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Name a Valid World City

There are 640 urban agglomerations that have a population of at least 1 million. Among those cities, name any one that fits each clue.
According to citypopulation.de, January 2025
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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First submittedMay 22, 2020
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Cities
on the Great Lakes of North America
6
Buffalo | Chicago | Cleveland | Detroit | Milwaukee | Toronto
on the Persian Gulf
6
Abu Dhabi | Dammam | Doha | Dubai | Kuwait | Manama
within 5° of latitude from the Equator
29
Kinshasa | Bogota | Kuala Lumpur | Singapore |
Nairobi | +23 others
whose name ends in V
5
Tel Aviv | Kharkiv | Kyiv | Saratov | Rostov
on the Danube River
3
Budapest | Vienna | Belgrade
with a population > than 20 million,
but not a world capital
6
Guangzhou | Shanghai | Mumbai | São Paulo |
New York | Karachi
north of 58 °N
4
Helsinki | St. Petersburg | Oslo | Stockholm
whose name ends in JING
2
Beijing | Nanjing
in Australia, not Sydney or Melbourne
3
Brisbane | Perth | Adelaide
where Swahili is a lingua franca
5
Dar es Salaam | Nairobi | Kampala | Mombasa | Kigali
with an elevation of at least 2500 meters
5
La Paz | Quito | Bogotá | Cochabamba | Addis Ababa
in Iran, other than Tehran
7
Isfahan | Mashhad | Tabriz | Shiraz | Ahvaz | Qom | Kermanshah
founded by the Greeks (other than Athens)
6
Alexandria | Benghazi | Istanbul | Izmir | Marseille | Naples
whose name begins with the letter O
11
Osaka | Orlando | Ouagadougou | Okayama |
Oran | + 6 others
within 50 km of the U.S. / Mexico border
5
San Diego | Tijuana | Ciudad Juarez | McAllen | El Paso
whose name ends in BURG
5
Johannesburg | St. Petersburg | Hamburg |
Yekaterinburg | Harrisburg
more than 2000 km away from any other
city > 1 million
2
Auckland | Perth
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48 Comments
Avaduffield
+4
Level 66
Aug 4, 2020
Great quiz!
elijahwade
+5
Level 96
Aug 4, 2020
Brilliant quiz, as ever!
DonTheLamplighter
+29
Level 86
Aug 4, 2020
After all these years on JetPunk, I still only remember 1 city in Iran. SMH.
WillemLAif
+8
Level 80
Aug 6, 2020
I remember two. It was useful.
joeythelemur
+3
Level 81
Aug 12, 2020
I can remember Fez, but yeah, only 2.
rphxx
+67
Level 71
Sep 10, 2020
Fez is in Morocco
EcceHomo
+6
Level 85
Sep 29, 2020
one is a nice wine grape. I remember that one.
Stoggler
+1
Level 48
Nov 30, 2025
Ooh, good tip! Although I'll probably write Chardonnay! :-)
Tadeu
+2
Level 68
Aug 4, 2022
I know there is a city that starts with "is" but I can never remember its name
Pokemonmaster02
+4
Level 47
Feb 15, 2023
Isfahan?
MyrmidonPantheon
+1
Level 57
Jun 12, 2025
In ISlamic countries, there are many cities that start with IS.
brainchild
+2
Level 68
Aug 5, 2020
Great Quiz! Could you accept Reykjavik, Iceland for the north of 57 degrees latitude? It sits at about 64 degrees.
idontkn1
+54
Level 93
Aug 5, 2020
When there are fewer than 400K people in the entire country it's kind of hard to have a million people in one city; even it's biggest one.
OliviaPG
+35
Level 72
Jan 7, 2021
Obviously Reykjavik has a population of 2.5 people per person
Fianchetto
+9
Level 77
Jan 24, 2024
Highest density per person of any country in the world.
idontkn1
+6
Level 93
Aug 5, 2020
Really liked the quiz. Shocked that Harrisburg with a city proper population of around 50k makes the list. There are more people in Lancaster and slightly more people than York. But the designations in Pennsylvania don't make much sense to me a anyway. Still don't understand how Scranton and Wilkes Barre should be part of the same metro area. Not when you drive through 10 to 15 miles of farmland on major highways to get to the other.
HinesBrothers
+5
Level 77
Aug 6, 2020
It really does not make much sense. I agree that they do not deserve to be grouped together.
JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Oct 10, 2020
Agreed, but also what are you using to measure this? The top of the quiz says "urban area." When I go to the source you use, I find that the "Metropolitan Statistical Area" is well under 1 million (577,941) but the "Combined Statistical Area" (which is basically half of southeastern PA) is just over a million. I'm not really sure what the difference is and how each definition fits into the idea of "urban area," so if someone explained this that would be great!
YellowJacket
+2
Level 80
Oct 10, 2020
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre may look like they are a decent distance apart, but city-center to city-center of the two is only 18.5 miles driving. You also can't tell when the suburbs of one end and the suburbs of the other begin. Cleveland is 30 miles from Elyria and 25 from Mentor and are in the same metro area while Elyria and Mentor are basically suburbs of Cleveland. San Francisco is 12 miles from Oakland and 48 miles from San Jose and are all in the same metro area.
JK1D465
+4
Level 60
Aug 5, 2020
What about Canberra?
konigslayer
+2
Level 55
Aug 5, 2020
I wonder the same thing as well...
Jiaozira
+5
Level 72
Aug 5, 2020
Canberra has a very modest population with no more than half a million people.
HinesBrothers
+6
Level 77
Aug 6, 2020
Apparently with less than Harrisburg. Kinda ridiculous. I drove through Harrisburg yesterday and its barely there with basically no suburbs except entities pretty far away that are completely distinct.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 23, 2025
Agree about Harrisburg. But that doesn't mean Canberra should be included!
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Nov 23, 2025
Here's what Harrisburg is based on, by the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisburg%E2%80%93York%E2%80%93Lebanon_combined_statistical_area

