According to the Turkish Government, more than 8 million of Istanbul's population lived on the European side in 2010, meaning even just counting the part not in Asia, it easily made this list (and it has grown considerably since then). Then of course there's the caveat about transcontinental cities.
I have sat in a restaurant on the European side of Istanbul and LOOKED at the bridge that crosses the Bosphorus into Asia. It's always funny when people imply that this experience doesn't exist.
Great quiz. Could do with a bit more time though. I still had about a dozen to type in when I ran out of time and I hadn't reached the stage of 'name any remotely big/famous city and hope'.
Depends on the source. Depending on what you consult NYC, Mexico City or Sao Paulo will be given as the largest city in the Americas. Defining metro areas is a messy business
>_< grrr ... after the update I only missed Alexandria. I started with Africa and even with Egypt. I think Cairo was the first one I got. I was sure I had typed it in already.
Fun quiz. I basically just went through as many NFL or MLB locations as I could think, then big UEFA teams, the two from Oz and as many African places as I could think. Enjoyed this. Thank you.
citypopulation.de is a terrible source. "Urban area" is a completely whimsical definition, ESPECIALLY on that site. For example: the Ruhr area is listed as having 11M people. In reality, it's only 5.1M. You'd need to inlude a LOT of non-urban area around the Ruhr area to get to 11M. And at that point, the population density is lower (600/km²) than that of Flanders. So by that metric, you might as well say that the whole region of Flanders is a "city" that should be in this list.
Citypopulation.de gets its stats from a random number generator. Metro Boston is 7.7 million? If you add every county in the eastern half of Massachusetts, and the entire states of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, you only get to 7.2 million. It's quite ridiculous.
No one of either city would ever build a sum of the two population figures.
The Ruhr Area, fine. Köln or Düsseldorf - no way for any of them to end up in this list.
Which it is not.
Ergo: it's all INCREDIBLY dubious "data".
Please never use that site again.