Can you name the most populous cities in Asia?

Can you name the most populous cities in Asia? Enter a city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up on the map below Cities AND their urban areas defined here: City Mayors Special thanks for this quiz goes to davidr You've got 6 minutes after you hit the start button.	Popular trivia games today 'P' World Metros 21873 Programming Language Popularity 17174 '80s Music Without Lyrics 16006 NFL Offensive POTY 10914 Capital per Letter 10349 'American' Movies 8276 Add a 'TH' 6625 And more...
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	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 10:14 GMT	18 points
	Bangalore! You've foiled me for the last time!

	Bretzky:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 15:51 GMT	1 point
	Ummm... Istanbul is in Europe. Sporcle even included it in the European cities quiz.

	cysion:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 16:35 GMT	17 points
	@Brett Champion: Istanbul is located both in Asia and Europe. On side of the city is in Europe and the other in Asia :) (With the Bosporus as a natural border)

	davidr:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 17:34 GMT	10 points
	@Brett Champion: As Cysion says, there are parts of Istanbul on both continents. Perhaps it's a little unfair that the Asian part counts towards the European quiz and the European part counts towards the Asian one. If you feel bad about that, imagine that you're entering "Ho Chi Minh City" (Asia) and "Lisbon" (Europe) when you enter Istanbul -- those are the 26th-biggest cities in their continents.

	Matt8204:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 18:36 GMT	7 points
	10/25...ugh. I knew there were a bunch in India and China, but I just couldn't think of them fast enough.

	weizenugb:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 18:58 GMT	5 points
	19/25...those obscure Chinese and Indian ones got me too. I'm not sure I've even heard of Ahmedabad, India and I consider myself pretty decent with geography. Good quiz. How about Africa? South America?

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	Booger:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 22:11 GMT	12 points
	The European part of Russia is on the Europe quiz. Moscow is listed there. There are no cities in the Asian part of Russia with enough people to make this list.

	davidr:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 00:32 GMT	6 points
	@Tim Welch: They're on their way! And Oceania, too! Controversy alert: I combined North and South America into a single quiz, since North America on its own would just be the USA plus two in Canada and three in Mexico. As I recall, the combined Americas top 25 has slightly less than half from the USA -- I think that's a reasonable balance. As far as I can see, Oceania only has twenty-three cities with more than 100,000 people so those will be the ones in that quiz.

	Faxman:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 02:24 GMT	11 points
	Oops, my bad. You win this round Booger.

	ElDavo:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 06:38 GMT	0 points
	is that tim welch as in snoopy from Tennessee? Also, while I liked this quiz, I was no good at it... I don't really get Asian city names/geography. Plus, I played it on an iPod touch. It works fine, but much harder and more distracting to try to type. Looking forward to the other ones.

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	dominique:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 07:25 GMT	-4 points
	this quiz is pretty inaccurate .......i'm pretty sure there r more ppl in guangzhou aka canton, china (which is the 3rd largest city in china) than in tianjin, china, and canton is not even on this thing

	ared:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 17:36 GMT	3 points
	@wariobro: again, this quiz ranks cities according to the population in the urban area and NOT according to city limits. while you are right that mumbai has a population of over 14mio people and the city of tokyo "only" 8mio, the urban area of tokyo is much larger and there live over 30 mio people (making it much larger than the mumbai urban area). @dominique: on all the lists i found tianjin is larger than guangzhou (population within city limits as well as urban area)

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	SillyStokey92:	Jan 3rd, 2009 at 03:50 GMT	-2 points
	Only 10. Blast.

	Tony:	Jan 8th, 2009 at 05:48 GMT	5 points
	Man! I get 24 not logged in, now I can only think of 16 logged in. How did I miss Dhaka? Oh well. These geography quizzes are very helpful and interesting, my favorite on sporcle.

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	R:	Jan 19th, 2009 at 16:41 GMT	7 points
	It's time for a populous cities of the world quiz! With 50 cities!

	Rigga:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	4 points
	Damn! Didn't type in Istanbul because it's not on the map...

	Kaytayyyyyyy:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 07:31 GMT	1 point
	15 of 25, but I haven't heard of a lot of these cities.

	zyf:	Mar 21st, 2009 at 02:49 GMT	0 points
	chongqing should be here, and why is russia not included in asia

	Kathryn:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT	3 points
	I think this is a great quiz, but the populations from the citymayors website seem a bit off. For example, Tokyo and Yokohama are considered one city whereas most places would consider the two to be separate cities.

	Sparky:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 01:37 GMT	2 points
	OMG my ancestors would be so ashamed >.< My grandfathers were born in Bangalore and Recife, Brazil. I managed to forget both of those on both of these quizzes >.<

	Sparky:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 01:56 GMT	2 points
	Oh, and I'm still disturbed by the lack of Chongqing - they said it was the most populous urban area in China when we were there (and looking around I could well believe it)

	GeoExpert:	May 19th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	2 points
	China and India dominate this quiz. Thats what I expected, but did not expect to see Wuhan or Ahmadabad. Riyadh is an isolated city in the middle of a desert

	GeoExpert:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT	1 point
	Hey davidr, I have a question. When making this quiz did you just tell Sporcle to use a map when sending it in?

	HiddenPalace:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	1 point
	@zyf: Most of Russia's population, although not area, is in Europe. It's a bi-continental country. I think I did good on this list but need to work on the lesser known (but still huge) cities in India and China.

	JimKatz:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 02:06 GMT	1 point
	Hi! Istanbul here. I'm still in Europe, in case you're wondering.

	andrea:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT	4 points
	@davidr, I did enter "Ho Chi Minh City" (well, I entered Saigon), and didn't enter Istanbul because it's included in the European quiz and not shown on this map; if they want to count the Asian portion only, fair enough, but if they're counting the whole area then #26 should be a bonus answer both here and on the European quiz.

	DownSouthJukin:	Jul 10th, 2009 at 20:51 GMT	0 points
	Istanbul is in europe. And I don't understand why it didn't accept new delhi as an answer.

	motomoto:	Aug 6th, 2009 at 16:07 GMT	1 point
	Only 19/25 - never have even heard of some of those cities in China, India (exc Bangalore-oops), & Pakistan. Really have to brush up on my knowledge of those countries - my bad for being ignorant to that corner of the world!!! Another great quiz, though!

	Yurian:	Aug 7th, 2009 at 23:17 GMT	1 point
	@Downsouthjukin: Turkey is an intercontinental country, with the mainland in Asia, and a part east of Greece to Europe, and that is where Istanbul is I think. New Delhi and Delhi are 2 COMPLETELY diffrent things, Delhi is the more urban metropolitan area next to New delhi, the small govermental town. I'm not sure, but my thesis is that Delhi broke away from New Delhi or something or was never annexed. I'm pretty sure Davidr knows :D

	doanie:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	-1 points
	wouldnt take delhi or new delhi. and in general, consistency is not consistent.

	jmiketennessee:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	1 point
	19/25; well I also tried Ho Chi Minh City but since Istanbul was counted, Ho Chi didnt. But that's ok; this is great fun.

	Sradz113:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 14:38 GMT	-1 points
	UHHHHHHHHHH NANJING?!?!

	quizmakers:	Nov 24th, 2009 at 00:51 GMT	-2 points
	very inaccurate quiz

	kingweasel16:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 02:01 GMT	-1 points
	nice quiz