Top 500 of the World's Largest Cities

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Rank	Answer
1	Tokyo
2	Jakarta
3	New York
4	Seoul
5	Manila
6	Mumbai
7	Sao Paulo
8	Mexico City
9	Delhi
10	Osaka
11	Cairo
12	Kolkata
13	Los Angeles
14	Shanghai
15	Moscow
16	Beijing
17	Buenos Aires
18	Guangzhou
19	Shenzhen
20	Istanbul
21	Rio de Janeiro
22	Paris
23	Karachi
24	Nagoya
25	Chicago
26	Lagos
27	London
28	Bangkok
29	Kinshasa
30	Tehran
31	Lima
32	Dongguan
33	Bogota
34	Chennai
35	Dhaka
36	Essen
37	Tianjin
38	Hong Kong
39	Taipei
40	Lahore
41	Ho Chi Minh City
42	Bangalore
43	Hyderabad
44	Johannesburg
45	Baghdad
46	Toronto
47	Santiago
48	Kuala Lumpur
49	San Francisco
50	Philadelphia
51	Wuhan
52	Miami
53	Dallas
54	Madrid
55	Ahmedabad
56	Boston
57	Belo Horizonte
58	Khartoum
59	Saint Petersburg
60	Shenyang
61	Houston
62	Pune
63	Riyadh
64	Singapore
65	Washington
66	Yangon
67	Milan
68	Atlanta
69	Chongqing
70	Alexandria
71	Nanjing
72	Guadalajara
73	Barcelona
74	Chengdu
75	Detroit
76	Ankara
77	Abidjan
78	Athens
79	Berlin
80	Sydney
81	Monterrey
82	Phoenix
83	Busan
84	Recife
85	Bandung
86	Porto Alegre
87	Melbourne
88	Luanda
89	Hangzhou
90	Algiers
91	Hà Noi
92	Montréal
93	Xi'an
94	Pyongyang
95	Qingdao
96	Surat
97	Fortaleza
98	Medellín
99	Durban
100	Kanpur
101	Addis Ababa
102	Nairobi
103	Jeddah
104	Naples
105	Kabul
106	Salvador
107	Harbin
108	Kano
109	Casablanca
110	Cape Town
111	Curitiba
112	Surabaya
113	San Diego
114	Seattle
115	Rome
116	Dar es Salaam
117	Taichung
118	Jaipur
119	Caracas
120	Dakar
121	Kaohsiung
122	Minneapolis
123	Lucknow
124	Amman
125	Tel Aviv-Yafo

Rank	Answer
126	Guayaquil
127	Kyiv
128	Faisalabad
129	Mashhad
130	Izmir
131	Tashkent
132	Rawalpindi
133	Changchun
134	Campinas
135	Daegu
136	Changsha
137	Nagpur
138	San Juan
139	Aleppo
140	Lisbon
141	Frankfurt am Main
142	Nanchang
143	Birmingham
144	Tampa
145	Medan
146	Dalian
147	Tunis
148	Shijiazhuang
149	Manchester
150	Port-Au-Prince
151	Damascus
152	Ji'nan
153	Fukuoka
154	Santo Domingo
155	Havana
156	Cali
157	Denver
158	St. Louis
159	Colombo
160	Dubai
161	Baltimore
162	Sapporo
163	Rotterdam
164	Vancouver
165	Preston
166	Patna
167	Sana'a
168	Warsaw
169	Bonn
170	Accra
171	Bucharest
172	Yokohama
173	Kunming
174	Guiyang
175	Zibo
176	Incheon
177	Zhengzhou
178	Taiyuan
179	Chaoyang
180	Brasilia
181	Zhongshan
182	West Midlands
183	Giza
184	Quezon City
185	Nanhai
186	Fuzhou
187	Lanzhou
188	Xiamen
189	Chittagong
190	Zaozhuang
191	Jilin
192	Linyi
193	Wenzhou
194	Stockholm
195	Puebla de Zaragoza
196	Puning
197	Baku
198	Ibadan
199	Brisbane
200	Minsk
201	Sikasso
202	Nanchong
203	Nanning
204	Urumqi
205	Yantai
206	Fuyang
207	Tangshan
208	Maracaibo
209	Hamburg
210	Budapest
211	Shunde
212	Manaus
213	Xuzhou
214	Ségou
215	Baotou
216	Hefei
217	Vienna
218	Indore
219	Asuncion
220	Tianmen
221	Belgrade
222	Suzhou
223	Suizhou
224	Nanyang
225	Nakuru
226	Koulikoro
227	Ningbo
228	Liuan
229	Anshan
230	Tengzhou
231	Qiqihaer
232	Pizhou
233	Taian
234	Datong
235	Kobe
236	Hama
237	Esfahan
238	Tripoli
239	West Yorkshire
240	Vadodara
241	Taizhou
242	Luoyang
243	Quito
244	Jinjiang
245	Mopti
246	Perth
247	Daejeon
248	Kyoto
249	Xiantao
250	Tangerang

