Can you name the 5 Largest Cities in Each of 12 Countries Without Naming the #8-10 Ranked City? by darinh

Can you name the 5 Largest Cities in Each of 12 Countries Without Naming the #8-10 Ranked City?

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Source: Various Sites for Population Data, Mostly Citypopulation.de
Name the 5 largest cities by city proper population in each of the following countries, but be careful - naming an 8th to 10th ranked city will set off the mine! 6th and 7th are close but forgiven!
(*) is a mine - if you name a #8-10 ranked city in any country the mine will go off! Naming a 6th or 7th ranked city or one outside the top 10 will yield no results.
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Population	City	Country
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8,175,133		US
3,792,621		US
2,695,598		US
2,099,451		US
1,526,006		US
7,619,800		UK
1,010,400		UK
637,000		UK
477,600		UK
465,900		UK
4,575,532		Australia
4,077,036		Australia
2,043,185		Australia
1,696,065		Australia
1,203,186		Australia
2,503,281		Canada
1,620,693		Canada
988,193		Canada
812,129		Canada
730,372		Canada

Population	City	Country
(*)
2,233,818		France
859,543		France
483,181		France
446,340		France
348,556		France
3,442,675		Germany
1,774,224		Germany
1,330,440		Germany
998,105		Germany
671,927		Germany
10,563,038		Russia
4,600,276		Russia
1,409,137		Russia
1,343,839		Russia
1,271,045		Russia
2,761,477		Italy
1,324,110		Italy
959,574		Italy
907,563		Italy
655,875		Italy

Population	City	Country
(*)
11,125,243		Brazil
6,323,037		Brazil
2,675,875		Brazil
2,476,249		Brazil
2,447,409		Brazil
14,230,992		China
10,300,723		China
7,547,467		China
6,839,008		China
6,787,482		China
12,478,447		India
9,879,172		India
4,572,876		India
4,343,645		India
4,301,326		India
13,161,751		Japan
3,689,603		Japan
2,666,371		Japan
2,263,907		Japan
1,914,434		Japan
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5 Largest Cities in 12 Countries MINES Quiz

by darinh

Created Jun 10, 2011 in Geography
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	wiggytitch:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 02:24 GMT		4 points
	Fantastic quiz! 5 orbs and a definite nomination.

	photogirl:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 02:36 GMT		4 points
	It's rare that a completely silent game can be so exciting.

	Sixtytwobobs:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 03:49 GMT		2 points
	Blow it up on 6-100!!! Mwahaha!!!!!!!

	Sixtytwobobs:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 03:53 GMT		13 points
	I am sorry you CANNOT use various sites. Vancouver is not 8th its 3rd or 4th. I recommend a census site or the world gazetteer

	gstntb26:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 05:11 GMT		9 points
	@Sixtytwobobs Metro Vancouver is 3rd for sure (about 2 million), but the city proper is only 8th (about 600k).

	darinh:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 06:55 GMT		2 points
	@sixty: the official census was used. it counts city proper.

	imabanana:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 10:44 GMT		15 points
	Damn you Vancouver! I was going so well too! :'( Excellent quiz!

	Fergenaprido:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 14:14 GMT		2 points
	Australia is spelled incorrectly.

	darinh:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 14:30 GMT		3 points
	@fergen: i was having a beer while making the quiz. fixed.

	yellowcarpet:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 18:02 GMT		3 points
	It is rather annoying that I am so used to metro based quizzes that i didn't know that Vancouver was actully relatively small.

	Colmar:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 19:46 GMT		1 point
	I covered some easy ones and then started taking bets. I'm thankful that Hiroshima and Harbin are actually outside of top 10. It was guessing Florence instead of Palermo that got me.

	bart122333:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 21:27 GMT		5 points
	Damn you Vancouver!

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	XYlophonetreeZ:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 07:25 GMT		2 points
	I was tripped up by Vancouver, then by Omsk, then by Porto Alegre, then by Xi'an.

	pator:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 11:32 GMT		-2 points
	Only by the most narrow definition is Vancouver out of Canada's top 5.

	darinh:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 12:15 GMT		4 points
	Vancouver's data is straight from the Canadian Census. I can't use a metro figure for Vancouver and non-metro for other cities. And city proper figures are generally what the censuses and population websites most reliably have.

	Etheridge2:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 14:44 GMT		3 points
	Chalk another one up to Vancouver....sheesh I was shocked I didn't even know there were 5 other cities in Canada ;) (Kidding I love the Canuckers ;)

	Berubium:	Jun 15th, 2011 at 00:43 GMT		2 points
	Fun quiz, but very hard! I wish I could hit save after getting the 40-something that I know & then just work from there... I'd like to see this same game but for metros as well.

