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Biggest Cities in the World - Extreme

How many of the world's 200 most populous urban areas can you name?
As of January 2024 according to citypopulation.de
Urban area population, not city proper population
Two loosely-defined areas around the Ruhr have been filled in
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: March 4, 2024
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First submittedJanuary 23, 2016
Times taken72,051
Average score62.3%
Rating4.97
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Population
Urban Area
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
21.2 m
Bangkok
21.2 m
Beijing
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
14.2 m
Bangalore
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
Bogota
9.95 m
Taipei
9.80 m
Zhengzhou
9.65 m
Chicago
9.60 m
Ahmedabad
9.35 m
Luanda
9.30 m
Kuala Lumpur
9.30 m
Nanjing
8.70 m
Shenyang
8.55 m
Washington DC
8.25 m
Santiago
8.00 m
Shantou
7.85 m
Singapore
7.80 m
Hefei
7.75 m
Pune
7.75 m
Surat
7.70 m
Boston
7.70 m
Toronto
7.65 m
Baghdad
7.65 m
Dallas
7.50 m
Philadelphia
7.50 m
Riyadh
7.45 m
Qingdao
Population
Urban Area
7.45 m
San Francisco
7.30 m
Ningbo
7.25 m
Hong Kong
7.15 m
Hanoi
7.05 m
Houston
7.05 m
Khartoum
6.95 m
Bandung
6.80 m
Abidjan
6.70 m
Nairobi
6.65 m
Madrid
6.60 m
Accra
6.55 m
Jinan
6.50 m
Kunming
6.50 m
Saint Petersburg
6.30 m
Miami
6.25 m
Dar es Salaam
6.20 m
Alexandria
6.20 m
Shijiazhuang
6.15 m
Yangon
6.10 m
Atlanta
6.10 m
Milan
6.00 m
Amman
6.00 m
Monterrey
5.95 m
Dubai
5.95 m
Taiyuan
5.90 m
Surabaya
5.85 m
Guadalajara
5.75 m
Detroit
5.65 m
(The Ruhr)
5.45 m
Bamako
5.45 m
Harbin
5.30 m
Dalian
5.30 m
Nanning
5.20 m
Kano
5.15 m
Ankara
5.10 m
Wenzhou
5.05 m
Changchun
5.05 m
Guiyang
5.05 m
Kabul
5.00 m
Chittagong
5.00 m
Melbourne
5.00 m
(Cologne / Dusseldorf)
4.97 m
Cape Town
4.97 m
Nanchang
4.97 m
Sydney
4.92 m
Belo Horizonte
4.92 m
Colombo
4.92 m
Tampa
4.90 m
Phoenix
4.87 m
Barcelona
4.85 m
Berlin
4.85 m
Urumqi
4.77 m
Casablanca
4.77 m
Kuwait City
4.72 m
Addis Ababa
4.65 m
Fuzhou
4.47 m
Seattle
4.45 m
Linyi
4.42 m
Montreal
4.40 m
Jaipur
4.27 m
Medellin
4.25 m
Algiers
4.22 m
Puebla
4.20 m
Medan
4.12 m
Kampala
4.12 m
Lucknow
4.05 m
Faisalabad
Population
Urban Area
4.05 m
Naples
4.00 m
Busan
3.97 m
Brasília
3.92 m
Dakar
3.92 m
Jeddah
3.92 m
Porto Alegre
3.87 m
Damascus
3.87 m
Zibo
3.85 m
Denver
3.85 m
Durban
3.85 m
Santo Domingo
3.82 m
Caracas
3.82 m
Yaounde
3.80 m
Orlando
3.80 m
Rawalpindi
3.77 m
Douala
3.77 m
Tashkent
3.67 m
Baku
3.67 m
Recife
3.65 m
Kanpur
3.62 m
Indore
3.62 m
Port-au-Prince
3.60 m
Luoyang
3.57 m
Athens
3.57 m
Fortaleza
3.50 m
Lanzhou
3.50 m
Nagpur
3.47 m
Kiev
3.42 m
Curitiba
3.42 m
Mashhad
3.42 m
Rome
3.40 m
Rotterdam
3.37 m
Isfahan
3.35 m
Brisbane
3.35 m
Guatemala City
3.35 m
Nantong
3.32 m
Ibadan
3.30 m
Frankfurt
3.30 m
Guayaquil
3.30 m
Ouagadougou
3.27 m
Bhilai
3.25 m
Birmingham
3.25 m
Campinas
3.22 m
Minneapolis
3.20 m
Salvador
3.20 m
San Diego
3.17 m
Sana'a
3.17 m
Weifang
3.15 m
Gujranwala
3.15 m
Manchester
3.12 m
Kathmandu
3.10 m
Jiangyin
3.07 m
Vancouver
3.07 m
Xuzhou
3.05 m
Antananarivo
3.05 m
Cleveland
3.00 m
Coimbatore
3.00 m
Izmir
3.00 m
Pyongyang
2.95 m
Cali
2.95 m
Tel Aviv
2.92 m
Hamburg
2.90 m
Abuja
2.90 m
Patna
2.87 m
Conakry
2.87 m
Kumasi
2.82 m
Quito
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Level 73
Mar 9, 2016
147/200 at first try. The quiz was harder than I expected, though.
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Level 45
Mar 9, 2016
If we're doing extreme (double) quizzes now, can we see a US cities (200 cities) or a Texas (40 cities) quiz?
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Level 36
Mar 9, 2016
200/200 with 15 minutes left. Any harder?
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Level 42
Mar 9, 2016
Yeah do them in order.
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Level 40
Jul 5, 2021
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/83162/500-biggest-cities-in-the-world

