Can you name the 20 most populous metropolitan areas in the world starting with 'B'?

Rank	City	Population
99		3,675,000
119		3,250,000
155		2,625,000
179		2,300,000
192		2,200,000
183		2,175,000
200		2,150,000
207		2,025,000
224		1,920,000
224		1,920,000
235	1,920,000
237	1,920,000
290	1,920,000
315	1,920,000
37	1,920,000

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'B' World Metros Quiz

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Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: September 28th, 2009
Published: February 9th, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 132,221

Tags: City Quizzes, World Quizzes, Population Quizzes, metropolitan, rank, populous, area, starting, metro, retro

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	kanne06:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:02 GMT	2 points
	the metro area and population of Birmingham is what is counted, not just the population within the actual city limits

	greebles:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:03 GMT	3 points
	I ran out of names of places I knew when I got to 12, so I just started making them up. If Belmont isn't a place then it should be! Surprised so few got Barcelona though... Great quiz!

	Pillowmint:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:04 GMT	1 point
	I had no idea Bamako was so populous

	Ghostbear:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:09 GMT	0 points
	Why does baltimore not appear?

	sweeprower:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:18 GMT	0 points
	actually baltimore metro area is just shy of bostons metro at 2.7 mill according to wiki...if we are talking city pop then boston shouldnt appear either according to wiki...it only has 600k

	Yojimbo28:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:24 GMT	23 points
	Yeah, except Baltimore's population is enough that it should qualify for the list. The source the quizmaker used has Washington D.C. 37th, and it says "including Baltimore." That's a joke. The two cities are an hour apart and have their own distinct metropolitan areas. Baltimore's metro population is 2.7 million (and these figures have to be including metro population or else Boston wouldn't make the list either). Baltimore should be on the list between Bandung and Birmingham. Combining the metro areas of those two distinct cities is a joke (it happens a lot), as I can assure you that virtually everyone who lives here considers them two separate entities.

	Rachel:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:29 GMT	15 points
	according to wikipedia beirut's population is over 2.1 million

	Edward8:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:30 GMT	10 points
	Baltimore should be on it, Baltimore's over 2,000,000

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	transitfan:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:43 GMT	11 points
	For bonus answers, Buffalo is ranked below Belgrade yet the population listed is greater. What's up with that?

	arm:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 21:24 GMT	3 points
	@Yojimbo28: Living in DC my whole life, I get used to living in the Baltimore-DC Metro area. While we are not a metropolis together, some of the suburbs such as Laurel, Oak Ridge and Glen Burnie are often what they mean when they say the say metro area. Regardless, travel time between the cities is not usually more than 35 minutes, so save your rant on the quizmaker, who I did not spend their time making this just for you to stomp all over their quiz.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 21:30 GMT	2 points
	@Yojimbo, for what it's worth, the source uses the widest definitions of US metro areas out there, under which nearby areas are sometimes combined. At least Sporcle was nice enough to put it as a bonus. As for Buffalo I probably just entered it wrong, nothing we can do about it now. Thanks for playing, everyone!

	Yojimbo28:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 21:39 GMT	2 points
	@Unidentifiedkiwi: Baltimore wasn't even a bonus answer when I took the quiz an hour ago, so thanks for calling that to my attention. And contrary to what the comment directly above yours says, I was not stomping all over your quiz or ranting on you. I was just criticizing the way your source website combines cities (and there's plenty of other examples there besides Baltimore/Washington) that probably deserve to stand on their own.

	AKAPseudonym:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 21:40 GMT	6 points
	No Busan? It's sometimes transliterated as Pusan but I think it ought to at least count as a bonus answer.

	KevinF:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 21:44 GMT	8 points
	Dear Sporcle: More quizzes like this please! Love, KevinF.

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	pbrown:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 22:23 GMT	8 points
	Maybe Bombay as a bonus answer?

	LAD1992:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 22:32 GMT	-3 points
	The metro area of Brisbane is actually just over 1 million people! The only way I can see you getting 2 million is if you include Pine Rivers SHIRE, Redlands and Ipswich which are NOT Brisbane. You might want to fix this.

	atoratzy:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 23:11 GMT	8 points
	I guess we're calling it Mumbai and not Bombay.

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	midlifecrisis:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 23:48 GMT	-1 points
	only got 7 - tough quiz

	worldconqueror:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 23:55 GMT	2 points
	@Unidentifiedkiwi, I have great difficulty establishing what is, and what is not, a metropolitan area going from one sporcle puzzle to another. Several source have different definitions of the term. I think one defined source should be used for all these puzzles to avoid confusion.