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Megacities on a World Map

Can you name the 44 urban agglomerations of the world that have a population of at least 10 million?
According to city population.de, January 2022
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Last updated: March 2, 2022
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First submittedJuly 24, 2016
Times taken161,024
Average score70.5%
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Population
Agglomeration
65.1 m
Guangzhou
40.7 m
Tokyo
39.3 m
Shanghai
32.4 m
Delhi
28.6 m
Jakarta
26.4 m
Manila
26.1 m
Mumbai
24.8 m
Seoul
24.7 m
Mexico City
23.0 m
New York City
22.7 m
São Paulo
21.9 m
Cairo
20.9 m
Dhaka
20.7 m
Lagos
20.5 m
Beijing
Population
Agglomeration
19.9 m
Bangkok
18.6 m
Karachi
17.7 m
Osaka
17.5 m
Los Angeles
17.4 m
Moscow
17.2 m
Kolkata
16.8 m
Buenos Aires
16.5 m
Istanbul
15.8 m
Tehran
14.8 m
London
14.5 m
Johannesburg
14.5 m
Kinshasa
14.1 m
Xiamen
13.9 m
Lahore
13.3 m
Rio de Janeiro
Population
Agglomeration
13.2 m
Bengaluru
12.5 m
Hangzhou
11.9 m
Chennai
11.6 m
Xi'an
11.4 m
Lima
11.4 m
Paris
11.2 m
Tianjin
10.9 m
Ho Chi Minh City
10.8 m
Wuhan
10.7 m
Hyderabad
10.5 m
Nagoya
10.1 m
Chongqing
10.0 m
Bogotá
10.0 m
Changsha
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Level 60
Jul 24, 2016
Tianjin should be somewhere closer to Beijing directly at the sea
+28
Level 64
May 31, 2017
It looks fine. If you look there you're not going to think it's anything else.
+18
Level 83
Mar 2, 2022
It didn't on July 24, 2016. Quizmaster fixed it on July 29.
+6
Level 66
Jul 24, 2016
Many Asian and South American city locations are way off
+8
Level 64
Jul 24, 2016
Distances are approximated. (first time making city quizzes)
+42
Level ∞
Jul 29, 2016
I fixed the city locations for you. :)
+12
Level 77
Aug 1, 2016
Really surprised that Hong Kong has less than 10 million.
+28
Level 83
Aug 15, 2016
Hong Kong is extremely densely populated, but it covers a tiny area. Has about 7 million. It's global significance comes less from its size than its status as one of the world's great trade hubs and financial centres.
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Level 35
Feb 22, 2019
Actually it's 9.64 million. CIA knows all.

Surprised hardly anyone got Nagoya. It's very architectural. Lovely houses! I want to go to Nagoya... Dreamland awaits!

Or I could go to Cardiff. Lovely rain.

+9
Level 67
Mar 26, 2019
I went to Japan last year, and it was the best trip I've ever taken. I did not come across Nagoya once in my preparation (guidebooks, etc.). I am positively baffled by it. I'm pretty good with geography and know most major cities generally, and am especially fond of Japan. Somehow I just totally missed this city's existence, both in my general studies and in my trip there. I took the Shinkansen all over that country and I don't remember hearing or seeing Nagoya. It's like the Mandela Effect in reverse.
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Level 83
Feb 11, 2020
I'm quite certain Hong Kong doesn't have 9.64 million. As of mid-2019 the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department records 7,524,100 people in the SAR and HK's urban area doesn't even come close to extending beyond the SAR. Indeed arguably the city's population is less than that, since some parts of the New Territories and outlying islands aren't even connected to the city's main urban core.
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Level 67
Feb 17, 2020
I lived in Nagoya for a couple of years. Absolutely have no idea what beautiful houses you're talking about. It got the crap bombed out of it during the war, so almost all of its houses are postwar, and then some (they often rebuild houses in Japan that are only 20-30 years old).

