Africa is a quickly growing continent of a billion people. Within this vast land, there is a great amount of diversity, from the Cape of Good Hope to the top of Tunisia. The United Nations defines five different African subregions in it's geoscheme for Africa, can you name the 10 most populous cities in each defined area?
All figures are by city proper
Some of these cities' population figures are undersold dramatically due to poor census data
I would like to conclude this series with the Americas, although I have no idea how I'm going to divide the continent yet (besides more obvious divisions--Caribbean, Northern America, etc.) Oceania is not in the plans, due to how quickly the cities become obscure, if you can even call them cities.
My biggest problem is simply the regions of Oceania--Australia and Polynesia as regions have good amounts of cities, while Melanesia and Micronesia are quite obscure. Mixing it with Asia might have been the best option, although personally I'm fine with giving Oceania a miss. Thank you for your suggestions!
Thanks for the suggestions! I think that for North America, Northern America (US, Canada, Greenland), Caribbean, Central America are guaranteed. South America is hard to divide, though. The Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) is an easy choice but I'm not sure about the rest of South America. Any divisions I make will be much less formal than the last 3 quizzes.
In some cases I will agree with you. The three main problems I have with city proper are when cities are completely downsized (such as Brussels or Athens), due to suburbs that physically border said city, when population is underestimated due to out of date census data (huge problem in some of the African countries), and finally Chongqing, China, the so-called biggest city in the world (when the 'city' is essentially just another Chinese province in every way besides administration).
However, I have a much larger problem with the metropolitan figures presented by citypopulation.de (the site calls them 'urban areas'). For example, their claim that Boston has 7 million people, and includes about half of New England is something I find a stretch. I also disagree with their grouping of cities along international borders (Detroit-Windsor, or Singapore-Johor Bahru). Finally, due to how prevelant these figures are on Jetpunk, cities such as Wuppertal get completely ignored while more obscure built up areas like the Ruhr or Cixi are given the spotlight. As someone who has learnt a great deal of my geographical knowledge on Jetpunk, I know some of the major cities ony for other reasons (Dortmund for football, Bonn for history, etc).
I prefer urban areas, personally, in which only the population within a given urbanised area is counted (no cities agglomerated when they are actually seperated over fields, for instance). It's not perfect, and it's hard to count for at times, but urban area is my go to. Sorry for the essay, but also thanks for playing the series :)
Apologies, it seems I've confused the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with its South American cousin (Cape Horn). I feel I should mention that the Cape of Good Hope itself is not physically the southernmost point on the continent, either, but symbolically it has marked the end of the African landmass perhaps since its rounding by the Portuguese.
You could also mix South America with Latin America and/or the Caribbean.