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Megacities on a World Map

Can you name the 45 urban agglomerations of the world that have a population of at least 10 million?
According to city population.de, January 2024
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Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: March 2, 2024
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First submittedJuly 24, 2016
Times taken181,263
Average score84.4%
Rating4.97
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Population
Agglomeration
70.1 m
Guangzhou
41.0 m
Tokyo
40.8 m
Shanghai
34.6 m
Delhi
29.2 m
Jakarta
27.2 m
Manila
27.1 m
Mumbai
25.1 m
Mexico City
25.1 m
Seoul
22.5 m
Cairo
22.5 m
Dhaka
22.1 m
São Paulo
22.0 m
New York City
21.2 m
Bangkok
21.2 m
Beijing
Population
Agglomeration
20.9 m
Karachi
20.7 m
Lagos
19.1 m
Moscow
17.7 m
Kolkata
17.7 m
Osaka
17.3 m
Chengdu
17.2 m
Los Angeles
16.7 m
Buenos Aires
16.5 m
Tehran
15.9 m
Istanbul
15.6 m
Kinshasa
14.9 m
London
14.9 m
Xiamen
14.6 m
Johannesburg
14.5 m
Lahore
Population
Agglomeration
14.2 m
Bengaluru
13.9 m
Hangzhou
13.9 m
Ho Chi Minh City
12.8 m
Xi'an
12.6 m
Chennai
12.5 m
Rio de Janeiro
12.2 m
Wuhan
11.8 m
Lima
11.5 m
Paris
11.5 m
Tianjin
11.4 m
Hyderabad
11.0 m
Changsha
10.9 m
Chongqing
10.5 m
Nagoya
10.4 m
Bogotá
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Level 41
Oct 22, 2016
is taipei not on the list?
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Level 65
Nov 20, 2016
Taipei is less than 9million
+1
Level 79
Mar 11, 2019
@GeoGenius656 fake news
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Level 51
Nov 21, 2016
Good quiz.
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Level 65
Nov 22, 2016
Thank you
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Level 68
Dec 4, 2016
Only missed Tianjin, dammit.
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Level 54
Mar 7, 2017
Wuhan, Harbin, Chongqing should be on there...and by the urban area approach so should the Rhine-Ruhr
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
We're still missing Harbin.
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Level 63
Mar 8, 2017
Nice quiz! Got all with 2:00 remaining.
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Level 51
May 12, 2017
Isn't this 36 cities?
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Level 65
May 12, 2017
As of 2017, yes! :)
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Level 71
Sep 10, 2017
100% 11 sec left :)
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Level 60
Sep 18, 2017
I believe Guangzhou is a province, not a country.
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Level 75
Aug 16, 2018
It's a city. Guangdong is the province.
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Level 66
Nov 19, 2017
New Delhi should just be Delhi.
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Level 36
Nov 23, 2017
Good quiz but please be more lenient about spelling (I think sau paulo and daka should be accepted)
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Level 71
Aug 23, 2018
The photo of the Baha'i Lotus Temple in Delhi shows its beautiful structure well. A massive building that is sometimes crowded with sightseers. What amazed me was the system of removing shoes and placing them in an underground storing system that is accessed by a slot at the side of the path. Retrieving your shoes takes only seconds, although they may have thousands of pairs.
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Level 60
Mar 26, 2019
Yes, Lotus Temple is a bliss and I like it more than Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal is simple overrated
+2
Level 51
Nov 17, 2018
I'm from London and our population is like 7 million...
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Level 70
Nov 17, 2018
I always find it amusing when people say "I come from this place" as if that makes them more knowledgeable about its population. It might make you more knowledgeable about other things to do with the place, but have you counted everyone in London? Anyway, this population is from citypopulation.de. They count any area as one agglomeration if it is continuous "city" (i.e. land that is built on) regardless of where arbitrary and usually unchanging boundaries are drawn. Also it tends to account for the fact that a lot of people who don't reside in London commute there for work. It is entirely possible that at any given time there are at least that many people in an area that can be reasonably defined as "London", regardless of whether or not it overlaps the boundaries of Greater London.
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Level ∞
Feb 16, 2019
The following cities are listed at 9.75 million or greater: Lima, Xiamen, Hyderabad, Chengdu, Bogota, and Chicago.
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Level 84
Feb 17, 2019
There's a typo: The first 4 cities are listed with 45.6 m
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Level ∞
Feb 17, 2019
Fixed, thanks
+2
Level 75
Feb 17, 2019
accept Tientsin similar to how Canton is accepted
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Level 42
Mar 26, 2019
just curious, is lima no longer a megacity? Is bogota one yet?
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Level 18
Mar 26, 2019
Both of those cities do not have an urban population accumulation of 10 million. (YET)
+7
Level 82
Mar 26, 2019
Megacities are cities that contain one million cities. At least that's what they would be if people knew what mega meant.
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Level 78
Oct 20, 2020
...let's be charitable and say that is a typo. Still, be very careful when you're criticising others.
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Level 82
Mar 23, 2021
Good advice. You might wind up interpreting a joke as uncharitable criticism otherwise.
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Level 69
Mar 3, 2024
Perhaps you should consider that your tone does not get conveyed in a text comment
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Level 28
Mar 26, 2019
Great quiz!!!
+7
Level 88
Mar 26, 2019
The island of Honshu never ceases to amaze me. Three mega cities and some 100 + million people on one island.
+10
Level 82
Feb 11, 2020
It's pretty incredible. Java is also pretty mind-boggling - despite being about 100,000 sq km smaller than Honshu it packs in over 140,000,000 people, the megacity of Jakarta, and several other large cities like Surabaya, Bandung and Yogyakarta.
+6
Level 68
Apr 21, 2020
Java literally has more people on in than all of Russia. All of it. Saint Petersburg to Big Diomede. The largest country in the world has a smaller population than the fifth largest island in Indonesia.
+4
Level 71
Aug 14, 2021
I believe Java has an even higher population density than Bangladesh, which is pretty crazy. But even that doesn't hold a candle to the Nile River Delta, which is probably the most densely populated major region on Earth.
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Level 82
Oct 16, 2021
I believe the Pearl River Delta surpasses the Nile River Delta in population density - roughly 1900 per sq km compared to 1600.
+1
Level 25
Mar 27, 2019
Most quizzes accept "Daka" along with "Dhaka."
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Level 65
Apr 16, 2019
Shouldn’t Lima be added?
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Level 65
Aug 13, 2019
It was added then removed after dipping just under the 10m mark.
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Level 77
Jun 19, 2019
Beijing 21 mil; Shanghai 24 mil; Guangzhou 14mil and Shenzhen 11 mil. Suzhou 12mil and Nanjing 8.7 mil. Tiajnin 16 mil and Wuhan 10.6 mil. Chengdu 14 mil and Chongqing (urba) 8.9 mil. Shenyang 8.4 mil and Changsha 6.9 mil. Hangzhou 8.7 mil, Wuxi 6.5mil and Xi'an 8.9 mil.
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Level 55
Feb 10, 2020
You should update for Lima, Xiamen and Hyderabad.

