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Can you name the 100 Most Populous World Cities (by metro area)?
created by
DanW
Enter a city in the box below
Correctly named cities will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source:
citypopulation.de
Note: Some agglomerations have more than one central city.
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Rank
City
Population
1
33,800,000
2
23,900,000
3
22,900,000
4
22,400,000
5
22,300,000
6
21,900,000
7
21,000,000
8
19,200,000
9
18,000,000
10
17,900,000
11
16,700,000
12
16,000,000
13
15,700,000
14
15,300,000
15
15,100,000
16
14,800,000
17
13,800,000
18
13,500,000
19
13,200,000
20
13,100,000
21
12,500,000
22
12,500,000
23
12,500,000
24
12,300,000
25
11,400,000
26
10,000,000
27
9,850,000
28
9,400,000
29
9,000,000
30
8,850,000
31
8,750,000
32
8,600,000
33
8,600,000
34
8,300,000
Rank
City
Population
35
8,300,000
36
8,250,000
37
8,200,000
38
8,050,000
39
7,600,000
40
7,350,000
41
7,350,000
42
7,300,000
43
7,200,000
44
6,750,000
45
6,400,000
46
6,350,000
47
6,350,000
48
6,100,000
49
6,000,000
50
5,950,000
51
5,850,000
52
5,800,000
53
5,800,000
54
5,700,000
55
5,700,000
56
5,700,000
57
5,650,000
58
5,650,000
59
5,650,000
60
5,650,000
61
5,600,000
62
5,600,000
63
5,500,000
64
5,150,000
65
4,950,000
66
4,950,000
67
4,850,000
68
4,825,000
Rank
City
Population
69
4,750,000
70
4,750,000
71
4,700,000
72
4,700,000
73
4,700,000
74
4,550,000
75
4,500,000
76
4,500,000
77
4,400,000
78
4,400,000
79
4,375,000
80
4,375,000
81
4,350,000
82
4,275,000
83
4,275,000
84
4,250,000
85
4,075,000
86
4,075,000
87
4,075,000
88
4,025,000
89
3,975,000
90
3,950,000
91
3,925,000
92
3,900,000
93
3,875,000
94
3,850,000
95
3,750,000
96
3,750,000
97
3,750,000
98
3,700,000
99
3,675,000
100
3,650,000
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100 Most Populous World Cities Quiz
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urban_nomad
:
Sep 29th, 2009 at 04:22 GMT
15 points
A lot of fun!
Mortz
:
Sep 29th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT
16 points
Great quiz, hope it gets verified and featured
AtomicIce
:
Sep 29th, 2009 at 15:27 GMT
10 points
Very challenging to get all 100. I hadn't even heard of 2 of them (the 2 least guessed). Hopefully it gets verified soon.
Boooyaboy
:
Oct 1st, 2009 at 06:13 GMT
6 points
Good quiz!
evana
:
Oct 1st, 2009 at 13:15 GMT
14 points
Good quiz and a tough one. Gotta learn my cities of China better.
johnlk
:
Oct 1st, 2009 at 14:36 GMT
11 points
Nice quiz - "Essen" and "Rhein-Ruhr" ought to work for "Ruhr", and probably other cities in the region (Dortmund, Duisburg, etc.)
tobinw
:
Oct 1st, 2009 at 15:23 GMT
6 points
Love it.
Hunter14180
:
Oct 1st, 2009 at 21:43 GMT
4 points
Excellent Quiz
Gordo
:
Oct 1st, 2009 at 23:01 GMT
11 points
Interesting idea, but very hard since you're using CSA stats for the US (which cover HUGE swaths of area in some instances), but much more conservative stats for Europe and other areas.
GeoExpert
:
Oct 2nd, 2009 at 00:10 GMT
5 points
This is a good quiz DanW. I enjoyed it
LinuxLinus
:
Oct 2nd, 2009 at 01:45 GMT
2 points
Good quiz. At first I was gonna get all pissed because there Los Angeles wasn't showing up, and then I realized I'd already guessed it. The CSA stats give a fairly accurate representation of US West Coast agglomorations (LA often gets broken up into two or even three metro areas, though when you're there they're pretty much contiguous); can't speak to the ones further east.
Rom
:
Oct 2nd, 2009 at 03:38 GMT
12 points
Ruhr isn't a city... Unless you can prove it.
