Biggest City by Region #2

Name the largest metropolitan area in the following regions.

Includes cities partially in the region

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First submitted	October 27, 2014
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Region	City
Quebec	Montreal
Africa	Cairo
Horn of Africa	Addis Ababa
Tuscany	Florence
Eurozone	Paris
Balkan Peninsula	Istanbul
Zealand	Copenhagen
Malay Peninsula	Kuala Lumpur

Region	City
Baja California	Tijuana
Korea	Seoul
Former Yugoslavia	Belgrade
Mississippi River Delta	New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico Coast	Houston
Persian Gulf Coast	Kuwait City
Melanesia	Port Moresby
Polynesia	Auckland

Region	City
Vancouver Island	Victoria
New South Wales	Sydney
Côte d'Azur	Nice
South America	São Paulo
Pacific Northwest	Seattle
Caucasus	Baku
Po Valley	Milan
Hispaniola	Santo Domingo

Level 76

Feb 8, 2015

Hmm, I would have said Tampa for the Gulf of Mexico question - don't you think Houston is a bit far inland to be described as coastal?

Level 92

Feb 12, 2015

I wouldn't say so, Houston's city limits stretch to the Bays behind Galveston Island & Bolivar Peninsula.

Level 85

Mar 19, 2015

The small bays that the city limits touch are pretty far inland. I think anyone looking at a map of the area would point to Galveston, not Houston, as the local "coastal city," even though it's nowhere as large. Part of Houston's success is due to its protected location, slightly inland from the coast.

Level 92

Jul 9, 2015

And yet Houston does include part of the coast. I think that makes it coastal.

Level 70

Mar 22, 2019

Houston does not touch the Gulf of Mexico. I does touch Trinity Bay which is not really part of the Gulf of Mexico. I don't really agree that Houston is a coastal city.

Level 74

Oct 18, 2019

This quiz also uses metro areas, and no one would dispute that the Houston metro (which does include Galveston) is coastal.

Level 73

Jul 23, 2021

I think Houston's city limits stretch to like 20 metres away from the coast lol. But metro areas are what we are looking at.

Level 80

Apr 21, 2022

As a Houstonian I absolutely would say that Houston is on the Gulf Coast. There is a portion of the city that is literally called the “Port of Houston”, and even if it doesn’t directly touch the ocean, the entire economy and climate is influenced by the Gulf.

+12

Level 80

Feb 9, 2015

Hm with Zealand I was stuck thinking about the Dutch province...

Level 55

Apr 28, 2019

I had already typed middelburg, terneuzen and vlissingen before I realised there were more zealands

Level 68

May 13, 2020

I got Auckland on my first try ;)

Level 63

Oct 24, 2022

I believe they were talking about Zealand, not New Zealand. Zealand is a state in Netherlands but also an island in Denmark.

Level 88

Feb 25, 2015

I was shocked to see Istanbul considered to be on the Balkan peninsula. Most maps I have seen show the Balkan peninsula or Balkan region ending at the Bulgaria/Turkey border, although some do show it going all the way to the Bosphorus Strait.

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Level 69

Mar 18, 2015

The Balkans politically don't include Turkey, but I've yet to see a single geographic interpretation that doesn't include Istanbul.

Level 69

Mar 18, 2015

Can Kuwait be accepted for Kuwait City?

Level 77

Mar 18, 2015

I wasn't too sure if it was Kuwait City or not, still was lazy and typed just "kuwait" and when it wasn't accepted figured I was wrong.

Level 55

Mar 18, 2015

VERY difficult!

Level 82

Mar 18, 2015

Pretty easy except never heard of Melanesia before, and perhaps erroneously I don't think of New Zealand as part of Polynesia so I missed that one, too. Counting Istanbul as in the Balkans is extremely odd and I would have probably missed that one, as well, except the caveats kind of gave it away. I'm sure most people are thinking Athens.

Level 41

Mar 19, 2015

I think the New Zealaand/Polynesia relation is bit ambiguous. I think sometimes New Zealand is not considered a geographic part of Polynesia, but ethnically, culturally and linguistically, the Maoris are definitely a Polynesian nation.

Level 83

May 7, 2016

I had never heard of Melanesia either. But my first (random) guess was Port Moresby, so I think I struck pretty lucky.

Level 67

Jun 9, 2017

I'd heard of Melanesia and new it was in Oceania, but didn't have a clue apart from that. Just had lots of time to guess.

Level 73

Mar 18, 2015

Not enough time to think on this one. Good quiz, though.

Level 84

Mar 18, 2015

I thought Lagos has now surpassed Cairo by population.

Level 50

Mar 18, 2015

Great quiz, reless! Thanks a hundred. Probably Kuwait City is better than just Kuwait though.

Level 69

Mar 19, 2015

"Pacific Northwest"? Are we supposed to guess that means the northwest of the United States?

Level ∞

Mar 19, 2015

Is there another Pacific Northwest?

Level 69

Mar 24, 2015

I can imagine that for non-US citizens it could mean the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, so the area around Kamchatka, Japan and maybe Korean Peninsula. Although, as a proud Pole, I knew what the author meant ;)

Level 79

Oct 22, 2019

good point Thorvald - so it's actually the Pacific east-north-east

Level 44

May 16, 2021

Actually, Kamchatka... is in the Eastern Pacific because of the IDL, so I can understand northwest as the Canadian/USA coast.

Level 76

Jul 9, 2022

No it's not, it's on the western side of the Pacific so it's the Pacific North West. You may be confused by the fact that the longitude numbers for it are numbers 'east of Greenwich', but it is definitely the Western side. East and West don't swap sides just because you're on the opposite side of the globe from the Greenwich meridian.

Level 83

Oct 11, 2023

People ignorant of the local geography might also mistake New South Wales for a region in the south of Wales, or the Horn of Africa to be the entire western part of the continent, jutting hornlike from the rest. Nonetheless, these regions, like "Pacific Northwest", have specific meanings.

Just because you didn't know something and it's in the US doesn't mean it's an invalid clue.

Level 65

Mar 21, 2015

Nice quiz! However, being Dutch, I also went for the Dutch province. I never knew Sjælland in Denmark was named Zealand in English.

Level 63

Sep 28, 2017

I think Zeeland is written the same in English.

Level 89

Jun 26, 2018

Constantinople / Byzantium / Istanbul must feel unloved. Nobody ever wants it.

Level 70

Mar 22, 2019

According to lots of websites, Dubai is MUCH larger than Kuwait City.

Level 82

Nov 10, 2019

I typed 'adis' instead of 'addis' ababa. I believe it should have counted.

Level 70

Feb 27, 2020

Istanbul is not part of the Balkans.

Level 79

Sep 23, 2020

Glad you pointed this out, because I thought it was.

Level 79

Jul 21, 2020

I didn't know Melanesia included New Guinea, and that Polynesia included New Zealand.

Level 54

Mar 8, 2021

First time I've seen New Zealand included in Polynesia.

Level 61

Jun 9, 2021

21/24, time ran out as i was typing Seattle...

Level 63

Sep 2, 2022

Ah it was the other zealand in denmark thought it was the one in the netherlands

Level 65

Sep 28, 2022

If Houston is on the coast, explain Galveston?

Level 92

Oct 27, 2023

The same way Baltimore is on the coast without needing to explain Norfolk.

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