Neither does anyone call Mexico City "Mexico," Guatemala City "Guatemala," or Panama City "Panama." It's simply that the acceptable type-ins should be consistent as to whether or not they require the "city" at the end.
Funny that El Paso-Juarez, and Tijuana-San Diego both get counted as a single urban area though they exist on opposite sides of the US-Mexican border. Is there really that much commuting between the two?
Hi! Frequent border crosser here. Yes, there is a TON of cross-border traffic—people have to leave at 4 or 5 a.m. in order to get to San Diego jobs by 8 a.m. even though it's only 25 km (15 miles) from downtown Tijuana to downtown San Diego. The reason is because a 2-bedroom apartment in a nice area of San Diego costs $2000 and the same apartment in a really nice part of Tijuana costs $500.
Seems like spending the extra 6 to 8 hours round trip 20 days a month wouldn't be a factor in saving $1,500, even at minimum wage. It's another whole minimum wage job and nowhere near the savings of taking a second higher paying job. The daily time's in the toilet in traffic and wearing the car down idling. Might as well shut it off and work for money. If they live in Mexico I'm assuming they're Mexican citizens who can work in the U.S. but not live there permanently? Then the extra wage makes some sense against jobs in Mexico for someone ambitious enough.
I always assumed Stockton was part of Sacramento, they're only 30 minutes apart and it's basically all built up between them. But perhaps Sacramento got tired of being associated with Stockton and lobbied the source to separate from them.
You'd have to be absolutely flying up 5 or 99 to get from Stockton to Sacramento in 30. There's virtually no way you wouldn't be stuck for a good 5-10 minutes behind some truck caravan too.
Great quiz! Really enjoyed it. However, I have a small nitpick: in the caveats, it should either say "Which is a geographical part of Oceania," or, "Which is geographically a part of Oceania," instead of, "Which is a geographically part of Oceania."
The usage of metro area is quite unfortunate for this quiz, some small cities such as Bridgeport or Harrisburg are here while our large cities Winnipeg (city proper 750k, metro 835k) and Hamilton (city proper ~500k) would have been here if it wasn't for this measuring
As someone from Northern California, I'd like to know where the 1.2 million people are in Stockton. The city proper has 300k people and if you count in the surrounding cities/towns the total probably comes a bit closer to 500-600k people tops. Fresno alone has 500k but was not listed. Unless I'm missing something here
Just a couple of type-in tips for the Mexican cities:
Just San Luis or, even better, SLP should do for San Luis Potosí.
Just Tuxtla should do for Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
Even Google Maps doesn't have a "City" at the end
I typed in many variations for Pittsburgh until it finally occurred to me to add the "h" on the end...
Would you mind if I translated it? Or if you'd rather translate if yourself, I could always help/collaborate!