It's the port for Toyota and a major industrial city. Interesting enough for being Japanese, but not much there that will draw a casual tourist that you can't do in Tokyo or Kyoto

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Level 70
Jul 4, 2021
jmeillor13, if you took shinkansen all over Japan, you almost certainly went through Nagoya. Haven't visited Nagoya myself, but have changed trains there on the way to Kyoto after coming down through the Kiso Valley from Matsumoto (both of which I'd highly recommend if you're ever back in Japan).
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Level 46
Jan 18, 2023
What is it talking about, Guangzhou being the largest city? Tokyo is the largest city. Guangzhou's metro area is only like 19 million
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Level 90
Jan 24, 2017
It's also usually counted in the Pearl River urban area with Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc.
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Level 83
Feb 11, 2020
Hong Kong isn't counted in the Pearl River Delta conurbation. The territory of the HKSAR adjacent to Guangdong Province is largely uninhabited. The urban areas of HK and Shenzhen don't connect.
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Level 90
Feb 11, 2020
I'll take your word for it if the source site citypopulation doesn't include it as part of the Pearl River metropolis, but the Tolo Harbor corridor from Tai Wai to Fanling/Sheung Shui connects to Shenzhen, as does the New Territory sprawl from Tsuen Wan to Yuen Long/Tin Shui Wai. Yes, there's mountainous areas between them but you'll find the same between Zhongshan and Zhuhai/Macau.
+1
Level 82
Aug 1, 2016
Excellent quiz. I like it
+1
Level 64
Aug 1, 2016
Thanks!
+2
Level 75
Aug 4, 2016
great!
+2
Level 64
Aug 4, 2016
Thanks, scambigol
+1
Level 41
Aug 29, 2016
The locations for Bangalore and Kolkata are the wrong way round, but great quiz btw
+13
Level 64
Sep 3, 2016
No, they are correct.
+10
Level 49
Feb 18, 2019
They are correct.
+1
Level 63
Apr 21, 2020
They are fine
+2
Level 76
Sep 7, 2016
Been to eight of these...
+2
Level 64
Sep 15, 2016
Wow, you've been to China and Japan?
+1
Level 59
Apr 2, 2022
I've been to 4.

5 if HK is part of Guangzhou.

+4
Level 71
Oct 18, 2016
I find it hard to imagine a city of 50,000,000 people, how do they manage the sewers, transport, electricity supply, hospitals, welfare, road maintenance, police etc.
+13
Level 64
Oct 18, 2016
Keep in mind that this is an urban agglomeration. Guangzhou's population includes nearly the entire Pearl River Delta region consisting of Dongguan and Shenzen.
+3
Level 89
Jan 9, 2017
Guangzhou's population does not include Dongguan and Shenzhen, they are different cities in every sense, I live here in Shenzhen and my girlfriend who is a local here is registered in Shenzhen and has nothing to do with Guangzhou. Shenzhen is more part of Hong Kong than anything as it is walking distance (divided by a boarder) in some places.
+3
Level 77
Jan 17, 2017
Am I a giant nerd because when I envision this gigantic agglomeration of urban sprawl it immediately makes me think of the planet Coruscant?
+2
Level 57
Jul 6, 2017
yes
+4
Level 31
Mar 25, 2018
Is Coruscant the one between Jupiter and Uranus?
+4
Level 67
Mar 26, 2019
The causation is backwards--you think of the planet Coruscant because you are a giant nerd, but you'd still be one even if it slipped your mind.
+1
Level 71
Aug 11, 2022
no, you're a giant nerd for taking this quiz
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Level 46
Jan 18, 2023
Shenzhen is separate from Guangzhou
+6
Level 59
Apr 2, 2022
My understanding is that calling Guangzhou a city of 50,000,000 is like calling Los Angeles a city of 17,000,000.

It's really a region punctuating by places of urbanity and places of serenity/suburbia (especially in Los Angeles's case).

It has a large population because it covers a large area.

