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150 Biggest World Cities on a Map

With the help of a map, how many of the 150 biggest cities in the world can you name?
Loosely defined areas in Europe have been filled and are not to be guessed.
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Source: citypopulation.de - Updated as of February 2024.
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Quiz by ducklingpanda1245
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Last updated: February 19, 2024
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First submittedAugust 3, 2020
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Population
City
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
10,500,000
Changsha
10,500,000
Chóngqìng
10,500,000
Nagoya
10,200,000
Bogotá
9,900,000
Chicago
9,450,000
Zhengzhou
9,300,000
Ahmedabad
9,200,000
Taipei
9,150,000
Riyadh
Population
City
9,100,000
Kuala Lumpur
9,050,000
Nánjīng
9,000,000
Luanda
8,800,000
Washington
8,550,000
Shĕnyáng
8,050,000
Santiago
8,000,000
Shàntóu
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
Baghdād
7,500,000
Héféi
7,450,000
Sūrat
7,300,000
Hong Kong
7,250,000
Qīngdăo
7,100,000
Níngbō
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
Jìnán
6,250,000
Kūnmíng
6,100,000
Alexandria
6,100,000
Atlanta
6,100,000
Milan
6,000,000
Dar es Salaam
6,000,000
Shíjiāzhuāng
6,000,000
Yangon
5,900,000
Surabaya
5,850,000
Ammān
5,850,000
Detroit
5,850,000
Monterrey
5,750,000
Guadalajara
5,750,000
Tàiyuán
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
City
5,150,000
Dàlián
5,100,000
Nánníng
5,100,000
Wēnzhōu
4,975,000
Cologne / Dusseldorf
4,950,000
Barcelona
4,950,000
Melbourne
4,925,000
Sydney
4,900,000
Chángchūn
4,900,000
Colombo
4,850,000
Guìyáng
4,825,000
Phoenix
4,800,000
Kābul
4,800,000
Nánchāng
4,775,000
Berlin
4,750,000
Tampa
4,725,000
Ürümqi
4,700,000
Casablanca
4,650,000
Chittagong
4,625,000
Seattle
4,600,000
Addis Ababa
4,550,000
Fúzhōu
4,450,000
Cape Town
4,375,000
Montréal
4,300,000
Línyí
4,275,000
Jaipur
4,225,000
Medellín
4,200,000
Kuwait City
4,200,000
Dakar
4,200,000
Porto Alegre
4,175,000
Brasília
4,175,000
Algiers
4,175,000
Puebla
4,175,000
Santo Domingo
4,150,000
Medan
4,100,000
Abuja
4,050,000
Napoli
4,000,000
Busan
4,000,000
Lucknow
3,975,000
Bamako
3,975,000
Kampala
3,950,000
Denver
3,950,000
Faisalābād
3,925,000
Ibadan
3,925,000
Recife
3,800,000
Caracas
3,800,000
Damascus
3,800,000
Zībó
3,775,000
Fortaleza
3,725,000
Orlando
3,725,000
Rāwalpindi
3,700,000
Salvador
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Level 53
Feb 6, 2024
Updated with data from February 2024.

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Level 60
Aug 3, 2020
Great quiz got 141 but would have got more if you would accept Dalian for Darien (^~^;)ゞ
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Level 67
Aug 4, 2020
Busan and Dalian should be accepted instead
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Level 70
Nov 24, 2022
"The average score is 117"... Uh huh, those are all average people and not Jetpunk junkies like us, lol. Nice quiz!
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Level 64
Feb 9, 2024
You should probably accept Dubai, Damascus, Hangzhou and Chengdu, as these are the English spellings and also the most common names for these places. Other than that, great quiz!
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Level 53
Feb 11, 2024
these have been changed, thanks
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Level 61
Feb 19, 2024
Nice quiz, but Naples only works by its native name (Napoli).
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Level 53
Feb 19, 2024
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