I'd personally agree that the population density is too low to be included.

But we're not going to make random exceptions because of feels, and it doesn't effect the playability of the quiz, only the whinability of the quiz.

DrWhoFanJ
+1
Level 64
Nov 25, 2025
It does indeed not affect the playability of the quiz. It is the quiz being created and submitted that did that.

(Did you perchance forget RAVEN there?)

kalbahamut
+1
Level 80
Aug 5, 2020
easy
ThatsAllGoodThen
+1
Level 46
Nov 28, 2025
Why are you telling us that?
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Aug 6, 2020
Zahedan ..... over 600,000 people, railway to Pakistan.
Fresco3
+2
Level 70
Aug 6, 2020
100%! Shiraz coming in clutch at the end!
AayushD
+1
Level 78
Aug 10, 2020
Great quiz; however, it was a bit on the easier side. I'd say make the quiz a bit more difficult
vincc
+2
Level 57
Oct 10, 2020
hey multiple test takers skewing the results
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Nov 23, 2025
Only the first attempt from a user or IP is counted.
Anchi
+2
Level 45
Oct 10, 2020
Excellent quiz!
tshalla
+2
Level 78
Oct 10, 2020
Isn't the thumbnail picture of Miyajima? It's pretty close to Hiroshima, but definitely not in it (and it's an island) and definitely not a city. (Then again, if the Japanese government measures Okayama at over 2 million people, who knows where Hiroshima ends.) Another point - purely anecdotal evidence, but I'd say that hardly anyone in Kigali speaks Swahili. I didn't know any Kinyarwanda and got nowhere with Swahili. If I remember right, it wasn't all that much more useful in Kampala as well. Do Goma and Bukavu reach the population threshold? If so, they'd be better bets, I'd think.
RudeDog
+1
Level 61
Nov 4, 2020
Good quiz but too many answers are missing. Reykjavic for the 57 north question and Salzburg for the BURG question for example.
HinesBrothers
+11
Level 77
Nov 4, 2020
Those cities are too small to be on the quiz.
SteelersFan
+1
Level 64
Apr 7, 2022
20/20! Great quiz!
tayam
+1
Level 29
Jun 11, 2022
salzburg ends with BURG!
Barroszt
+6
Level 17
Dec 31, 2023
Cities with a population of at least 1,000,000 were included.
PresidentRoman
+2
Level 49
Feb 17, 2023
Bratislava sits on the Danube River
Barroszt
+5
Level 17
Dec 31, 2023
Only > 1,000,000 inhabitants cities.
purpleblossoms
+3
Level 19
Nov 25, 2025
Cities with population over 20 million and not a capital... Chongqing?
Selmarya
+1
Level 67
Nov 25, 2025
Does Honolulu not have 1,000,000 anymore? iirc it had like 1.04 million people in the 2020 census
pinkfoxblackeyes
+1
Level 45
Nov 30, 2025
Metro yes, but urban which is this quiz asked for is 850,000.
welcomer
+1
Level 29
Nov 30, 2025
14/17
EverettHater
+1
Level 44
Nov 30, 2025
Harrisburg does not have nearly 1,000,000 people💀
FernandoMartinez
+1
Level 49
Dec 1, 2025
Good quiz, but i feel like it doesn't communicate clear enough it's only >1 million people, should've probably put that in a tittle rather than description hardly anyone reads.

Also i don't know how did you came up with Harrisburg of all places but according to your source it's nowhere near 1 million, there's a Harrisburg - York - Lebanon CSA which barely get's it but first of all it's 3 different cities combined into one for some reason, and second of all ends in anon or rea depending if you go for only town names or actual full name.

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