+1
Level 46
Jan 18, 2023
Exactly! This would be like counting all of the Inland Empire as part of LA Metro
+1
Level 66
Oct 18, 2016
33/35
+1
Level 64
Oct 18, 2016
Great quiz.
+4
Level 37
Oct 18, 2016
Where's Wuhan? Population is 10,600,000 aprox
+24
Level 25
Jul 3, 2020
throwback comment to when the entire world didn't know Wuhan for the wrong reasons. Good old 2016
+5
Level 73
Nov 9, 2020
Yeah, Kataj mentioned "Wuhan" without even thinking of *that*. Lived in a different world.
+2
Level 66
Apr 2, 2022
I think by now the entire world knows where's Wuhan.
+1
Level 46
Jan 18, 2023
In many cases, Wuhan is the only Chinese city many Americans know of lol
+2
Level 65
Oct 18, 2016
I must improve my knowledge of asian geography! Great quiz, though. :)
+1
Level 42
Oct 22, 2016
is taipei not on the list?
+2
Level 64
Nov 20, 2016
Taipei is less than 9million
+1
Level 77
Mar 11, 2019
@GeoGenius656 fake news
+1
Level 50
Nov 21, 2016
Good quiz.
+1
Level 64
Nov 22, 2016
Thank you
+1
Level 68
Dec 4, 2016
Only missed Tianjin, dammit.
+2
Level 52
Mar 7, 2017
Wuhan, Harbin, Chongqing should be on there...and by the urban area approach so should the Rhine-Ruhr
+1
Level 60
Mar 8, 2017
Nice quiz! Got all with 2:00 remaining.
+1
Level 52
May 12, 2017
Isn't this 36 cities?
+1
Level 64
May 12, 2017
As of 2017, yes! :)
+1
Level 69
Sep 10, 2017
100% 11 sec left :)
+2
Level 58
Sep 18, 2017
I believe Guangzhou is a province, not a country.
+9
Level 74
Aug 16, 2018
It's a city. Guangdong is the province.
+2
Level 58
Nov 19, 2017
New Delhi should just be Delhi.
+1
Level 36
Nov 23, 2017
Good quiz but please be more lenient about spelling (I think sau paulo and daka should be accepted)
+1
Level 71
Aug 23, 2018
The photo of the Baha'i Lotus Temple in Delhi shows its beautiful structure well. A massive building that is sometimes crowded with sightseers. What amazed me was the system of removing shoes and placing them in an underground storing system that is accessed by a slot at the side of the path. Retrieving your shoes takes only seconds, although they may have thousands of pairs.
+1
Level 60
Mar 26, 2019
Yes, Lotus Temple is a bliss and I like it more than Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal is simple overrated
+2
Level 43
Nov 17, 2018
I'm from London and our population is like 7 million...
+4
Level 67
Nov 17, 2018
I always find it amusing when people say "I come from this place" as if that makes them more knowledgeable about its population. It might make you more knowledgeable about other things to do with the place, but have you counted everyone in London? Anyway, this population is from citypopulation.de. They count any area as one agglomeration if it is continuous "city" (i.e. land that is built on) regardless of where arbitrary and usually unchanging boundaries are drawn. Also it tends to account for the fact that a lot of people who don't reside in London commute there for work. It is entirely possible that at any given time there are at least that many people in an area that can be reasonably defined as "London", regardless of whether or not it overlaps the boundaries of Greater London.
+4
Level ∞
Feb 16, 2019
The following cities are listed at 9.75 million or greater: Lima, Xiamen, Hyderabad, Chengdu, Bogota, and Chicago.
+1
Level 83
Feb 17, 2019
There's a typo: The first 4 cities are listed with 45.6 m
+1
Level ∞
Feb 17, 2019
Fixed, thanks
+2
Level 75
Feb 17, 2019
accept Tientsin similar to how Canton is accepted
+2
Level 43
Mar 26, 2019
just curious, is lima no longer a megacity? Is bogota one yet?
+1
Level 18
Mar 26, 2019
Both of those cities do not have an urban population accumulation of 10 million. (YET)
+6
Level 83
Mar 26, 2019
Megacities are cities that contain one million cities. At least that's what they would be if people knew what mega meant.
+2
Level 76
Oct 20, 2020
...let's be charitable and say that is a typo. Still, be very careful when you're criticising others.
+4
Level 83
Mar 23, 2021
Good advice. You might wind up interpreting a joke as uncharitable criticism otherwise.
+1
Level 28
Mar 26, 2019
Great quiz!!!
+6
Level 87
Mar 26, 2019
The island of Honshu never ceases to amaze me. Three mega cities and some 100 + million people on one island.
+9
Level 83
Feb 11, 2020
It's pretty incredible. Java is also pretty mind-boggling - despite being about 100,000 sq km smaller than Honshu it packs in over 140,000,000 people, the megacity of Jakarta, and several other large cities like Surabaya, Bandung and Yogyakarta.
+5
Level 63
Apr 21, 2020
Java literally has more people on in than all of Russia. All of it. Saint Petersburg to Big Diomede. The largest country in the world has a smaller population than the fifth largest island in Indonesia.
+3
Level 71
Aug 14, 2021
I believe Java has an even higher population density than Bangladesh, which is pretty crazy. But even that doesn't hold a candle to the Nile River Delta, which is probably the most densely populated major region on Earth.
+2
Level 83
Oct 16, 2021
I believe the Pearl River Delta surpasses the Nile River Delta in population density - roughly 1900 per sq km compared to 1600.
+1
Level 25
Mar 27, 2019
Most quizzes accept "Daka" along with "Dhaka."
+1
Level 65
Apr 16, 2019
Shouldn’t Lima be added?
+1
Level 64
Aug 13, 2019
It was added then removed after dipping just under the 10m mark.
+1
Level 77
Jun 19, 2019
Beijing 21 mil; Shanghai 24 mil; Guangzhou 14mil and Shenzhen 11 mil. Suzhou 12mil and Nanjing 8.7 mil. Tiajnin 16 mil and Wuhan 10.6 mil. Chengdu 14 mil and Chongqing (urba) 8.9 mil. Shenyang 8.4 mil and Changsha 6.9 mil. Hangzhou 8.7 mil, Wuxi 6.5mil and Xi'an 8.9 mil.
+3
Level 55
Feb 10, 2020
You should update for Lima, Xiamen and Hyderabad.

