I believe that the reason it's not on here is because Pretoria is the smaller city. For example, Newark is in the New York city urban area, but it's generally not accepted as the Newark urban area. Pretoria is a smaller city in the Johannesburg urban area
I agree with the sentiment, but Devil's advocate - San Jose is larger than San Francisco, yet the urban area is San Francisco. So while I agree with the conclusion (and the answer), raw numbers alone are probably not enough.
And what's interesting about San Jose is that it was there before San Francisco. I think they sometimes get lumped together in the San Francisco Bay area, but it always seems as though it is being included as part of the city of San Francisco.
The Bolivian constitution is freely available for all to read online, and is explicitly clear about the status of Sucre ("Sucre is the capital of Bolivia") and La Paz (the city is not mentioned).
Agreed to the above. Of the 3 (!) capitals, Pretoria is not only the most recognized, it's also part of the largest urban area (albeit, part of Johannesburg). Makes more sense to include Pretoria/Johannesburg. :)
Controversially, South Africa perhaps actually has zero capital cities... Neither Pretoria nor Bloemfontain (nor Johannesburg) are mentioned at all in the South African constitution, and Cape Town is only mentioned as being the "seat of parliament", not as the (or 'a') capital. And it straightaway says that parliament can move the seat of parliament if it wants.
Rome and Algiers have Higher Populations than Brasilia, Cape Town and Santo Domingo. Algiers (5 mil) and Rome (4.6 mil). If you were to be going by City proper populations your current list would be correct but all these cities are listed with their metro populations so Rome and Algiers would be missing.
@quizmaster according to your source Romes population is 4,353,738, which still puts it on the list. Also the data on Algiers is from 2008 so it could be a little outdated as well.
Great Quiz! Didn’t understand South Africa though. Cape, Pretoria and Joburg are all equally the capitals. Why choose Cape (~ 3M) over Joburg (~14M if I’m not mistaken).
I wonder why people never make those claims about Melbourne or Sydney, which have equally expansive views about the size of the metro area.
Probably because people learn a fact in school such as the population of a city and take it as gospel, but not at the same time learning the many nuances.
For example, Melbourne's agglomeration is nearly the same geographical area as Washington D.C.
Melbourne's area also has a much lower population density than D.C., giving it even less claim to such a large geographical size.
Not once has anyone complained about the population of Melbourne being exaggerated, but over and over again people complain about U.S. or Chinese metros.
citypopulation.de actually gives 5.2 million for the Washington urban area. It only goes up to 8.5 million for the agglomeration. That's a big difference, enough to surprise someone expecting the first figure. For Melbourne there is much less difference: 4.6 million versus 5 million.
That's the source for agglomerations, not urban areas. Urban areas for the US can be found at https://citypopulation.de/en/usa/ua/ . Of course, there's nothing wrong with using data for agglomerations (it's certainly easier to find), but perhaps it's worth changing the description accordingly.
Sometimes quizzes get updated, especially population-related ones, because they can become wrong if not updated. When quizzes are updated, for points purposes they’re treated as if they were a new quiz and the prior version is treated as if it were deleted. They don’t actually delete it, so you sometimes see comments that don’t make sense because they relate to an earlier version.
The Bolivian constitution is freely available for all to read online, and is explicitly clear about the status of Sucre ("Sucre is the capital of Bolivia") and La Paz (the city is not mentioned).
Probably because people learn a fact in school such as the population of a city and take it as gospel, but not at the same time learning the many nuances.
Melbourne's area also has a much lower population density than D.C., giving it even less claim to such a large geographical size.
Not once has anyone complained about the population of Melbourne being exaggerated, but over and over again people complain about U.S. or Chinese metros.
https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/
Note that they are actually removing the non-urban portion of the Washington D.C. "Combined Statistical Area" which has a population over 10 million!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area
BTW, can someone tell me what a quiz being reset actually means? I don't get it