Can you name the Countries with The Most Cities Over One Million? by crispyceme

Can you name the Countries with The Most Cities Over One Million?

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Source: citymayors.com
List the countries that have multiple cities with over 1 million in population (2007 est). These are cities, not metropolitan areas. Note that not all countries define cities the same way.
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Numbers of Cities	Country
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Countries with the Most Large Cities Quiz

by crispyceme

Created Feb 9, 2010 in Geography
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	Pit_trout:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 01:29 GMT	1 point
	Wow, really interesting and surprising - Ukraine and Russia the only European countries appearing...

	VanessaE:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 04:44 GMT	5 points
	Australia also has 5 cities with over 1 million population.

	crover:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 07:22 GMT	5 points
	I was surprised not to see Germany since they have a vast number in the most populated cities in Europe quiz.

	crispyceme:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 11:58 GMT	2 points
	Australia was an oversight. I'll get it added. Thanks for the heads up! Germany has three cities over one million, according to several sources: Berlin, Munich and Hamburg. Cologne falls just short at 963k. Note this is for incorporated or otherwise defined cities, not metropolitan areas.

	thamesx2:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 13:19 GMT	0 points
	According to your source the USA actually has only 7. Two of the entries have two cities listed under the city column instead of one (Phoenix-Mesa, Dallas-Fort Worth).

	davo499:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 14:48 GMT	5 points
	Australia has five metropolitan areas over 1 million. Australia has one city proper over 1 million. The United States has 52 metropolitan areas over 1 million. The US has 9 city proper over 1 million The source used obviously does not understand the difference.

	crispyceme:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 15:08 GMT	3 points
	USA has 9 clear cities over 1 million. That's an undisputable fact. NYC, LA, CHI, PHX, PHIL, DAL, HOU, SD and SA. As far as Australia, I've checked several sources and they all list those same 5. Different countries undoubtably use different standards when defining cities proper vs. metro areas, so the best I can do is pick a source and go with it. If you disagree, make another quiz! :)

	France:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 19:06 GMT	1 point
	Canada only has two cities with one million people if you just take into account the city proper (Montreal and Toronto). Vancouver only has around 500,000 in its city proper, while Calgary has around 900,000. If you are taking metro areas into account though, than Canada has six cities with over one million people (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton).

	crispyceme:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 19:37 GMT	1 point
	Well, I can't get a straight answer on Canada. Even their own 2006 census uses metro numbers, not municipality numbers. And they list 6: Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Ottawa , Calgary, and Edmonton (source: http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/rt-td/index-eng.cfm). Let me stew on this a bit... I may end up pulling Canada from the list.

	crispyceme:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 19:56 GMT	1 point
	I may have found a better data source at citymayors.com. It appears to just use a more narrow definition of "city". And yes, it would eliminate Canada, along with a few others. In fact, I would either need to shorten the list substantially, or lower the threshold to something like 3 cities (in which case Canada would still get left out ;) ). In any event, I'll be updating the list shortly.

	crispyceme:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 21:47 GMT	3 points
	Completely revamped. Now it includes all countries with 2 or more cities over 1 million.

	crispyceme:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 21:59 GMT	1 point
	Note that I double checked citymayors.com with the UN Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2007.htm. Even those numbers are occasionally weird, but between the two I think I was able to extract a decent synthesis.

	Ramzi:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 23:53 GMT	5 points
	You should accept UK.

	crispyceme:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 01:43 GMT	1 point
	Done (uk and u.k.). Thanx!

	lambda:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 20:44 GMT	1 point
	Cambodia shouldn't be in there. You probably meant Cameroon.

	crispyceme:	Mar 12th, 2010 at 23:03 GMT	1 point
	The source I took it from said Cambodia, but I think you're right in that it should've been Cameroon (I suppose they're next to each other alphabetically). It's been fixed. Thanks.

	Apollo846:	Mar 28th, 2010 at 01:05 GMT	0 points
	Indonesia with 16?...sounds suspicious....

	crispyceme:	Mar 30th, 2010 at 18:20 GMT	1 point
	@apollo846: UN lists 8, which is indeed at variance with citymayors.com's list of 16. There are though another 5 cities on the UN list with populations of over 700k, and it's a 3 year old list. Perhaps citymayors extrapolated through 2010. Either way Indonesia is in the top 10.

	zzyzx501:	Jul 15th, 2010 at 00:56 GMT	4 points
	Nigeria appears to have not two, not three but SEVEN cities that qualify. Am I really the first person to notice this omission? While we're at it, South Africa has 3, and DRC, Libya, and Sudan all have 2.

	Brudi:	Oct 26th, 2010 at 14:14 GMT	1 point
	In France : Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Lille and Toulouse have more than 1 million.

	Ayreonaut:	Dec 16th, 2010 at 20:08 GMT	1 point
	Calgary has well over a million now (city proper), but in the last census (2006) it had just 988k.

	cuendillar:	Dec 12th, 2011 at 06:30 GMT	1 point
	Taiwan has 5 cities over a million now: New Taipei, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung and Tainan.

	Pemster:	Dec 12th, 2011 at 07:17 GMT	1 point
	There's no way the DRC can't be on here. Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, and Mbuji-Mayi all have over 1 million people by any estimation I've read, and Wiki lists three others over a million just for good measure.

	SomeoneRandom:	Dec 12th, 2011 at 15:36 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, there are a lot of problems with this quiz. How can Chile, Taiwan, DRC, South Africa, Nigeria, and many other countries not be here? Also, citymayors.com is not a very good source for populations. Citypopulation.de is much better.