(Citypopulation updated its page!)

+3
Level 73
Feb 10, 2020
IAB to the rescue, less than an hour after the update
+2
Level 64
Feb 10, 2020
Updated! Working through all of my city features.
+2
Level 58
Feb 26, 2020
Anywhere I look for the Xiamen population, I'm told it's less than 4M? Am I missing something? I thought Chongqing and Shenzhen were both over 10M...??
+1
Level 75
Mar 1, 2020
Shenzhen is included in the Guangzhou stats
+2
Level 61
Mar 5, 2020
Xiamen's urban area is above 10 million while city proper is about 4
+1
Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
man 33/37 only gives you 3 points, I guess you have to get 37 to get 5 and 36 or something to get 4. No way I am gonna get nogoya or tianjin... (other two I missed were karachi and lahore don't think I would ve thought of lahore, but karachi is getable)
+1
Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
hm looking at the stats, it doesnt all seem above board. Not a natural curve at all. Things smoothly slope up from 0 to 6% for the amount of people that got a certain amount of questions correct, and then suddenly jumps to 22% for the ones with all questions right. (which looks to be atleast 15% more than expected)

Edit not that I mind getting a low score, before people accuse me of complaininng just because I didnt get more points, I dont really care about them, even if I have gotten 1 or 0 I would ve been fine with that, just decided to look at the stats because I like stats and graphs and wanted to see if I could figure out the actual needed number of correct answers. When I saw a really unanticipated curve (the 100% is allways more than it should be, but haven't often seen Súch a discrepancy)

