Name a City - Asian Countries

For each Asian country, name one of the five most populous cities that is NOT either the capital or the largest city.

Source: citypopulation.de. By city proper population, unless listed in red, then it is by urban area

Kuwait is not included because Kuwait City is tiny by area and no one knows the suburbs

Only including countries with a city with >500,000 that fits the qualifications

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Country	Cities
Afghanistan	Herat \| Kandahar \| Mazar-i-Sharif \| Jalalabad \| Kunduz
Bangladesh	Chittagong \| Narayanganj \| Khulna \| Sylhet \| Tongi
China	Shenzhen \| Guangzhou \| Tianjin \| Chengdu \| Wuhan
India	Kolkata \| Chennai \| Bangalore \| Hyderabad \| Ahmedabad
Indonesia	Surabaya \| Bandung \| Bekasi \| Medan \| Tangerang
Iran	Mashhad \| Isfahan \| Karaj \| Shiraz \| Tabriz
Iraq	Mosul \| Basra \| Kirkuk \| Erbil \| Najaf
Israel	Tel Aviv \| Haifa \| Rishon LeZion \| Petah Tikvah \| Ashdod
Japan	Yokohama \| Osaka \| Nagoya \| Sapporo \| Fukuoka
Jordan	Zarqa \| Irbid \| Russeifa \| Al Quwaysimah \| Khilda
Kazakhstan	Shymkent \| Qaragandy \| Aqtobe \| Taraz \| Pavlodar
North Korea	Hamhung \| Chongjin \| Sinuiju \| Wonsan \| Nampo
South Korea	Busan \| Incheon \| Daegu \| Daejeon \| Gwangju
Lebanon	Tripoli \| Sidon \| Zalhe \| Tyre \| Baalbek
Malaysia	Johor Bahru \| Klang \| Ipoh \| Ampang \| Subang Jaya
Myanmar	Mandalay \| Taunggyi \| Bago \| Mawlamyine \| Myitkyina
Pakistan	Lahore \| Faisalabad \| Rawalpindi \| Gujranwala \| Peshawar
Philippines	Cebu \| Davao \| Angeles \| Cagayan de Oro \| Zamboanga
Saudi Arabia	Jeddah \| Mecca \| Medina \| Dammam \| Hofuf
Syria	Homs \| Latakia \| Hama \| Ar-Rakka \| Deir ez-Zor
Taiwan	Taichung \| Kaohsiung \| Taoyuan \| Tainan \| Hsinchu
Turkey	Izmir \| Bursa \| Adana \| Gaziantep \| Konya
United Arab Emirates	Sharjah \| Al Ain \| Ajman \| Ras al-Khaimah \| Fujairah
Uzbekistan	Samarkand \| Namangan \| Andijan \| Nukus \| Bukhara
Vietnam	Da Nang \| Haiphong \| Can Tho \| Bien Hoa \| Hue
Yemen	Aden \| Taiz \| Hudaydah \| Ibb \| Mukalla

Level 75

May 23, 2020

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Level 76

Mar 9, 2020

Missed almost half. Nominated :)

Level 58

Mar 9, 2020

Yay got 100 percent

Level 65

Apr 21, 2020

got 4 I suck... I typoed one though, china, so basicly 5, the others were Japan, India, Israel and turkey.

Only a few have familiar names looking at the results. (but some I would never have thought of or even placed in the correct country)

Level 58

Mar 10, 2020

7/26 :(

This is hard! must get to practice asian cities i guess.

Level 68

Mar 10, 2020

Would nominate, but it'll get featured anyways, just kidding I nominated

Level 68

Mar 11, 2020

Great quiz! I thought George Town would have been one of the largest urban areas in Malaysia, but it's apparently a conurbation, not an urban area (at least according to citypopulation).

Level 88

Mar 12, 2020

I thought Tel Aviv was the biggest city in Israel and didn't try it.

Level 61

Mar 5, 2022

Same

Level 79

May 19, 2023

Same, and I think this is a mistake - the source lists Jerusalem as the biggest city, and Tel Aviv second. Depending on how you count Jerusalem the order could be reversed - but in either case the first valid answer should surely be Haifa.

Level 77

Mar 17, 2020

Nice quiz! But I have a couple of questions. Why was Thailand not included? Surely 'Chiang Mai' and others would meet the criteria. Also, for some reason, while typing in Surabaya for Indonesia, I got Lebanon for free, after just typing 'Sur..' or 'Sura...'. Is that some weird alternate for one of the Lebanon answers? I also second the comment that Tel Aviv is the largest city in Israel, and shouldn't be an option.

