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Biggest Asian cities by language

Name five biggest Asian cities that speak a language spoken by at least 75 million people.
Only Asian cities where these languages are spoken.
For this quiz the dialects of Hindi and Mandarin are not treated as separate languages.
Dialects listed are traditionally associated with the geographic area of the city, these dialects may have been replaced by standard registers of the language.
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Language
Population
Historical Dialect
City
Mandarin
20,900,000
Standard/Prestige Dialect
Bĕijīng
Mandarin
16,600,000
Sichuanese
Chéngdū
Mandarin
12,300,000
Guanzhong
Xī'ān
Mandarin
11,800,000
Hankou
Wŭhàn
Mandarin
11,400,000
Jilu
Tiānjīn
Hindi
33,400,000
Khari Boli
Delhi
Hindi
4,275,000
Dhundhai
Jaipur
Hindi
4,000,000
Awadhi
Lucknow
Hindi
3,600,000
Awadhi
Kānpur
Hindi
3,525,000
Malvi
Indore
Bengali
21,300,000
Kutti
Dhaka
Bengali
17,400,000
Rarhi
Kolkata
Bengali
4,650,000
Chatgaiya
Chittagong
Bengali
1,690,000
Manbhumi
Āsansol
Bengali
1,140,000
Bangali
Khulna
Arabic
9,150,000
Najdi
Ar-Riyāḍ
Arabic
7,500,000
Aamiyah
Baghdād
Arabic
5,850,000
Khaleeji
Dubayy
Arabic
5,500,000
Sedentary Levantine
Ammān
Arabic
4,200,000
Hejazi
Jiddah
Japanese
40,800,000
Yamanote kotoba
Tōkyō
Japanese
17,700,000
Kansai-ben
Ōsaka
Japanese
10,500,000
Owari-ben
Nagoya
Japanese
2,800,000
Hakata-ben
Fukuoka
Japanese
2,500,000
Hokkaido-ben
Sapporo
Punjabi
14,400,000
Majhi
Lāhore
Punjabi
3,950,000
Majhi
Faisalābād
Punjabi
3,725,000
Pothwari
Rāwalpindi-Islāmābād
Punjabi
3,075,000
Majhi
Gujrānwāla
Punjabi
2,575,000
Puadhi
Chandīgarh
Marathi
26,600,000
Marathi-Konkani
Mumbai
Marathi
7,550,000
Deshi
Pune
Marathi
3,450,000
Varhadi
Nāgpur
Language
Population
Historical Dialect
City
Marathi
2,275,000
Khandeshi
Nāshik
Marathi
1,970,000
Marathwadi
Aurangābād
Telugu
11,100,000
Telangana
Hyderābād
Telugu
2,350,000
Uttarandhra
Visākhapatnam
Telugu
2,225,000
Kostandhra
Vijayawāda
Telugu
1,050,000
Telangana
Warangal
Telugu
670,000
Kostandhra
Guntur
Wu
40,000,000
Su-Jia-Hu
Shànghăi
Wu
13,400,000
Taihu
Hángzhōu
Wu
7,100,000
Yongjiang
Níngbō
Wu
5,100,000
Oujiang
Wēnzhōu
Wu
3,250,000
Shadi
Nántōng
Turkish
16,100,000
Standard
İstanbul
Turkish
5,200,000
Orta Anadolu
Ankara
Turkish
3,025,000
Ege
İzmir
Turkish
2,175,000
Standard
Bursa
Turkish
1,780,000
Laz
Adana
Korean
24,900,000
Gyeonggi
Seoul
Korean
4,000,000
Gyeongsang
Busan
Korean
2,975,000
Pyeongan
P'yŏngyang
Korean
2,750,000
Gyeongsang
Daegu
Korean
1,630,000
Jeolla
Gwangju
Vietnamese
13,500,000
Southern
Hồ Chí Minh City
Vietnamese
7,000,000
Northern
Hà Nội
Vietnamese
1,430,000
Southern
Đà Nẵng
Vietnamese
1,420,000
Northern
Hải Phòng
Vietnamese
812,000
Southern
Cần Thơ
Tamil
12,200,000
Madras Bashai
Chennai
Tamil
2,925,000
Kongu
Coimbatore
Tamil
1,890,000
Inkuttu
Madurai
Tamil
1,540,000
Kongu
Tiruppūr
Tamil
1,270,000
Central
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Level 84
Jan 10, 2024
The quiz is too wide. The "City" column in the second table scrolls off the edge. I have to use the horizontal scrollbar to see it.
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Level 84
Mar 23, 2024
Still too wide.
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Level 80
Mar 25, 2024
How should i fix that?
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Level 49
Mar 22, 2024
Why not include cantonese?
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Level 80
Mar 22, 2024
According to this featured quiz https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/6121/top-10-spoken-languages-in-asia Cantonese doesn't have 75mil speakers.
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Level 61
Mar 22, 2024
According to Ethnologue, it has 85 Million