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Can you name the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the world?
created by
Unidentifiedkiwi
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Source:
citymayors.com
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Rank
City
Population
1
35,530,000
2
19,240,000
3
18,840,000
4
18,650,000
5
18,610,000
6
16,000,000
7
14,570,000
8
13,670,000
9
13,520,000
10
13,090,000
11
12,630,000
12
12,220,000
13
12,200,000
14
11,700,000
15
11,620,000
16
11,320,000
17
11,290,000
18
10,850,000
19
10,820,000
20
10,800,000
21
10,000,000
22
9,890,000
23
9,520,000
24
9,390,000
25
8,800,000
Rank
City
Population
26
8,350,000
27
7,800,000
28
7,610,000
29
7,420,000
30
7,280,000
31
7,040,000
32
6,750,000
33
6,650,000
34
6,570,000
35
6,570,000
36
6,340,000
37
6,180,000
38
6,060,000
39
5,890,000
40
5,760,000
41
5,700,000
42
5,480,000
43
5,450,000
44
5,360,000
45
5,350,000
46
5,340,000
47
5,170,000
48
5,160,000
49
5,100,000
50
5,060,000
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Unidentifiedkiwi
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Sep 30th, 2009 at 02:26 GMT
4 points
Thanks to everyone who played! If you like this sort of quiz take a look at my others.
Matt91486
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Sep 30th, 2009 at 05:01 GMT
7 points
Guangzhou's Wikipedia indicates that it would easily make this list. Whether or not that's true, I don't know, but it confused me a bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou
statto
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Sep 30th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT
4 points
Dallas, Philadelphia and Houston all have larger metro areas than Miami... don't know where your data is coming from.
Unidentifiedkiwi
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Sep 30th, 2009 at 23:23 GMT
2 points
@Statto, I'm just going with the source- I was just as surprised at Miami as you are, same with Guangzhou. Metro area definitions do vary by a lot depending on the source though, so I expected this kind of thing.
Steesh
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Oct 15th, 2009 at 06:47 GMT
2 points
Was going to mention Guangzhou there as it's right up there with the largest cities in China. I understand that different methods are used but surely Guangzhou's metropolitan population couldn't be as low as 5m when the city it self is 6m. Not that i'm bashing the quiz, which was excellent i think.
segacs
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Oct 15th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT
3 points
The source is from 2006, and states that the figures are from "censuses carried out between 2000 and 2005 and adjusted to take account of average annual population changes". In other words, lots of room for interpretation. Good quiz, though.
Wales
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Oct 15th, 2009 at 19:27 GMT
1 point
Please accept "Saigon" for Ho Chi Minh City!
DPA727
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 03:07 GMT
3 points
didnt guangzhou use to be canton? if so i am lobbying for the former way of spelling it to be accepted because the new way is a bitch
zoopy
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Dec 21st, 2009 at 19:55 GMT
5 points
please except some cities in the "Ruhr" metro area. Also Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Cologne/Boon have 5million inhabitants each.
expat
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Dec 28th, 2009 at 01:02 GMT
2 points
Please accept Tientsin. Great quiz but I really hate citymayors.com as a source. Guadalajara, Monterrey, San Francisco, Houston, Nagoya, Johannesburg, Khartoum to name a few are missing. All in all a great quiz and no fault to the creator.
Patricio
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Mar 22nd, 2010 at 19:48 GMT
1 point
Cool quiz, BUT according to Wikipedia: san francisco 7.4 M, dallas-fort worth 6.3 M, houston 5.7 M, detroit 5.3 M, atlanta 5.7 M, washington 5.3, barcelona 5 M, Milan 7.4, johannesburg 10.2 M, bandung 7.4 M, surabaya 7.9 M, nagoya 8.7 M, khartoum 8 M, taipei 6.8 M.
Radovan
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Jul 6th, 2010 at 00:37 GMT
2 points
I feel really SPECIAL for missing Paris, and getting Ahmedabad and such cities
jaehak
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Aug 18th, 2010 at 11:45 GMT
3 points
i know it's just the source, but this is a bad source. i typed Seoul, it came up at 9.3 mil, i quit.
Unidentifiedkiwi
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Aug 18th, 2010 at 19:55 GMT
2 points
This is one of my earliest and least-polished quizzes, and I really don't have the time to convert it to a good source... so play at your own risk.
mjones34
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Aug 19th, 2010 at 13:37 GMT
2 points
Dallas and Atlanta have well over 5 million metros.
inyouraeroplane
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Aug 19th, 2010 at 20:50 GMT
1 point
What about Dallas? That has 6.5 million in the greater area. It's larger than Toronto, but it's not listed.
cuendillar
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Nov 29th, 2010 at 12:29 GMT
1 point
@Steesh: Why not? Chongqing's city population is over 31 million, but the metro has only about 5 million in it. Metros don't depend on where the individual city/county/national borders happen to be.
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