Can you name the most populous metro areas on islands? by Patricio

Can you name the most populous metro areas on islands?

created by Patricio

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NOTE: Australia is not considered as an island, and cities like New York, Hong Kong or Lagos are not considered as 'island cities', because their metro areas spread over the continent.
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Rank	Metro Area	Population
1		37.400.000
2		29.400.000
3		20.100.000
4		18.600.000
5		14.000.000
6		9.200.000
7		8.400.000
8		7.500.000
9		5.700.000
10		5.450.000
11		4.950.000
12		3.700.000
13		3.650.000
14		3.500.000
15		3.150.000

Rank	Metro Area	Population
16		3.000.000
17		2.800.000
18		2.750.000
19		2.600.000
20		2.550.000
21		2.500.000
22		2.450.000
23		2.400.000
24		2.250.000
25		2.200.000
26		2.150.000
27		2.050.000
28		1.900.000
29		1.820.000
30		1.800.000

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Metro areas on islands Quiz

by Patricio

Created Dec 8, 2009 in Geography
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	Psycho:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 19:51 GMT	-2 points
	Where's New York City? Excluding the Bronx, the city is located on the islands of Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island.

	Mcourtney:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	2 points
	Mumbai, and Hong Kong are on islands too

	thamesx2:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:25 GMT	4 points
	The title should say "populous cities on islands" since an "island city" sound like a city that covers a whole island Plus you left out Copenhagen since the city and it metro areas are on Danish islands and are over 1.8 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen

	Robg19:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	3 points
	Montreal is on an island and its metro area is almost 4 million.

	Patricio:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 23:44 GMT	5 points
	Psycho, Mcourtney: the metropolitan areas of NY, Hong Kong and Mumbai include continental territory. Robg19: Montreal is, at least in part, on an island, but it is a 'continental island', on a river. Thamesx2: I completely forgot Copenhagen, thanks, I've added it.

	BluntDiplomat:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 00:06 GMT	3 points
	Would you consider a darker shade of teal/blue/aquamarine? Otherwise, I really enjoyed the quiz.

	BKKRedDevil:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 04:45 GMT	-1 points
	Nice idea, but you have missed Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne are approx 4m and Perth and Brisbane approx 2m. And where is this city of West Yorkshire? I suspect this is the Leeds Metro area?

	Patricio:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 11:43 GMT	0 points
	^ Hi, thanx. Fot this quiz I have not considered Australia as an island. And yes, West Yorkshire is the metro area of Leeds (Leeds and Bradford are accepted as alternative answers).

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	Patricio:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 11:51 GMT	6 points
	^So, where is the limit between an "ideal island" and a "too big island"? If Great Britain is too big, then Java, Borneo or Honshu are too big? Isn't North America a continent? I think u're thinking too much ;)

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	Patricio:	Jan 31st, 2010 at 21:18 GMT	1 point
	Hippo: Check the 'note'. Oops :P

	Pit_trout:	Feb 13th, 2010 at 07:31 GMT	7 points
	@WalterSobchak: Um - speaking as a Brit, we're a pretty small island, really! Like Patricio says, if Britain came off then the Indonesian, Malaysian, Madagascan and Japanese cities would have to come off too. And London's all of about 40 miles from the coast, if I remember right :-P

	joebobs:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 00:33 GMT	2 points
	You need to change the title to Metropolitan Area - or metro for short - because there is no way these are the city figures. Plus the names for cities you use are actually metro areas, at least for the UK and Japan, I don't know about the rest.

	magellan:	Mar 10th, 2010 at 02:34 GMT	-3 points
	what about the island of Montréal?

	Patricio:	Mar 10th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT	1 point
	magellan: read my 1st comment ;)

	Riko:	May 14th, 2010 at 07:46 GMT	-2 points
	I'm finding your qualifications somewhat arbitrary. New York and Hong Kong aren't included because their metro areas are on the mainland but Tokyo and Havana are on island nations so they qualify? I'd say you have it backwards. When one says 'island cities' I think Venice and Singapore not Colombo and Dublin.

	Onno:	May 14th, 2010 at 13:11 GMT	4 points
	Nice quiz. What was your source though? Metro Cebu should have over 2 million, and it's also strange that Palembang is absent while Malang is present.

	nimerik:	May 14th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT	1 point
	Where is Glasgow? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow 2,3 million people live there.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	May 14th, 2010 at 18:59 GMT	2 points
	@Onno: I second this, source is really important when it comes to metro areas since definitions vary so widely.

	Patricio:	May 16th, 2010 at 02:13 GMT	-1 points
	I think the source is Wikipedia. I don't remember very well, this quizz is old :P

	wasting2muchtime:	Jan 15th, 2011 at 00:26 GMT	2 points
	got to the same point most people did I assume...about 20, and then said "okay and the rest are in indonesia," except I forgot Taiwan wasn't a city state and didn't realize that the copenhagen metro area didn't extend beyond the island itself???, and san juan, eh

	FreakyFlyBry:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 15:44 GMT	1 point
	I really should educate myself more on metro areas of Indonesia and Taiwan.