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Five Biggest World Cities by Letter #2

Name the five most populous urban areas in the world whose names start with these letters.
Based on urban area population according to citypopulation.de
Shenzhen is not listed because citypopulation.de includes it with Guangzhou
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Last updated: December 14, 2019
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First submittedNovember 19, 2015
Times taken54,413
Average score67.5%
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L
Nigeria
18.8 m
Lagos
U.S.
17.8 m
Los Angeles
U.K.
14.7 m
London
Pakistan
12.6 m
Lahore
Peru
9.90 m
Lima
 
 
 
M
Philippines
25.2 m
Manila
India
24.7 m
Mumbai
Mexico
22.8 m
Mexico City
Russia
17.2 m
Moscow
Spain
6.45 m
Madrid
 
 
 
N
U.S.
22.4 m
New York City
Japan
10.5 m
Nagoya
China
6.70 m
Nanjing
Kenya
5.95 m
Nairobi
Italy
4.23 m
Naples
O
Japan
17.7 m
Osaka
U.S.
3.38 m
Orlando
Burkina Faso
2.53 m
Ouagadougou
Japan
2.20 m
Okayama
Algeria
1.45 m
Oran
 
 
 
P
France
11.4 m
Paris
U.S.
7.35 m
Philadelphia
India
6.70 m
Pune
U.S.
4.58 m
Phoenix
Brazil
4.10 m
Porto Alegre
 
 
 
R
Brazil
13.1 m
Rio de Janeiro
Saudi Arabia
7.75 m
Riyadh
Brazil
3.83 m
Recife
Italy
3.58 m
Rome
Pakistan
3.35 m
Rawalpindi
S
China
35.9 m
Shanghai
South Korea
24.7 m
Seoul
Brazil
22.2 m
São Paulo
China
7.90 m
Shenyang
U.S.
7.85 m
San Francisco
 
 
 
T
Japan
40.2 m
Tokyo
Iran
15.0 m
Tehran
China
13.2 m
Tianjin
Taiwan
9.10 m
Taipei
Canada
7.35 m
Toronto
+14
Level 82
Nov 20, 2015
I got everything except for Okayama which I don't believe I've ever heard of before.
+1
Level 49
Nov 20, 2023
me too, Kal
+8
Level 77
Feb 6, 2016
Sceptical on Okayama. 600k max, will be interesting to see what is included. Have visited the city multiple times so can't see where this figure comes from.
+9
Level ∞
Feb 7, 2016
Maybe you can e-mail the people at citypopulation.de? Its not easy to make consistent data for all world cities, but they do the best job of anyone. Different countries have different standards for what constitutes a metro area, so relying on the data from the various countries is bound to create inconsistencies. I trust citypopulation.de more than any other source.
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Level 85
Feb 7, 2016
Yeah, I don't know. Take a look at the maps of some their agglomerations: Freakishly riddled with holes and consisting of scores of disconnected pieces, having little resemblance to what I would consider a city.
+10
Level ∞
Feb 8, 2016
citypopulation.de is like democracy or capitalism. It's the worst solution except for all the other ones.
+6
Level 75
Apr 6, 2016
Something is screwy about citypopulation's numbers for Okayama. The entire prefecture (province) of Okayama contains great swathes of countryside, but contains only 1.92 million people, so goodness knows how much of neighboring provinces they've included as well to get the number up to 2.20 million.
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Level 75
Apr 6, 2016
Yup, you've got to deal with the data from your source. Nothing else for a quizmaker to do. But I stayed in Okayama for a night last summer, travelled in and out by train, arriving downtown, which gives a pretty good indication of the size of the greater urban area. Walked around downtown - frankly the whole length of it - and it was hardly taxing. I was surprised when I saw the city listed with a population of 600,000, since that's almost identical to my hometown (Winnipeg). Allowing for higher residential residencies in Japan than Canada, I was still really skeptical of the 600k number, let alone this one. Okayama's not like, say, Kobe either, in that it would all depend where you would draw the border. So, who knows how the fine folks at your source have come up with the number.
+2
Level 77
Jan 31, 2022
What the heck? Citypopulation gave Okayama everyone in Fukuyama! That's how they got so big!
+3
Level 89
Feb 7, 2016
Population of Okayama is 714,583.
+4
Level 41
Apr 6, 2016
I really shouldn't do any quiz when i am sleepy....

For the M in Spain... I didn't get it.....

