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Cities with the Most Metro Rail Stations

Try to name the urban areas that have at least 90 stations in their metro rail transit system.
As of June 2022, according to Wikipedia
Light rail doesn't count
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Last updated: June 26, 2022
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First submittedJuly 22, 2012
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Opened
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City
1993
660
Shanghai area
1997
646
Guangzhou area
1974
460
Seoul area
1904
424
New York City
1971
366
Beijing
1900
308
Paris
1927
295
Tokyo area
2010
285
Chengdu
1890
272
London
2004
247
Wuhan
1919
242
Madrid
2012
231
Hangzhou
2002
230
Delhi
2005
225
Chongqing
1935
203
Moscow
1902
175
Berlin
Opened
#
City
2005
175
Nanjing
1924
166
Barcelona
1984
164
Tianjin
2011
164
Xi'an
1969
163
Mexico City
1933
161
Osaka area
1897
145
Chicago
2000
145
Tehran
2015
138
Qingdao
1975
136
Santiago
1985
135
Busan
2013
129
Zhengzhou
1987
127
Singapore
2016
122
Hefei
1996
119
Taipei
2014
114
Ningbo
Opened
#
City
1989
107
Istanbul
1964
106
Milan
1996
104
Kuala Lumpur
2015
103
Nanchang
1966
101
Oslo
2014
100
Changsha
1950
100
Stockholm
1979
98
Hong Kong
1976
98
Vienna
1971
96
Munich
2016
94
Nanning
1908
93
Hamburg
1976
91
Washington, D.C.
2010
91
Shenyang
1974
91
São Paulo
1913
90
Buenos Aires
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Level 73
Jan 8, 2015
You're missing the city of Karlsruhe in Germany, with its 190 stations, it's tram-train system spread on more than 600km ot track
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Level 43
May 8, 2020
i dont think that fits the criteria
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Level 75
Jul 15, 2015
Why no Melbourne (207 stations) or Sydney (178 stations)?
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Level 70
May 15, 2016
39/55, thanks to spending a lot of time looking at maps I was one of few who got Daegu/Taegu.
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Level 65
Sep 20, 2016
Dallas's rail system, DART, has 62 stations
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Level ∞
Jul 3, 2017
For the people posting "what about ...", check out the Wikipedia article. There's a difference between light rail and a metro system.
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Level 74
Oct 3, 2017
I wondered about that, too, as Boston has well over 100 rail stops. But when you subtract the green line light rail, that leaves a bit under 60 for the other lines.
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Level ∞
Jul 3, 2017
The growth in many of the Asian cities has been extraordinary. Its in stark contrast to the United States, where extremely high construction costs and legal battles make new construction difficult.
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Level 76
Jul 4, 2017
I don't know the exact definition of 'metro rail' but no one in Rome really considers Line C as part of the metro, I guess because it's 'above ground' and unconnected to Lines A and B. It looks more like a 'normal rail' except maybe the parts inside the ring road or something - see this wikipedia map. But I guess it would be too hard to check all individual cases
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Level 67
Feb 14, 2020
I beg to differ. EVERYONE in Rome refers to line C as "Metro C", whatever it is. We're so starved of metro transport here that everything that remotely resembles one we dub it as METRO. The link with line A in San Giovanni was opened in 2018. Of course, it's often closed, but that's another Roman story...
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Level 77
Jul 28, 2017
If you are going to lump Guangzhou and Shenzhen together, you should also lump together Shanghai and Suzhou.
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Level 76
Aug 5, 2017
In my opinion, neither should be grouped together for this quiz. Guangzhou/Shenzhen are sometimes grouped together as one gigantic Pearl River Delta city, but their subway lines don't even connect. There are plans to merge them in the future though, along with a few other PRD cities.
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Level ∞
Apr 27, 2020
Suzhou and Shanghai are now lumped together. Thank you.
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Level 66
May 5, 2020
Well, that clears up why Suzhou didn't make an appearance on the quiz while it is in the source, but I agree with Tramp
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Level 49
Jun 30, 2022
Agreed - Guangzhou and Shenzhen can be considered a single urban area for the vast majority of Jetpunk quizzes, but for this one they should be two separate answers given that their metro systems are different.
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Level 71
Oct 1, 2017
Sydney definitely should have a mention, within the greater city there are a host of stations see....... http://www.sydneytrains.info/stations/pdf/suburban_map.pdf
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Level 60
Oct 1, 2017
Sydney doesn't have metro system. One is under construction which will open in 2019. Those are all suburban railways stations.
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2017
Good Quiz, but what about Boston? The wikipedia page for MBTA says it has 133.
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2017
I tried Boston as well. My guess is that it was not included because the T extends out to the suburbs, and the quiz specifies "urban areas."
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Level 88
Jul 17, 2018
Uh...the suburbs of Boston would be part of Boston's urban area.
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Level 81
Oct 2, 2017
It doesn't count because the Green Line's 66 stations are considered "Light Rail" even though they go underground and become a subway, the first subway in the U.S. Including the Green Line and BRT there are 145 stations.
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Level 88
Nov 29, 2020
Much of the green line "light rail" is underground, thus separated. There doesn't seem to be a great source on actual subways, as "metros" can mean wildly different things by locale. I'm really not sure what difference light rail or other means to the riders who have the service of taking a train across a metropolitan area. It's all the same to them.
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2017
He may have killed 75 million people, but boy did Mao work that infrastructure!
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Level 39
Oct 2, 2017
it wasn't even Mao who did, it was more like Deng, Jiang, and Hu
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Level ∞
Oct 3, 2017
Yep, China's boom started when Mao died.
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Level 88
Jun 26, 2022
Hu?
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Level 84
Jun 28, 2022
Who?
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Level 71
Jun 30, 2022
@IsleAuHaulte, I think he's referring to Hu Jintao, the President of China from 2003 to 2013.
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Level 49
Jun 30, 2022
It's a pun! It doesn't need a serious answer
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2017
The St. Petersburg metro is definitely the wackest metro I've ever ridden on. It's like 300 feet underground and it's super fancy, decorated with marble walls and chandeliers and artwork.
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Level 82
Oct 1, 2017
The Moscow metro is similar. They even have guided tours. Some of the stations are really beautiful.
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Level 85
Sep 27, 2021
As a professional tour guide, I can testify that subway stations don't need to be beautiful or fancy to merit having guided tours. They just need to be historically interesting.

