Biggest Cities in the World on a Map - Extreme

With the help of a map, try to name every urban area with a population over 2 million.

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Two loosely-defined areas around the Ruhr have been filled in

According to citypopulation.de, ref. date 1/1/23

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Population	Urban Area
67,800,000	Guangzhou
40,800,000	Tokyo
40,000,000	Shanghai
33,400,000	Delhi
28,900,000	Jakarta
26,700,000	Manila
26,600,000	Mumbai
24,900,000	Mexico City
24,900,000	Seoul
23,100,000	New York
23,000,000	São Paulo
22,200,000	Cairo
21,400,000	Lagos
21,300,000	Dhaka
20,900,000	Beijing
20,500,000	Bangkok
19,100,000	Karachi
18,800,000	Moscow
17,700,000	Los Angeles
17,700,000	Osaka
17,400,000	Kolkata
16,700,000	Buenos Aires
16,600,000	Chengdu
16,200,000	Tehran
16,100,000	Istanbul
15,000,000	Kinshasa
14,800,000	Johannesburg
14,800,000	London
14,500,000	Xiamen
14,400,000	Lahore
13,700,000	Bangalore
13,500,000	Ho Chi Minh City
13,400,000	Hangzhou
13,400,000	Rio de Janeiro
12,300,000	Xi'an
12,200,000	Chennai
11,800,000	Wuhan
11,600,000	Lima
11,400,000	Paris
11,400,000	Tianjin
11,100,000	Hyderabad (IN)
10,500,000	Changsha
10,500,000	Chongqing
10,500,000	Nagoya
10,200,000	Bogota
9,900,000	Chicago
9,450,000	Zhengzhou
9,300,000	Ahmedabad
9,200,000	Taipei
9,150,000	Riyadh
9,100,000	Kuala Lumpur
9,050,000	Nanjing
9,000,000	Luanda
8,800,000	Washington, D.C.
8,550,000	Shenyang
8,050,000	Santiago
8,000,000	Shantou
7,950,000	San Francisco
7,850,000	Boston
7,750,000	Singapore
7,550,000	Dallas
7,550,000	Philadelphia
7,550,000	Pune
7,550,000	Toronto
7,500,000	Baghdad
7,500,000	Hefei
7,450,000	Surat
7,300,000	Hong Kong
7,250,000	Qingdao
7,100,000	Ningbo
7,050,000	Houston
7,000,000	Hanoi
6,900,000	Bandung
6,850,000	Khartoum
6,850,000	Madrid
6,600,000	Dubai
6,550,000	Abidjan
6,550,000	Nairobi
6,450,000	Miami
6,400,000	Saint Petersburg
6,350,000	Accra
6,350,000	Jinan
6,250,000	Kunming
6,100,000	Alexandria
6,100,000	Atlanta
6,100,000	Milan
6,000,000	Dar es Salaam
6,000,000	Shijiazhuang
6,000,000	Yangon
5,900,000	Surabaya
5,850,000	Amman
5,850,000	Detroit
5,850,000	Monterrey
5,750,000	Guadalajara
5,750,000	Taiyuan
5,650,000	The Ruhr
5,500,000	Jeddah
5,400,000	Harbin
5,200,000	Ankara
5,200,000	Kano
5,150,000	Belo Horizonte

Population	Urban Area
5,150,000	Dalian
5,100,000	Nanning
5,100,000	Wenzhou
4,975,000	Cologne / Düsseldorf
4,950,000	Barcelona
4,950,000	Melbourne
4,925,000	Sydney
4,900,000	Changchun
4,900,000	Colombo
4,850,000	Guiyang
4,825,000	Phoenix
4,800,000	Kabul
4,800,000	Nanchang
4,775,000	Berlin
4,750,000	Tampa
4,725,000	Urumqi
4,700,000	Casablanca
4,650,000	Chittagong
4,625,000	Seattle
4,600,000	Addis Ababa
4,550,000	Fuzhou
4,450,000	Cape Town
4,375,000	Montreal
4,300,000	Linyi
4,275,000	Jaipur
4,225,000	Medellin
4,200,000	Dakar
4,200,000	Kuwait City
4,200,000	Porto Alegre
4,175,000	Algiers
4,175,000	Brasilia
4,175,000	Puebla
4,175,000	Santo Domingo
4,150,000	Medan
4,100,000	Abuja
4,050,000	Naples
4,000,000	Busan
4,000,000	Lucknow
3,975,000	Bamako
3,975,000	Kampala
3,950,000	Denver
3,950,000	Faisalabad
3,925,000	Ibadan
3,925,000	Recife
3,800,000	Caracas
3,800,000	Damascus
3,800,000	Zibo
3,775,000	Fortaleza
3,725,000	Orlando
3,725,000	Rawalpindi / Islamabad
3,700,000	Salvador
3,700,000	Yaounde
3,650,000	Douala
3,600,000	Kanpur
3,600,000	Tashkent
3,575,000	Durban
3,550,000	Athens
3,550,000	Curitiba
3,525,000	Indore
3,525,000	Port-au-Prince
3,475,000	Kiev
3,450,000	Luoyang
3,450,000	Nagpur
3,450,000	Rome
3,400,000	Lanzhou
3,375,000	Rotterdam
3,350,000	Isfahan
3,350,000	Mashhad
3,325,000	Campinas
3,325,000	Guatemala City
3,300,000	Minneapolis
3,300,000	San Diego
3,275,000	Brisbane
3,275,000	Frankfurt
3,275,000	Guayaquil
3,250,000	Nantong
3,225,000	Birmingham
3,175,000	Bhilai
3,125,000	Manchester
3,100,000	Cleveland
3,075,000	Gujranwala
3,075,000	Kathmandu
3,075,000	Sana'a
3,075,000	Weifang
3,025,000	Izmir
3,025,000	Jiangyin
3,025,000	Vancouver
3,000,000	Xuzhou
2,975,000	Pyongyang
2,950,000	Antananarivo
2,925,000	Cali
2,925,000	Coimbatore
2,925,000	Tel Aviv
2,900,000	Hamburg
2,875,000	Quito
2,850,000	Kumasi
2,850,000	Patna
2,825,000	Cincinnati
2,800,000	Fukuoka
2,800,000	Ouagadougou
2,775,000	Conakry

