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Can you name the largest non-capital cities by population?
created by
ccrooke
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Source:
The Principal Agglomerations of the World
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Population
City
Country
24,900,000
China
23,300,000
India
23,900,000
India
22,200,000
United States of America
20,800,000
Brazil
18,800,000
China
17,900,000
United States of America
16,800,000
Japan
16,700,000
Pakistan
16,600,000
India
Population
City
Country
13,000,000
Turkey
12,500,000
Brazil
12,100,000
Nigeria
10,500,000
United States of America
9,450,000
China
9,200,000
China
8,800,000
Pakistan
8,500,000
China
8,400,000
Japan
8,300,000
India
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Largest Non-Capital Cities Quiz
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tahitiwahini
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 00:42 GMT
4 points
Very interesting quiz! A good quiz can make one think about familiar information in a new way.
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shiNKorea
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 00:43 GMT
-18 points
pretty sure beijing is alot bigger than guangzhou and what about hong kong?
Jelle
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 00:48 GMT
3 points
Beijing is the capital of China.
Jelle
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 00:51 GMT
1 point
You're missing Delhi, though, which is not the same as New Delhi. Also, Istanbul. (according to your source)
nms9017
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 01:43 GMT
4 points
Guangzhou? Bigger than Mumbai? No way.
cuendillar
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 06:38 GMT
9 points
I'm more than a little hesitant about Delhi. It's not a capital, but it's in the same metro as New Delhi. As this quiz considers metros, that should be enough to disqualify it. It's not big enough to make it here in either case, but would you count Rawalpindi too as non-capital? Is the difference that large between other metros where the capital isn't largest, but has the metro almost universally named after them (ie Washington/Baltimore, Manila/Quezon City or Khartoum/Omdurman)?
vamsi
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 08:20 GMT
6 points
i think delhi should not count - new delhi is a part of it, no one there separates the two. more like separating out manhattan from new york
Crispin28
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 14:16 GMT
2 points
With regard to the pedantic, never-ending conversation about the difference between Delhi and New Delhi, I just wish Sporcle would make a decision about this and other similarly silly disputes so that the same answer prevailed from game to game.
D_Mac
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 16:09 GMT
8 points
I don't care what your source says, there's no way Guangzhou has a population of nearly 25 million people. That could be for a large part of the Pearl Delta region maybe. The Guangzhou sub-provincial city, a subdivision of Guangdong province, has an area of 7,434.40 km² (which is not small!) and a population of about 8 million. Maybe the metropolitan area exceeds that, but it's definitely not triple that number.
joebobs
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 18:11 GMT
4 points
It should be noted that (and this has been a source of debate in other sporcle quizzes before) that citypopulations.de has some strange way of counting Guangzhou. I'm sure at some point, someone checked against a variety of other sources and couldn't find any that matched the huge estimate citypops has. Anywho, great quiz, as tahitiwahini said, this is a new way of presenting familiar info. Nice.
dragonscale333
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 18:51 GMT
3 points
Guangzhou can have a huge population - but only during the peak labor months. I believe somewhere around 30-50% of its population during those times are from other regions, which would account for the insanely high population. I don't have a source for this though, it's just what I picked up when I went to Guangzhou last year.
StateGov
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT
1 point
Delhi should be above Mumbai, 23.3 vs. 23.9 (Delhi)
Dommel
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 22:22 GMT
2 points
Nice quiz, however, Chongqing seems to be missing, any reason for this? It has a municipal population of 31 million, clearly enough to be here.
ccrooke
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 23:00 GMT
2 points
i have now created a quiz that won't have so many disputes and is a little more challenging. http://www.sporcle.com/games/ccrooke/noncapitalcities_nonurbanareas.
johnlk
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 02:01 GMT
2 points
I assume Guangzhou must be including Hong Kong as well? Including Delhi is ridiculous - this is obviously a list of metro areas (otherwise Yokohama is bigger than Osaka), and the Delhi metro area includes New Delhi.
balatjr
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 02:32 GMT
3 points
The "National Capital Region" of India includes Delhi and New Delhi. It makes absolutely no sense to include it here. You should call these metropolitan regions, not cities. The "city" of Los Angeles is 3 million, the county of Los Angeles is close to 9 million. Southern California is 18 to 22 million. Etc.
hetisjeboy
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 11:34 GMT
2 points
If you're gonna use these numbers, name them metropolitan areas instead of cities!
Riko
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Feb 16th, 2011 at 03:18 GMT
1 point
@vamsi: You could not have picked a worse example. Maybe if you're talking a transatlantic flight you'd say New York City, but we in the metro-area usually name the borough, neighborhood or sometimes just the street.
gummi
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Feb 16th, 2011 at 03:42 GMT
1 point
delhi, oh please
chriskotx
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Feb 19th, 2011 at 19:09 GMT
1 point
New York..duh.
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