(This is not to refute your statement that the Moscow statement is fancy. Just pointing out that there is more to touring than beauty.)

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Level 85
Jun 30, 2022
St Petersburg also features some of the steepest escalators - forcing you to lean in or back depending if you are going up or down.
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Level 29
Oct 1, 2017
Surprised Denver wasn’t on the list, considering the massive expansion of the light rail system here
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Level 60
Oct 2, 2017
The quiz is of Metro rail not light rail.
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Level 80
Oct 2, 2017
London Underground first opened in 1863 and made a big celebration out of its 150th anniversary in 2013. Wikipedia quotes a 1890 date when some of the deeper tunnels opened but that doesn't change the fact it had been operating for nearly 30 years prior to that.
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Level 80
Feb 14, 2020
Wikipedia now quotes the correct 1863 date so the quiz really needs updating to reflect that.
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Level 80
Jun 30, 2022
The quiz is still not corrected to show the correct opening date of 1863 for the London underground. The 150th celebrations in 2013 even made it into the US press
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Level ∞
Jun 30, 2022
No Wikipedia still says 1890.

"The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system"

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Level 61
Oct 3, 2017
Brussels (Brussel/Bruxelles) is missing, it has 59 stops on 4 metro lines (and plans to add a line by converting an underground tram line to a metro line).
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Level ∞
Oct 3, 2017
59 is less than the minimum required to appear on this quiz.
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Level 61
Nov 24, 2017
ok, well in a few years a new line is ready and there will be 70+ stops. :)
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Level 76
Oct 3, 2017
The wikipedia page says Hangzhou has 66 stations. Shouldn't it be included too?
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Level ∞
Oct 3, 2017
Probably changed after I last edited the quiz. We'll revisit in a couple years.
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Level 76
Oct 4, 2017
Fair enough. This quiz should be dominated by Chinese cities by then - there are a TON of lines being built in dozens of cities.
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Level 65
May 9, 2020
I lived in Hangzhou for a year back in 2015, and there was only one working subway line back then. But the whole city was upside down with the metro works. Now they are the 25th network in the world and growing. It's just nuts...
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Level 76
Oct 4, 2017
Bangkok has 68 stations. The Wikipedia Metro page lists 2 separate systems in that city of 34 stations each, one elevated and one underground.
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Level 76
Oct 4, 2017
Wikipedia lists 3 separate metro systems from New York, totalling 459 stations.
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Level 76
Oct 5, 2017
In that Wikipedia article, Tokyo-plus-Yokohama adds to 355 stations, and Osaka-plus-Kobe-plus-Kyoto adds to 179 stations.
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Level 69
Oct 17, 2017
Sydney has 178 stations on it's metro lines and Melbourne has 218. Why is Australia not included?
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Level 60
Jun 14, 2018
Because those are most probably Commuter and Suburban Railways or light Rail not Metro rail, Even though it is called Melbourne Metro. The 1st Metro of Australia is under construction in Sydney.
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Level 66
Jun 30, 2022
This puzzles me. The stations mentioned in Melbourne and Sydney are not light rail. Why is a city's suburban rail network not a metro? Wikipedia does not help to clear up this question.
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Level 25
Oct 30, 2017
The Rhein-Ruhr area has a substantial number of metro stops (124). You could allow for individual city names to cover it (Cologne, Dusseldorf, Essen etc...).
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Level 67
Dec 19, 2017
Toronto just opened 6 new subway stations.
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Level 65
Oct 14, 2019
As of 2019, Hangzhou subway network has 90 stations, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou_Metro , with more to come in the near future.
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Level 88
Feb 14, 2020
Wikipedia is written by way too many random people, anyone who feels like it with an internet connection. The chart in your source lists 51 for Boston. In the very same row it lists the transit authority hyperlinked to Wikipedia's own article about it (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MBTA_subway_stations).

