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Can you name the most populous metro areas in Canada? Enter a metro area in the box below Correctly named metro areas will show up on below This game contributed by Tim Welch Metro areas organized by: Canadian Census You've got 8 minutes after you hit the start button.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 4048 TV Shows (U.S.) 3094 Broadway Opening Lines 2989 You Do Know Jack 1319 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1247 Same Last Name 1090 And more...
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	will1:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 10:31 GMT	8 points
	I knew the ones that have or have had NHL teams. 8/25

	Robert_Lo:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 12:27 GMT	1 point
	I hate it when people say Wikipedia isn't a credible source because they obviously have no idea what they're talking about.

	Trevor:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 12:55 GMT	4 points
	Eh. Having lived in Vancouver for nineteen years, I always considered Abbotsford to be a part of the Metro Vancouver area. But meh, oh well.

	DLJessup:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 12:57 GMT	15 points
	@Talick: Er, Niagara does work.

	davidr:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 14:33 GMT	15 points
	@erika: The data on the wikipedia page is straight from Statistics Canada. Wikipedia in and of itself is not reliable. However, a good Wikipedia gives you the means to evaluate the reliability of everything it says. In this case, the data are as reliable as you'll ever get for Canada.

	davidr:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 14:35 GMT	12 points
	@Erica: The smallest of these 25 cities has a population of about 150,000. There are 31 million people in Canada and it's a modern country. Therefore, it has a reasonable number of big cities.

	davidr:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 14:36 GMT	2 points
	@SRG: Statistics Canada doesn't.

	Booger:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 17:40 GMT	-2 points
	Generally speaking, Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source, although I certainly have no problem generally with relying on Wikipedia for factual information such as population statistics. The mere fact that Wikipedia has a self-governing reliability sensor does not mean it is accurate. To the contrary, numerous people with numerous motives post biased or flat out false information on Wikipedia regularly.

	Tim Allen:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 17:40 GMT	5 points
	@davidr: If good Wikipedia pages give you references to back up their claims - like Statistics Canada - then why not just cite the references?

	radiosilence:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 18:49 GMT	10 points
	Missed #21, #23, and #25. I was really hoping to see some of my favorite Canadian city names, like Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, Swift Current, Chilliwack and Asbestos.

	davidr:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 20:59 GMT	4 points
	@Tim Allen: Indeed. I've suggested to the admins that they cite Statistics Canada directly, rather than going via Wikipedia. As far as I can see, the only think that Wikipedia has added to the data is the column that says `1, 2, 3, 4, ...' which, for some reason, is missing from the S.C. page.

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	Brandon:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 00:25 GMT	7 points
	but i do love that this is on here. thank you Tim Welch and Sporcle!

	Lindsay:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 00:50 GMT	8 points
	Brandon, don't assume that ignorance = American. There are plenty of Americans who are well informed about Canada (and yes, there are plenty who are ignorant about it too, but I don't think that's purely because they're American). I'm American, I've only been to Canada 3 times (all trips to Montreal) and I still got 21/25.

	davidr:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 02:10 GMT	3 points
	And, in contrast, I'm not American, have never been to Canada and only got nine. At least I recognized most of the ones I missed. (Including coughottawacough.)

	hbcrayons:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 04:08 GMT	3 points
	Whitby is not part of Oshawa! It shouldn't be accepted as an answer unless it's supposed to be the GTA.

	davidr:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 04:41 GMT	3 points
	@hbcrayons: Whitby is part of the Oshawa Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as defined by Statistics Canada. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/92f0138m/2003002/4193935-eng.pdf

	senordingdong:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 09:36 GMT	-2 points
	Did anyone notice the concentration of population within 200 miles of the United States border? If I were an American living near our Northern Border, I would watch my back.