	EyeKanFly:	Jun 15th, 2011 at 14:51 GMT		3 points
	Good quiz. The definition of "city proper" is hard to define in some cases, especially with regards to Tokyo. The city of Tokyo was abolished in 1943, currently the "Tokyo Metropolis" is one of Japan's prefectures, made up of 23 special wards (each governed as a separate city) and 39 municipalities (outlying regions). The population you list (~13 million) is accurate for the Tokyo Metropolis, but the Tokyo Metropolis is not a city proper. Really though I don't blame you for how you list the cities. Tokyo is almost always treated as a single city. I just wanted to bring this to attention. The only real issue I have with the quiz is that unguessed answers don't show up. If there's any way to do this I'd like to know the answers I got wrong. If there's not (sorry I don't know, I've never tried this quiz format), then I blame the system. Nice quiz on the whole :)

	darinh:	Jun 15th, 2011 at 18:54 GMT		1 point
	@Eye: when you have a wrong answer ends quiz format like this it will always have "???" for the answers that aren't filled in - no way around this.

	Berubium:	Jun 15th, 2011 at 22:02 GMT		2 points
	Not showing the answers gives the game more replay value. I've tried about 8 or 9 times now & I'm still only up to 55. I know that there are a few more stuck in the back of my mind somewhere, I just have to try not to put any wrong ones in...

	Grazzer:	Jun 19th, 2011 at 06:27 GMT		3 points
	Vancouver is causing all sorts of problems lately

	tikitiger:	Jun 22nd, 2011 at 23:05 GMT		1 point
	Vancouver's 8th? WTH

	tsneller:	Jun 23rd, 2011 at 15:36 GMT		1 point
	I think the layout could be improved, the countries are not easily distinguishable. Make each country into an individual column or group. It's in the FAQ how to do that

	nsxdarin:	Jun 27th, 2011 at 19:35 GMT		1 point
	@tsneller: tried that but for some reason the mines don't work when grouped.

	Berubium:	Jul 7th, 2011 at 17:24 GMT		2 points
	Vancouver. #8 city proper in Canada, #3 metro area in Canada, #1 in our hearts! Debate over!

	canadagraphs:	Jul 8th, 2011 at 01:12 GMT		4 points
	my hometown biasedness got me. I KNOW Vancouver as a city only has about a 1/3 of the entire regions pop, yet I still foolishly assumed it had more than Edmonton (even though I knew this fact in the back of my head somewhere). For those unaware, there are 6 cities in "Metro Vancouver" that make up the large population. Vancouver itself is only about 600K. Surrey is about 400K, burnaby is about 200K. Richmond about 175K, Coquitlam 100K. They all fall under "Metro Vancouver", but are individual cities. Like how Toronto doesnt include Hamilton or Missisauga.

	domotime2:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 22:59 GMT		2 points
	i think people are forgetting the purpose of the mines games. Yes i got mined on vancouver, but after that I just put down all the cities i knew. I didn't get blown up, i just didn't know. I feel like mines are great for quizzes when you're between a few choices and you have to pick wisely. I have nothing to pick when it comes to Russian cities...i never heard of city #3-#5, same with some of the final cities of Brazil and France.

	Colmar:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 23:27 GMT		1 point
	I couldn't get that last Chinese city! I was considering Shenzhen, but apparently it's 6th.

	PandaTinker:	Sep 21st, 2011 at 04:08 GMT		0 points
	Might want to double check - Vancouver is Canada's third largest city. Even according to your source - http://citypopulation.de/Canada-Metro.html

	darinh:	Sep 21st, 2011 at 04:29 GMT		1 point
	@panda: those are metro areas, not city proper.

	chriskotx:	Sep 21st, 2011 at 12:19 GMT		-3 points
	To say that Vancouver is not one of the largest cities in Canada is pretty ridiculous. Metros should be used, city proper figures are misleading and pretty much irrelevant.

	Mulyahnto:	Sep 21st, 2011 at 15:22 GMT		4 points
	City proper is defined differently from country to country. So in my opinion, you're comparing apples to oranges when you use different sources. When you use a single scientific (i.e. NOT world gazetteer) source the definition of a populated statistical area is the same across the world. If you want to compare cities proper, only do it within a single country. When comparing cities across the globe, us a statistical measure.

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	Quebecer:	Nov 16th, 2011 at 07:59 GMT		-3 points
	Everybody in Canada learn in school that the 3 biggest cities in the country are Toronto-Montreal-Vancouver. You should use a stat that gives that result, unless you expect people from all over the world to be aware of the administrative subdivisions for every specific city in Canada.

	Medved:	Jan 1st, 2012 at 18:07 GMT		-4 points
	Agree with everyone else who said it - Vancouver is in Canada's top five, definitely, for sure.

	Supercamel:	Jan 18th, 2012 at 02:26 GMT		2 points
	Another Vancouver victim. Surprised Belo Horizonte isn't in top 5 for Brazil.

	alleyt1989:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 14:29 GMT		1 point
	damn vancouver

	Maphead:	Feb 29th, 2012 at 20:16 GMT		2 points
	Aah Vancouver, the Canadian Miami... so deceptively small.