That article on Boston's subway lists 66 stations just for the Green Line alone, 1 more than the quiz's requirement of 65. 133 is the number, according to the link in the source's chart, listed as the number for all MBTA stops.

But, I don't know. Wikipedia numbers always contradict each other, often within the same sentence so I didn't put much effort to investigate the article very far.

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Level ∞
Apr 27, 2020
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
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Level 88
Apr 27, 2020
I can't fix Wikipedia's problem. There are 7.7 billion other eligible editors ready to contradict each other.
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Level 66
May 5, 2020
So not a single problem in the world can be fixed, because there is always someone that has a different view.

(In case of getting furniture up the stairs, this ís true by the way! ;) )

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Level 88
May 10, 2020
There aren't 7.7 billion people who have a say in moving my couch up my stairs in my house. There are 7.7 billion people who can and do fill Wikipedia with vastly conflicting information. There is wrong or incongruous information on any article I've ever seen there. That is why Wikipedia is not allowed as a source by even paper mill colleges nor by any known school teacher.

No, I can't fix Wikipedia and won't make the attempt because it's useless.

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Level 60
Oct 11, 2023
There aren't 7.7 billion people who have access to the internet. Pedantry aside, I highly doubt most people will care to edit inaccurate information (there isn't much room for opinion in this article, so that's not a concern). Those who do will have more popular articles to focus. Wikipedia isn't perfect, but it's decent for niche topics where there is no reason for anyone to sabotage and it is sometimes the only / clearest source.
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Level 76
May 8, 2020
If you had perhaps "investigated the article" a little further, you would have found the answer to your question. The chart in the quiz's source is specifically metro stations, meaning "electrified rapid transit train system," that are "operated on their own right of way and segregated from general road and pedestrian traffic." It specifically does not include light rail (like the Green Line) or bus services (like the Silver Line.)
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Level 79
Feb 14, 2020
I live in Suzhou, and I remember when the underground railway first opened!
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Level 85
Apr 27, 2020
https://ggwash.org/view/71583/light-rail-heavy-rail-subway-rail-transit-modes-fall-on-a-continuum
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Level 84
Apr 27, 2020
You'd think I'd start remembering Wuhan by now.
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Level 87
Apr 27, 2020
Yeah, wow, 12th on the worldwide list. Those people do get around!
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Level 77
Apr 28, 2020
China has really been the most active country in building subway systems in recent times. Urbanrail.net is a really good site for anyone interested in subway systems in general.
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Level 73
May 1, 2020
Me during the quiz: I miss two, it must be another two chinese cities I've never heard of...

Me after the quiz: It was Oslo and Hong Kong

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Level 85
May 8, 2020
At least half the time JetPunk lumps Hong Kong in with the Guangzhou area.
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Level ∞
May 8, 2020
Absolutely false. We have never done that on any featured quiz.
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Level 82
May 4, 2020
On successive trips to Guangzhou, it was amazing to see how rapidly the metro was expanding and new lines and stations being added. Modern China is certainly fast at building infrastructure, though we'll have to wait and see if it stands the test of time.

Overall, good quiz - only missed Toronto, Hamburg and Zhengzhou.

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Level 57
May 8, 2020
There are 218 train stations in Melbourne. This should be added
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Level ∞
May 8, 2020
The source is posted.
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Level 60
May 8, 2020
This quiz has appeared a lot of times in the front page how much I remember. So I'll use it advertise my quizzes.