lazy for html.

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Level 66
Mar 9, 2016
I guessed 133 but missed New York.
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Level 48
Mar 9, 2016
Fun quiz! Tend to forget quite some obvious ones, because I'm so focused on that long, scary list of Asian cities.
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Level 75
Mar 9, 2016
100/200

Mostly missed Chinese cities and some American cities.

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Level 65
Mar 9, 2016
I feel like everyone would have one city that they arompletely embarrassed they missed...mine is Lagos.
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Level 65
Mar 9, 2016
Mine's Johannesburg
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Level 51
Mar 9, 2016
Mine's Buenos Aires
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Level 75
Mar 11, 2016
All the US cities I missed - Philly, Detroit, and I tried Columbus and Toledo then decided none of the Ohio cities would make the list and didn't even try Cincinnati or Cleveland. Surprised that San Jose and San Antonio weren't on the list since they always make the list of top ten US cities by population - must be the "urban population" caveat that knocked them out. Still, I'm surprised not to see them.
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Level 48
Mar 24, 2016
Exactly - Seoul here. Even worse is, i correctly remembered of Pyongyang. Facepalm.
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Level 84
Jul 9, 2016
Washington DC and Dubai. :-\
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Level 79
Jul 22, 2016
Athens and Seattle for me
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Level 63
Nov 13, 2016
Lisbon and Brasilia.
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Level 58
Aug 4, 2017
Bangkok, San Francisco, Lisbon among many others. I always overthink on these quizzes and end up missing really obvious ones (although I could have sworn that I guessed Bangkok).
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Level 20
Aug 4, 2017
Cairo here xD
+1
Level 74
Aug 19, 2017
Manila and Toronto
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Level 19
Sep 15, 2017
I guessed Hefei but somehow forgot Paris *whack*
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Level 88
Feb 22, 2019
Miami :(
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Level 64
Jun 4, 2020
Forgot London lol
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Level 71
Feb 9, 2021
The entirety of Canada. Vancouver and Montreal are excusable perhaps, but missing Toronto is quite embarrassing :P

Xi'an and Xiamen are also kinda embarrassing for me because they're usually some of the first Chinese cities I think of.

