i think it's fair to say this is one of those quizzes where you just guess everything and if you know more than about 20 then you're either chinese or you simply need to get out more
Except for a few universities with the name in it, "busan" is the one that is used. I also was in korea when the changeover was happening. Thought kyongju and gyeongju were two different cities because i saw both in writing :)
I've got it too. Always remember it as it has such a cool name. Maybe Kuala Lumpur should be allowed though. Technically incorrect but they're very close.
This was tough. I managed to get 7 of the top 10 including the top 4, but only 12 overall. That was good enough to place me in the 93rd percentile, but there were so many I guessed that I was shocked didn't make the list. I feel dumb for missing Busan and Antwerp.. I knew those two.
It's wilder still when you realise that number 3, Ningbo-Zhoushan, is only about 60 km away across the Yangtze Delta. And the Pearl River Delta is pretty incredible too, when you consider Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong also all make the list and are all similarly adjacent to each other. I'd be interested to know what percentage of the world's total those two river deltas account for.
Tanjung Priok doesn't make the list. When you start typing "Tanjung P" it automatically comes up with Tanjung Pelepas in Johor Malaysia, because that's the one that's on the list.
The port of Long Beach is directly beside the port of Los Angeles. Unless you're a satellite view border fanatic you will never know where the man made line is between the 2.
I'd argue Long Beach is within the Los Angeles metro area, whereas Laem Chabang is quite a long way outside of the Bangkok metro area. I know distance isn't the decisive factor, but to give you an idea of the difference: from Downtown Los Angeles to Long Beach is 30 minutes drive (40 km). From the centre of Bangkok to Laem Chabang is well over two hours drive (130 km). They aren't really comparable.
Interesting that huge island economies like Japan, the UK, and Indonesia all don't have a single one in the list. Must be that their long coastlines allow them to spread out traffic among a bunch of different ports.
New York is definitely a city, as in New York City. Northern New Jersey and its ports are just across the Hudson River. I don't know why metro area stuff was included there when the whole Pearl River Delta in China was separated but I didn't make the quiz.
From Wiki:
Kaohsiung City (Chinese: 高雄市; pinyin: Gāoxióng Shì)
Why they're ranked separately is way beyond me.
Why not Bangkok AND Laem Chabang ?