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Biggest Cities by Language Quiz

For each language, name the most populous city where that language is the most commonly spoken at home.
Based on urban area populations, according to citypopulation.de, 2020
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Last updated: October 10, 2020
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First submittedMay 9, 2011
Times taken156,792
Average score70.8%
Rating4.93
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Language
Population
City
English
22.1 mil
New York City
Spanish
23.0 mil
Mexico City
French
11.4 mil
Paris
Korean
24.8 mil
Seoul
Portuguese
22.4 mil
São Paulo
Arabic
21.0 mil
Cairo
Russian
17.3 mil
Moscow
Turkish
16.0 mil
Istanbul
Mandarin
19.8 mil
Beijing
Japanese
40.4 mil
Tokyo
Wu
33.6 mil
Shanghai
Hindi
30.3 mil
Delhi
Language
Population
City
Cantonese
46.7 mil
Guangzhou
Tagalog
25.7 mil
Manila
Marathi
25.1 mi
Mumbai
Yoruba
19.4 mil
Lagos
Bengali
20.2 mil
Dhaka
Persian
15.3 mil
Tehran
Tamil
11.3 mil
Chennai
Vietnamese
8.60 mil
Ho Chi Minh City
Gujarati
8.50 mil
Ahmedabad
Italian
6.20 mil
Milan
Hebrew
2.70 mil
Tel Aviv
Serbo-Croatian
1.42 mil
Belgrade
kalbahamut
+13
Level 84
Jun 2, 2013
Fun quiz. Got 100%. Two of these answers might help someone figure out one of the answers on my very tricky analogies quiz that most people missed.
pawelkrknh
+4
Level 33
Jun 2, 2013
Very good quiz, I like the ones with languages :)
Sifhraven
+9
Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
Ah, me did bad... ;) hope next time I remember ahmedabad.
Quetzalcoatl
+5
Level 20
Nov 13, 2013
Lol, I found Ahmadabad was way to easy if you think about it. Ahmadabad is a city in Gujarat either way. It's not that hard to get that answer...
Neptune777
+30
Level 70
Apr 16, 2016
It's easy if you know Hindu States, which I am not very knowledgeable of.
shockwave97
+35
Level 40
Jun 29, 2019
*Indian
svelte
+4
Level 53
Nov 2, 2020
I forgot Gujarat even existed I just guessed Ahmedabad because it sounded partially reasonable.
fitheach
+14
Level 59
Apr 13, 2017
What happens if you don't know that Ahmedabad is in Gujarat though...?
PacoGee
+28
Level 45
Mar 13, 2018
then you are like most of the people and dont get that one right lol
roadrage
+2
Level 68
Nov 1, 2018
Or if you haven't even heard of Ahmedabad...
JackintheBox
+12
Level 77
Mar 5, 2019
You would guess all the cities you know in India until you get to Ahmedabad (which I did)
dunkinggandalf2
+12
Level 67
Nov 8, 2020
Yeah, sure, but the point is, if you know the answer, it's very easy to know the answer.
mightythor
+2
Level 66
Nov 18, 2020
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.
syphontion
+1
Level 44
Feb 20, 2022
I didn't know it and I just guessed all fairly big cities in India
IsleAuHaulte
+12
Level 87
Nov 2, 2018
Lol, I know right, it's like Pingdingshan is way too easy if you think about it. Pingdingshan is a city in Henan either way. It would not be hard to get that answer...
hasanabdi
+2
Level 67
May 28, 2022
but ahmedabad is more populous, more significant in the world today, is rapidly growing, a centre of engineering and science and as seen here - home to the largest number of gujarat speakers. i can guarantee more people have heard of ahmedabad than pingdingshan.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 77
Nov 29, 2019
Ahmedabad*
KingEureka
+2
Level 63
Nov 15, 2020
Karnavati*
benjisarocks21
+2
Level 43
Nov 25, 2013
Uh Bengali is a language in Bangladesh so it should be Dhaka, not Kolkata. Kolkata is a city in India.
Ponderosa
+41
Level 84
Dec 14, 2013
Right, because languages always start and end at natural borders and there's never any cultural overlap.
kalbahamut
+29
Level 84
Jan 13, 2014
And they only speak one language in India I guess. And Bangladesh and India were never the same country. Oops...
EcceHomo
+1
Level 75
Sep 30, 2021
I guess it depends on the definition of the respective cities' population (which is given in the rubric above).
Epicx
+3
Level 22
Apr 10, 2014
Bengail is a regional language in india.West bengal speaks it.Kolkata is the largest city in West bengal. Kolkata is larger than dhaka. So it's Kolkata
Tigerclaw
+4
Level 57
Feb 21, 2018
Kolkata is in bengal state of india so it speaks bengali but dhaka' s population is slightly larger than kolkata
SWATkun
+5
Level 60
May 20, 2018
Not slightly, Dhaka is way bigger than Kolkata
kalbahamut
+11
Level 84
Jul 19, 2018
It looks like the quiz was updated and Kolkata was replaced by Dhaka. I assume this is because Dhaka has had more population growth and it has nothing to do with which country each city is in.
AbhishekNS
+5
Level 55
Jun 28, 2020
By that logic Arabic should have been limited to Saudi Arabia and Cairo should not have been included.

