Can you name the the most populous cities in Asia per letter in alphabet?

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Asian Cities A-Z Quiz

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Created by: GeoExpert -
Contributed: December 16th, 2009
Published: December 16th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 51,835

Tags: Alphabet Quizzes, Letter Quizzes, Asia Quizzes, Population Quizzes, City Quizzes, populous, a-z, asian

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	Havok3595:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 18:35 GMT	36 points
	Peking is Beijing, and Calcutta is Kolkatta, officially and internationally.

	TheArbiter:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 18:46 GMT	11 points
	Pretty tough- wasn't surprised to find that over 50% of the answers are in India and China

	Massagraf:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 18:57 GMT	6 points
	A lot harder than expected...

	micah:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	22 points
	Somehow all the cities in Asia I can name start with the same few letters. What's up with that?

	mbc:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:04 GMT	29 points
	I thought Istanbul was in Europe.

	Mortal Light:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:07 GMT	28 points
	I was somehow hoping Ulaanbaatar would be here.

	TheArbiter:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:10 GMT	14 points
	Istanbul is located on the boshphorus, the traditional separation between Asia and Europe. Perhaps the second most populated city beginning with I should be a bonus (whatever it is.)

	Sven22:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	19 points
	I see that your source generally doesn't count metropolitan areas (if it did, Tokyo would be a lot bigger), but for some reason it counts Metro Manilla (made up of 16 independent cities) as one city. That's a problem for this quiz, because the biggest city in Metro Manilla, Quezon City, is over 2.5 million -- larger than the other Q on this list, Qingdao.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	16 points
	I question the accuracy here, since the 2001 census in Hong Kong places it at over 6 million people.

	fba827:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:42 GMT	-1 points
	oddly, (despite being american) i knew a good portion of these, but if only i could -spell- them! shame on me (I have no one to blame but myself, sigh)

	Tir_McDohl:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:46 GMT	15 points
	@TheArbiter: My guess for the next highest 'I' is Islamabad, I didn't even think of Istanbul.

	legriff:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:52 GMT	8 points
	Re: Istanbul, it's the right answer. The city is mostly on the European side of the Bosphorus by a ratio of about 70:30, but, according to the source, the next largest 'I' city, Izmir, has about 2.75m inhabitants, less than 30% of Istanbul's nearly 12m anyway.

	buppyspek:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT	-1 points
	@Tir McDoh: I tried at least 4 different spellings of Islamabad before I would accept that it wasn't the answer. I just didn't realize there were that many people in Istanbul!

	mkdmal:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:56 GMT	1 point
	I agree, some of the population figures don't seem quite right - but I guess there are so many different sources it's pretty difficult to know exactly what's right.

	legriff:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	5 points
	Islamabad's not half as big as you think it would be - way less than a million inhabitants. It's a fairly new, planned capital city, like Brasilia.

	Globalandy:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 20:00 GMT	1 point
	Doesn't Chongqing China have something like 31 million? Even city proper is over 5 million which would be more than Chennai.

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	cmkeller:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	9 points
	Doesn't Hyderabad, India have a bigger population than Ho Chi Minh City?

	GeoExpert:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	1 point
	Why does this say the game was contributed today? I actually did not contribute it... I submitted it to Sporcle a while ago...

	RoloTomasi:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	3 points
	@buppyspek: There are probably over 15 million people living in and around Istanbul. Many move from the country and erect makeshift dwellings literally overnight. Once they are occupied the government cannot evict them easily so these sprawls on the edge of town keep growing. Or so my friend told me, when I visited him in Istanbul a few years ago. Amazing city and amazing people.

	dudemanbearpig:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 21:38 GMT	11 points
	What about Hong Kong?

	deej:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 22:16 GMT	8 points
	yeah dude, hong kong has 7.1 million residents. Cool idea for a quiz but a lot of the data is wrong.

	borak1985:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 22:39 GMT	1 point
	I typed Ho Chi Minh, but it didn't accept. I actually have to type the word "City" for it to count? That's pretty ridiculous.

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	Rick:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 01:07 GMT	7 points
	Globalandy is right, Chongqing has far more than 5 million residents by ANY measure. Lots of wrong answers on the quiz.

	nil4532:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 01:34 GMT	8 points
	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India may be more populated than Ankara.

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	Steesh:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 02:32 GMT	0 points
	Sneuticles - What gives anyone the right to say they can't do exactly what the west did to develop. USA, UK and the rest of the modern world all pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with reckless abandon. In fact, since I've been in China I've been surprised. Most people ride bikes, or e-bikes which run on electricity. Many of the street lights are solar powered. And they are investing heavily into producing solar energy. Seems very hypacritical not to allow them to produce their own waste at the detriment to development.

	beforever:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 02:38 GMT	10 points
	@Sjoerd, you're an idiot.

	beforever:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 02:40 GMT	7 points
	@Steesh, I completely agree. Also, I'm from Hong Kong, and I know the population of Hong Kong has already surpassed the 7 million mark. Please fix this please, find another source if the source you used isn't entirely right.

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	chikka2:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 05:32 GMT	2 points
	very challenging. Toughest geography quiz in a while.

	betraisefold:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 05:47 GMT	4 points
	@Steesh: China and the other developing countries should have the right to - but unfortunately given the potential catstrophe if they do we all need to be able to say none of us can have that right anymore.