Top 10 Urban Areas by Region

Name the 10 largest cities by urban area population in each of the 10 regions. Numbers are population in million
There are overlaps between Middle East and Europe/Africa, i.e. some cities appear in 2 lists
For this quiz, Latin America contains all Spanish/Portuguese speaking countries in Americas; Caucasian countries are considered part of Europe; Afghanistan in Central Asia; Middle East bound by Iran, Turkey and Egypt
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US/Canada
20.9
New York
15.5
Los Angeles
9.0
Chicago
7.6
Washington/Baltimore
7.3
Boston/Providence
7.0
Toronto
7.0
Dallas/Fort Worth
6.5
Houston
6.5
San Francisco/San Jose
6.2
Miami
 
 
Latin America
22.5
Sao Paulo
21.5
Mexico City
16.2
Buenos Aires
12.5
Rio de Janeiro
9.3
Bogota
9.0
Lima
7.0
Santiago
5.8
Caracas
5.6
Monterrey
5.4
Guadalajara
Europe
17.7
Moscow
15.3
Istanbul
11.1
London
11.0
Paris
6.1
Essen/Dusseldorf
6.0
Madrid
5.2
St. Petersburg
5.0
Milan
4.7
Barcelona
4.0
Berlin
 
 
Africa
19.8
Cairo
15.5
Lagos
15.1
Kinshasa
14.2
Johannesburg/Pretoria
8.9
Luanda
7.5
Dar es Salaam
6.9
Onitsha
6.0
Khartoum
6.0
Nairobi
5.5
Addis Ababa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Middle East
19.8
Cairo
15.3
Istanbul
13.8
Tehran
6.9
Riyadh
6.6
Dubai
6.1
Baghdad
4.9
Alexandria
4.8
Ankara
4.5
Amman
4.3
Kuwait City
 
 
Central Asia & Siberia
5.1
Kabul
4.1
Tashkent
2.3
Almaty
1.7
Novosibirsk
1.5
Dushanbe
1.4
Yekaterinburg
1.4
Ashgabat
1.4
Bishkek
1.4
Samarkand
1.3
Namangan
 
 
South Asia
31.9
Delhi
22.2
Mumbai
18.7
Kolkata
16.8
Dhaka
15.3
Karachi
14.0
Bengaluru
11.6
Chennai
11.1
Lahore
9.8
Hyderabad
7.9
Pune
 
 
East Asia
39.1
Tokyo/Yokohama
22.1
Shanghai
22.4
Seoul/Incheon
21.5
Guangzhou/Foshan
19.4
Beijing
15.5
Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto
14.7
Shenzhen
11.9
Chengdu
10.9
Tianjin
9.7
Wuhan
 
 
SE Asia
35.4
Jakarta
24.0
Manila
17.6
Bangkok
14.0
Ho Chi Minh City
8.6
Kuala Lumpur
7.4
Hanoi
6.9
Bandung
6.5
Yangon
6.5
Surabaya
5.9
Singapore
 
 
Oceania
4.6
Sydney
4.6
Melbourne
2.2
Brisbane
2.0
Perth
1.4
Auckland
1.2
Adelaide
0.9
Honolulu
0.7
Gold Coast
0.4
Canberra
0.4
Christchurch
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Level 76
Oct 24, 2015
Nice! Would Ulaanbaatar be considered in central Asia?
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Level 67
Oct 24, 2015
No I consider Mongolia as part of East Asia, otherwise it'd rank 6th ahead of Omsk.
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Level 66
Jul 28, 2020
Mongolia's culture I would say is a mix of Central and East Asia. But geographically, I think it should be East Asia.
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Level 67
Jul 28, 2020
I was contemplating putting Mongolia and Xinjiang in Central Asia, but the East Asia map would look weird and what am I going to do with Tibet?
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Level 65
Jan 31, 2022
I agree that Mongolia is geographically speaking in East Asia rather than in Central Asia.

However about separating parts of China (regardless on whether they have a large percentage of people of a certain ethnicity in these parts) is something different. Then you would have to do this to parts of other countries too to be consistent (e.g. Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, Northern parts of Nordic countries, Russia, etc.). Northern Africa and the rest of Africa can also be separated and if you really want to separate by ethnicity then there would be more divisions than countries in Africa and Asia.

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Level 65
Oct 24, 2015
Great layout as the world!
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Level 56
Jul 28, 2020
Nice Quiz! Can you please accept DC for Washington? And maybe Cologne for Essen as according to JetPunk, they are in same urban area.
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Level 67
Jul 28, 2020
The type-in for Washington is automatic. According to the source, Cologne is a separate urban area together with Bonn and has a population of 2.1 million.
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Level 56
Jul 28, 2020
But DC is acceptable in other featured quizzes
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Level 67
Jul 28, 2020
"DC" is only accepted if the answer is "Washington, D.C.", which is probably applicable in a capital city quiz. But in this case the urban area of Washington + Baltimore is much bigger than the District of Columbia.
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Level 65
Jan 31, 2022
Fantastic quiz, I really enjoyed it, will nominate!

I have two comments though:

-I see that Hawaii has been placed in a region with Oceania, even though it is a US state. But sure, you decided to go along with this. However if you decide to go along with this, I think it is a bit inconsistent to place French Guiana with Europe as it is in South America. I also don't understand why Suriname is with North America rather than South America.

- I was not able to check your source, I can't open it. But either way, Onitsha is not one of the top 10 most populated urban areas in Africa, it also does not make the top 5 in Nigeria. You might want to edit this.

Did not check any other mistakes but there might be some other minor mistakes, I recommend double-checking. The quiz was fun, thanks for creating it!

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Level 67
Jan 31, 2022
According to the source, Onitsha population is 6,887,000. It in turns sources its African data from africapolis.org, which has Onitsha population at 8,530,500 and covers huge neighbouring areas including Nnewi and Owerri.
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Level 38
May 15, 2023
Would not call this an "urban area." Moreso a bunch of villages near a medium sized city.
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Level 56
Sep 25, 2022
I also think onitsha is wrong, https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22013/onitsha/population