Can you name the 20 most populous metropolitan areas in the world that start with 'K'?

Rank	City	Population
142		2,800,000
170		2,475,000
207		2,025,000
215		1,970,000
240		1,840,000
244		1,830,000
261		1,720,000
276		1,670,000
284		1,630,000
293		1,580,000
321	1,580,000
12	1,580,000
232	1,580,000

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'K' World Metros Quiz

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Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: February 25th, 2010
Published: July 10th, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 52,089

Tags: World Quizzes, Population Quizzes, City Quizzes, area, start, metro, largest, retro, metropolitan, rank

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	Usofat25:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 04:11 GMT	15 points
	I think Kobe, Japan should be a pop-up bonus...it only misses the list by 50,000, and that's from a census taken 2 years ago.

	ShortyNJ:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 04:44 GMT	15 points
	Too Nigeria-centric.

	peczek:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 04:47 GMT	11 points
	kobe, japan kaunas,lithuania krakow, poland surprised these 3 didn't make the cut

	jefe_:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 04:52 GMT	11 points
	Kyoto too. Maybe even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keihanshin .

	caramba:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 05:15 GMT	9 points
	In answer to the tagline, Copenhagen would make it if they broke the rules and accepted the Danish spelling (København). Alas, Kalgary, Texas, is too small to make the cut (pop. 70).

	TPAVS4893:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 05:42 GMT	7 points
	this is one of the hardest quizzes i have ever taken

	dutchbear:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 05:46 GMT	10 points
	It should actually be: places with K in American spelling. Because København and Koeln should be on this list.

	Djibouti:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 05:57 GMT	18 points
	Apparently Kyoto and Kobe didn't make it because they got wrapped in with Osaka. Not sure I agree with that

	dlte:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 07:38 GMT	16 points
	How is Kyoto not on this?

	zeppelinoid:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 07:51 GMT	11 points
	Surely Kobe and Kyoto should be on the list as it refers to metropolitan areas? Together with Osaka they form the Keihanshin metropolis which has a population in excess of 18 million so should be number one on the list.

	eurythmech:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 08:02 GMT	9 points
	Yeah I immediately thought Kobe and Kyoto should be bonus answers.

	brainbox_labs:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 12:52 GMT	16 points
	How about "Kong, Hong"?

	Golonguthur:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 13:47 GMT	-1 points
	How did so many people not get Kolkata??

	The_Snakes:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 14:11 GMT	16 points
	I forgot Kolkata was spelt like that. I think of it as Calcutta.

	Teratic:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 15:28 GMT	18 points
	Did anyone else try Kyrgyzstan City for fun?

	OACLJ:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT	3 points
	"How did so many people not get Kolkata??" Because 70% of us fail at spelling. Or at least that's how it was for me, I finally gave up on that one. (Looking at it, it doesn't really seem that hard..)

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 16:46 GMT	3 points
	@zeppelinoid: Bonus answer added. You make a good point about Keihanshin, but as the source refers to it as Osaka, I have to go with that. And at a certain point, this series got very hard and it isn't going to let up. There are few publishable ones left, but hopefully people are enjoying the challenge- I know making them has given me knowledge of many obscure metros.

	dancastro:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 17:54 GMT	3 points
	Sorry. Although the presidential couple in Argentina surely wouldn't dislike it, Buenos Aires hasn't yet been renamed as Kirchnerópolis, which would make a good third place in the list. (It's a joke, but seriously, in 1952 there were two Argentine provinces named Presidente Perón and Eva Perón, when both Juan and Eva Perón still lived).

	BubbaD:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 18:31 GMT	16 points
	Köln, Germany should be one the answers to this quiz. On the list you cite as a source at citypopulation.de, Köln clocks in at #232, population 1.9 million, which puts it at #15 among metro areas starting with a K.

	jessbowen:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 20:43 GMT	6 points
	Can you name the world metro areas that start with a K? Um, clearly no, I cannot. I do think that there should be a Kenya City however.

	pagingdrfaggot:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 21:12 GMT	6 points
	I only got Kinshasa because it reminds me of Mufasa. Kinshasa, Kinshasa, KINSHASA!

	performax:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 21:26 GMT	4 points
	Kool kwiz!

	charolastra:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 00:21 GMT	3 points
	Got Kathmandu as a bonus. I expected Kingston, Jamaica or Kigali, Rwanda to make the cut... oh well, very educational quiz!

	rca:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 00:47 GMT	3 points
	That was a toughie.

	dr_stalker:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 02:09 GMT	4 points
	The source seems bad, as its applying different criteria for "metropolitan area" to different cities. It lists Kansas City's metro area as having 2 million people. To get that number, according to wiki, you have to include 15 counties that stretch around in a >40 mile radius. Meanwhile, Krakow, which easily has two million people in its metro area and has >5 million if you include a radius the size of Kansas City's metro area, isn't even listed on the source (it's easily over 1 million in "metro area" and it's not on there.)

	chux:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 02:42 GMT	1 point
	Gah! I should have known they'd change it more than 'Kolcatta'.

	kc_miz:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 06:34 GMT	2 points
	My hometown Kansas City, Missouri is finally the most guessed on a quiz. We normally get forgotten about. I'm guessing the reason for this is because its the only American city on this quiz.

	deej:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 23:05 GMT	5 points
	if you have kolkatta instead of Calcutta, no reason not to have Koln for Cologne

	jefe_:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 01:34 GMT	0 points
	@kc_miz Actually, I missed KC, and I was there last month -.-

	goofymuffin:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 11:10 GMT	-2 points
	Where's the Kardashians?

	drewprit:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 19:01 GMT	1 point
	Did everyone just hear that loud pop a minute ago? No cause for alarm, it was just my head exploding. I typed in "Kuala Lampur" at least 5 times. And here, I thought I was good at spelling place names. D'oh.

	adal:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 19:16 GMT	2 points
	@BubbaD: Köln was on the 'C' quiz as Cologne. Could be a bonus on this one, I'd say.

	kazakhfillmore48:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 21:21 GMT	4 points
	I'm surprised there was no Kingston, Jamaica nor Krakow, Poland. They could at least be bonus answers.

	CaptainKumquat:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 22:15 GMT	2 points
	Very nice to see KC get some notoriety.

	samcash13593:	Oct 1st, 2010 at 16:00 GMT	-2 points
	what is this katowice place? i had never heard of it before it suddenly started appearing in quizzes.