Morbo
:
Oct 2nd, 2009 at 05:42 GMT
-2 points
Isn't San Antonio bigger than some of these American cities? I thought it was somewhere around No. 8, much bigger than Seattle or San Francisco.
geowiz85
:
Oct 2nd, 2009 at 20:50 GMT
8 points
@morbo, youd be correct using the city-only populations, but CSA stats consider huge metropolitan areas for their numbers
bobc
:
Oct 6th, 2009 at 02:39 GMT
1 point
Hooray for outsourcing to get some of those Indian cities! Well, maybe not hooray.
dtro
:
Oct 7th, 2009 at 20:15 GMT
2 points
Well I'm stupid for missing Manila! and Miami, but damn who knows all those Chinese cities?
jmarshallg
:
Oct 19th, 2009 at 00:53 GMT
2 points
Yay Seattle! Also India and China make me hate these quizzes more than I should.
Geo_Crazy
:
Oct 27th, 2009 at 21:42 GMT
0 points
Love this quiz. Like how it uses MSA's in the US, for only city proper populations, and sometimes only a small area around a city, gives inaccurate data of how many people actually live in that city area.
Geo_Crazy
:
Oct 27th, 2009 at 21:42 GMT
1 point
Yea, India and China have a lot of cities, and there aren't too many in Europe. But the US has a lot as well.
globetrotter106
:
Oct 29th, 2009 at 18:21 GMT
5 points
If you look at the results, you will see the best bell curve of results ever found on sporcle....
fatfifer
:
Nov 6th, 2009 at 16:26 GMT
5 points
Ruhr? I've been to Germany many times and never even heard of this place! Am i an idiot?
yellowcarpet
:
Nov 7th, 2009 at 22:28 GMT
0 points
Ruhr is the main coal producing region. I really don't think it is a city.
bart122333
:
Nov 12th, 2009 at 11:07 GMT
10 points
Ruhr is not a city, but is so densely populated that it is a metro area.
olly26c
:
Nov 14th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT
2 points
Great quiz. Should be published on the main page!
expat
:
Nov 21st, 2009 at 00:12 GMT
4 points
I think it is fair to say using "Ruhr" and not accepting an actual city sucks, that would be like saying Bergen US for NY, Philadelphia congomlerate.
performax
:
Nov 22nd, 2009 at 02:16 GMT
-4 points
Too China-centric!
adamnvillani
:
Nov 28th, 2009 at 08:54 GMT
4 points
Yeah, the individual cities in the Ruhr area should definitely be accepted. It'd be like only accepting "Southern California" for L.A.
Sjoerd
:
Dec 12th, 2009 at 00:25 GMT
2 points
greatest quiz ever
Ayreonaut
:
Dec 19th, 2009 at 00:55 GMT
3 points
lololol, I get Harbin yet miss Beijing? In my defence I was picking out Christmas music for my Grandma to listen to. :P
rjm28
:
Dec 28th, 2009 at 03:40 GMT
2 points
You should accept Dortmund, Bochum, or Duisburg for the Ruhr Area, and you should probably display either Essen or Dortmund instead of Ruhr, since that's not a city. Along the same lines, take San Jose, Oakland, or even Bay Area for San Francisco.
weizenugb
:
Jan 15th, 2010 at 16:33 GMT
0 points
The reason why Ruhr is accepted is because it is Metro area.
phibbyfan
:
Jan 20th, 2010 at 03:50 GMT
3 points
Performax: How can you say it's "too China-centric"? Sure, there are many Chinese cities, but it's not like the person who created the quiz decided which countries should have the most cities. It's just where the people live!
redsxfenway
:
Jan 23rd, 2010 at 18:48 GMT
1 point
WIsh I knew more than about three cities in China and India
billytorbay
:
Jan 24th, 2010 at 05:26 GMT
-1 points
This was a fun quiz, but the numbers just don't match up in some cases. No way do Boston or Detroit have more people than Toronto, or San Fran have more than Hong Kong.
sabr42
:
Feb 1st, 2010 at 03:40 GMT
1 point
I'm Chinese but I missed Shantou the first time. Had no idea lol.
loxias
:
Feb 15th, 2010 at 06:57 GMT
1 point
Got 78. For some reasons I always forget Buenos Aires in those quizzes, otherwise my first row would have been complete.
ThatCornellGuy
:
Feb 25th, 2010 at 16:17 GMT
0 points
this is a great quiz. it's a little confusing, however, since you use metro-area stats for the US cities and presumably the world cities as well. Less than 20% of what you quote the city of Detroit at, for example, actually live in the city proper.
WackyZacky
:
Feb 25th, 2010 at 18:24 GMT
1 point
I simply just loved every 12 minuites of this quiz!
RS89
:
Feb 25th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT
2 points
The title of the quiz should really just be changed to "larges world metro areas"
transparentblack
:
Feb 25th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT
1 point
ruhr is not a city. its made up of many cities
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