Can you name the largest predominantly English speaking urban areas in the world? by Remmycool

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Largest English Speaking Cities Quiz

by Remmycool

Created Oct 4, 2009 in Geography
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	Remmycool:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 02:25 GMT		3 points
	This is my first game, enjoy. Finally a geography quiz that Americans can do well in. I was hoping that something obscure would show up on the rankings, but it turned out to be rather predictable unless I was willing to list 150 cities.

	Remmycool:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 02:27 GMT		2 points
	South Africa didn't make the list because none of its major cities are predominantly English speaking. Singapore didn't make it because English isn't usually spoken outside of work. Vancouver didn't make it because it fell 100, 000 people short and I didn't feel like stretching the list any further.

	JezuzFingerz:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 02:33 GMT		0 points
	Good Quiz. I somehow forgot Australians spoke English and forgot about Sydney

	donkeyteeth:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 02:45 GMT		1 point
	I think these quizzes should be clear whether we are talking city proper or metro areas. Houston is officially the fourth largest city in the US but I am not sure if that means metro area or city proper

	Remmycool:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 03:18 GMT		3 points
	I wrote "urban areas" instead of cities. And I think the high population numbers show that I'm not referring to the city proper. But I understand how it could be confusing.

	meltingbridge:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 05:04 GMT		2 points
	What about Hong Kong? Does it have the same situation that Singapore does?

	hartfan:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 06:39 GMT		4 points
	It isn't actually true that English isn't usually spoken outside of work in Singapore. Many Singaporeans speak English at work, in school and at home, especially the younger generations under 40. By that token, Spanish is spoken often in Miami too, so the argument could be made Miami shouldn't be on the list. Thanks.

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	johnlk:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 03:43 GMT		4 points
	If you're going to bonus Johannesburg and Cape Town, why not Montreal? Montreal probably has a higher percentage of native English-speakers than the South African cities.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 22:58 GMT		1 point
	As I expected- US populous cities with a few extra thrown in. Still quite awesome, though!

	pottedstu:	Feb 18th, 2010 at 11:40 GMT		1 point
	Cool quiz. It might be an idea to display the country with the answers.

	billytorbay:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 21:14 GMT		2 points
	Either you or your source uses the metro population for New York, but the city population for London. Add that to the fact that metro Houston is bigger than metro Dallas and this quiz becomes suspicious.

	afen:	May 16th, 2011 at 18:57 GMT		1 point
	This is poorly done, but I can't really put my finger on why. Part of it comes from the fact that the populations given here are not what I'm used to seeing for lots of these cities. Second, a bunch of cities in "English-speaking" countries like the US are not predominantly english-speaking themselves. For example, only 46% of LA residents spoke only english at home in the 2000 census, the number has certainly dropped since then. Overall, though, the quiz is unstable.

	yankeesmetallica:	Sep 20th, 2011 at 22:59 GMT		-4 points
	jacksonville has more people than miami and tampa

	cgrapes429:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 15:38 GMT		2 points
	@yankeesmetallica It's urban areas, not cities proper. So read it as South Florida and the Tampa Bay Area are bigger than Duval County.

	ridd02:	Dec 29th, 2011 at 02:45 GMT		1 point
	london should be second, you've used the urban area of london, which is quite small, and the huge sprawling metro area of chicago and LA