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Name the world's most populous urban areas that start with the letter B.
According to citypopulation.de, January 2024
Urban area population, not city proper
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First submittedFebruary 13, 2012
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Country
Population
City
Thailand
21.2 mil
Bangkok
China
21.2 mil
Beijing
Argentina
16.7 mil
Buenos Aires
India
14.2 mil
Bangalore
Colombia
10.4 mil
Bogotá
United States
7.70 mil
Boston
Iraq
7.65 mil
Baghdad
Indonesia
6.95 mil
Bandung
Mali
5.45 mil
Bamako
Brazil
4.93 mil
Belo Horizonte
Spain
4.88 mil
Barcelona
Germany
4.85 mil
Berlin
South Korea
4.00 mil
Busan
Brazil
3.98 mil
Brasília
Azerbaijan
3.68 mil
Baku
Australia
3.35 mil
Brisbane
India
3.28 mil
Bhilai
United Kingdom
3.28 mil
Birmingham
Belgium
2.78 mil
Brussels
India
2.68 mil
Bhopal
swagjunction21
+7
Level 26
Apr 30, 2012
what about bhopal and bhiwande? and isnt brasilia bigger than belo horizonte?
giuliano78
+4
Level 60
Jun 7, 2014
nope. Belo Horizonte is bigger than Brasilia
MayaB
+2
Level 72
Mar 29, 2024
12 years later and Bhopal is on the list now.
mdaleschrock
+15
Level 10
Apr 30, 2012
Boston does not have 7,400,000 people, they don't even have 1 million people. They're a little over 600,000.
cranbeckh
+9
Level 68
Jun 7, 2013
All of massachusetts has only 6.46 million! I think the answer is Baltimore!
burtviile
+4
Level 90
Jul 27, 2013
According to the population numbers used for this quiz Baltimore does not exist, it is simply part of Washington's metro area.
burtviile
+8
Level 90
Jul 27, 2013
Boston has 7.4 million easy, if you count Springfield and Worcester, also Manchester, NH and Providence, RI, and all points in between.
BostonBoy
+7
Level 21
Sep 1, 2013
burtviile, Manchester, NH is not in Boston, and neither is Providence, RI, they are their own places and have their own metro areas, additionally, they're in different states. The entire population of the state of Massachusetts isn't even 6.5 million, so it's quite impossible to include Boston at 7.4 million residents.
friendz
+19
Level 72
Mar 13, 2014
they seem to be using a Combined Statistical Area for the Boston Population which makes Boston 6th in the US. Don't think that's the same a a Metro Area,
godofskis
+8
Level 64
May 19, 2014
Boston has 7mil maybe if you count all of New England. Way to go guys.
UMCPGreg
+3
Level 72
Dec 23, 2016
It's clearly the CSA - which burtville and friendz described well. Not really that controversial.
Quizmaster
+36
Level ∞
Jun 1, 2018
Yep. It's the CSA. If you disagree, there's an easy solution. Get a masters in statistics, apply to work for the Census Bureau, work your way up to the top over several decades, and when you get enough clout, you can institute your own definitions.
TenThousand
+20
Level 76
Jun 1, 2018
The "Boston" CSA covers 65% of the land area of Massachusetts PLUS 75% of the population of New Hampshire PLUS 100% of Rhode Island state (yep, every single person) PLUS a chunk of Connecticut as well!!! Calling all of that "Boston" is just bloody stupid (though the US Stats Department doesn't call it "Boston" either - they name it "Boston-Worcester-Providence", though a more honest description would be "Boston-Worcester-Providence-CapeCod-Manchester-Concord"). PS I haven't worked my way up to the top of the Census Bureau, but I'm still entitled, like any human being, to express my opinion.
IsleAuHaulte
+9
Level 89
Jun 18, 2018
"Combined Statistical Areas" are hardly urban. They're sprawling rural and suburban areas of multiple, often nonadjacent, urban areas. Citypopulation.de has always been run by someone with a turn-on for big numbers.
Ferbin
+2
Level 76
May 27, 2022
It's ridiculous. Even the definition of CSA says "multiple metropolitan areas". In no way does this constitute a city. Would you say then that New York and Newark are the same city? San Francisco and San José? Cause if you're going by to the CSA classification, they are.

