Largest World Cities With Four Letters

There are die-hard users who go into their stats to find new quizzes before they hit the front page. Those users might actually know 16. The average person on the street? Definitely less than 5. But those people are on Buzzfeed looking for pictures of celebrities who look like cats. So they don't affect the stats.

It is one of the green cities in the Top 45 4-letter Cities quiz. When we edited the 15-city green list in that quiz down to 8 for this version, we chose the 8 chosen by the most quizzers - basically the most famous 8. Brno was 9th!

The number of countries recognizing Palestine continues to rise; it is now 137 of 196 countries (70%), more than those recognising Kosovo (108) or Taiwan (23). It has UN observer status (unlike Kosovo and Taiwan, which have no UN status at all). Its UN observer status is equal to Vatican City and (until 1992) Switzerland. Its control of its borders is as weak as Georgia and Cyprus. Therefore, Palestine is as much, if not more, of a country as all the others named here.

see my two comments above

OK, apostrophe added, although a google search shows it can be transliterated both ways. The Xi'an version is to make it more likely it's pronounced correctly, approximately "see-arn", rather than "sharn" which readers of "Xian" might be prone to pronounce it as. But smart cookies like you and me will see Xian and say see-arn anyway. Otherwise people will start to have to write Se'attle and Mi'ami.

Good point. To save confusion we've substituted Bari into that slot.

It was a candidate for the green column! We couldn't fit them all in.

Palestine appears as a clue to help you towards answering a four-letter large world city - did you get the answer? On a broader question, the job of websites like this one is to set quizzes. They are not some sort of international NGO with powers to "recognise" countries, that's a bit above its pay grade.

Our source, citypopulation.de, has Wuhu at 1.53 million.

See our answer to LuigiDood227 above.