I live in the DC Metro Area and I still didn't guess it. To get the population above 6 million is kind of a long reach. I guess if you include most of Maryland, okay then.
New Delhi is just a district or neighborhood within the city of Delhi. If we're talking metro area then either answer should get credit. Doesn't seem confusing.
Agree. Delhi would have been one of my first guesses, with or without considering the New Delhi/Delhi distinction. The capital of India is a pretty obvious answer for a quiz on largest world capitals, I would think, anyway.
Agreed, since I've never before seen any quiz to fill in
Delhi/New Delhi in beforehand. They just accept both, I assume.
Actually, I didn't look at the table before starting the quiz and my first type-in was Delhi, wich confused me, because I couldn't see what might have been wrong, until I scrolled down a bit...
Jet Punk considers the Klang Valley as Kuala Lumpur Metro area. I believe it's reasonable since Klang Valley is also kown as Greater Kuala Lumpur. Check any sources for the Klang Valley and you will find the quizz is actually right,
13.1 according to citypopulation.de. Interesting case as Pretoria is captured in the urban area of Johannesburg, but it's not the main city. For me enough of an argument to include it though :)
I got all but one with about three minutes left, and I racked my brain until the time expired. It turns out the one I missed was Kinshasa, which I had already guessed but spelled wrong. FML
Washington metro area has 6mi people, however Washington metro area is just part of the bigger Washington–Baltimore metro area which has about 8mi people. These kind of quizzes usually try to go for the biggest metro area possible.
Shenzhen and Guangzhou are usually also added up in jetpunk for instance. However, other sources will consider too different places.
The whole idea of what are cities, countries, continents are commonly up to debate.
Jakarta is number two in the world, ahead of Seoul? Wow... I knew that Indonesia is the fourth most populated country in the world, but I expected it to be around #10 or something... Also, I was surprised Rome wasn't here. I thought it had around 10 million, but apparently it's only 5.
Pretty sure in all quizzes on this site it is considered as metro area of johannesburg. Because that is what it say on citypopulation.de which is the site of choice for quizzes about population on jetpunk.
According to your source Pretoria is included in the urban area of Johannesburg, listing as nearly 14m shouldnt it make the list?http://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/ Pretoria might not be the name barer of te urban area, still it is part of one of the biggest urban areas (according to your source, though personally I am not the biggest fan of urban areas because it can sometimes give distorted views. But since we are using it, I am for consistency)
I feel like some sort of caveat might be useful, because New Delhi/Delhi isn't the only case of a capital being part of a much larger urban area that doesn't share its name - Pretoria/Johannesburg and Islamabad/Rawalpindi spring to mind (though without checking, not sure if the latter would make it). I don't think they should be included, but there's an argument to be made for them in the absence of an explicit caveat.
Yeah sure. Let me head over there and count up the people.
If you mean by looking it up, you could do it yourself, as it's sourced in the caveats—unless you have no access to internet, in which case I must question how you commented.
I am always surprised at how many people live in the biggest cities of Saudi Arabia. I always picture the country as one huge desert with a few scattered towns and cities with a fair number of people, but not large metropolises. However, it has a total population of over 38 million with at least 7 metropolitan areas over a million each. Just total ignorance on my part.
Not a complaint, just offering perspective.
Delhi/New Delhi in beforehand. They just accept both, I assume.
Actually, I didn't look at the table before starting the quiz and my first type-in was Delhi, wich confused me, because I couldn't see what might have been wrong, until I scrolled down a bit...
Shenzhen and Guangzhou are usually also added up in jetpunk for instance. However, other sources will consider too different places.
The whole idea of what are cities, countries, continents are commonly up to debate.
Got 100%
If you mean by looking it up, you could do it yourself, as it's sourced in the caveats—unless you have no access to internet, in which case I must question how you commented.