Statistics for Asian Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
It was devastated by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, and again by Allied bombing raids during World War II	Tokyo	94%
Straddles the Bosphorus strait, and lies in both Europe and Asia	Istanbul	92%
Considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions	Jerusalem	92%
It has the highest number of millionaires and billionaires among all cities in India	Mumbai	86%
The city was the capital of South Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City	84%
The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War	Hong Kong	83%
It is a major financial and shipping hub, consistently ranked the most expensive city to live in since 2013, and has been identified as a tax haven	Singapore	79%
Hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup	Doha	77%
It is the largest city, capital, and seat of government of Cyprus	Nicosia	73%
In September 2022, the president of Kazakhstan announced that the city would revert to the former name	Astana	66%
The provisional capital of a continuing Republic of China, with the official capital at Nanjing	Taipei	64%
The largest city in the world for much of the Abbasid era during the Islamic Golden Age	Baghdad	63%
Not far from Russia's borders with China and North Korea	Vladivostok	61%
The largest city on the Caspian Sea, it is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level	Baku	57%
Authorities maintain a restrictive regime of movement into the city, making it atypical of East Asia as it is silent, uncrowded and spacious	Pyongyang	56%
The largest city on Hokkaido	Sapporo	55%
The starting point of the Silk Road and home to the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang	Xi'an	55%
This proposed tower, formerly known as the Kingdom Tower, will stand 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) tall	Jeddah	38%
After the late 1930s the public stopped using the name "Angora"	Ankara	36%
Home to the country's film industry, Lollywood	Lahore	28%