+5
Level 75
Apr 6, 2016
No idea how I pulled Rawalpindi from the cobwebs of my brain, but glad it was there. Sort of makes up for forgetting Lahore.
+2
Level 70
Apr 6, 2016
maybe a little mercy on the spelling of ougadougou?
+7
Level 67
Jun 6, 2017
It lets you off with Ouaga, but I wish it'd let you spell the whole thing.
+4
Level 56
Apr 6, 2016
Hey, I live in Okayama! I'm so surprised to see it on a quiz here! Especially because the data is false! Yaaay for recognition, though!
+1
Level 43
Oct 23, 2016
I bet Nagoya only has as many people that guessed it as it did (26% as of my first attempt) because of the winter Olympics in '98? Didn't think of it until after saw it on the list.
+9
Level 82
Nov 11, 2016
Nagoya is not Nagano
+4
Level 44
Mar 2, 2018
I live in Rawalpindi

So that was very easy for me

+3
Level 82
Jun 26, 2019
Ouaga who who?
+1
Level 85
Jul 11, 2022
The girl with the power. The power? The power of voodoo? Who do? Ouagadougdou.
+1
Level 80
Oct 14, 2022
r/Usernamechecksout
+1
Level 67
Sep 2, 2019
I usually don't ask for spelling help, but then I typed Ryiad, without the "h", and felt that maybe I needed some...
+2
Level 72
Sep 8, 2019
Ryiad doesn't usually work on JetPunk, but Riyad (without the H) does. Although it didn't on this one, for some reason... Could you make it consistent with all other quizzes, QM? Thanks!
+2
Level 65
Sep 2, 2019
Good one, thank you for doing it.
+3
Level 68
Sep 2, 2019
More people got Ouagadougou than Phoenix? What?!
+6
Level 67
Sep 16, 2019
Probably because most people mentally don't think of "ph" sounds as a hard "p" sound and more of an "f"
+5
Level 77
Dec 29, 2019
Ouagadougou is a capital city.
+1
Level 60
Feb 18, 2023
Actually, I thought of Ouagadougou way faster than Pheonix. Pheonix is not the Capital of country.
+2
Level 49
Sep 2, 2019
Lmao i got Oran and Recife but not Tokyo or Rio
+2
Level 52
Sep 2, 2019
New Delhi?
+2
Level 48
Sep 3, 2019
I refuse to believe that 40% of quiz takers knew Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, without cheating. Sorry, but I just don't believe it.
+11
Level 59
Sep 3, 2019
Lmao 40% of quiz takers just memorized every capital of the world, in which case the answer becomes evident. The fact that you refuse to believe this won't make it less true though.
+3
Level 15
Feb 1, 2021
Most people that take these quizzes take them with a lot of prior knowledge. People that don't know any wouldn't ever take this quiz. That's why 40% would know Ouagadougou.
+3
Level 80
Mar 26, 2021
It's a very common answer on jetpunk quizzes to be fair
+2
Level 68
May 28, 2020
Omg what is wrong with me? I missed 3US ones
+2
Level 50
Sep 1, 2020
Population of San Francisco is less than 1 million. You must have been referring to the entire Bay Area.
+2
Level 36
Nov 17, 2020
Just saying you should swap Philadelphia and Phoenix because as of June 2020 Phoenix is bigger than Philadelphia.
+2
Level 56
Dec 29, 2020
rip I forgot tokyo and moscow...
+2
Level 56
Feb 21, 2021
Hey guys, Okayama resident here, not sure what the population was here in 2016, but the prefecture's is just around 2 million in 2021. The city itself is just shy of 700k, but this quiz does clearly say "urban area," and if Tokyo is allowed to include almost every prefecture surrounding it to get 40 million, then I don't see anything wrong with Okayama's case.
+1
Level 60
Jan 18, 2023
i thought shenzhen was bigger than shenyang
+1
Level 60
Mar 11, 2023
It depends if it's combined with Guangzhou or not. In quizzes it usually is.
+1
Level 61
Oct 29, 2023
JetPunk standard is to combine with Guangzhou because that's what citypopulation.de does
+1
Level 60
Feb 18, 2023
40/40 well done me.
+1
Level 54
Aug 17, 2023
Nice quiz! Though all the numbers feel mildly off. Also apparently, you gotta change your source due to some interesting numbers in Okayama.
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Level 67
Mar 16, 2024
It looks like the Okayama population is for the prefecture (also called Okayama), rather than the city itself.