I'm amazed that two Australian cities made the list since their overall population is so low. I've never been there, but I suspect that the population is heavily compacted into the capital cities (Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne etc), with almost nobody living outside these cities.
Pretty much...around half of the population lives within 100 km of the three main centres. Despite the stereotypes, Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world
If you go just by land area Australia is actually 225 times bigger. If Australia would have the same population density, they would need more than 3900 million more inhabitants than they currently have! (Yes that is the correct amount of zero's)
Yeah, that's confusing. I don't know why citypopulation.de doesn't include Dusseldorf in the Ruhr. But even so they are good source, and much better than the alternatives.
The Ruhr is a river and the cities along the Ruhr (and Lippe) are an urban area referred to as "Ruhr-area", when Düsseldorf is included, it's usually referred to as Rhein-Ruhr, to indicate you go beyond the Ruhr-area. Hope this helps :)
I've been ranting about this on other quizzes but this concept continues to confuse people from far away. The Ruhr Area and Rhine Area are very distinctive. Tell someone from Düsseldorf or Cologne that they're from the Ruhr Area and you get crazy looks. However, since they are so close to each other and actually overlap in small parts, it makes sense to combine them into the Rhine-Ruhr mega region. Düsseldorf/Cologne = Rhine-Ruhr, but never ever =Ruhr.
According to the Turkish Government, more than 8 million of Istanbul's population lived on the European side in 2010, meaning even just counting the part not in Asia, it easily made this list (and it has grown considerably since then). Then of course there's the caveat about transcontinental cities.
I have sat in a restaurant on the European side of Istanbul and LOOKED at the bridge that crosses the Bosphorus into Asia. It's always funny when people imply that this experience doesn't exist.
Great quiz. Could do with a bit more time though. I still had about a dozen to type in when I ran out of time and I hadn't reached the stage of 'name any remotely big/famous city and hope'.
Depends on the source. Depending on what you consult NYC, Mexico City or Sao Paulo will be given as the largest city in the Americas. Defining metro areas is a messy business
>_< grrr ... after the update I only missed Alexandria. I started with Africa and even with Egypt. I think Cairo was the first one I got. I was sure I had typed it in already.
Fun quiz. I basically just went through as many NFL or MLB locations as I could think, then big UEFA teams, the two from Oz and as many African places as I could think. Enjoyed this. Thank you.
Good to learn a few of the biggest African cities that rarely make the lists (Luanda, Abidjan...)
No one of either city would ever build a sum of the two population figures.
The Ruhr Area, fine. Köln or Düsseldorf - no way for any of them to end up in this list.