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Five Biggest Cities by Country

Guess the five most populous urban areas in each of the countries below.
Urban population population, not city proper
According to citypopulation.de as of 2018
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: September 7, 2018
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First submittedOctober 4, 2013
Times taken111,024
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United States
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Washington D.C.
San Francisco
 
Australia
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
Brazil
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte
Porto Alegre
Brasilia
 
Canada
Toronto
Montreal
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton
India
Delhi
Mumbai
Kolkata
Bengaluru
Chennai
 
South Africa
Johannesburg /
Pretoria
Cape Town
Durban
Port Elizabeth
Bloemfontein
United Kingdom
London
Birmingham
Manchester
Leeds
Liverpool
 
China
Guangzhou /
Shenzhen
Shanghai
Beijing
Tianjin
Xiamen
Japan
Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Fukuoka
Sapporo
 
Mexico
Mexico City
Guadalajara
Monterrey
Puebla
Toluca
Colombia
Bogota
Medellin
Cali
Barranquilla
Bucaramanga
 
Russia
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Nizhny Novgorod
Novosibirsk
Yekaterinburg
bluesdjben
+30
Level 74
Dec 4, 2013
I love quizzes like this.
buck1017
+72
Level 77
Jun 23, 2015
Me too...where else can you go and hear nerds bitch about the difference between city and urban area population. Grab some popcorn...it's gonna be good.
HectorVortac
+1
Level 48
May 2, 2017
+1
ace3349
+1
Level 67
Mar 2, 2018
It didn't take long!
jmellor13
+11
Level 67
Dec 4, 2013
There is absolutely no way that Washington DC is the fourth-biggest city in the country. It isn't even close. Might not be in top 20, and certainly not in the top ten. Houston is the fourth-biggest city. Dallas, Phoenix, San Jose, and San Diego are all much, much bigger cities, just to name a few.
kalbahamut
+31
Level 83
Dec 4, 2013
The municipal limits of DC are tiny. The metro area is gigantic.
Jerry928
+5
Level 75
Jun 13, 2014
In that case it should be just Washington. Only a small part is in DC if you include all the suburbs in Virginia and Maryland as well
Maladroit
+8
Level 52
Mar 1, 2018
Metro areas are weird. New York, Washington, and Atlanta have utterly ridiculous bounds, for example, and Guangzhou envelopes several other major cities to technically call itself the largest in the world. But municipal limits are possibly even weirder. Alexandria and Arlington are two small cities outside Washington, D.C., and any reasonable person would call them suburbs (Alexandria's biggest attraction is a smallish house). But they're not encompassed in the city limits. I'd say in Washington's case the metro area is the lesser of two evils, but it's ambiguous, and should really be worked out at some point.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Sep 15, 2018
"DC" and "Washington" are used by locals to be synonymous, and they routinely refer to the "DC metro area"
IsleAuHaulte
+7
Level 88
Sep 15, 2018
^^ As with any American city. Suburbanites fight tooth and nail to stay municipally separate and not to pay taxes to the central city that's the only reason the metro area exists, use the city's infrastucture heavily, but always tell people they're from City Name. Hypocrites.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Sep 16, 2018
I think it's a bit different with DC which exists in a small space between two states...
Geographydabest
+2
Level 39
Mar 15, 2022
IsleAuHaulte ... we say we're from 'city name' because nobody would know what we were talking about if we said the actual name of the suburb; no infrastructure in said city benefits us in the slightest and we have no responsibility to pay for it. We are different in that we live in a different state, we have lawns and they don't. They have a weird accent and we don't. We're different but still go by NYC because Americans don't know where Stamford is.

-Someone living in a town bordering Stamford, CT, which is itself usually classified as a part of the NYC metro