Often language overlaps national borders.

garcogait
+1
Level 65
Dec 15, 2022
But doesn't Cairo speak mostly arabic too?
STLCardinalFan12
+2
Level 56
Dec 30, 2013
As a last second try I typed in Canton and it worked!
YerevanNaypyidaw
+1
Level 30
Jun 22, 2015
Guangzhou/ Guangdong is sometimes called Canton in English, and so is the province it is in (also called Guangdong). The actual name for Cantonese is Yue.
AllenY
+2
Level 68
Aug 14, 2015
Actually, Cantonese is a dialect of Yue.
Findlay
+8
Level 83
Dec 2, 2020
Just to clarify - Guangzhou is the city, Guangdong the province. Canton has in English referred to the city of Guangzhou (sometimes also previously transliterated as Kwangchow) and the province, despite their names being different in Chinese languages. Cantonese, which is to its speakers known as 'Gwongdung wa', is part of the group of languages known as Yue, a southern branch of the Sinitic language family.
quizzkill69
+1
Level 34
Sep 23, 2019
I love the Cardinals!!!11one
blixmiss
+1
Level 31
May 16, 2021
I always struggle writing "Guangzhou" so I type Canton by default.
dragoncat
+1
Level 78
Jan 17, 2014
Ahmedabad?
zuni
+1
Level 33
Apr 21, 2015
It's in Indian state of Gujarat...largest city if that state
JackintheBox
+1
Level 77
Mar 5, 2019
of* :)
Epicx
+6
Level 22
Apr 10, 2014
Rome should be on here not Milan.
zuni
+1
Level 33
Apr 21, 2015
i typed that first
JackintheBox
+2
Level 77
Mar 5, 2019
No.
filosopher
+5
Level 31
Mar 17, 2019
Milan has a way bigger urban area than Rome
Quizzology
+3
Level 52
Jul 6, 2014
I think Belgrade kind of ruins the quiz... All of them are big, famous cities and Belgrade 1.3 m :|
eurocrem
+24
Level 42
Oct 5, 2015
Belgrade is a famous city, historically important. But it has a small population.
Regtheledge1000
+5
Level 31
Aug 27, 2020
It is popular..................if you live in serbia
Neptune777
+6
Level 70
Apr 16, 2016
Just because you aren't familiar with it doesn't make it popular.
JackintheBox
+6
Level 77
Mar 5, 2019
doesn't make it not* popular, I think you mean :)
AlexThirkell
+1
Level 72
Apr 3, 2020
The clue makes it easier to guess.
tolerated
+1
Level 77
Aug 25, 2015
Excellent quiz but a little too generous on time. I got 100% first time with 61 seconds to spare, so I think reducing the time limit by 30 seconds would be fair.
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 67
Sep 18, 2016
No, I ran out of time!
kiwiquizzer
+3
Level 67
Jul 19, 2018
YUSS got them all this time :-)
Malbaby
+3
Level 71
Jul 21, 2018
'Tolerated' you are not very tolerant when it comes to time for quizzes that you are good at. Most quizzes (except the timed typing quizzes) are for general knowledge not typing skills. If you are one of those unfortunate people that think that typing skills are more important than knowledge, I feel sorry for you. If you are just a very intelligent quizzer then try some of my quizzes, you might not find those as easy. (click on Malbaby and go from there)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
Ow my god, what múst you do with that time... I have a novel idea, perhaps use it to complain about things?
kalbahamut
+2
Level 84
Oct 5, 2015
Is the urban area of Tel Aviv considered larger than Jerusalem on citypopulation.de? Or is Arabic listed as more common than Hebrew? I'd be more likely to believe the former than the latter, though I was pretty sure Jerusalem was bigger.
kolp
+5
Level 86
Oct 5, 2015
Tel Aviv metro is a lot larger than Jerusalem according to citypopulation.de. Citypopulation data is not correct for Jerusalem though, as the population of the metro area is equaled to the population of the city proper. Pretty sure that even with proper data Tel Aviv metro would be substantially larger than Jerusalem metro.
rawe
+1
Level 66
Oct 5, 2015
Done with 28 seconds left. And from my phone, where I write slower.
khamba6
+1
Level 74
Oct 5, 2015
You're wrong on Bengali...Dhaka should be the main city, not Kolkata. Wiki shows Dhaka having 14.4m in 2013. Kolkata has 14.38m in 2015.
Neptune777
+2
Level 70
Apr 16, 2016
And that even shows stats for different years, proving his point invalid.
khamba6
+1
Level 74
Jul 21, 2018
So much for that
asensio10
+1
Level 34
Oct 6, 2015
Guangzhou doesn't have 46.9 million people
Neptune777
+3
Level 70
Apr 16, 2016
Metro area, man.
epicdjyoshi
+1
Level 31
Oct 6, 2015
20 out of 24. I kept typing in Hong Kong; I did not think that guagzhou had such a big population. But the way what is the difference between Wu and Mandarin
epicdjyoshi
+1
Level 31
Oct 6, 2015
Thought that Jerusalem was bigger than tel aviv
Findlay
+3
Level 83
Aug 3, 2016
Difference between Wu and Mandarin is that they're different languages. 'Hello' in Mandarin is 'nihao', in Wu it is 'nong ho'. The number 10 in Mandarin is 'shi', in Wu it is 'sat'.
EvilStepsister
+3
Level 40
