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Can you name the most populous world capital cities?
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billshatner
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population
Enter the city name of the 25 most populous world capital cities. Population is based on the population of the city proper, not metro area.
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Rank
City
Population
1
10,508,971
2
10,464,051
3
10,123,000
4
8,841,916
5
8,795,000
6
8,754,000
7
8,489,910
8
7,605,742
9
7,556,900
10
7,259,597
11
7,241,000
12
7,025,000
13
7,000,940
Rank
City
Population
14
6,758,581
15
5,402,486
16
5,012,973
17
4,987,600
18
4,848,000
19
3,901,201
20
3,497,097
21
3,426,354
22
3,255,388
23
3,213,271
24
3,050,728
25
3,038,553
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Most populous capital cities Quiz
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savedtheday
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 16:59 GMT
2 points
I know the situation with Burma/Myanmar gets confusing, but Naypyidaw is now the capital city, so Yangon doesn't really belong on this list.
billshatner
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 17:12 GMT
0 points
Thanks for the edit. Fixed.
FastEddie
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 18:15 GMT
-1 points
I want a William Shatner quiz!
spartaneric
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 19:45 GMT
3 points
There's technically three capital cities of South Africa: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial)...great quiz though!
billshatner
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 21:30 GMT
2 points
Thanks. You're right, and I thought about accepting any/all or just leaving it off entirely. I went back and forth and just left it as is, since the idea is the particular city in question.
Enydon_A
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 22:25 GMT
2 points
That was a really fun quiz! Is that list cities proper?
johnlk
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Apr 27th, 2010 at 22:38 GMT
2 points
Definitely cities proper - Paris metro is much more than 3,000,000.
wolofsky
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Apr 28th, 2010 at 02:43 GMT
0 points
ridiculous quiz - Paris doesn't make the list but London does? London proper is tiny.
billshatner
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Apr 28th, 2010 at 02:52 GMT
2 points
Yeah, London uses "Greater London" for the administrative area of London, not just 'city of london.' There's grey area here, I know, but I wanted a way to eliminate the "metro area" and "urban area" aspects of most quizzes, which I find frustrating.
Apollo846
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Apr 28th, 2010 at 05:14 GMT
0 points
I'd feel a little less skeptical of some of these numbers if the source was something other than wikipedia.
billshatner
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Apr 28th, 2010 at 13:12 GMT
2 points
If you take a moment to dig deeper, you'll notice the source for the numbers are mostly government websites for the respective cities. Wikipedia just compiled them.
m4matthew
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May 8th, 2010 at 16:43 GMT
1 point
according to wikipedia Tokyo has over 13 million people. And Paris should be on there. Paris is WAY higher than madrid
Sjoerd
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Jul 30th, 2010 at 10:24 GMT
2 points
City proper is just not a good measure. Use citypopulation.de or for Europe: Eurostat Urban Audit.
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