ozzdome
+8
Level 68
Dec 4, 2013
jemellor13, Houston is fourth in city population, but this quiz is asking for urban area population, which is something totally different. As an example, cities like Jacksonville, Columbus and Indianapolis have large city populations because their city limits are all-encompassing of most suburban areas. Cities like Washington and Boston, however, have small city limits without suburban areas, but their metro population is extraordinarily large.
Froststar101
+2
Level 74
Apr 4, 2015
I live in a Washington suburb, and the population of the District of Columbia itself is quite small. However, most of the quizzes combine it with Baltimore and everything in between as well as Virginia suburbs like Alexandria and Arlington, which together are something like 60% or more of DC.
samiamco
+4
Level 69
Dec 2, 2015
Trust those of us who live here, please. We who live in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland are part of the DC Metro area despite being in different states. And the population density is insane.
kogatora
+1
Level 92
Jan 29, 2019
According to a cursory internet search DC metro area has 1200/ sq mile and the central DC has 11000/sq mile. While high it is by no means highest in the world. Here is a list of cities which are at least 4 times denser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_density
Shade9099
+1
Level 67
Mar 1, 2018
See@buck1017 above
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 88
Sep 15, 2018
See the second comment on this quiz.
ALA02
+1
Level 61
Apr 26, 2020
Its metro area (which every other country on earth uses except the USA)
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Dec 4, 2013
couldn't spell Yeketerinaburg..
ander217
+7
Level 75
Sep 15, 2018
Katerina is a form of Katherine, and Catherine the Great went to Russia, so I think of it as Ye Katerina Burg. Unfortunately, one has to remember the city before one can remember the spelling and I did neither this time around.
blurmac
+2
Level 34
Dec 4, 2013
chennai is madras also
cm134
+2
Level 30
Dec 4, 2013
Madras and Bombay both got officially changed to Chennai and Mumbai respectively, so calling them by their former name is incorrect
melman007
+2
Level 25
Dec 4, 2013
On the same note, Bengaluru, not Bangalore, is now the official name.
xolkan
+5
Level 50
Dec 4, 2013
But if they accept Calcutta and Bombay then they should accept Madras
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Dec 5, 2013
Changed Bangalore to Bengaluru. @xolkan: Just because we accept some old versions and misspellings doesn't mean we are obligated to accept others.
TheWombat
+7
Level 74
Jan 13, 2015
Someone in the renaming department in Kolkata had a sense of humour when they were renaming streets in that city. They renamed the street that the US consulate is on Ho Chi Minh Street...
AllenY
+1
Level 69
Apr 12, 2015
I tried Madras simply because it was accepted on other quizzes, frankly...
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Aug 13, 2015
Speaking of unfortunately named streets, the hospital I used to work at was on Gallows Road.
dpbrown
+4
Level 66
May 14, 2016
On the unfortunate name front...when my wife underwent a caesarean section her anaesthetist was called Dr Payne.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
May 1, 2017
We had a gynecologist at the same hospital mentioned above Dr. Harry Beavers. Don't believe me? Google it and you should find him.
blurmac
+1
Level 34
Dec 4, 2013
also both salvador and fortaleza are bigger than belo horizonte
CoolDood
+1
Level 19
Mar 1, 2014
Curitiba is bigger than Porto Alegre,
giuliano78
+1
Level 61
Jun 11, 2014
No, they are not bigger than Belo Horizonte. Probably bigger than Porto Alegre though
notoriousnc
+1
Level 22
Sep 1, 2023
Belo Horizonte is easily 3rd if you are talking urban area even if the city proper is smaller.
buck1017
+9
Level 77
Dec 4, 2013
Everyone saying that this city is bigger than this city and whatever...Quizmaster lists his source. If you think something is wrong, perhaps contact the original source? I'm sure QM isn't going to change an answer based upon the "say so" of a user.
ozzdome
+6
Level 68
Dec 4, 2013
People simply need to realize there is a difference between city population and urban population.
tshalla
+3
Level 75
May 1, 2017
Sort of. Those things are usually defined consistently within countries, but are often defined wildly differently between them. I still can't get over Okayama, Japan apparently being the heart of a metro area of over 2 million.
greenredblue
+4
Level 38
Dec 6, 2013
Washington D.C. is NOT supposed to be in this list
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Dec 9, 2013
depends on how they define it. Sometimes they group in all of Northern Virginia and southern Maryland and even Baltimore.
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Dec 2, 2015
Actually, they don't "sometimes" include the suburbs in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland, they all the time include them. We are absolutely part of the Metro DC urban area, both officially and in practicality.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Feb 3, 2019
If they're going by metro or urban area they group in portions of Virginia and Maryland. But those portions vary in size and affect how they calculate the total population, and if they're going by city proper they're not included at all. Sometimes is accurate.
notoriousnc
+1
Level 22
Sep 1, 2023
To have DC this big you need to also give it Baltimore
Nacnud
+1
Level 24
Dec 9, 2013
Just Checked Citypopulation.de and DC is not in the top 5
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Dec 10, 2013
Yes it is:

http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html

To quote GOB, "C'mon!"

tazz676
+1
Level 61
Mar 5, 2014
There are different statistical categories of metros. The msa(metropolitan statistical area) and the csa(combined statistical area). The msa requires

urban connections between cities(I.e. rail connections/bus routes/subways)

while the csa has a looser requirement. DFW is the 4th msa and Washington

is 4th in csa.