Rank	Answer
251	Bhopal
252	Coimbatore
253	Kharkiv
254	Gwangju
255	Xinghua
256	Harare
257	Fushun
258	Shangqiu
259	Belém
260	Wuxi
261	Hechuan
262	Wujin
263	Guigang
264	Jianyang
265	Huhehaote
266	Santa Cruz
267	Semarang
268	Ludhiana
269	Novosibirsk
270	Neijiang
271	Maputo
272	Nan'an
273	Douala
274	Weifang
275	Daqing
276	Kayes
277	Tongzhou
278	Tabriz
279	Homs
280	Rugao
281	Guiping
282	Huainan
283	Kochi
284	Suining
285	Bozhou
286	Zhanjiang
287	Changde
288	Montevideo
289	Changde
290	Xintai
291	Ekaterinoburg
292	Juárez
293	Handan
294	Visakhapatnam
295	Kawasaki
296	Jiangjin
297	Pingdu
298	Agra
299	Jiangyin
300	Tijuana
301	Liuyang
302	Bursa
303	Al-Hasakeh
304	Makkah
305	Yaounde
306	Xuanwei
307	Dengzhou
308	Palembang
309	Nizhny Novgorod
310	León
311	Guarulhos
312	Heze
313	Auckland
314	Omdurman
315	Shantou
316	Leizhou
317	Yongcheng
318	Valencia
319	Thane
320	San Antonio
321	Xinyang
322	Luzhou
323	Almaty
324	Changshu
325	Taixing
326	Phnom Penh
327	Laiwu
328	Xiaoshan
329	Yiyang
330	Goiânia
331	Liuzhou
332	Gaozhou
333	Fengcheng
334	Cixi
335	Karaj
336	Mogadishu
337	Varanasi
338	Córdoba
339	Kampala
340	Ruian
341	Lianjiang
342	Huaian
343	Shiraz
344	Multan
345	Madurai
346	München
347	Kalyan
348	Quanzhou
349	Adana
350	Bazhong
351	Fès
352	Ouagadougou
353	Haicheng
354	Xishan
355	Leiyang
356	Caloocan
357	Kalookan
358	Jingzhou
359	Saitama
360	Prague
361	Fuqing
362	Kumasi
363	Meerut
364	Hyderabad
365	Lufeng
366	Dongtai
367	Yixing
368	Mianyang
369	Wengling
370	Leqing
371	Ottawa
372	Yushu
373	Barranquilla
374	Hiroshima
375	Chifeng

Rank	Answer
376	Nashik
377	Makasar
378	Sofia
379	Rizhao
380	Davao
381	Tianshui
382	Huzhou
383	Samara
384	Omsk
385	Gujranwala
386	Adelaide
387	Macheng
388	Wuxian
389	Bijie
390	Yuzhou
391	Leshan
392	La Matanza
393	Rosario
394	Jabalpur
395	Kazan
396	Jimo
397	Dingzhou
398	Calgary
399	Yerevan
400	El-Jadida
401	Jamshedpur
402	Zürich
403	Zoucheng
404	Pikine-Guediawaye
405	Anqiu
406	Guang'an
407	Chelyabinsk
408	Conakry
409	Asansol
410	Shouguang
411	Changzhou
412	Ulsan
413	Zhuji
414	Toluca
415	Marrakech
416	Dhanbad
417	Tbilisi
418	Hanchuan
419	Lusaka
420	Qidong
421	Faridabad
422	Zaoyang
423	Zhucheng
424	Rostov-na-Donu
425	Jiangdu
426	Xiangcheng
427	Zigong
428	Jining
429	Edmonton
430	Allahabad
431	Beiliu
432	Dnipropetrovsk
433	Gongzhuling
434	Qinzhou
435	Ufa
436	Sendai
437	Volgograd
438	Ezhou
439	Guatemala City
440	Zhongxiang
441	Amsterdam
442	Brussels
443	Bamako
444	Ziyang
445	Antananarivo
446	Mudanjiang
447	Amritsar
448	Vijayawada
449	Haora
450	Donetsk
451	Huazhou
452	Fuzhou
453	Pimpri
454	Dublin
455	Rajkot
456	Sao Luís
457	Béni-Mellal
458	Lianyuan
459	Liupanshui
460	Kaduna
461	Kitakyushu
462	Qianjiang
463	Perm
464	Odessa
465	Qom
466	Yongchuan
467	Peshawar
468	Linzhou
469	Benxi
470	Ulaanbaatar
471	Zhangqiu
472	Yongzhou
473	Sao Gonçalo
474	Srinagar
475	Ghaziabad
476	Xinyi
477	Köln
478	Zhangjiagang
479	Wafangdian
480	Xianyang
481	Liaocheng
482	Ahwaz
483	Taishan
484	Linhai
485	Feicheng
486	Suwon
487	Wuwei
488	Haimen
489	San Luis Potosí
490	Liling
491	Xinhui
492	Gaziantep
493	Krasnoyarsk
494	Chiba
495	Voronezh
496	Durg-Bhilai Nagar
497	Ruzhou
498	Maceió
499	Yichun
500	Al-Madinah

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38 Comments

Level 66

Sep 18, 2018

I got 239.

