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Biggest Cities by Language Quiz

For each language, name the biggest city where that language is the most commonly spoken.

Based on urban area populations, according to citypopulation.de, January 2018

Quiz by Quizmaster

Last updated: February 02, 2018

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Language	Population	City
English	22.2 mil	New York City
Spanish	22.6 mil	Mexico City
French	11.3 mil	Paris
Korean	24.6 mil	Seoul
Portuguese	22.1 mil	São Paulo
Arabic	18.2 mil	Cairo
Russian	17.0 mil	Moscow
Turkish	14.8 mil	Istanbul
Mandarin	20.0 mil	Beijing
Japanese	39.9 mil	Tokyo
Wu	29.5 mil	Shanghai
Hindi	28.4 mil	Delhi

Language	Population	City
Cantonese	45.6 mil	Guangzhou
Tagalog	24.6 mil	Manila
Marathi	24.2 mil	Mumbai
Yoruba	18.2 mil	Lagos
Bengali	18.8 mil	Dhaka
Persian	14.7 mil	Tehran
Tamil	10.7 mil	Chennai
Vietnamese	8.35 mil	Ho Chi Minh City
Gujarati	8.00 mil	Ahmedabad
Italian	5.15 mil	Milan
Hebrew	2.63 mil	Tel Aviv
Serbo-Croatian	1.41 mil	Belgrade

kalbahamut

level 73

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

level 36

Jun 2, 2013

Very good quiz, I like the ones with languages :)

dznychick

level 37

Jun 2, 2013

Could you please explain where you got a population of 21+ million for New York City? That completely threw me off.

bluesdjben

level 68

Jun 3, 2013

8 million in the actual city, plus the suburbs in Long Island, northern New Jersey, southern New York, southwest Connecticut.

Quetzalcoatl

level 23

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

level 57

Apr 16, 2016

It's easy if you know Hindu States, which I am not very knowledgeable of.

fitheach

level 56

Apr 13, 2017

What happens if you don't know that Ahmedabad is in Gujarat though...?

PacoGee

level 49

Mar 13, 2018

then you are like most of the people and dont get that one right lol

benjisarocks21

level 41

Nov 25, 2013

Uh Bengali is a language in Bangladesh so it should be Dhaka, not Kolkata. Kolkata is a city in India.

Ponderosa

level 69

Dec 14, 2013

Right, because languages always start and end at natural borders and there's never any cultural overlap.

kalbahamut

level 73

Jan 13, 2014

And they only speak one language in India I guess. And Bangladesh and India were never the same country. Oops...

ivyhooligan

level 28

Jan 20, 2014

maybe he just missed the concept, not that he doesn't think languages are spoken in more than one country

Epicx

level 24

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

Indiandesi

level 25

Feb 21, 2018

Kolkata is in bengal state of india so it speaks bengali but dhaka' s population is slightly larger than kolkata

CreativeSWAT

level 46

May 20, 2018

Not slightly, Dhaka is way bigger than Kolkata

kalbahamut

level 73

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.

STLCardinalFan12

level 30

Dec 30, 2013

As a last second try I typed in Canton and it worked!

YerevanNaypyidaw

level 15

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

level 55

Aug 14, 2015

Actually, Cantonese is a dialect of Yue.

dragoncat

level 74

Jan 17, 2014

Ahmedabad?

zuni

level 37

Apr 21, 2015

It's in Indian state of Gujarat...largest city if that state

Epicx

level 24

Apr 10, 2014

Rome should be on here not Milan.

zuni

level 37

Apr 21, 2015

i typed that first

Quizzology

level 55

Jul 6, 2014

I think Belgrade kind of ruins the quiz... All of them are big, famous cities and Belgrade 1.3 m :|

eurocrem

level 44

Oct 5, 2015

Belgrade is a famous city, historically important. But it has a small population.

Neptune777

level 57

Apr 16, 2016

Just because you aren't familiar with it doesn't make it popular.

FuroraCeltica

level 39

Aug 15, 2014

Love this quiz

tolerated

level 70

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

level 58

Sep 18, 2016

No, I ran out of time!

kiwiquizzer

level 58

Jul 19, 2018

YUSS got them all this time :-)

Malbaby

level 66

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)

kalbahamut

level 73

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

level 72

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

level 50

Oct 5, 2015

Done with 28 seconds left. And from my phone, where I write slower.

khamba6

level 61

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.

forgin

level 37

Oct 6, 2015

The source for this quiz is not wikipedia. Its citypopulation.de Read the disclaimer before you complain.

Neptune777

level 57

Apr 16, 2016

And that even shows stats for different years, proving his point invalid.

khamba6

level 61

Jul 21, 2018

So much for that

asensio10

level 41

Oct 6, 2015

Guangzhou doesn't have 46.9 million people

Neptune777

level 57

Apr 16, 2016

Metro area, man.

epicdjyoshi

level 32

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

level 32

Oct 6, 2015

Thought that Jerusalem was bigger than tel aviv

Findlay

level 70

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

level 34

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.

holypauly

level 69

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

SimonJ7567

level 14

Oct 8, 2015

Now Ankara is turkey's capital

Carry

level 58

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

level 57

Apr 16, 2016

Missed just Lagos and Ahmedabad, got all others however.

CreativeSWAT

level 46

Nov 9, 2016

I knew sau Paulo. just i forgotten it's spelling

shute

level 40

Apr 2, 2017

sao paulo

Jarl5

level 57

Jun 14, 2017

Missed Gujarati but got everything else. What a fun quiz!

Yankeeswin

level 34

Jul 31, 2017

One of the funnest quizzes I've taken on jetpunk!

ratib

level 21

Dec 27, 2017

Does Kolkata have a larger metro population than Dhaka?

JohnOfili

level 45

Dec 29, 2017

Is Dhaka (at 18 million) not larger than Kolkata?

Quizmaster

level ∞

Feb 2, 2018

It is now, yes. The quiz has been updated.

Milezinator

level 56

Jan 23, 2018

who else had no clue what Gujarati is lol

Quizmaster

level ∞

Feb 2, 2018

Gandhi's native language

IvanAndonov

level 59

Apr 9, 2018

According to English Wikipedia, urban Kinshasa has more inhabitants than urban Paris, maybe check on some other sources, too.

Quizmaster

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

level 64

Jul 19, 2018

Isn't Shenzhen included in the numbers for Guangzhou? In that case, Shenzhen should be an acceptable answer.

BlitZarD99

level 25

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.

snegi

level 43

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

level 73

Jul 20, 2018

Sometimes they replace a few words and insist it's a new language because of politics.

anna0kear

level 37

Jul 20, 2018

Accept Beograd for Belgrade?

ngef

level 21

Jul 20, 2018

Jerusalem has more hebrew speakers than Tel Aviv

kalbahamut

level 73

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.