cosmokim
+3
Level 65
Dec 14, 2015
Is it weird that GOB sounds just like Geo Bee?
ander217
+1
Level 75
Sep 15, 2018
Who's GOB?
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 74
Oct 15, 2021
George Oscar Bluth, and his name is pronounced like the biblical 'Job', not 'geo bee' unfortunately.
GeneralWaffle64
+1
Level 45
Apr 3, 2014
How does Washington, DC make the list when Houston doesn't?
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Apr 3, 2014
The greater DC area is much larger than that of Houston's. Houston isn't even the largest metro in Texas.
Robjohnson
+1
Level 86
Oct 9, 2014
Nice quiz. :D I checked the source though and there are relevant updates for 6 of the categories (Brasil, Canada, Colombia, Japan, USA & UK)

Cheers!

Arp2600
+1
Level 85
May 17, 2014
Not enough european countries in this quiz.
Arp2600
+1
Level 85
Feb 19, 2016
I still think this is unbalanced ;). Americas : 5 ; Asia : 3,5 ; Europe : 1,5, Africa : 1, Oceania : 1...
Jiaozira
+1
Level 70
Jun 4, 2016
Not enough African countries on this quiz...
Sifhraven
+1
Level 65
Jun 18, 2019
Not enough comments about why some cities shouldnt be on this quiz and what metro and urban is...
Nelinho251
+1
Level 28
May 30, 2014
100% with 1:55 remaining
punkybrewster
+1
Level 80
Jun 4, 2015
I tried Ekaterinburg and didn't get it. Add as an alternate spelling?
thetoonquiz
+1
Level 17
Jul 14, 2015
Miami is the 4th largest urban area in the U.S.
Valenmiceli
+1
Level 65
Sep 11, 2020
its city proper, not area.
ScubaMatt
+2
Level 66
Nov 2, 2015
Fun quiz. Though it's annoying how people are always correcting these population quizzes as if they're the unquestioned lord and master of census taking
Symmetrik
+2
Level 57
Feb 18, 2016
It's pretty amazing how Houston, Dallas, and Miami can all be the 4th biggest city in the USA. All these people trying to correct the quiz can't even agree on which city is right (hint: it's probably the city in the quiz!)
clivey
+1
Level 67
Feb 18, 2016
Managed to guess all of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Mexico and Brazil cities with ease.

Only missed Sapporo in Japan and Tianjin in China.

But only managed to get Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia and only Bogota for Colombia.

Good quiz, a mix of well known and obscure countries (well, cities). Would love to see more editions of this quiz!

quizzicalguy
+2
Level 65
Feb 18, 2016
It's amazing that only 4% of quiz takers know about Xiamen. I didn't. A city of 3.5 million Xiameners going about their Xiamener business day in and day out, year after year and I had no idea that they even existed. I need to travel more broadly, I think.
Arp2600
+1
Level 85
Feb 19, 2016
It seems Xiamen has grown very fast.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Sep 15, 2018
I knew it but spelled it wrong - Xiaman, Xianamen, then gave up and moved on.
venusfly
+1
Level 43
Sep 25, 2021
I kept spelling "Tianmen" for some reason
stubart409
+1
Level 66
Apr 9, 2016
I got 55 which I was pretty proud of. And whilst people are disputing what city is bigger than what in other countries, the top 5 in Australia are most definitely correct. Actually, these 5 cities account for 63.5% of the entire population of the country. Maybe someone could do a quiz on countries with highest rates of urbanization or population concentration or whatever it may be called. And another for the opposite, most diverse or spread out, scattered like lost fragments, spread like lost souls cast on the wind, or something like that.
AlfieJMD
+2
Level 37
Apr 30, 2016
I always though the top 5 American cities went like this: New York City, Los Angeles, chicago, Dallas, Phoenix
JBlouw1850
+1
Level 43
Oct 19, 2016
Urban area: see above. City proper: NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia (99% sure)
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
May 1, 2017
I believe that Manchester has just recently overtaken Birmingham as the UK's second most populated City.
DrakiGuy
+1
Level 56
May 1, 2017
OP, Johannesburg and Pretoria are not the same cities.
oastone
+2
Level 61
May 1, 2017
Urban area or not, DC and San Fran should not be in top 5. It should be NY, LA, Chicago, Dallas and Houston if you go by Metropolitan Statistical Area. It should be NY, LA, Chicago, Houston and Philly by city limits.