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Level 76
Oct 20, 2020
Hey Mr Sifhraven. I'm not so sure - there are plenty of more knowledgeable (nerdy!) people on here than I am, and I got 35/37 without too much trouble. The map is a huge help. I did not get Hyderabad and Tianjin. I may get them next time (and forget some others though.....)
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Level 83
Mar 21, 2020
Breezed through this in a couple of seconds just now. What's so impossible about remembering two cities? You can do it. And there are so many big cities quizzes on this site I think that's why the scores are pretty high on average. I must have typed in Tianjin and Nagoya at least 100 times each coming to this site over the years.
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Level 68
Mar 21, 2020
Wikipedia says Xi’an has twice the population of Xiamen. But on the quiz that’s not the case. Xi’an doesn’t even make the cut. Why is that?
+2
Level 60
Jun 20, 2020
https://www.jetpunk.com/users/wildkrattsisawesome/blog/the-difference-between-city-proper-metro-area-and-urban-area
+1
Level 82
Mar 21, 2020
In almost all other sources, a number of other Chinese cities/metropolitanareas have a population greater than Xiamen.
+1
Level 26
Aug 12, 2021
Yeah thats what im saying, Shenzen, Nanjing, Chongqing, Wuhan, even Quangzhou are bigger than Xiamen, I've never even heard of it until now lmfao
+2
Level 62
Jun 9, 2020
Chongqing has a population of 30.48 million, it should be 5th
+3
Level 55
Sep 7, 2020
*sighs*
+1
Level 57
Dec 23, 2020
Chongqing takes up an area bigger than Austria. It should not be counted.
+1
Level 28
Feb 11, 2021
got them all in my first try
+3
Level 55
Feb 24, 2021
2021, Chengdu and Ho Chi Minh City add themselves to the list!
+1
Level 49
May 4, 2021
Just wondering, can you make LA an acceptable type in for Los Angeles? Seems like it should be there but it's not, or is it already used for something else?
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Level 69
Jul 23, 2021
i don't think that's typically done on the site because two letters would be a bit too easy (both in terms of guessing and in terms of accidentally guessing it when you're going for lahore or lanzhou or lansing or goodness knows what)
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Level 59
Apr 4, 2022
I do have a tendency to accidentally get Los Angeles when I go to type in Lansing.
+1
Level 26
Aug 12, 2021
If im not wrong, Lahore, Bogota, Chongqing and Chicago are all above the 10 million mark
+1
Level 46
Jan 19, 2023
Chicago is not, Chicago is only 8 million and its population is decreasing.
+1
Level 66
Oct 27, 2021
An update soon would be nice, the source now lists Ho Chi Minh City and Chengdu as 10M+
+2
Level ∞
Oct 27, 2021
Will be updated in early 2022.
+1
Level 59
Feb 23, 2022
Early 2022
+1
Level 66
Mar 2, 2022
Updated!
+1
Level 44
Apr 14, 2023
still no Chengdu
+1
Level 23
Nov 20, 2021
Hey.....can u Accept Bangalore for Bengaluru?
+1
Level ∞
Mar 2, 2022
It already is accepted
+1
Level 72
Mar 2, 2022
Which cities dropped off and/or were added?
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Level 66
Mar 2, 2022
Changsha, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Bogota were added. Guangzhou gain a whopping 18 million people, so it must have swallowed a bunch of other nearby cities. Chengdu was removed although that was a mistake in the update and should be present :)
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Level 66
Apr 2, 2022
What mistake? Is the source wrong?
+1
Level 46
Jan 19, 2023
Guangzhou is incorrect on this quiz, and Shenzhen and Chengdu should both be present.
+1
Level 56
May 16, 2023
Shenzhen isn't here because of the source.
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2022
65.1 m, really wondering how cp.de calculated this
+1
Level 46
Jan 19, 2023
Yeah for some reason he counts Shenzhen as well as Hong Kong and possibly Macau. God only knows why.
+11
Level 81
Mar 2, 2022
Where is Chengdu?
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Level 66
Mar 2, 2022
Chengdu is the capital of the Sichuan province in China.

But in all seriousness you are correct, Chengdu is missing at 15.2m

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Level 79
Mar 18, 2022
Yes - why does Chengdu not feature here?
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Level 76
Mar 16, 2022
This is crazy. Why did China gain like five cities? Last I checked only like two were actually that close to 10 million. And I don’t know if I want to know about Guangzhou...
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Level 46
Jan 19, 2023
When did you last check, 1988?
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Level 74
Mar 29, 2022
Chengdu is missing despite being above 10M just wanted to let you know
+1
Level 35
Apr 2, 2022
For someone whose age is almost 14 I think 34 is a good score
+3
Level 58
Apr 2, 2022
"for someone whose age is almost 14" bro tried avoiding saying 13
+3
Level 59
Apr 3, 2022
I’m eleven and I got 100%
+1
Level 56
May 16, 2023
Whatever you can achieve is a good score :)
+1
Level 57
Apr 4, 2022
Given that Chengdu is a "city" the size of Connecticut, I'm fine with it not being on here
+2
Level 59
Apr 30, 2022
Instead you get Guangzhou, which is even bigger!
+1
Level 46
Jan 19, 2023
And Guangzhou is counting Shenzhen for some reason!
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Level 83
May 16, 2022
As others have said, Chengdu does appear to be missing. Citypopulation.de lists the population in the urban agglomeration as 15,200,000.
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Level 47
Jun 7, 2022
No Chengdu?
+1
Level 46
Jan 19, 2023
Add Chengdu please. Many have said it
+1
Level 22
May 4, 2023
I forgot Beijing ._.
+1
Level 56
May 16, 2023
Could this be updated to include Harbin? Harbin has reached 10,009,854 people on citypopulation.de.
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Level 56
May 16, 2023