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Level 43
Aug 9, 2021
Mine is London
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Level 55
Jan 30, 2022
algiers and tunis
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Level 80
Sep 6, 2022
Brasilia :(
+1
Level 24
Sep 6, 2023
Beijing -.-
+1
Level 79
Mar 17, 2024
I missed Singapore, Kabul, and Pyongyang
+2
Level 73
Mar 9, 2016
Hard quiz, needed five tries to get them all... Crazy that 20% of the cities in this quiz are from China. I have some objection about Jiangyin since it's part of Wuxi...
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Level 59
Mar 12, 2016
I think there may need to be some leeway when it comes to spelling because I tried Delhi multiple times but it didn't work
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Level 56
Mar 14, 2016
Damn all those chinese cities!
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Level 76
Aug 17, 2016
158/200. I only missed about 8 Chinese cities...

...but one of them was Beijing?!?

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Level 49
Oct 25, 2016
197 on the second attempt, gonna get them all! So hard this is without the country hint. Missed tampa, kiev and kampala.
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Level 48
Jan 23, 2017
Have you ever thought about adding one column for countries (or maybe making another copy of this extreme quiz with them added)? It could be amazing improvement, that would help us focus directly on the countries, that we have missed their representatives.

This is my point: the quiz would be more like: "do you know all the big cities of US/India/Pakistan/China/whatever" rather than "do you know, if there are exactly 18 or 19 of their cities in the top200 and can you count, if you already typed in all"?

Interested in your opinion.

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Level 32
Aug 4, 2017
I remembered Shijiazhuang, but forgot Sydney...
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Level 65
Nov 23, 2017
173, highest yet, and I still see "should've gots" like Dubai and Amman. Some of the Chinese cities under 2.5 million in population I will never remember.
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Level 71
Feb 5, 2018
186/200. Missed: Manchester, Brasília, Birmingham, Cleveland, Kathmandu, Amman, Cincinnati, Puebla, Kunming, Zibo, Guiyang, Anshan, Jiangyin and Huizhou
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Level 71
May 27, 2018
176 this time. Missed: TorontoXD, VancouverXD, Brasília, MontrealXD, Budapest, Damascus, Quito, Orlando, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Izmir, Yaoundé, Fortaleza, Guayaquil, Fukuoka, Curitiba, Dalian, Isfahan, Douala, Kanpur, Campinas, Lanzhou, Zibo, Changzhou, Nanchang, Bhilai, Jiangyin, Huizhou. Pretty bad round for me.
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Level 67
Feb 20, 2019
You forget Canada existed?
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Level 40
Jul 5, 2021
I dont think you should judge this boy, I always forget UK exist.
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Level 76
Jul 9, 2018
I come back to this quiz every few weeks and 186 has been my max score on 2 different occasions now.
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Level 82
Jun 2, 2019
I matched your score of 176. Missed a lot of obvious ones. Including Algiers, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince, Rotterdam, Maputo, Bamako, Qingdao, Surat, Shantou, Wenzhou, Medan, Fuzhou, Nanning, Daegu, Ibadan, Indore, Taiyuan, Coimbatore, Kumasi, Xuzhou, Tangshan, and Gujranwala (I think those last three are all new, though). This cluster of comments will be a treasure trove for all the cheaters.
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2019
The least guessed city is in my country, so it was no problem for me, as i typed in all of MY country's cities first!
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Level 82
Feb 5, 2018
The most obscure one that I routinely get is Ningbo. Probably helps that I dated a girl from there once.
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Level 76
Jul 9, 2018
Ningbo's not a bad city. Probably one of the nicer "small" Chinese cities.
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Level 82
Jun 2, 2019
"small." :) That's funny. She came to study in the USA in part because she wanted to start dating and she was afraid if she did this in Ningbo, hamlet of 3 million people, her parents would find out about it.
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Level 49
Jun 21, 2022
You have a colourful life Kalbahamut. Though it looks like from your map that you never got round to visiting Ningbo
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Level 82
Sep 5, 2022
I did not. We met in person first in South Dakota, where she was going to school.
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Level 48
May 27, 2018
Got 85/200 first try, missed Toronto and Washington D.C. and I'm from the US *facepalm*. But nice quiz
+1
Level 62
Feb 20, 2019
I got Isfahan but missed Paris.....
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Level 62
Feb 28, 2019
washington dc doesnt even have 1 million...
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2019
Definitely need to brush up on my Indian, Chinese and Brazilian cities. And Ohio. Literally got all the U.S. cities except Cleveland and Cincinnati lol.
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Level 65
Jun 3, 2019
I noticed something interesting in the advanced stats. The second most common score, after 199/199, is 100/199. I guess there were a lot of people who set their goal at 50% and were content to give up once they reached it.
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Level 73
Jun 15, 2019
"Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2.5 million" (Wikipedia)

"Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 4.33 million in its city proper, and a total resident population (as of 2013) of 10.58 million in its administrative area" (Wikipedia)

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Level 82
Feb 8, 2021
In Brisbane's case it's complicated by the issue of where one draws boundaries. Locally (it's my home town), 2.5 million, as reported on Wikipedia, is the commonly accepted figure. However it also merges with the cities of Sunshine Coast to the north and Gold Coast to the south, between them home to an additional million or so people. It also stretches out ambiguously to the west with the city of Toowoomba at the far edge of what's known as Southeast Queensland. I'm assuming the figure given here includes the Local Government areas of Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, and Gold Coast - the last of which is usually counted separately in Australia (and is Australia's sixth largest city, if so counted).
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Level 38
Sep 7, 2019
Missed Valencia Seville and Turin and Hong Kong and Toluca and Atlanta And Arkansas City and Indianapolis
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Level 70
Jun 29, 2020
and commas
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Level 82
Feb 8, 2021
Was going to say the same thing. I'm fascinated as to the process that decides whether an 'and' will be inserted or not. Perhaps they were all meant to be separated thusly, but it got missed between Valencia and Seville...
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Level 61
Jan 17, 2023
I dont think Valencia, Seville and Turin ever had enough people to make it on the quiz.
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Level 65
Jan 21, 2020
We need a scambigol version with a map :P
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Level 50
Jan 21, 2020
Ugh. Easy Misses were Kabul, Bangalore, Colombo, Guatemala, Ankara, Tashkent, Kolkata, and Jeddah. Got 126 though which I’ll take
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Level 40
Jul 6, 2021
Tashkent is the opposite of ''easy''.
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Level 61
Apr 24, 2023
yeah those are pretty easy
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Level 51
Mar 18, 2020
LOL @me for missing Tokyo and NYC because they were so obvious that I HAD to have already guessed them
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Level 60
Mar 22, 2020
I missed Wuhan. I mean, among others. Stay safe, everyone!
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Level 43
Mar 22, 2020
Thank you for remembering my dear Belo Horizonte! When I saw that the minimum was 2 million, I was already happy, since BH (as it is known here in Brazil), has 2.501.576 million people, even more people than Paris for example.
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Level 66
Apr 1, 2020
Rotterdam bigger than amsterdam? seriously? haha that would piss people in amsterdam off, I wouldnt show your face there if I were you ;) (just kidding, but there is known to be some rivalry between the cities and calling the smaller one bigger would cause an uproar ;) )

. You havent used urban area as you stat, cause even going by urban it is "only" about 1,2 million and smaller than amsterdam at about 1,4/ 1.5.

I am not sure where the problem lies, with the quizzes or the sourcesite. But many quizzes claim to list urban, while they list metro or just a random conglomeration of cities just because they are in the same general region (side of the country..) but might be 50 miles apart and don't have much to do with eachother (beside being in the same country).