Also, description says "urban area population" but CSAs have large chunks of rural areas. Are you excluding those parts for the final tally?

Parameters on the definition of a city change depending on the quiz. I wonder why. But hey, if you make a critique, you can always bet on getting a condescending reply from Jetpunk eminences.

FreeStater
+1
Level 66
Mar 26, 2024
I usually agree with the sprawling definitions used by citypopulation.de and the Census Bureau, but it goes too far in this case. Counting Laconia, New Shoreham, Worcester, and Cape Cod as "Boston" is insane.
rgc1600
+6
Level 73
May 17, 2014
If they're using "urban areas", then Boston is part of New York City. I know the quizmaster is following the data, but this is really laughable.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 82
Feb 16, 2019
Not many people from Boston commute to work in New York.
NathanJB
+4
Level 45
Aug 8, 2014
IT IS METRO AREA
MyMindWentBlank
+4
Level 61
Dec 23, 2016
There are 600,000 people in the actual city of Boston. The urban area would be far more than that.
NathanielMcVeagh
+4
Level 32
Jul 19, 2012
My best friend used to live in Bangalore and I forgot it. *facepalm*
TinklePork
+3
Level 62
Mar 27, 2017
Cool story
LFC1892
+6
Level 35
Apr 1, 2013
There can't be any way that the Bhilai metro population is larger than Bhopal. I've looked up about every possible measure, and Bhilai isn't anywhere close to Bhopal, let alone the 2.275 million that you have listed. According to the India 2011 Census website, the urban population of Bhilai was 927,864, and of Bhopal, 2,368,145.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 82
May 17, 2014
Breezed through all the answers except the last India and Brazil ones. Thought about those for a minute but couldn't come up with anything. Gave up, and I don't think I've ever heard of Bhilai before. Belem sounds vaguely familiar.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Oct 12, 2016
I think it has since been replaced by Bucharest, where I used to live last summer and have definitely heard of before.
MCdoesgeography
+3
Level 69
Jun 28, 2023
Nobody asked
jmellor13
+1
Level 67
May 17, 2014
Whatever metric you use, there is no way Boston has 7.4 million. I know it says "urban area," but you'd need a radius extending hours outside Boston to get that many people. It just isn't correct.
eric29cocoanuts
+2
Level 77
May 18, 2014
I live in New Hampshire, 39 miles from Boston. For Boston to have a population of 7.2 million you would have to include over half the population of all of New England (pop. 14 million+). And I do NOT live in Boston! Quizmaster, I think you need a better source if this is the kind of info provided by citypopulation.de. The city I live in is neither close to nor related to Boston in any way other than being part of the same Megalopolis that stretches halfway down the East Coast.
Quizmaster
+11
Level ∞
May 19, 2014
We're getting close to setting a JetPunk whining record on this quiz. C'mon guys - you can do it!
eric29cocoanuts
+3
Level 77
May 19, 2014
Okay, happy to oblige. I previously suggested that your source (citypopulation.de) was not reliable. I now realize that .de domain websites are German in origin. No offense to our German friends but why not use a US site for your info? With all the complaints this quiz seems to be getting it might at least be worth taking a look at alternate resources for population statistics. There, hope that puts us over the top!
pampelius
+9
Level 46
Jun 28, 2015
Okay there seems to be a lot of weird statistics in this quiz, but what kind of comment is that? Jeez I'm getting sick of the American exceptionalism thinking... German sites are as good as any, it's not like American sites are always right.
Carry
+1
Level 63
Sep 19, 2016
There's a map on the sources site that shows what they included in the mentioned urban areas. You can't see every cities name but Boston for example includes a very large area so the 7,350,000 they list seem appropriate. If you then look up the urban area of Boston on Wikipedia (not the search result for Boston but for cities and metropolitan areas of the United States) it says that "Boston-Worcester-Manchester (MA-RI-NH CSA)" has a population of 7,601,061 people (2011 data).
jxgalt
+2
Level 84
Dec 23, 2016
On Wiki's page for "Metropolitan Statistical Areas", which reports census data, the Boston-Worchester-Manchester MSA has 4.77 million residents (2015 estimate). If you added the entire state of Rhode Island, you'd still be 2 million shy of whatever fantasy citypopulation.de (which grossly overstates the populations of several US cities) claims.
eric29cocoanuts
+3
Level 77
Dec 23, 2016
I just reread my own comment and wondered what I was thinking when I wrote it. I guess it just seemed to me that if you want to know something about America, ask an American. Similarly, I would look first to a German site for vital statistics regarding Germany. I didn't mean to imply that Americans have all the answers! Just that if you are looking for the right answer, go to the source. That's all I meant and no disrespect towards anyone was intended.
camus
+1
Level 78
Oct 24, 2018
The website has equally weird results for German "cities".
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Aug 26, 2019
@eric29cocoanuts. That wouldnt be a weird suggestion and quite sensible (though not foulproof, it isnt a given that a country has better data about itself than other countries, and definitely depends on the type of data, different countries are experts in different fields) and logical if it was a quiz about american cities. But it is about the entire world, so data from a german based website would not make more or less sense than using an american based website.

