Maybe it's just the source data, but Bogotá might qualify here. The city proper has a population of about 8.0 million. Estimates I've seen put the greater metropolitan area at 10.0 million. If not already, it will be at/over that mark very soon.
Jerry928 it could happen, but it's not for certain. A lot of people have been leaving Illinois in recent years. I believe there's still net growth so Chicago will probably make the list, but it's not definite.
I don't know if anyone else does this, but if you've got a pretty good handle on which cities qualify at the source as megacities, quizzes like this sometimes need an extra challenge. I was just wondering if there's any way to make quizzes for which a person would only get a certain number of wrong answers (sort of a three-strikes rule, though it need not be three). I did this mentally for this one (and didn't get to the end before "striking out"). My guess is that this is not such a special idea, that others have thought of it, and that it's just not possible. True?
I think that's interesting, but it could run into problems with type-ins. I've thought of it before and it would be cool if they added it, but I like to just see if I make it in my head or not. I got lucky this time with all 10, but normally I strike out.
I have the distance 8482 km to Lagos and 8536 km to Buenos Aires. NY and BA are 80 km across, and Lagos is 60 km across, so depending where in each city you measure from, you can argue it either way. Maybe expand the quiz to 12 answers and save the debate?
Considering that Lima, Rio and São Paulo are listed it seems obvious that Bogota should be included. Mega cities, as referred to in this quiz, must mean megalopolises as far as this quiz goes so consider more of them (e.,g., Chicago, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco) that are in the U.S.
I am sick of people not knowing what a megacity is! There are like a million megacity quizzes on jetpunk, and ZERO consider Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, or Chicago a Megacity!
True but he didn't make it up out of thin air: "United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its 2018 "World Urbanization Prospects" report counted urban agglomerations having over 10 million inhabitants"
My mental map of the world sucks, so I registered Tokyo, thinking it was close to the west coast of USA. I also though Moscow was practically across the world from NYC
Come on people! Is Bogota on the Megacities on a map quiz? No! Now stop asking for Bogota. Sure, ask for Lagos, it’s reasonable, but Bogota is NOT a Megacity yet.
(If you measure from the dot in the middle of every city)
Your point is still valid if you consider the description, where it explicitly says every time that only cities above 10m are considered.