Jul 19, 2018
Although China we refer to regional differences as dialects, or 'fangyan'. Supposedly there are seven major dialects, including Wu and Cantonese. Putonghua or Mandarin is the 'official' Chinese language and it is based on the Beijing dialect. Some linguists consider the dialects as separate languages, some don't. There might as well be thousands of languages in China, as in many cases, even different regions in the same city have dialects that are incomprehensible to each other.
CapitalAce
+1
Level 58
Oct 21, 2020
In linguistics, the various languages in China are different languages, not dialects. In Chinese, people and the government tend to call them dialects. The rule is that if they are not mutually intelligible, they are different languages. Mandarin and Cantonese are not mutually intelligible; neither are Mandarin and Wu.
holypauly
+1
Level 89
Oct 7, 2015
Guangzhou does not have that large of a population, you can't just include other cities like Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou into Guangzhou and even if you did, Shenzhen is a city where you speak mandarin due to the fact that the majority of the population have migrated from other provinces
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
But Cantonese is still widely spoken there, especially in informal situations and at home, which is also stated by the instructions above.
SimonJ7567
+1
Level 15
Oct 8, 2015
Now Ankara is turkey's capital
Carry
+10
Level 63
Feb 2, 2016
Your point is? The quiz is asking for the biggest cities where a language is most commonly spoken and Istanbul has thrice as many people as Ankara.
Neptune777
+1
Level 70
Apr 16, 2016
Missed just Lagos and Ahmedabad, got all others however.
SWATkun
+2
Level 60
Nov 9, 2016
I knew sau Paulo. just i forgotten it's spelling
shute
+4
Level 32
Apr 2, 2017
sao paulo
Jarl5
+1
Level 67
Jun 14, 2017
Missed Gujarati but got everything else. What a fun quiz!
AD13
+2
Level 45
Jul 31, 2017
One of the funnest quizzes I've taken on jetpunk!
ratib
+1
Level 36
Dec 27, 2017
Does Kolkata have a larger metro population than Dhaka?
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
Dhaka is now larger than Kolkata.
JohnOfili
+1
Level 42
Dec 29, 2017
Is Dhaka (at 18 million) not larger than Kolkata?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Feb 2, 2018
It is now, yes. The quiz has been updated.
Milezinator
+1
Level 59
Jan 23, 2018
who else had no clue what Gujarati is lol
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Feb 2, 2018
Gandhi's native language
chitrajainn
+1
Level 56
Jul 19, 2020
Gujaratis form a huge chunk of the expat population in US too!
IvanAndonov
+2
Level 65
Apr 9, 2018
According to English Wikipedia, urban Kinshasa has more inhabitants than urban Paris, maybe check on some other sources, too.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Apr 10, 2018
While French is a popular second language in the D.R. Congo only a very small percentage of Congolese speak it natively.
Zefyrinus
+1
Level 69
Jul 19, 2018
Isn't Shenzhen included in the numbers for Guangzhou? In that case, Shenzhen should be an acceptable answer.
BlitZarD99
+1
Level 52
Jul 19, 2018
Idk if someone has mentioned it before, but Rome should be bigger than Milan today (even with urban area around it). See Wikipedia, etc.
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
Well, Rome is bigger than Milan by city limits, but vice versa by urban areas.
snegi
+4
Level 49
Jul 19, 2018
serbo-croatian does NOT exist. It existed in Yugoslavia times, in a political way. Same as Czechoslovakian. But they were separated languages. But political or not. It does not ecist.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 84
Jul 20, 2018
Sometimes they replace a few words and insist it's a new language because of politics.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 10, 2020
It's a total farce. Apparently, they even hire "translators" to convert between the two "languages", which of course sound almost exactly the same.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
A language does not cease to exist when countries split or are put together. (Instantly I mean, ofcourse it can change after a couple centuries). Look at belgium for instance. they speak french and dutch
anna0kear
+1
Level 37
Jul 20, 2018
Accept Beograd for Belgrade?
ngef
+1
Level 41
Jul 20, 2018
Jerusalem has more hebrew speakers than Tel Aviv
kalbahamut
+3
Level 84
Jul 23, 2018
I think this is false if you consider the urban area. But more importantly this isn't based on the cities with the largest number of speakers of each language, it's about naming the biggest cities where each language is spoken more than any other language in those cities.
killuaoddly
+1
Level 44
Mar 8, 2019
I never knew Guangzhou had so many people!