I am sure if you had posted your comment on a US cities quiz you wouldnt have gotten any remarks along the lines you have now. (Maybe you meant only for the boston question, but since you talk about "all the complaints this quiz gets" it seems like you are implying an american source is needed for áll the questions. I think that is where people perhaps read it differently than you intended :) )

Jarl5
+4
Level 68
Jun 9, 2017
Aw man, why isn't wdfsijn accepted for Brasilia? ;)
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Mar 12, 2019
Because nobody calls Brasilia 'wdfsijn', it's too far-fetched, and it's an implausible type-in.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Mar 12, 2019
;)
Sifhraven
+3
Level 67
Aug 26, 2019
Because you spelled it wrong, it is wsdfijn
ander217
+1
Level 75
Oct 24, 2018
I don't have a dog in this fight. We live so far out in the boonies that citypopulation doesn't even know we exist so I'll leave the whining to those in-the-know. (But I'll catch you next time.)
alinee
+1
Level 55
Aug 26, 2020
Why does your level say infinity?
mightythor
+4
Level 66
Jun 6, 2014
Wikipedia says, about Boston:

The largest city in New England, the city proper, covering 48 square miles (124 km2), had an estimated population of 636,000 in 2012,[4] making it the 21st largest city in the United States.[3] The city is the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country.[6] Greater Boston as a commuting region[10] is home to 7.6 million people, making it the sixth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.[7][11]

I have no clue what the quiz means to include within "urban area", but (maybe) one of these numbers would be it.

Anthony121
+2
Level 51
Aug 9, 2014
BHOPAL!!!!
azteque316
+1
Level 69
Nov 1, 2014
19/21.. Only missed Belo horizonte and...... Beijing!! Just can't believe that...
JackintheBox
+3
Level 79
Mar 12, 2019
But you got Bhilai and Bhopal?
stromae
+1
Level 70
Jan 30, 2015
I missed Berlin -_-
stubart409
+1
Level 67
Jan 25, 2016
Got everyone except Bhilai. I've lived in Brisbane 30 years. 2.75 mill seemed a bit high to me, so I checked it. The last census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2014 gave the "greater Brisbane area" with a population of 2.27mill.
AllenY
+1
Level 69
Feb 8, 2016
Pff, take the extra people and run with it. Especially if they're from Sydney. As a Melburnian, the day when we finally surpass Sydney in population will be a grand one.
stubart409
+1
Level 67
Apr 13, 2018
Yeah, why get hung up on things like censuses when considering population statistics. What would they know? Why don't we just fly over in a helicopter and guesstimate?
Snoflakes
+2
Level 69
Mar 26, 2024
Congratulations, you passed Sydney!
grantdon
+1
Level 73
Apr 16, 2024
as an (ex) Sydneysider, I can tell you that Sydney doesn't really care
Ekzo
+1
Level 49
May 18, 2016
17/21, dont know how I missed Bamako...
Devvik2
+3
Level 70
May 28, 2016
I think you should let me write Belo, for Belo for Belo Horizonte. Just like some people have so you can write Porto, for Porto Alegre.
cta127
+2
Level 72
Oct 19, 2022
I know this is a bit old now, but I'll leave a comment for everyone else: You can just type BH for Belo Horizonte.
Ogeografo
+1
Level 35
Mar 26, 2024
I'm from BH, and that's how us, inhabitants, use to call the city.

