Great! I was hoping to have them shown in alphabetical order so I could get a hint on the ones I couldn't find. I didn't get Belo but I don't see any missing dots in Brazil
Belo means beautiful, so that's no true @dunkinggandalf. The Wikipedia page lists these three nicknames: "BH", "The Garden City", and "Belô". If anyone else from Brazil is reading, please comment with your opinion.
I'm from Brazil, and I endorse, 99,9% of us just say "BH" (pronounced "beh-ah-GAH") or "Belo Horizonte" (pronounced colloquially contracted "belorizont"), never heard before this supposed nickname for the city. If you say to a Brazilian from a nearby city: "I'm going to Belo today", they are going to confirm: "Huh... where? Belo Horizonte?", since isn't common at all calling the city like that. All that said, I have a personal preference of not typing too much, so I like to skip the "horizonte" part, hahahahahaha... The person who put it on Wikipedia was just trying to popularize the nickname, I suppose... Rio de Janeiro may seems the same for a few people, but isn't: Just saying "Rio" is pretty common and used in official ads and tourism guides...
So, after all these years, Belo is no good any more? Like everyone else, I'm used to being able to type Belo, and it didn't occur to me to type the whole name when it didn't work. Where's the "dislike" button?
One thing I've learned with running this site is that no matter what I do people will complain. It's one of the reasons I've very hesitant to change things.
Don't worry about it quizmaster. People just need to think a bit more. I tried "Belo" and when it didn't work I looked at the dot and tried Brasilia. Then I figured I needed the spell the whole thing cause that dot couldn't be anything else!
I'll overlook the spelling mistake, but that doesn't really prove anything. What Penguin is trying to say is that since Belo Horizonte is commonly abbreviated as BH and is accepted, why can't Los Angeles be abbreviated as LA because it's more commonly used?
Enjoyed this very much. Took me a while cycling through possibilities to get the last three Chinese cities, but I made it in the end. Figures seem to vary quite widely by source when it comes to the populations of Chinese cities, so it's always a challenge to work out which are being included and which aren't. I suppose the dense population of the coastal provinces makes it tricky at times to work out where one city ends and another begins and administrative boundaries aren't much use, as most 'municipalities' include the surrounding countryside as well as the city.
I don’t want to be rude or offensive or anything, but all the cities I missed were in China (except for two in Indonesia) and a feel that this quiz was mostly “Largest Cities in China”.
28/100 with the first go. I feel like an idiot as (being from Europe) I couldn't even think of all the European cities. Well, on the positive side: plenty of room for improvement. LOVE THIS QUIZ!
I like to consider myself pretty global so this quiz proved to be a bitter humble pie. Two billion plus people are in India and China alone and I was only able to name but a handful of the cities they call home. I need take better notice.
I don't think Bangladeshis (or Indians) really care that much. "Chattogram" is more common, but tons of Bengalis still say "Chittagong." Maybe in a few decades, Chattogram will catch on more outside Bangladesh, the way Mumbai and Chennai did, but for now feel free to call it what you wish :)
I’m wondering why Cologne is always grayed out? Wouldn’t it be enough to accept both Cologne and Dusseldorf instead of always giving it away as a freebie? I think Johannesburg and Pretoria work that way in most quizzes.
I agree. I also don't understand why in all those quizzes the Ruhr and Cologne/Dusseldorf (alongside with some Polish cities in other quizzes) are grayed out. The quiz takers should be smart and educated enough to guess these. I don't think they are harder to guess than many of the other cities around the world.
Ever traveled in the PRD? If you're coming from HK, once you cross the border from the SAR into Shenzhen, you never leave an urban area as you travel up to Guangzhou. Once three separate cities, Guangzhou, Dongguan and Shenzhen have completely merged along with many smaller cities and towns.
I think that's in its administrative areas. A lot of prefecture-level and municipality-level Chinese cities include far more people in their administrative boundaries than the actual urban or metro population. It's the reverse of the US where many administrative boundaries only enclose a small part of the actual metro population.
Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew what the city in the Middle East between Israel Jordan and Palestine is? It’s not Jerusalem or Amman, and i couldn’t find anything else, so what is it!
Points to note about using the urban area: Of the big two Tokyo metro area is actually only around 14 million and the wider area used here covers the same area as the whole of Maryland; none of the sub cities would make the list on their own; Guangzhou/Shenzhen is also clearly on the list with about 23M in their metro areas but also has the sub-cities of Foshan and Dongguan at around 7M each.
Suzhou would also make the list at about 11M but makes sense to be included with Shanghai as a large number commute in both directions and they are going to open a metro line to connect them fairly soon.
No other agglomeration on the list has a satellite/sub-city which would make the list in its own right. However of the others: Johannesburg seems to be less than half the city itself (with 6M in East Rand West Rand and Pretoria); Singapore and Detroit both include areas in other countries; and Shantou, Dubai, Guadalajara, Wenzhou and Taipei would not make the list excluding satellite cities.
As far as I know, the area around the Pearl River delta is to be combined into a single megacity. And this is what I found on the web.
*Called the “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme, the plan will effectively merge Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Huizhou, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai into a single megacity with a geographical size larger than Switzerland. *
Whereas, some cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen are already combined.
I'm guessing one is the loosely defined "Ruhr Area," greyed out because there's no single urban center, and the other is probably Bielefeld, greyed out because it doesn't really exist.
When was the last time you heard anyone say LOS ANGELES?
maybe not percisely LA, but L A , or L.A.
it is still better than los angeles.
Ohhhhh, I was wondering what was getting filled in when I've tried typing that on other quizzes
i got all of them except Changsha Zengzhou and Wenzhou although i did recognize them after.
I am wondering why they don't accept Cologne or Düsseldorf as type ins as well.
LA - Las Vegas, Lagos and Lahore (the last 2 are on this quiz)
So no.
How funny!
Suzhou would also make the list at about 11M but makes sense to be included with Shanghai as a large number commute in both directions and they are going to open a metro line to connect them fairly soon.
No other agglomeration on the list has a satellite/sub-city which would make the list in its own right. However of the others: Johannesburg seems to be less than half the city itself (with 6M in East Rand West Rand and Pretoria); Singapore and Detroit both include areas in other countries; and Shantou, Dubai, Guadalajara, Wenzhou and Taipei would not make the list excluding satellite cities.
As far as I know, the area around the Pearl River delta is to be combined into a single megacity. And this is what I found on the web.
*Called the “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme, the plan will effectively merge Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Huizhou, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai into a single megacity with a geographical size larger than Switzerland. *
Whereas, some cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen are already combined.
it's a second try because first try i forgot changsha zhengzhou and philadelphia, i freaking forgot philadelphia.