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Biggest Cities Starting With D

Name the world's most populous urban areas that start with the letter D.
According to citypopulation.de, January 2024
Note: Dongguan is not included as our source includes it with the Guangzhou agglomeration
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Last updated: March 27, 2024
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First submittedFebruary 13, 2012
Times taken83,164
Average score60.0%
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Country
Population
City
India
34.6 mil
Delhi
Bangladesh
22.5 mil
Dhaka
United States
7.65 mil
Dallas
Tanzania
6.25 mil
Dar es Salaam
United States
5.75 mil
Detroit
United Arab Emirates
5.95 mil
Dubai
China
5.30 mil
Dalian
Syria
3.88 mil
Damascus
Country
Population
City
United States
3.85 mil
Denver
Senegal
3.93 mil
Dakar
South Africa
3.85 mil
Durban
Cameroon
3.78 mil
Douala
South Korea
2.73 mil
Daegu
Saudi Arabia
2.83 mil
Dammam
Qatar
2.60 mil
Doha
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Level 71
Jun 8, 2012
Heh, typed in Daman for India and it got accepted for Saudi-Arabia instead. :)
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Level 57
Jun 28, 2014
I accidentally typed the first 's' in 'Damascus' as 'm' and that's how I got Dammam. For once, my rubbish typing skills paid off.
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Level 71
Jan 5, 2015
:D
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Level 61
Mar 1, 2017
I had a brain meltdown and was writing Darfur for whatever reason. I got Dar Es Salaam. I'm not very proud.
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Level 74
Mar 15, 2017
I did that too!!! :D
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Level 74
Apr 2, 2017
I did what alfoq did too.
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Level 4
Jun 30, 2014
Why isn't Dongguan on the list? Population: 8,220,237

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan

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Level 79
Mar 11, 2019
The source merges it with the Guangzhou urban area.
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Level 67
Sep 14, 2020
It is considered part of the Guangzhou urban area.
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Level 44
Jul 8, 2014
Isn't Delhi technically "New Delhi"? Or have they actually got both?
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Level 66
Oct 13, 2014
I have the same question.
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Level 65
Mar 26, 2016
New Delhi is a suburb of Delhi
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2016
New Delhi is not a suburb of Delhi it's the district of Delhi where the government is.
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Level 74
Aug 13, 2017
"Suburb" is a perfectly valid way to describe it
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Level 82
Dec 19, 2018
yeah except it's not. A suburb is an outlying residential district on a city's outskirts. New Delhi is right smack dab in the middle of Delhi, completely surrounded by the much larger urban sprawl of Delhi, and is not a residential area but actually where all the government buildings are.
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Level 74
Apr 16, 2020
We'll have to agree to disagree then - a suburb here (Australia) is any distinct named part of a city that isn't the CBD.
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Level 56
Jun 10, 2020
Yes Kal, I completely agree, I would never consider New Delhi a suburb of Delhi. It is just a district in the union territory of Delhi, or, a part of Delhi Urban Area, which also include cities like Ghaziabad, Noida, Grugram and Faridabad which are not inside the borders f Delhi Union Territory. New Delhi is a name given to the part of Delhi constructed by English people.

Also, in India, we rarely use the word suburbs.

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Level 57
Mar 31, 2021
So would something like a neighborhood be a more accurate description for it?
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Level 82
Jun 9, 2022
Asterlan: neighborhood or district, yes. Or planned city within a city. Definitely not a suburb, though.
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Level 24
Apr 2, 2017
Delhi is the most populated city of India.

New Delhi is the capital of India.

Get your geography facts right, bro.

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Level 58
Dec 19, 2022
buddy ol pal New Delhi is a district/suburb of Delhi, you need to review your geography facts, “bro”
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Level 55
Nov 14, 2014
No, Delhi is the urban area comprising New Delhi and Old Delhi (still a very much alive and thriving city) as well as the ruins of several older cities. New Delhi was built by the British as the new capital right before they lost it at independence.
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Level 71
Apr 2, 2017
UK did not 'lose' India at Independence. India was given Independence because she deserved it. Read PM Atlee's speech in 1946: ..................

It is worthwhile recording that twice in 25 years India has played a great part in the defeat of tyranny. Is it any wonder that today she claims – as a nation of 400,000,000 people that has twice sent her sons to die for freedom – that she should herself have freedom to decide her own destiny? My colleagues are going to India with the intention of using their utmost endeavours to help her to attain that freedom as speedily and fully as possible. What form of

Government is to replace the present regime is for India to decide; but our desire is to help her to set up forthwith the machinery for making that decision. There we are met sometimes with the initial difficulty of getting that machinery set up. We are resolved that machinery shall be set up and we seek the utmost cooperation

of all Indian leaders to do so.