I have also never heard of the language "Yoruba"...hehehe...

And for Hebrew I typed in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Amman, Baghdad,...I am so untalented.

For Vietnamese I tried Phnom Penh, and for all those languages like Marathi, Tamil or Gujarati I just tried all the Hindi cities I know...Still got all of them...but #facepalm

HinesBrothers
+1
Level 74
Mar 11, 2019
Fun but easy
Algarve
+2
Level 67
Mar 21, 2019
Why no German?
Gohokiesandturtles
+2
Level 52
Aug 6, 2019
Didn’t Kinshasa’s population pass Paris’ (although I assume there is still more French spoken in Paris)?
Shade9099
+2
Level 67
Nov 20, 2019
Kinshasa also has a plethora of native languages to account for, of which Paris has no dire need to worry.
Geoguessin
+1
Level 67
Nov 4, 2019
I remembered at the end what hebrew was
omnikin
+1
Level 58
Dec 29, 2019
EZ 4 ME (good quiz, hope to see more like these)
tzhg
+1
Level 60
Jan 3, 2020
Needs an update. Kinshasa now has more inhabitants than Paris.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Oct 10, 2020
While French is a popular second language in the D.R. Congo only a very small percentage of Congolese speak it natively.
CapitalAce
+3
Level 58
Oct 21, 2020
Have you been to Kinshasa .... There is no way a majority of people living there speak French, and certainly not French at home as their usual language of communication. Yes, because of colonialism, it is an official language there, but that does not mean many or most people use it much.
fabianxcvi
+1
Level 17
May 14, 2020
Very interesting quiz!
bigbird54
+1
Level 50
Jul 8, 2020
fun
EvanAviator
+1
Level 57
Nov 15, 2020
WOW i did a lot better than i thought
alexandertorres1978
+1
Level 71
Nov 15, 2020
Excellent quiz, loved it.
zakatan
+1
Level 65
Nov 15, 2020
I still find the Wu thing quite surprising. I lived for half a year in Shanghai and encountered a single Wu speaker. I don't know what people do at their homes, but on the street Wu is almost non-existent (from my laowai perspective, of course).
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
Well, I hear that Wu is dying out there.
RITB
+1
Level 51
Nov 15, 2020
Bengali is wrong, the most populous city is Kolkata, not Dhaka!
Mogysht
+2
Level 49
Nov 16, 2020
Kolkata is 14 million, Dhaka is close to 20 million. So, no, it's not wrong.
WildStrawberries
+1
Level 49
Nov 17, 2020
Rome is larger than Milan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
By city limits, but not by urban area.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 53
Nov 18, 2020
Paris, 11.4 million?? I didn't even try it.
parkave
+1
Level 57
Dec 23, 2020
Fun quiz, but a bit too easy without a yellow bar, I accidentally got Ahmadabad and Chennai, just because I was guessing for other Indian languages
VinMaps
+1
Level 65
Jan 26, 2022
Wouldn't you have guessed them either way, if not then later?
Wesgamebro
+1
Level 17
Apr 7, 2021
Dutch?
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
Amsterdam, maybe.
T4mlflame
+1
Level 44
May 19, 2021