3,6m is the entire population of the provence of Zuid-Holland in which Rotterdam is located.

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Level 66
Apr 1, 2020
These are the definitions used by citypopulation.de : link to glossary
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Level 76
Apr 12, 2020
What was your super obvious one that you missed? I forgot San Diego and I've been there twice haha
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Level 63
Jul 8, 2020
I missed Denver but I got Kaohsiung and Taiyuan somehow. 164 first try wasn't too bad though.
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Level 40
Jul 5, 2021
London *sips tea*
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Level 48
Apr 17, 2020
China
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Level 70
Jul 12, 2020
163 and i could do 10 more if my memory would've helped me
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Level 77
Sep 2, 2020
I got Gujranwala but not Los Angeles
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Level 65
Apr 16, 2021
I got 100, first time ever :D
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Level 40
Jul 6, 2021
I forgot Ghangzhou. I didnt even knew that existed,
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Level 49
Jun 21, 2022
You're right - "Ghangzhou" doesn't exist
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Level 44
Sep 2, 2021
I got 88 on my first try. The biggest one I missed was manila. I also forgot how to spell Riyadh so I didn't get that one
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Level 67
Jan 14, 2022
GREAT QUIZ!!

I believe Belo Horizonte is missing, with its 2.75 million people

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Level 56
Jan 18, 2022
Once I got to 100, my brain went blank. Somehow managed to pull 107 with no brain cells left lol
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2022
How on earth did I forget Paris. Also, I thought I had typed in Johannesburg and hadn't.
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Level 61
Jan 17, 2023
I got 196 but missed 2 I thought I already typed and the ever so forgettable (for me) Patna. I missed Seattle and Chicago lol
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Level 49
May 1, 2023
arent quito and guayaquil in the same metro area
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Level 51
Jun 7, 2023
Got Gujranwala but missed Rome R.I.P.
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Level 58
Jun 22, 2023
In México, Monterrey has now outgrown Guadalajara
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Level 68
Jul 24, 2023
That moment when you get Patna and Kaohsiung but forget Frankfurt, even tho you live just two hours away :')
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Level 28
Aug 4, 2023
that moment hahahah
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Level 67
Jul 28, 2023
180/199. The biggest city on the list I forgot was Shantou, but the most obvious were Minneapolis, and even worse... Hong Kong. I also completely forgot about Cameroon's existence, as well as Recife and Urumqi, cities I should've gotten. The rest I didn't get were more obscure Chinese and Indian cities I don't mind missing.
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Level 28
Aug 4, 2023
chill
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Level 28
Aug 4, 2023
Please remove chinese cities, no one really knows them
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Level 66
Sep 19, 2023
Love how I got lots of Chinese/Indian cities but still somehow missed Atlanta, Detroit, and Cleveland lol
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Level 57
Jan 26, 2024
Kaohsiung and Bhilai but forgot Moscow =///
+2
Level 72
Mar 4, 2024
Shanghai is catching Tokyo!

Why are there 199 answers but two have been filled in? Does that not make 201 cities?

Also DC type in

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Level 49
Mar 4, 2024
how the hell did I miss Patna and Kampala.

Never heard of Jiangyin though. Only city here.

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Level 84
Mar 4, 2024
So, All 3M Cities on the World Map with 8 extra cities and no map.
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Level 65
Mar 4, 2024
Can you make "DC" a type-in for Washington? Most people in the US either call it "DC" or "Washington DC"
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Level ∞
Mar 4, 2024
Yes, fixed
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Level 80
Mar 5, 2024
198 and still only 4 points (:

Missed Kumasi

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Level 87
Mar 12, 2024
Snap, 198 for 4 points!

It’s only cos I just did the 3 Million plus cities quiz that I got that.

Great quiz

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Level 66
Mar 13, 2024
I don't think I'm ever gonna be able to learn all of these Chinese cities!..