Can you name the urban areas that are the second most populous in their country?

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Largest Second Place Cities Quiz

by Onno

Created Oct 9, 2009 in Geography
Featured Mar 15, 2012
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	DarkPhalanx:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 18:10 GMT		11 points
	Wow, almost 3 years for this to be published. Great quiz though

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	Onno:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 18:23 GMT		14 points
	Check the source - this quiz uses agglomeration populations, which places Guangzhou at #1 for China, although you're right that Shanghai is the most populous city by city limits. Never heard that Busan is more populous than Seoul though.

	ChileNoseJam:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 18:35 GMT		19 points
	I almost always find myself disliking quizzes such as this due to the source's apparently arbitrary definition of an 'urban area'. In order to claim that Berlin is not the largest city in Germany, you'd have to count what are really several different cities under the same umbrella. You might as well label the entire east coast of the US as an 'urban area' and include the populations of Boston, New York, Washington and wherever else you felt like.

	Happ_Hazzard:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 18:49 GMT		6 points
	What about Birmingham?

	Bobman1:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 18:50 GMT		14 points
	Note to self: next time you take a quiz like this, go ahead and try what you ASSUME to be the largest city, just in case. At least two misses because of that. D'oh!

	TrumpetPlayer:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 19:28 GMT		-2 points
	The population of a city should only count the population within its city limits, that of unincorporated surrounding areas, and MINOR cities in its metro area. A rule of thumb: the population of any well-known city should NOT be added to any other as a part of that other city's metro population (as was done with Japan, and what was done to Hamburg to make it bigger than Berlin despite the fact that the population within Hamburg's city limits is about half that of Berlin's).

	LB1973:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 20:15 GMT		1 point
	Birmingham metro is about 3.6m btw

	tulliuscicero:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 20:19 GMT		7 points
	Over the course of this quiz, I complained to myself that Nigeria, Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia only had one big city, and I expressed surprise that Milan didn't make the cut. Sigh.

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	burywmore:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 22:34 GMT		-4 points
	The problem with this quiz, is the questionable source being used. There is no way shape or form that Hamburg is bigger than Berlin, unless you use this single method that the guy that wrote the quiz found. Its much easier, and much more fair, to just use actual city populations.

	Lauro:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 23:11 GMT		7 points
	@bury: The Ruhr region, not Hamburg!

	burywmore:	Mar 15th, 2012 at 23:34 GMT		1 point
	Yeah yeah...the point still remains the same. Sheesh the Ruhr region is, in no way shape or form, a city. It has cities IN it, but its ridiculous to make it into a city. It makes the quiz confusing in an unneeded way.

	papilgee4evaeva:	Mar 16th, 2012 at 00:02 GMT		5 points
	Word_Nerd99 - Why? It's a state.

	jajdude:	Mar 16th, 2012 at 01:27 GMT		4 points
	Why is Suzhou with Shanghai? They are separate cities. I'm living in Suzhou.

	Rob42:	Mar 16th, 2012 at 04:01 GMT		4 points
	Good quiz, but a) I agree with bobman1 that there were some spoofers thrown in (e.g. Shanghai), and b) where the hell is Birmingham (u.k.)? I am sure that the West Midlands conurbation has a population of at least three million.

	meilankev:	Mar 16th, 2012 at 13:27 GMT		4 points
	Yeah, I tried 6 or 7 different German cities - to no avail. I knew that Pakistan and Bangladesh were going to be on the list, but I couldn't come up with either correct answer. I also missed Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Indonesia.

	Onno:	Mar 16th, 2012 at 18:28 GMT		7 points
	Just a heads up: if this quiz had used city limits instead of urban areas, some of you would have complained about the inclusion of Khartoum, Sudan or Ecatepec, Mexico or Manila, Philippines. All definitions and sources have their downsides.