Population	Urban Area
2,775,000	Kaohsiung
2,775,000	Tunis
2,750,000	Brussels
2,750,000	Daegu
2,750,000	Dammam
2,750,000	Handan
2,750,000	Maracaibo
2,750,000	Phnom Penh
2,700,000	Cebu
2,675,000	Baku
2,650,000	Budapest
2,650,000	Lubumbashi
2,650,000	Tangshan
2,650,000	Toluca
2,625,000	Hohhot
2,625,000	Salt Lake City
2,600,000	Bhopal
2,600,000	Harare
2,600,000	Peshawar
2,600,000	Port Harcourt
2,575,000	Chandigarh
2,575,000	Charlotte
2,575,000	Haikou
2,550,000	Almaty
2,550,000	Goiania
2,525,000	Taizhou
2,525,000	Xinxiang
2,500,000	Agra
2,500,000	Amsterdam
2,500,000	Lisbon
2,500,000	Portland
2,500,000	Sapporo
2,475,000	Warsaw
2,475,000	Yiwu
2,450,000	Asuncion
2,450,000	Doha
2,450,000	Hyderabad (PK)
2,450,000	Maputo
2,450,000	Taichung
2,450,000	Yantai
2,450,000	Zhuhai
2,425,000	San Jose
2,400,000	Stuttgart
2,375,000	Las Vegas
2,350,000	Anshan
2,350,000	Liuzhou
2,350,000	Lome
2,350,000	Saint Louis
2,350,000	Vadodara
2,350,000	Visakhapatnam
2,325,000	Manaus
2,325,000	Mbuji-Mayi
2,325,000	Mecca
2,325,000	San Antonio
2,325,000	Santa Cruz
2,300,000	Yinchuan
2,275,000	Barranquilla
2,275,000	Belem
2,275,000	Multan
2,275,000	Munich
2,275,000	Nashik
2,275,000	Vienna
2,250,000	Katowice
2,250,000	Lusaka
2,250,000	Stockholm
2,225,000	Havana
2,225,000	La Paz
2,225,000	Leeds
2,225,000	Leon
2,225,000	Perth
2,225,000	Vijayawada
2,200,000	Brazzaville
2,200,000	Bucharest
2,200,000	Tijuana
2,200,000	Yangzhou
2,175,000	Austin
2,175,000	Bursa
2,175,000	Okayama
2,175,000	Sacramento
2,150,000	Baotou
2,125,000	Gaza
2,125,000	Mogadishu
2,125,000	Rabat
2,100,000	Indianapolis
2,100,000	Kansas City
2,100,000	Semarang
2,100,000	Xining
2,075,000	Baoding
2,075,000	Jiaxing
2,075,000	Ludhiana
2,075,000	Pittsburgh
2,075,000	Rajkot
2,075,000	Valencia
2,050,000	Kaduna
2,050,000	Minsk
2,050,000	Varanasi
2,025,000	Bhubaneswar
2,025,000	Cotonou
2,025,000	George Town
2,025,000	Jacksonville
2,025,000	Lyon

Level 57

May 19, 2021

Updated to reflect 2021 data! 17 new cities were added.

Level 57

May 27, 2023

Updated again to reflect 2023 data! Next update in 2025.

Level 26

Feb 1, 2021

I got 215. The least guessed one I got was Huizhou

Level 59

Oct 25, 2021

Still, Cixi is placed near Vancouver?

Level 57

Oct 25, 2021

Sorry, I forgot to update the dot for Cixi in this quiz - I'll do that Asap

Level 53

Oct 26, 2022

and here I thought tokyo was the biggest city in the world

Level 75

Jun 21, 2023

I never understand the boundaries that City Population uses for their metro areas. They seem to lump a lot of cities together in some instances and in others, consider them distinct, when most sources combine them. Just wish it made more sense to me.

Point the area they count as Guangzhou, most don't count. And they vastly undercount the area I live in compared to most sources.

Level 21

Sep 29, 2023

I missed Vijayawada and 20 Chinese cities but besides that I got all of the other ones correct.