(Citypopulation updated its page!)

+4
Level 74
Feb 10, 2020
IAB to the rescue, less than an hour after the update
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Level 65
Feb 10, 2020
Updated! Working through all of my city features.
+2
Level 58
Feb 26, 2020
Anywhere I look for the Xiamen population, I'm told it's less than 4M? Am I missing something? I thought Chongqing and Shenzhen were both over 10M...??
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Level 76
Mar 1, 2020
Shenzhen is included in the Guangzhou stats
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Level 64
Mar 5, 2020
Xiamen's urban area is above 10 million while city proper is about 4
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Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
man 33/37 only gives you 3 points, I guess you have to get 37 to get 5 and 36 or something to get 4. No way I am gonna get nogoya or tianjin... (other two I missed were karachi and lahore don't think I would ve thought of lahore, but karachi is getable)
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Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
hm looking at the stats, it doesnt all seem above board. Not a natural curve at all. Things smoothly slope up from 0 to 6% for the amount of people that got a certain amount of questions correct, and then suddenly jumps to 22% for the ones with all questions right. (which looks to be atleast 15% more than expected)

Edit not that I mind getting a low score, before people accuse me of complaininng just because I didnt get more points, I dont really care about them, even if I have gotten 1 or 0 I would ve been fine with that, just decided to look at the stats because I like stats and graphs and wanted to see if I could figure out the actual needed number of correct answers. When I saw a really unanticipated curve (the 100% is allways more than it should be, but haven't often seen Súch a discrepancy)