Not gonna lie, the Italian and the Cantonese one confused me. I was surprised that Milan had more Italian speakers than Rome and Venice. As for the Cantonese one, I thought it was commonly spoken in South-East Asia. By the way I'm currently living in India so the Indian cities were quite easy for me lol.
GeneralZ
+1
Level 42
Dec 11, 2021
Cantonese is not spoken natively in Southeast Asia (except for Cantonese immigrants living there).
Angbo
+1
Level 61
May 22, 2021
Easy!!
Eduardoleonl05
+1
Level 26
Aug 11, 2021
Only missed Ahmedabad, the rest I got it perfect. I love this quizes
Rumreisender
+1
Level 49
Jan 7, 2022
How about German?
IceCold
+1
Level 56
Jan 23, 2022
I do not think that Marathi is not the most commonly spoken language of Mumbai.

According to this wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai,

Marathi is spoken by 32.2% of the population, Hindi by 25.9% of population and Urdu by 11.7%. But Hindi and Urdu in spoken form (as spoken language is the criterion for this quiz) are the same language often described by the name 'Hindustani' which takes it's total to 37.6%, more than Marathi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language

VinMaps
+1
Level 65
Jan 26, 2022
It is though. Also, Urdu is a Pakistani language more than its Indian.

Source: born and bought up in Mumbai.

IceCold
+1
Level 56
Feb 1, 2022
1. Being born and brought up in Mumbai is neither a source nor does it give you a mathematical answer on which language is spoken more at home when the numbers are so close. Also I have lived in Mumbai for 10 years but it does not change the answer at all

2. Urdu being a "Pakistani language" is neither correct not does it bring any value to this discussion

VinMaps
+1
Level 65
Jan 26, 2022
As someone whose first language is Gujarati, it makes me happy to see so many people getting stumped by it.
SammyStudios
+1
Level 46
Apr 6, 2022
Lol, who wouldn't if they were put in the same situation.
SammyStudios
+1
Level 46
Apr 6, 2022
Check your sources again, even though it is better for integrity to be more conservative with your numbers citypopulation.de is quite inaccurate messing up on countries by giving them less or more than they have. In my opinion, put more research into what source you use or just average between two sources (although it would be more work). I love your quizzes and I just want to give one piece of insight so you are aware. Don't take this harshly but not lightly either! : )
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 55
Apr 26, 2022
Im pretty sure Kinshasa has more people than Paris and they are both french cities? Correct me if Im wrong with proof.
Lucsky
+1
Level 53
Jun 6, 2022
German?!?
Criterion
+1
Level 43
Jun 10, 2022
I actually tried to type Southern American megacities on the Spanish one and went totally blank on Mexico City:(
starfruit69
+1
Level 34
Aug 6, 2022
First Try 100%. I loved it keep up the nice and quick quizzes
mfmehrpooya
+1
Level 35
Nov 23, 2022
largest French speaking city is Kinshasa ( capital city of DRC )
Tykingcrystal
+1
Level 50
Nov 29, 2022
Why do I feel so smart getting Ahmedabad on accident?
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