Btw, I'm positively surprise about the number of people that got my city! :)

DonStar
+1
Level 41
Oct 16, 2016
Did ok just didn't know the last 3
buddhabhoy1888
+2
Level 62
Oct 21, 2016
Bengaluru is by far the largest city in India beginning with the letter B
kalbahamut
+3
Level 82
Dec 23, 2016
That's Bangalore
Jiaozira
+5
Level 70
May 27, 2017
Bangalore is Bengaluru now. They are the same thing, only the government is changing to Bengaluru like they did for Calcutta-Kolkata, Madras-Chennai, Bombay-Mumbai, etc.
Antofagasta
+1
Level 67
Dec 23, 2016
QM, you can't let citypopulation.de correct whatever mistakes they might or might not have made, it would spoil all the fun.
DaveH
+1
Level 48
Dec 23, 2016
I absolutely REFUSE to believe that, without using Google, 41% of test takers got Belo Horizonte. Just don't by it.
joeythelemur
+4
Level 84
Dec 23, 2016
Brazil hosted the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in the last couple of years. Plenty of people have heard of Belo now. And the people on JetPunk are kind of self-selected geography nerds, so it's totally believable.
Shade9099
+2
Level 67
Feb 23, 2018
I got it :)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 26, 2019
I believe that you don't believe it. Since you don't seem to be able to distinguish buy from by ;)

I know everybody can makes typos, so I am not serious about this (though who know maybe it is true..) But I couldn't let this one go, had to make the remark :)

EcceHomo
+2
Level 79
Mar 2, 2021
Belo Horizonte is a well-known city in Brazil. It was a host city in the 2014 (Soccer!!) World Cup. Add to this the fact that the QM decided in his wisdom to allow BH for Belo Horizonte - and you can get this by typing, or trying to type BHOPAL, a massive city in its own right, made even more famous by the huge gas leak incident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant which killed huge numbers of people (between 4,000 and 16,000 people are thought to have died directly or indirectly from this incident). Do you still REFUSE to believe it? If so, read more, become aware of more stuff, and then this kind of thing might be more credible to you. Then you might "by"it.
Matthew07
+1
Level 47
Dec 23, 2016
Baltimore really should be its own city. Never really heard of it being in DC
idontlikeit2
+1
Level 74
Dec 23, 2016
I love how you accept Brasilia AND "Belo Horizonte" for Brazil, but NOT Bombay for India. No, you just had to put a city I've cant even find on a map of asia.
joeythelemur
+5
Level 84
Jun 14, 2018
It's not called Bombay anymore; it's Mumbai, which clearly doesn't start with a B.
NCsupercade
+2
Level 55
Dec 24, 2016
There are 7.5 million people in Boston???
dg48
+1
Level 65
Mar 17, 2017
Bhopal???
Jarl5
+1
Level 68
Jun 9, 2017
Got belo, missed brasilia.
FazeC
+4
Level 18
Dec 13, 2017
i cheated
Baxtergrad
+1
Level 52
Dec 28, 2020
I didn't.
DrIlluminati123
+1
Level 33
Jun 4, 2018
What about 'Bombay'?
joeythelemur
+1
Level 84
Jun 14, 2018
Answered in comments above. Try Googling it and see what you get. :-)
YellowJacket
+2
Level 78
Oct 24, 2018
I may be wrong, but the number for Bhilai seems to be combining Bhilai with Raipur. Even looking at citypopulation, I don't see how Bhilai ends up with 2.73 million people.
communisteggplant
+1
Level 73
Oct 24, 2018
Definition of CSA (from Wikipedia): "A combined statistical area (CSA) is composed of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage."