https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2016/demo/popest/total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
May 1, 2017
CSA not MSA
YVAS
+1
Level 50
May 2, 2017
What a great ideia for a quiz! If you're thinking about a second edition I think a good list of countries would be Argentina, Pakistan, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Nigeria, D. R. Congo, Italy, France, Germany, Spain.
HectorVortac
+2
Level 48
May 2, 2017
Maybe some day a quiz maker will issue a series titled "For This Quiz We're Looking for URBAN AREAS. Understand??? Not CITIES - URBAN AREAS (slap-slap-slap) UUUUURBAN AAAAAREEEEAAAAS".

Then follow it up with cities.

Sifhraven
+2
Level 65
Jun 18, 2019
I honestly think it wouldnt make much difference in the comments section hahah
IBRK
+1
Level 68
May 2, 2017
I am embarassed that i couldnt think of any cities in the uk besides london
BlobbyBlobfish
+1
Level 55
Jul 9, 2017
I spelled "Porto Alegre" as "Port Alegre" and moved on when it did not accept it. Why isn't "Port Alegre" accepted?
tzhg
+3
Level 60
Nov 17, 2020
Because that's not the name of the city.
littleman
+1
Level 57
Jul 18, 2017
xiamen? That's a small city
rphxx
+1
Level 70
Sep 17, 2017
Xiamen? How about 26 other larger cities in China??? For example: Chongqing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xi'an, Jinan, etc.
Maladroit
+3
Level 52
Mar 1, 2018
Say it with me now...metropolitan...statistical...area.
orangeajgreen
+2
Level 56
Feb 2, 2018
I put colcatta and Calcatta neither worked
Valenmiceli
+1
Level 65
Sep 11, 2020
just type "Calcuta"
LovesPoetry
+1
Level 62
Mar 1, 2018
East London is larger than Bloemfontein according wikipedia. 755k vs 747k
mynameisxyz
+2
Level 39
Mar 2, 2018
According to Wikipedia Toluca is 32nd biggest city in Mexico.
Fuse
+1
Level 77
Jan 15, 2021
According to both the caveat and description, it says this quiz uses urban area (and not city proper).
mountainguy
+4
Level 59
Mar 2, 2018
One way to know the colombian cities listed in this quiz:

Bogota: capital city, among the highest capitals in the world. Almost every colombian hates her, but almost everyone lives here

Medellín: second biggest city, used to have a big cartel. Only one in Colombia with "metro" rapid transit

Cali: Salsa big bands, biggest city near the Pacific, used to have the other big cartel

Barranquilla: biggest city in the colombian caribean coast. Some very beautiful mixed latino/lebanese girls

Bucaramanga: Only city in the world where women iron with their own bare hands.

dg48
+1
Level 64
Mar 2, 2018
I would love to see this become a series!
riverdale
+3
Level 45
Sep 15, 2018
Can't you accept "Novgorod"?
Grahamp81
+2
Level 43
Sep 15, 2018
Just come across this quiz. United Kingdom list is very wrong. All the cities are in England. Glasgow, at just over 800k is the third largest city in the UK. Bristol at 617k is larger than either Liverpool 540k or Manchester 520k.
JS18
+3
Level 72
Sep 15, 2018
It's urban area population, not city proper.
davecatto
+1
Level 51
May 13, 2022
The urban population is still bigger

City population of: Glasgow = 635k vs Liverpool = 864k

Urban population of: Glasgow = 1.68M vs Liverpool = 1.5M

FitzXsky
+1
Level 68
Sep 15, 2018
Hey, I've created a quiz of this type on all top five cities in Asian countries!

Be sure to check it out!!