Level 75

Mar 17, 2020

1. Because its 2nd city was too small

2. Because Sur is an alternate name for Tyre

3. The source lists Jerusalem as the biggest city in Israel, so the quiz is correct. However, you are right that some sources list Tel Aviv as the largest, but not ours.

Level 62

May 30, 2020

The question about Tel Aviv probably arises because the quiz focuses on city proper. Tel Aviv is a bit like Los Angeles: a huge urban sprawl consisting of municipality after municipality.

Level 85

Apr 29, 2020

You could go by urban area for Thailand and include it. Surely more people know about Chiang Mai than about those of Jordan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan and North Korea. By the way, city proper population is not a very good measure... I guess you know the size of the city of London? That also goes for Tel-Aviv, everybody knows it's the biggest city in Israel, so the quiz is flawed imo.

The type-in Sur should be removed, it's pointless to have a gimme for Lebanon for all those who know the second city in Indonesia...

Level 75

Apr 29, 2020

I also prefer urban area population. However, it simply doesn't exist for many countries, unlike city proper.

Level 73

Mar 20, 2020

Nice quiz, one question though, why does typing Kaesong validates Kaohsiung? Kaesong is a legitimate guess for North Korea and I'm pretty sure nobody thinks it's in Taiwan.

Level 75

Mar 20, 2020

It is because many stuggle spelling Kaohsiung, and therefore it has a lot of auto type-ins

Level 75

Oct 20, 2020

It also happened to me, i thought Kaesong one of largest city in NK but Taiwan got the point. Let Kaohsiung alone, Kaesong is a different city

Level 83

Apr 20, 2020

Can we please have the actual names for Taiwanese cities? I should be able to type in "Gaoxiong" instead of having to work my head around the inaccurate Anglicized names.

Level 64

Apr 20, 2020

I'm surprised for so little answers to Kazakhstan, Syria and Uzbekistan

Level 62

Jan 26, 2021

I only knew Homs because of the war there.

Level 84

Apr 21, 2020

Okay, that was an unmitigated disaster. Took a Kazakh miracle just to get half. I never realized until just now that Tehran is the only city in Iran that I know. :-/

Level 55

Jul 1, 2020

I see what you did there.

Level 76

Apr 21, 2020

The city population proper bit throws the quiz for a bit of a loop. Never even tried Guangzhou for China since on every other Jetpunk Quiz it is the biggest city in China and the biggest city in the World!

Level 85

Apr 29, 2020

The problem is that the Guangzhou and Shenzhen urban areas (and maybe some others) are now contiguous, making one huge metro area, but the cities are not merged either.

Level 65

Apr 23, 2020

Great quiz, thanks. Managed 23.

Level 70

May 23, 2020

Aleppo for Syria? Where is it?

Level 38

May 23, 2020

I was also surprised too.

But it seems Aleppo is the largest city in Syria.

Level 75

May 23, 2020

Our source lists Aleppo as being the biggest city in Syria.

Level 52

May 23, 2020

Would be cooler if the limit was lowered and more countries could've made it.

This goes for the whole series.

Level 63

May 23, 2020

tough one.. 7 only ;/

Thanks!

Level 60

May 23, 2020

got one of the lebanese cities in the middle of typing Surabaya

Level 61

May 24, 2020

Well, that went very poorly for me...

Level 52

May 26, 2020

Why was Chongqing for China not accepted?

Level 65

Aug 24, 2020

not big enough I guess

Level 74

May 26, 2020

Taiyuan is in China, not Taiwan. The city in Taiwan is called Taoyuan.

Level 45

May 26, 2020

I didn't know Bukhara and Mandalay were cities...I also shouldve got Vietnam.

Level 72

Aug 4, 2020

Having a bit of a self-reflection moment having been unable to think of anywhere but Aleppo and Damascus for Syria, given the amount of news coverage over the last few years. Knew Homs, Latakia and Rakka, but brain was having none of it.

Level 75

Oct 20, 2020

I missed Syria, Kazakhstan, and NK. I typed Kaesong but Taiwan got the blink and I thought Aleppo was the second largest city and I knew no any other city in Syria. My Asian brain was quite frozen

Level 59

May 30, 2023

I missed Jordan (I think it was reasonable) but missed Lebanon which Tyre and Tripoli flew over my head and misspelled Hamhung as Hamhong and missed Taiwan.

Level 57

Oct 26, 2020

Could you accept Samarkhand for Samarkand? I’ve seen it spelled both ways.

Level 75

Oct 26, 2020

Okay

Level 57

Apr 7, 2022

What about Ho Chi Minh City?

Level 82

Jul 14, 2022

Read the instructions at the top of the quiz again. Ho Chi Minh City is by far the largest city in Vietnam so it can't be an answer.