After all I have the largest number of Quizzes related to Metro

Every city with a Metro Rail system on a World Map

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Chicago L Stations on a Map

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Level 68
May 8, 2020
Bit unsure of the criteria for this list. My hometown of Melbourne has 218 train stations. While I'm sure some of them aren't classified as 'metro', I'm surprised its not on the list at all. Sydney has a large metro system as well.
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Level 60
May 8, 2020
Large 🤣🤣🤣🤣?

Sydney Metro will have it's first anniversary after 18 days and it's 36 km with 13 stations.

If you are talking about Sydney City Trains the it's classified as a commuter Rail rather than a Metro.

All the stations of Melbourne Metro is also classified as a Suburban Railway rather than a Metro

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Level 18
Jan 4, 2024
To be fair, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane should be there if Kuala Lumpur can. Because I can barely call half the system a 'metro' as lines 3,4,5 and 8 are named LRT on the map. If the requirements are like you need at least half your system underground, then London shouldn't even be on the list. Poor Australia 😥

Also, why are we still using Wikipedia?

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Level 68
May 17, 2020
Rio de Janeiro metro in 1992:

41 stations

- Shanghai metro in 1992:

0 stations (no metro)

*fast forward 28 years*

Rio de Janeiro metro in 2020:

41 stations

- Shanghai metro in 2020:

551 stations

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Level 54
May 28, 2020
Please add Frankfurt to the list. It has 86
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Level 43
May 12, 2021
According to Wikipedia, Frankfurt's transit system is considered light rail (stadtbahn) instead of an actual metro system
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Level 50
Aug 12, 2020
At a minute left I realized I completely forgot to guess the chinese cities so I just spammed as many as I could
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Level 44
Sep 9, 2021
The London Underground first opened in 1863, not 1890.
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Level 46
Apr 11, 2022
me as a american forgetting chicago
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Level 65
Apr 11, 2022
Can't believe the only cities I missed are Kuala Lumpur and Singapore :( I got all the other cities in different countries...

The worst is, I have actually been in the metro in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur before haha

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Level 63
Oct 5, 2022
I failed to get Kuala Lumpur despite going there...you're not alone
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Level 37
May 3, 2022
Add New Dehli for dehli area
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Level 68
Jun 30, 2022
chinese unknown cities again...,
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Level 32
Jun 30, 2022
Turkey had a metro station built in Ottoman period about 1875.
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Level 79
Jun 30, 2022
For some reason my brain just blocked out South America during this quiz.
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Level 56
Jul 1, 2022
Why did I go into this quiz thinking it was only United States cities? I was so confused as I got 3 right and every other US city I guessed was wrong.

Lesson learned: Read the directions

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Level 67
Jul 4, 2022
The following Australian cities should all be in on this list:

• Melbourne (222 metro stations)

• Sydney (170 metro stations)

• Brisbane (139 metro stations)

• Adelaide (89 metro stations)

• Perth (72 metro stations)

[Date 2022-07-04]

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Level ∞
Jul 4, 2022
No, source is listed.
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Level 34
Jul 7, 2022
London has had a metro since 1863, not 1890. The first deep underground tube line was opened in 1890, but the METROpolitan line has existed since 1863.
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Level 81
Dec 14, 2022
No European countries even make the top five SMH. They could learn a thing or two from the US about public transit
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Level 83
Dec 23, 2022
What the hell? The US has famously bad public transit compared with most European countries. There's more to transport than just metro systems, and your cities are on the whole bigger than ours so obviously there are more stops.
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Level 36
Feb 19, 2023
whaaat? US has terrible public transport, it's utterly car reliant. There are only 3 US cities on that list while there are 13 European cities. There are only 12 metro systems in the US, most of them paltry compared to their respective cities, while there are near 60 systems in Europe, some catering to small towns.
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Level 35
Apr 25, 2023
kuala lumpur,,,, yes....
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Level 66
Oct 11, 2023
They may not have enough stations to make the list, but Prague (61 stations) and Budapest (48 stations) both have very cool subways. Check out the 70s aluminum tiles in Prague and the Fin-de-Siecle style in Budapest, plus the SUPER FAST escalator. Also Kyoto has these crazy red rubber tires on a big rubber bar in the center of the tracks, so the stopping trains make a funny squeaky sound rather than the normal metallic one. It's unique.
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Level 33
Jan 25, 2024
More like 'The largest cities of China' quiz
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Level 38
Mar 20, 2024
should be updated now hahaha, thousands kilometers of new metro rail have been opened across the world, and of course ,mostly contributed by China