	Brandon:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 09:56 GMT	0 points
	thats trues, but a large amount of the american population live just south of the border in the same spot. new york, boston, detroit, etc. and its too damned cold to live any farther north lol. -30 just north of the lakes is bad enough

	davidr:	Jan 1st, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	5 points
	@Scott and Brandon: About 90% of the Canadian population lives within about 150 miles of the USA. But most of the big American cities are much further from Canada than that.

	mwelch13:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 06:45 GMT	5 points
	Great quiz, Tim Welch!

	davidr:	Jan 4th, 2009 at 16:12 GMT	4 points
	@Mike W.: Heyyyyy! No nepotism on Sporcle, please. ;-)

	schoopdawoop:	Jan 28th, 2009 at 03:15 GMT	-1 points
	hate this quiz, yet determined to get it. 19/25.

	pfly:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 19:36 GMT	3 points
	I'm one of those Americans fairly well informed about Canada (though Canadian politics still baffles me). Got 22/25 on this. Missed Abbotsford (though I suspected something near Vancouver but not quite metro), Kelowna (my bad, should have known), and Barrie (thought there must be something around there but couldn't think of a name. Had trouble coming up with Saskatoon (didn't think it was all that big, relatively speaking), Sherbrooke, and Oshawa.

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	JulieD:	Mar 6th, 2009 at 10:58 GMT	3 points
	@Erica: they are the 25 biggest metros. We would just need 26 cities to list the 25 most populous, but we do have more than that.

	AtomicIce:	Mar 21st, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	-1 points
	ABBOTSFORD???????????? I checked 6 of my world atlases and its so small that only 2 even list it. I think this quiz would be much better as a top 20, because most of those last 5 are pretty obscure.

	Blashyrkh:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	-1 points
	I got 20 on my first try. Not bad for a Canadian. Should have gotten Windsor and Kingston since I'm from Ontario, but I've never heard of Abbotsford, Kelowna or Sherbrooke.

	kwesta1a:	May 15th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz...17/25...Not bad for a Yank...Should have gotten a few more after all the years of watching curling and CFL on CBC

	GeoExpert:	May 25th, 2009 at 02:05 GMT	1 point
	All of those on Ontario are easy to miss. Vast majority of the population of Canada lives in the 10 lower provinces. None of the 100 largest cities in Canada are in the three territories, Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. Whitehorse, Yukon is ranked #101.

	Kalessin:	May 25th, 2009 at 06:18 GMT	1 point
	I'm Canadian but missed Barrie, Kitchener and Abbotsford. Should have probably got Kitchener at least but it's easy to miss some of the Ontario cities. Oops.

	WalterSobchak:	May 29th, 2009 at 07:04 GMT	6 points
	25/25! Though I was furiously typing the name of every city I could think of (thank the OHL for having a team in each of the Ontario cities; yes Americans follow the O too). Could not believe Moncton, Fredericton, or Sydney were not on the list though, guess the Maritimes are smaller than I thought. Same for Medicine Hat and Lethbridge out west as well.

	Onno:	Jun 23rd, 2009 at 19:51 GMT	3 points
	Anyone else noticed how quite a few of these cities share their names with World Capitals?

	siukong:	Jul 12th, 2009 at 11:25 GMT	2 points
	There's a relatively even 10:1 ratio between the top metro areas in the US and Canada. (ie for every 10 US metro areas you list by rank there would be about 1 Canadian metro area). I just thought that was interesting, especially since it roughly matches with our overall population ratio.

	urkondor:	Jul 23rd, 2009 at 17:16 GMT	3 points
	Enjoyed the quiz - I was just happy to get the top 10, plus a few more. I wish I were Canadian - you do so many things better than we do south of the border.

	Yurian:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 16:14 GMT	1 point
	@senordingdong: Wow, have you been watching some nuclear holocaust horror movie? Why would you watch your back since most of the canadian cities are at the north of U.S., a secret attack, or because 3/4 of their country is up in the ARCTIC.... I don't understand americans these days and their talk of pandemics when they're really at virus level and the talk of a nuclear war. Lets just be happy people...