Top 50 Cities in Canada on the Map

Because this quiz uses a different methodology to counting population. Cities like Surrey and Richmond are continuous with a larger city (in this case Vancouver), and the only reason they are their own cities is because Vancouver never absorbed them. This also means that technically, Vancouver only has around 600 thousand people. However, when you visit Vancouver, it is one large urban area with close to 3 million people. For this reason, city limits are a bad way to compare different cities. Vancouver is a much larger city than Calgary or Edmonton, yet its city limits contain half as many people, for example.

Instead, the quiz is based on population centres. This means that, as long as a city is contiguous, all these areas are grouped together as one, including Toronto suburbs, Vancouver suburbs, etc. Otherwise half of this quiz would be suburbs from these two cities, and that isn't very fun.