Can you name the Most Populous Transborder Metro Areas? by Almasa

Population	City(ies)	Countries
19,000,000		China/ *(Special Administrative Region)
12,000,000		Democratic Republic of Congo/Republic of Congo
7,000,000		/Malaysia
5,700,000		USA/Canada
5,300,000		Poland/Czech Republic
5,105,000		USA/Mexico
4,861,000		Italy/Switzerland
3,900,000		Belgium/Germany/Netherlands

Population	City(ies)	Countries
3,732,000		Denmark/Sweden
3,000,000		Austria/Slovakia
2,300,000		USA/Mexico
1,905,000		France/Belgium
1,500,000		USA/Canada
1,300,000		Colombia/Venezuela
800,000		USA/Mexico
700,000		France/Germany

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Most Populous Transborder Metro Areas Quiz

by Almasa

Created Jan 17, 2011 in Geography
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	chriskotx:	Jan 17th, 2011 at 22:58 GMT	3 points
	Wow..I've never heard of Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (what cities does that include?) or Cucuta-San Antonio del Tachira. Plus, I still can't spell Strasbourg right. Lastly, wondering why McAllen/Hidalgo County-Reynosa isn't included with Brownsville-Matamoros - which would bring the total population of that area to over 2 million.

	Almasa:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 00:30 GMT	2 points
	The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion includes Maastricht, Liege, Aachen, Hasselt and Eupen. I didn't come across the McAllen/Hidalgo County-Reynosa in the research I did for the quiz, but after looking at it, it looks like it could be included assuming it is considered a metro area.

	Onno:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 09:20 GMT	1 point
	Kortrijk is misspelled. Although I disagree that Maastricht and Liège are in the same metro area (even Maastricht-Aachen is a stretch if you'd ask me) it's a nice quiz.

	codejlandt:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:52 GMT	1 point
	Basel? Vancouver?

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:22 GMT	0 points
	#codejlandt: Basel would seem like a good candidate with 830,000 population in Switzerland, Germany, and France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel Vancouver on the other hand seems to lack a sufficient transborder character, Vancouver, BC and Vancouver, Washington are over 300 miles apart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington

	AlexRandom:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:24 GMT	-2 points
	Rome/Vatican?

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 14:30 GMT	1 point
	@jammero: I would say the Milan Metro Area doesn't have a sufficient transborder character, for instance, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) territorial review of 2006 doesn't consider any Swiss territory in the Milan Metro Area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_metropolitan_area

	folio1701:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT	3 points
	Definition of "transborder area" and link to source?

	codejlandt:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 18:41 GMT	1 point
	@tahitiwahini Vancouver, BC, and Vancouver, WA, are indeed over 300 miles apart. But Vancouver, BC, is ~30 miles from the US border. And White Rock, BC, considered part of Metro Vancouver is on the US border, with Bellingham, WA, not far beyond.

	codejlandt:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 18:43 GMT	1 point
	@tahitiwahini And metropolitan Basel, including areas of the agglomeration in France and Germany, is actually about 2.3 million. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transborder_agglomeration.

	gowhere:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 22:30 GMT	0 points
	I would be interested in the source, as well. While Kinshasa and Brazzaville are across the river from each other, I am not at all certain there is enough interaction between them to call them a single metro area. I certainly didn't see the kind of physical links which would suggest that they function in any way as a single entity.

Almasa:

Jan 19th, 2011 at 03:49 GMT

1 point

I have posted a link to the source of part of the list...Basel could definitely be put on the list - I did not make this list exhaustive. The only discretion I made was to have a decent size city on the otherside of each border, which is why I left vancouver and vientiane off the list.