Level 21

Sep 18, 2018

Nice!

Level 66

Sep 18, 2018

346

Level 21

Sep 19, 2018

Wow! That's a lot! :)

Level 78

Jul 16, 2024

I got 346 too (should've been 347 if he accepted Tel Aviv)

Level 68

Sep 19, 2018

fyi: Left the t out of Washington.

Level 21

Sep 22, 2018

Sorry!

Level 87

Sep 21, 2018

Curious which list you used. You should accept Kiev, Dusseldorf (for Essen) and the cities that compose West Midlands and East Yorkshire. Washington still needs to be fixed.

Level 21

Sep 22, 2018

My bad... I used MongaBay for information. https://data.mongabay.com/cities_pop_01.htm

Level 22

Sep 27, 2018

New record!!!! (8)

Level 22

Sep 27, 2018

Someone (not me) got 416,

Level 21

Sep 27, 2018

Amazing! You guys obviously know your stuff.

Level 43

Oct 3, 2018

I got 416 lol

Level 43

Oct 3, 2018

And I just beat it with 460😂

Level 21

Oct 4, 2018

Wow! You are loaded with knowledge of cities! Good job :)

Level 76

Dec 14, 2018

The English way is Hohhot, not Huhehaote, that's pinyin.

+12

Level 91

Jan 19, 2019

This list seems to be all over the place with populations for city limits, urban areas and far flung metropolitan areas.

Case in point, it contains Manilla and its direct suburb, Quezon City. It lists Tokyo and Yokohama, but places Tokyo #1 on the list where it would only be as an overall urban area including Yokohama. If going by city limits, there are numerous cities above it. If going by city limits, Miami would be way down the list, probably replaced by Long Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles or Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix. If going by city limits Portland, Winnipeg and Las Vegas to name just a few belong here.

I could list 1,000s of examples to make sense of the criteria for ranking or inclusion here, but it's nonsensical.

Level 34

Feb 22, 2019

agree furiously

Level 59

Jul 16, 2024

Some more examples from Germany: Essen seems to represent the whole Ruhr-Region while Bonn seems to stand for the Rhine-Region around Cologne, wich is far bigger than Essen or Bonn.

There are also some strange cities in the UK listed which most likely also represent a whole region.

Level 59

Jul 16, 2024

I was typing Cologne furiously, knowing it is bigger in population than Amsterdam. Glad I wasn't going crazy.

Level 31

Feb 8, 2019

I mean 118 is ok but I will get better at world cities

Level 34

Feb 22, 2019

So, this is a terrible source.

Tokyo and Yokohama have to be combined to make Tokyo number 1, to say the least.

Level 69

Jul 1, 2019

i started this but frankly quit after a couple of minutes when I saw Copenhagen wasn't included? But Adelaide was

Level 56

Sep 15, 2019

huhehaote should be hohhot

Level 64

Jul 16, 2024

maybe just a type in

Level 43

Nov 9, 2019

Try making an update and using citypopulation.de for your information; it's the site most of the city quizzes use, for the QM at least. (It'd be a lot of work to essentially make the quiz again though) Also good idea have people comment their scores, but how do we know they're not lying.

Level 59

Mar 31, 2020

206 and didn't get to the Americas.

Level 39

Apr 5, 2020

I think you have to change the world record. I just scored 500 with 19 seconds left :)

Level 64

Jul 15, 2020

UK needs sorting out, west midlands and west yorkshire are not cities, and Preston should not be on here. Also Yekaterinburg is spelled wrong, and should accept medina for al madinah

Level 58

Nov 11, 2020

I got 244.... i thought I wrote many cities but missed them....

Actually I can reach 300+

Level 26

Jan 13, 2021

How is preston here but leeds etc. arent. This quiz is messed up...

Level 30

Apr 4, 2021

I got 248..... im 11 years

Level 69

Sep 20, 2021

Source data is inconsistent as many have noted, leading to smaller cities being included over larger, regions listed as cities, and suburbs sometimes being counted as cities in their own right as well as in the larger city, and sometimes not.

Level 44

Aug 13, 2022

403 is my record

Level 52

Aug 20, 2022

358 but this is not really a good quiz. It's inconsistent as it uses the city proper population for some, the metropolitan area for others, and the megacity for the rest. In short you need a unified standard. Also the spelling requirements should be more lenient.

Level 26

May 27, 2023

I only got 263 or 53% but well eh i haved more points than 82%+ people pretty good

Level 46

Jul 16, 2024

I agree with the rest of the commenters in that this list is kinda all over the place. For example, Bonn, Koln, and Essen are all separate even though West Yorkshire is on the list instead of it being Leeds. If West Yorkshire is listed, then the Ruhr needs to be listed. Also way more spellings need to be accepted. Like almost no one calls it Ekaterinoburg. You should accept Yekaterinburg. You should also accept many others like Cologne, Isfahan, Munich, and Hohhot. Also why are there two separate entries for Caloocan City. 356 is Caloocan and 357 is Kalookan?? This quiz needs major updating.

Level 55

Jul 16, 2024

Large in what way? This drove me mad. Jakarta is number 2? In what sense?!