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Level 78
Oct 20, 2020
Hey Mr Sifhraven. I'm not so sure - there are plenty of more knowledgeable (nerdy!) people on here than I am, and I got 35/37 without too much trouble. The map is a huge help. I did not get Hyderabad and Tianjin. I may get them next time (and forget some others though.....)
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Level 82
Mar 21, 2020
Breezed through this in a couple of seconds just now. What's so impossible about remembering two cities? You can do it. And there are so many big cities quizzes on this site I think that's why the scores are pretty high on average. I must have typed in Tianjin and Nagoya at least 100 times each coming to this site over the years.
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Level 68
Mar 21, 2020
Wikipedia says Xi’an has twice the population of Xiamen. But on the quiz that’s not the case. Xi’an doesn’t even make the cut. Why is that?
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Level 59
Jun 20, 2020
https://www.jetpunk.com/users/wildkrattsisawesome/blog/the-difference-between-city-proper-metro-area-and-urban-area
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Level 83
Mar 21, 2020
In almost all other sources, a number of other Chinese cities/metropolitanareas have a population greater than Xiamen.
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Level 26
Aug 12, 2021
Yeah thats what im saying, Shenzen, Nanjing, Chongqing, Wuhan, even Quangzhou are bigger than Xiamen, I've never even heard of it until now lmfao
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Level 62
Jun 9, 2020
Chongqing has a population of 30.48 million, it should be 5th
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Level 55
Sep 7, 2020
*sighs*
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Level 57
Dec 23, 2020
Chongqing takes up an area bigger than Austria. It should not be counted.
+1
Level 50
Jul 16, 2023
That is city proper population. Most of the people live in rural farmland, which is not included by citypopulation.de.
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Level 51
Dec 17, 2020
I got 36/37 and missed the least guessed one Xiamen but i'm happy I missed the least guessed one it means it wasn't just me
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Level 27
Feb 11, 2021
got them all in my first try
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Level 55
Feb 24, 2021
2021, Chengdu and Ho Chi Minh City add themselves to the list!
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
Chengdu is still missing here. Or maybe it was removed.
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Level 63
May 4, 2021
Just wondering, can you make LA an acceptable type in for Los Angeles? Seems like it should be there but it's not, or is it already used for something else?
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Level 69
Jul 23, 2021
i don't think that's typically done on the site because two letters would be a bit too easy (both in terms of guessing and in terms of accidentally guessing it when you're going for lahore or lanzhou or lansing or goodness knows what)
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Level 67
Apr 4, 2022
I do have a tendency to accidentally get Los Angeles when I go to type in Lansing.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
I think it's not because of length (BH is accepted for Belo Horizonte), but because of how common LA is like you said (BH is pretty much just in Bhutan).
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Level 26
Aug 12, 2021
If im not wrong, Lahore, Bogota, Chongqing and Chicago are all above the 10 million mark
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Level 67
Oct 27, 2021
An update soon would be nice, the source now lists Ho Chi Minh City and Chengdu as 10M+
+3
Level ∞
Oct 27, 2021
Will be updated in early 2022.
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Level 60
Feb 23, 2022
Early 2022
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Level 66
Mar 2, 2022
Updated!
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Level 54
Apr 14, 2023
still no Chengdu
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Level 23
Nov 20, 2021
Hey.....can u Accept Bangalore for Bengaluru?
+1
Level ∞
Mar 2, 2022
It already is accepted
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2022
Which cities dropped off and/or were added?
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Level 66
Mar 2, 2022
Changsha, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Bogota were added. Guangzhou gain a whopping 18 million people, so it must have swallowed a bunch of other nearby cities. Chengdu was removed although that was a mistake in the update and should be present :)
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Level 67
Apr 2, 2022
What mistake? Is the source wrong?
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Level 75
Mar 2, 2022
65.1 m, really wondering how cp.de calculated this
+11
Level 83
Mar 2, 2022
Where is Chengdu?
+3
Level 66
Mar 2, 2022
Chengdu is the capital of the Sichuan province in China.

But in all seriousness you are correct, Chengdu is missing at 15.2m

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Level 80
Mar 18, 2022
Yes - why does Chengdu not feature here?
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Level 80
Mar 16, 2022
This is crazy. Why did China gain like five cities? Last I checked only like two were actually that close to 10 million. And I don’t know if I want to know about Guangzhou...
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Level 77
Mar 29, 2022
Chengdu is missing despite being above 10M just wanted to let you know
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Level 37
Apr 2, 2022
For someone whose age is almost 14 I think 34 is a good score
+3
Level 59
Apr 2, 2022
"for someone whose age is almost 14" bro tried avoiding saying 13
+1
Level 59
Mar 3, 2024
Looking back on my reply, I was literally 14 almost 15 when I said that 💀
+1
Level 60
May 16, 2023
Whatever you can achieve is a good score :)
+1
Level 57
Apr 4, 2022
Given that Chengdu is a "city" the size of Connecticut, I'm fine with it not being on here
+3
Level 60
Apr 30, 2022
Instead you get Guangzhou, which is even bigger!
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Level 76
Mar 3, 2024
You're thinking of Chongqing, but honestly, even the urban area of Chongqing is huge and meets the criteria of a megacity.
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Level 82
May 16, 2022
As others have said, Chengdu does appear to be missing. Citypopulation.de lists the population in the urban agglomeration as 15,200,000.
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Level 46
Jun 7, 2022
No Chengdu?
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Level 29
May 4, 2023
I forgot Beijing ._.
+1
Level 60
May 16, 2023
Could this be updated to include Harbin? Harbin has reached 10,009,854 people on citypopulation.de.
+2
Level 60
May 16, 2023
+1
Level 60
Mar 2, 2024
Never mind on Harbin. The city is only about 5 million.
+1
Level 61
Jan 1, 2024
I only missed Changsha. Didn't occur how big it was to me. Nice quiz
+1
Level 62
Feb 7, 2024
Chengdu.
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Level 21
Mar 3, 2024
I believe Shenzhen and Harbin is worth mentioning
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Level 45
Mar 3, 2024
Got all except those 5 Chinese cities, whose name I will probably never remember no matter how many times I see them.