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Level 76
Jul 5, 2015
Got the 8 obvious ones, then quit. Never heard of the remaining 14.
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Level 84
Jan 13, 2017
Based on the current quiz stats, I'd say that at least 11 are fairly obvious. Also, if your math is right, it looks as though the quiz has been pared down significantly.
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Level 68
Apr 2, 2017
Yep, I got 11 obvious ones to me, the others were hard, I had heard of the one in South Korea but couldn't remember it.
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Level 61
Apr 2, 2017
I got the 11 ones that are guessed above 50% percent and was about to give up when I suddenly remembered Douala. I have no idea where I learned about it.
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Level 66
Sep 30, 2016
Being a child of the '70's, I was brought up when Jakarta was spelled Djakarta. On this quiz, once that extra D's in your head, it's game over for the rest.
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2017
and when Daegu was spelt Taegu
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Level 63
Dec 20, 2016
I guessed Dartmouth because I wasn't sure whether it was just a college or maybe also a big city. Lucky me. I got the answer for Tanzania that way.
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Level 63
Mar 2, 2017
Dartmouth is in Hanover, New Hampshire. As far as I know (never been farther north than Boston) that's about as rural as you can get.
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Level 75
Apr 2, 2017
There's a Dartmouth in England that's pretty small, too.
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Level 81
Dec 19, 2018
And one in Nova Scotia opposite Halifax
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Level 76
Jan 11, 2017
The country for the Detroit agglomeration may need to be tweaked to USA/Canada, since "Detroit" includes (according to citypopulation.de) Windsor, Ontario.
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Level 85
Jan 28, 2017
Cool, I used to live near Dammam. Didn't know it had that many people, but I was young at the time. Surprised 26% got it.
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2017
Used to work there myself. Easy quiz for me.
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Level 75
Mar 1, 2017
I kept typing Dhahran.
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Level 82
Apr 2, 2017
Dhahran is tiny compared to Dammam, if we're counting populations of the city proper. If looking at urban areas, then most likely Dhahran is considered part of Dammam, along with Khobar, and possibly even Qatif and Ras Tanura.
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Level 56
Apr 2, 2017
On the front page: "Guess the 14 biggest world cities that start with the letter D." There are 15 here.
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Level ∞
Apr 3, 2017
Fixed
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Level 25
Apr 2, 2017
And? Stop complaining :)
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Level 63
Apr 2, 2017
Too easy! I got 15/15 with 3:06 remaining first try.
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Level 75
Apr 2, 2017
I live in Michigan north of Detroit. The current population of Detroit is under 700,000, and it has never been north of 2,000,000 even at its peak back in the day. Denver and Dallas are way off as well. The two cities' combined population doesn't even reach 2,000,000.
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Level 61
Apr 2, 2017
The quiz counts the population of the urban area, not the city proper. According to Wikipedia, the population of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA is over 2.8 million, and the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth area is about 7.1 million. These are slightly different than the citypopulation.de numbers, but definitely both big enough to make the list.
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Level 85
Dec 19, 2018
What's the urban population of Dortmund, Germany?
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Level 81
Dec 19, 2018
Dusseldorf: 613K

Dortmund: 585K

Dresden: 543K

(Wikipedia)

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Level 65
Dec 19, 2018
Tough but fair.
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Level 65
Dec 19, 2018
I don't really understand why all of the city quizzes on this site use metro area. Why not just make separate quizzes for metro areas and cities?
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Level 82
Dec 19, 2018
They do that already.
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Level 50
Feb 3, 2019
I am so dumb! I forgot Dubai! I have know idea how!
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Level 70
Jun 9, 2019
Next you need to figure out the difference between now and know!
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Level 54
Nov 21, 2021
Next you need to figure out the difference between no and now!
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Level 70
Jun 27, 2019
Actually I just realised that I need to learn the difference no and know and now first lol
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Level 38
Sep 15, 2019
Got all with 2:54 remaining :D Easy peasy lemon squeezy
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Level 56
Jan 20, 2021
Delhi is a bit of a funny one as the city is officially called 'New Delhi'
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Level 36
Feb 18, 2022
Dongguan for China has 7.4 million
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Level 17
Feb 28, 2022
Den Haag has more people then Doha
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Level 72
Oct 25, 2022
In English, it's known as The Hague.
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Level 51
Nov 30, 2022
I missed South Korea and Saudi Arabia's cities, but I surprisingly managed to guess Dalian, without knowing it was in China and just going off of memory.
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Level 73
Jan 29, 2023
Yikes! Way over my head! I Got the 3 in the USA and only 4 others. I tried Dunedin, Dunkirk, Dublin, Dusseldorf and others, just to fail. Oh well.
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Level 60
Jul 13, 2023
14/15, didn't get Daegu. Surprised Dammam is least known, big coastal city.
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Level 57
Jul 19, 2023
Almost missed Detroit. Do they include like Toledo and Flint and like all of the lower peninsula in this "Detroit" urban area? Denver's probably just as large, if not bigger with Lakewood, Aurora, Colorado Springs, Boulder, etc.