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Biggest Cities in the French Colonial Empire on a Map

Name the largest urban areas that were once in control of the 1st or 2nd French Colonial Empire.
Based on this map
Urban areas under 1m were estimations done with the Major Agglomerations of the World list in mind with citypopulation. While they are not official numbers they are approximated by regional numbers
Excludes Huguenot settlements or any of Indonesia that was under French influence
Quiz by UG332
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Last updated: November 17, 2022
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Population
City
39,300,000
Shanghai
11,900,000
Chennai
11,400,000
Paris
11,200,000
Tianjin
10,900,000
Ho Chi Minh City
9,850,000
Chicago
7,650,000
Toronto
7,350,000
Dallas
5,950,000
Abidjan
5,850,000
Detroit
4,625,000
Casablanca
4,275,000
Montreal
4,125,000
Hanoi
4,100,000
Santo Domingo
4,100,000
Algiers
4,075,000
Dakar
3,975,000
Damascus
3,875,000
Denver
3,825,000
Bamako
3,650,000
Yaounde
3,575,000
Douala
3,250,000
Minneapolis
3,245,000
Port-au-Prince
3,100,000
Cleveland
Population
City
2,850,000
Antananarivo
2,850,000
Cincinnati
2,775,000
Tunis
2,750,000
Ouagadougou
2,700,000
Conakry
2,650,000
Phnom Penh
2,425,000
Brazzaville
2,375,000
St. Louis
2,300,000
Vishakhapatnam
2,275,000
Lome
2,100,000
Rabat
2,075,000
Indianapolis
2,075,000
Pittsburgh
2,050,000
Kansas City
2,000,000
Lyon
1,980,000
Aleppo
1,950,000
Cotonou
1,820,000
Beirut
1,790,000
Columbus
1,770,000
Adana
1,740,000
Gaziantep
1,740,000
Zhànjiāng
1,690,000
Marseille
1,680,000
N'Djamena
1,590,000
Panama City
Population
City
1,550,000
Nashville
1,540,000
Oran
1,540,000
Milwaukee
1,390,000
Niamey
1,380,000
Buffalo
1,360,000
Nouakchott
1,310,000
Lille
1,310,000
Fes
1,300,000
Ottawa
1,270,000
Pointe-Noire
1,260,000
Bangui
1,250,000
Agadir
1,240,000
Da Nang
1,190,000
Sousse
1,170,000
Oklahoma City
1,150,000
Touba
1,150,000
Memphis
1,140,000
Marrakech
1,120,000
Bordeaux
1,100,000
Toulouse
1,080,000
Louisville
1,010,000
Bobo-Dioulasso
1,010,000
New Orleans
950,000
Pondicherry
950,000
Vientiane
SWATkun
+2
Level 60
Apr 7, 2020
Fantastique Quiz

But considér accepting Chandannagar for Kolkata (because Kolkata was never a French Colony but only the town of Chandannagar was) and Vishakhapatnam and Vizag for Visakhapatnam.

And Surat, Dhaka, Balasore and Kassimbazar were also big French establishment in India.

French in India

UG332
+1
Level 68
Apr 7, 2020
Thank you swat :)
letzi
+1
Level 75
Apr 7, 2020
Are you sure the population of Saint-Denis is only 374? Maybe you're missing some zeros.
UG332
+1
Level 68
Apr 7, 2020
Looking at the population of Saint-Denis on Google, I just assumed it was the first one that popped up. I was looking at a commune in the Paris Area XD. It is fixed now :)
Apocalyptic
+6
Level 56
Jun 30, 2020
How are cities from vanuatu and comoros on the list but not french cities like Lille, Toulouse, Strasbourg etc?
Shadywyvern
+1
Level 77
Dec 10, 2020
Aw dang, I thought Beirut was a city in Syria...
peardestroyer
+1
Level 57
Feb 22, 2021
Nice quiz, but I think it's spelled 'French Guiana' :)
rocamorar
+1
Level 78
Nov 5, 2021
Nice quiz. Port-au-Prince is placed a little too much to the south.
sumguy
+1
Level 84
Nov 5, 2021

Use class "zoomable-circle" so the dots don't grow when you zoom the map.And yes: why list Versailles rather than Strasbourg, Lille, Toulouse, Toulon, Dijon, Montpellier, etc.? This is a consequence of...The quiz is called "Biggest Cities in the French Colonial Empire on a Map", but the majority of cities are in the "Other Cities" category. Seems like it's just a "Notable Cities in the French Colonial Empire" quiz.Also, citypopulation.en doesn't seem to be a thing. I assume you meant citypopulation.de.Also, you appear to be using metro population for some cities and city proper for others. St. John's does have a city population of about 104k, but the metro population (according to citypopulation.de) is 214k.

A time-tested concept poorly executed.

Fuse
+4
Level 77
Nov 6, 2021
Got anything else negative to say? Because personally, I thought it was a really well made quiz. Not only did it feature the biggest cities like it promised, but also some more notable ones to test our knowledge.

"its cp.de and not cp.en" at this point, you are just nitpicking to try and strengthen your case. Stop complaining, it was a really good quiz.

Also you seem to forget - you didn't have to take this quiz. If you didn't like it, then why would you take the quiz in the first place?

sumguy
+1
Level 84
Nov 6, 2021
I point these out so they can be corrected, to make the quiz better. I'll remove my comment when the improvements are made. When you see easily fixable errors in quizzes, do you just ignore them and leave the quiz and the site worse than it needs to be? Why not make the site as good as it can be? With respect, it's like not letting someone know that they have spinach in their teeth. I wouldn't do that to you, so please don't do that to me. If you find obvious problems in my quizzes, please tell me about them.

The point of a source is to be able to check it. .en vs .de matters for that purpose. Correcting a source citation is never nitpicking, unless there are killer nits in your part of the world.

UG332
+1
Level 68
Nov 7, 2021
Yeah I was gonna come back to this quiz and the British, Spanish and Portuguese ones eventually and fix it up because I think its dated in my personal opinion and one of my first map quizzes.

However the way I'd imagine it would be to draw the exact borders of their empires, putting in zoomable circle, etc. Your complaints are valid and I wasn't honestly expecting this to be spotlighted XD

Whoever spotlighted it thanks so much (and all of my other quizzes). I haven't even gotten a single spotlight opportunity yet LOL

britishtealeaves
+1
Level 28
Jan 27, 2022
DARN! I spelled Puducherry wrong, I was spelled it as pudacherry. :,)
baptistegorce
+1
Level 54
Nov 17, 2022
Excellent quiz with a beautiful map! Nominated!

Just a detail: could you accept Tourane for Da Nang and Fort-Bayard for Zhanjiang, please?

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