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Biggest Cities in the World Quiz

How many of the world's 50 biggest cities can you name?

Based on urban population, as of January 2012
Source: citypopulation.de

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Population	City
34,400,000
25,600,000
25,300,000
25,100,000
23,100,000
22,900,000
22,000,000
21,000,000
20,700,000
20,500,000
18,800,000
18,100,000
17,200,000
16,800,000
16,300,000
16,100,000
15,600,000

Population	City
15,600,000
14,200,000
13,900,000
13,700,000
13,400,000
13,300,000
12,700,000
12,600,000
12,500,000
10,600,000
9,800,000
9,750,000
9,750,000
9,450,000
9,350,000
9,200,000
9,050,000

Population	City
9,050,000
9,050,000
8,900,000
8,850,000
8,600,000
8,400,000
8,200,000
7,900,000
7,750,000
7,550,000
7,400,000
7,100,000
7,100,000
6,750,000
6,700,000
6,650,000

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Quizmaster

Updated!

Mar 28, 2012 delete reply

azucarita

33/50. Argh

Apr 2, 2012 delete reply

LacsiraxAriscal

Stricly speaking, these are contigious urban areas, rather than "cities" - a city being whatever the government defines it as.

Apr 2, 2012 delete reply

borispatrick

37/50 and i still think that i am good. :)

Apr 2, 2012 delete reply

Ithabise

Something's wrong: Dallas, Boston, D.C., San Francisco and no Houston or Philadelphia?

Apr 2, 2012 delete reply

Nacnud

Can't believe Boston is in this. I even live their and I don't think it's larger than Philly.

Feb 21, 2013 delete reply

burtviile

The stats used here for the US are Combined Statistical Areas and are much larger than what would usually be thought of as the cities metro area. The numbers here for Boston include the entire eastern half of MA, southern NH, and all of RI. Not really Boston's metro area.

May 10, 2013 delete

meilankev

Overlooked Ho Chi Minh. Also missed three (fairly obscure, for me) China cities (Shenzen, Shenyang, and Tianjin). About as good as I could ever expect.

Apr 2, 2012 delete reply

imryan94

I did not expect D.C. :P

Apr 2, 2012 delete reply

kalbahamut

the city proper is tiny. The metro area is huge.

Mar 16, 2013 delete reply

grasshopper123

33/50 too :)

Apr 3, 2012 delete reply

username729

I am skeptical of Washington D.C. having that many people. Wiki says the metro is 5.58 million.

Apr 4, 2012 delete reply

Quizmaster

For people who are "skeptical" of the numbers... I usually use Wikipedia, but for population they are inconsistent. They gather their numbers from a variety of sources, including citypopulation.de. Going with citypopulation.de seemed to be the most sensible. Metro population is something that is extremely subjective, but citypopulation.de applies a consistent methodology across the whole world. IMHO, it has a better claim to accuracy to any other organization. I don't just make this stuff up, people!!!

Apr 4, 2012 delete reply

CorkSpork

I am from Washington, DC, and we have a total metro population less than 8.6 M...much less the city. CityPopulation.de tells me the DC population is 601,723, based on the 2010 census data...Can you be more specific with wher e on the site you found this data? I'm only seeing 2010 data with 2011 projections...Not trying to attack you or anything, just curious.

Feb 5, 2013 delete reply

kalbahamut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_metropolitan_area looks like this 8.6 million figure is including the entire gigantic Washington/Baltimore urban area. Which itself is just part of the sprawling megalopolis that runs all the way from northern Virginia up through Boston on the east coast of the United States.

Mar 16, 2013 delete

thirdeyeyes

he said METRO AREA

Apr 8, 2013 delete

burtviile

The 8.6 million includes the entire state of MD, the northeast counties of WV, VA all the down into the Shenandoah Valley, south central PA, and oh yeh also DC.

May 10, 2013 delete

TDSnare

Is it acceptable to have LA work for Los Angeles?

Apr 7, 2012 delete reply

JFK

I am only 6 and I got 12/50.

Apr 15, 2012 delete reply

Istink

got 41 of them, piece of cake

May 11, 2012 delete reply

Fun

45/50 Some of these really surprised me. Especially seeing Guangzhou @ Number 2.