So Boston is the center of a CSA that includes Manchester, Worcester, and Providence and their surrounding areas. All of these places clearly have social or economic linkages that are centered in Boston. This isn't hard.

Also- keep in mind that the geographic size of the Boston CSA is pretty close to, say, Dallas or St. Louis. Just because an area has lots of different subdivisions as a function of when it was founded doesn't mean it can't be a CSA.

Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Aug 30, 2019
I think that is the whole point. The part people have an issue with is that it is called cities. If the quiz was called CSA's they wouldn't have anything to complain. The "C" basicly says it all, it is a Combined are, so not cities, or even urban areas,

Ok I forgot the rest of my comment, had started it on another day and apparently never finished it haha

HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Nov 19, 2020
Maybe someone should go and talk to people in the Boston CSA and ask them how they feel about technically living in Boston.
parkave
+1
Level 57
Dec 13, 2020
I mean, all of us just tell people we're from "near boston" anyway.
Pierre
+1
Level 28
Jan 17, 2019
How the heck did I not remember Birmingham and Baghdad?!
EricStrong
+1
Level 27
Jan 17, 2019
I got Belo Horizonte but not Brasilia
danmj
+2
Level 62
Feb 20, 2019
Citypopulation.de has the population of Bhilai as 1.06 million, not 2.73 million. http://citypopulation.de/India-Agglo.html
TheGeographyGuy
+1
Level 34
Feb 24, 2019
can you accept Belo for Belo Horizonte?
cta127
+1
Level 72
Oct 19, 2022
I know this comment is a bit old now, but you can type BH for Belo Horizonte.
QuizzyMcguire11
+1
Level 60
May 22, 2019
as mentioned before Boston has no where near 7 million. That would make it the 2nd largest city in America.
tzhg
+2
Level 59
May 22, 2019
No, it wouldn't, NYC has more than 20 million and LA more than 10 million.
MavsFanForLife25
+1
Level 73
May 23, 2019
Look at the website they use and you'll see
parkave
+1
Level 57
Dec 13, 2020
I mean, its using CSA, where Boston becomes the 6th largest in the USA, but including over half of Massachusetts, all of rhode island, and pieces of New hampshire and Connecticut makes absolutely no sense
RedLightning
+2
Level 47
Oct 7, 2019
Belém has an accent on the second e.
EcceHomo
+2
Level 79
Mar 2, 2021
The Boston figure doesn't seem right to me. Has anyone mentioned it?
BigGeographyGuy
+1
Level 63
Apr 24, 2021
Belo Horizonte!
Fishyyy
+1
Level 56
Aug 4, 2021
almost typed in bombay for India but then remembered it's now called Mumbai
AllOfSanMarino
+1
Level 63
Mar 26, 2024
I kept trying Barranquilla for Colombia like "Dang why isn't it working?" Little did I know
Horaldgeo
+1
Level 50
Mar 27, 2024
This is so wrong,

1)Beijing definitely has more inhabitants than Bangkok

2) Berlin has definitely more inhabitants than Barcelona

3) Boston definitely doesnt have 7 million people

Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 27, 2024
Did you go to the urban areas and count everyone?
JesseFromThe6
+1
Level 69
Apr 13, 2024
I would like to echo the several questions about Bhilai. I looked on citypopulation.de and the highest number I found was 1,064,222. Where does the 3,280,000 figure come from?
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