and Fairfax counties all-surpassing 1 million in population in their own right. DC is a major hub of business in the US and has the population to boot, it just so happens most of this population lives in the surrounding counties due to the extremely small size of the district of Columbia.
Toronto's metro area only has about 6 million people while Chicago's is nearly 10 million and Washington DC's (which includes Baltimore due their extremely close proximity) is a little over 9 million
Only missed Khartoum, but that's because I didn't put the H in the right place... Maybe add Karthoum as a type-in? (Or not. Maybe I should just learn how to spell it!)
Guangzhou is enormous, but it's a relatively new city in terms of importance and it's not like most people outside China have a great knowledge of the country to begin with. Most people can name Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong and not many others.
Guangzhou is not "relative new in terms of its importance". It has been one of China's most significant ports since the Han Dynasty, two thousand years ago. One medieval European visitor, Odoric of Pordenone, stated that Guangzhou was three times as big as Venice and probably produced more than all of Italy. That was eight hundred years ago.
It also doesn't help that some people probably only know it by the old-school name "Canton" (as in "Cantonese"), which is an issue for a number of Chinese cities (and cities in other countries as well, I assume).
Before starting the quiz, I was curious whether the Oceania column would be 100% Australian. For the sake of variety, I was pleased to see that it was not :)
This was harder than I thought it would be, I liked that there was not too much time, or at least I should say I ran out of time before I ran out of idea. Fun quiz.
How did I miss Kinshasa?! I spelled Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, Accra, Alexandria, but forgot all about Kinshasa! I also somehow forgot Shanghai and Mexico City
I'm guessing they mean that even if you added the populations of Sydney and Auckland to the population of the largest urban area of any of the other continents, the 5th largest Asian urban area would still have a higher population.
Mumbai and Kolkata are both more populated then Delhi and Shanghai is smaller than Mumbai, also Tokyo is the largest city in the world and Mumbai is the second largest in the world
It was said before. Guangzhou includes Shenzen and the entire pearl river delta which is a lot of people. More than Tokyo. Also, Mumbai is not second, it only includes a population of 18-21 million. And Kolkata (Including Howrah) is a big city, third in India, but still less than Delhi, which will include neighboring cities like Noida, Gurugram, and Ghaziabad.
Guangzhou includes Shenzen and the entire pearl river delta which is a lot of people. More than Tokyo. Also, Mumbai is not second, it only includes a population of 18 million. And Kolkata (Including Howrah) is a big city, third in India, but still less than Delhi. Jakarta has a population of over 20 million, but with Tangerang and Bekasi, it will have a population of over 30 million.
Berlin only has a population of 4 million, so it wouldn't make the top five. The weird thing is that Germany is the most populated country in Europe (Even more than Turkey) with Russia excluded.
You may have heard it by its old English name before: Canton. It's where you get the name of the Cantonese language from.
It's been a pretty significant city for thousands of years, being founded during the Qin Dynasty. The medieval Italian traveler Odoric of Pordenone said the city was three times the size of Venice and produced perhaps as much as all of Italy.
Im guessing the test is updated, as there is no "Khartoum" in the list, but Luanda now. Either way, I almost lost because of Washington DC, my brain almost completely deleted that city LMAO
Virginia-8 million
Maryland-6 million
so for DC to be eight million, they would have to be over half of the DMV area
By that logic San Diego is part of Los Angeles and Philadelphia is part of New York.
Shanghai
Beijing
Hong Kong
Macau
Wuhan
Hangzhou
Tianjin
Guangzhou
Shenzhen
Nanjing
Xi'an
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Lo and behold, it's only the biggest city in the world.
It's been a pretty significant city for thousands of years, being founded during the Qin Dynasty. The medieval Italian traveler Odoric of Pordenone said the city was three times the size of Venice and produced perhaps as much as all of Italy.
Missed Washington DC
Missed Luanda