Top Five Biggest Cities In Asia

ItsJerry
+1
Level 24
Sep 16, 2018
Is it not Janiero in place of Janeiro?
RBNNDL
+2
Level 22
Sep 16, 2018
Where is France ??? It's a important state !
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Sep 16, 2018
France is far below South Africa when you look at vuvuzelas per capita.
Capistrano
+1
Level 80
Sep 18, 2018
Tough crowd. Didn't accept Bloemfontain on this quiz.
pkerr116
+1
Level 73
Nov 5, 2018
Need some spelling generosity on this one....
Tummykong
+1
Level 67
Sep 19, 2018
Jesus Christ, I hate citypopulation.de. Horrible tally of metro populations.
abalaji
+1
Level 37
Feb 3, 2019
i missed new york because i thought it was a country
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 59
Aug 21, 2021
I do not know how to respond to this
arthur684
+3
Level 42
Feb 3, 2019
this test is so wrong, philly, houston and dallas are a lot bigger than san franscisco or dc
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 59
Aug 21, 2021
Did you read the caveats or any comments above? If you did, you should say, “maybe use a different way of measuring population,” instead of insisting one thing like a arrogant idiot. It’s been stated a lot how the population is measured on this quiz, so deal with it. They are both correct, so QM has to choose which one he wants.
AGR1
+1
Level 57
Jul 3, 2019
I live in Xiamen. It's not even the biggest city in this province, let alone 5th in all, of China. Xiamen only has around 5 million people: Chngqing, by comparison, has more than 30 million people!
payel123
+1
Level 38
Sep 1, 2019
Ecatepec is bigger than Toluca https://www.bing.com/search?q=ecatepec+population&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=f5e7e69ad9184e04b37911a86d045100&cc=GB&setlang=en-US&PC=LCTS and https://www.bing.com/search?q=toluca+population&form=EDGEAR&qs=TPP&cvid=86b6c80fa1c049768f0c6c4cafeb8f43&cc=GB&setlang=en-US&PC=LCTS
DrewFan
+1
Level 60
Jul 8, 2021
Looking on Google maps, it appears that Ecatapec is in the same urban area as Mexico city appearing in a gray area contiguous with Mexico city and thus could be considered part of Mexico city.
DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 84
Nov 9, 2019
Thinking of notorious drug cartels helped with Colombia.

Thinking of a Risk board was completely useless for Russia.

PumpkintheNerd
+1
Level 41
Jun 24, 2022
Lol
JonOfKent
+2
Level 55
Nov 6, 2020
Lovely quiz, thank you. The idea that Liverpool is bigger than Glasgow though is for the birds.

I only got them all for Britain, India, Australia, Canada and South Africa. That's the Commonwealth outlook for you I suppose

skyraider112
+1
Level 51
Jan 8, 2021
Do you more quizzes like this with different countries? If not, please make a series!
bn9043
+1
Level 60
May 15, 2022
A randomized version would be neat
parkave
+1
Level 57
Jan 15, 2021
Whats the difference between the two Novgorods? I also try to put novgorod as a type in because I can never remember them
Zoulllien
+1
Level 44
Mar 3, 2021
36/60

I spelled Yekaterinburg wrong );

BigFloppa
+1
Level 63
May 1, 2021
San Francisco? No way.
thailand
+1
Level 41
May 27, 2021
@MG17, come here, only 27% could guess your home city.
ludvigrassmus
+1
Level 67
Jun 7, 2021
Port Elizabeth was renamed Gqeberha a few months back
GeographyBAHRAIN
+1
Level 38
Jul 7, 2021
I only know cali and medelin from narcos
Tyacke
+1
Level 61
Jul 25, 2021
Leeds or Liverpool bigger than Glasgow?

I don't think so.

HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Oct 14, 2021
Even if you don't rename Port Elizabeth to Gqeberha, at least accept it as a type-in.
axkv2509
+1
Level 59
Dec 27, 2021
I feel like the fifth largest city in Colombia is Cartagena
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 81
Jan 16, 2022
You know you've been on Jetpunk too long when you think of Xiamen and Guangzhou before Beijing
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Mar 10, 2022
41
kszok
+1
Level 56
Apr 26, 2022
Missed only Bucaramanga

Great Quiz!

bn9043
+1
Level 60
May 15, 2022
Pretty happy with 55/60 and getting Puebla, Toluca, and Bucaramanga. Missed Monterrey, Sapporo, Tianjin, Nizhny Novgorod and Fukuoka, definitely could have gotten most of those.
PumpkintheNerd
+2
Level 41
Jun 24, 2022
THAT QUIZ WAS UTTERLY AWFUL. JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT.
Georockstar
+1
Level 60
Jun 27, 2022
Just check if Colombia, Russia and Mexico have to be updated please...
Layla910
+1
Level 29
Jul 1, 2022
I put Delhi but it didn't work?
mashedpotato342
+1
Level 64
Aug 27, 2022
wow im surprised that only 0.8 people got 100%! i really thought it was gonna be a lot more than that
mashedpotato342
+1
Level 64
Aug 27, 2022
other than that i got all of them so im really happy about that
DawnX
+1
Level 47
Apr 1, 2023
im sure that i wouldve gotten at least 80% if this was with city proper but for m*tro area population this is absolutely impossible
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