Can you name the most populous cities in Asia?

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Asia Populous Cities Quiz

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Published: October 17th, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 118,377

Tags: Asia Quizzes, Population Quizzes, City Quizzes, populous

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	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 06:14 GMT	26 points
	Bangalore! You've foiled me for the last time!

	Bretzky:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 11:51 GMT	1 point
	Ummm... Istanbul is in Europe. Sporcle even included it in the European cities quiz.

	cysion:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 12:35 GMT	27 points
	@Brett Champion: Istanbul is located both in Asia and Europe. On side of the city is in Europe and the other in Asia :) (With the Bosporus as a natural border)

	davidr:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 13:34 GMT	17 points
	@Brett Champion: As Cysion says, there are parts of Istanbul on both continents. Perhaps it's a little unfair that the Asian part counts towards the European quiz and the European part counts towards the Asian one. If you feel bad about that, imagine that you're entering "Ho Chi Minh City" (Asia) and "Lisbon" (Europe) when you enter Istanbul -- those are the 26th-biggest cities in their continents.

	Matt8204:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 14:36 GMT	6 points
	10/25...ugh. I knew there were a bunch in India and China, but I just couldn't think of them fast enough.

	weizenugb:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 14:58 GMT	8 points
	19/25...those obscure Chinese and Indian ones got me too. I'm not sure I've even heard of Ahmedabad, India and I consider myself pretty decent with geography. Good quiz. How about Africa? South America?

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	Booger:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 18:11 GMT	19 points
	The European part of Russia is on the Europe quiz. Moscow is listed there. There are no cities in the Asian part of Russia with enough people to make this list.

	davidr:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 20:32 GMT	9 points
	@Tim Welch: They're on their way! And Oceania, too! Controversy alert: I combined North and South America into a single quiz, since North America on its own would just be the USA plus two in Canada and three in Mexico. As I recall, the combined Americas top 25 has slightly less than half from the USA -- I think that's a reasonable balance. As far as I can see, Oceania only has twenty-three cities with more than 100,000 people so those will be the ones in that quiz.

	Faxman:	Oct 17th, 2008 at 22:24 GMT	16 points
	Oops, my bad. You win this round Booger.

	ElDavo:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 02:38 GMT	0 points
	is that tim welch as in snoopy from Tennessee? Also, while I liked this quiz, I was no good at it... I don't really get Asian city names/geography. Plus, I played it on an iPod touch. It works fine, but much harder and more distracting to try to type. Looking forward to the other ones.

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	dominique:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 03:25 GMT	0 points
	this quiz is pretty inaccurate .......i'm pretty sure there r more ppl in guangzhou aka canton, china (which is the 3rd largest city in china) than in tianjin, china, and canton is not even on this thing

	rahv:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 13:36 GMT	5 points
	@wariobro: again, this quiz ranks cities according to the population in the urban area and NOT according to city limits. while you are right that mumbai has a population of over 14mio people and the city of tokyo "only" 8mio, the urban area of tokyo is much larger and there live over 30 mio people (making it much larger than the mumbai urban area). @dominique: on all the lists i found tianjin is larger than guangzhou (population within city limits as well as urban area)

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	SillyStokey92:	Jan 2nd, 2009 at 23:50 GMT	-3 points
	Only 10. Blast.

	Tony:	Jan 8th, 2009 at 01:48 GMT	6 points
	Man! I get 24 not logged in, now I can only think of 16 logged in. How did I miss Dhaka? Oh well. These geography quizzes are very helpful and interesting, my favorite on sporcle.

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	R:	Jan 19th, 2009 at 12:41 GMT	8 points
	It's time for a populous cities of the world quiz! With 50 cities!

	Rigga:	Mar 9th, 2009 at 14:14 GMT	9 points
	Damn! Didn't type in Istanbul because it's not on the map...

	Kaytayyyyyyy:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 03:31 GMT	1 point
	15 of 25, but I haven't heard of a lot of these cities.

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	Kathryn:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 12:51 GMT	4 points
	I think this is a great quiz, but the populations from the citymayors website seem a bit off. For example, Tokyo and Yokohama are considered one city whereas most places would consider the two to be separate cities.

	Sparky:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 21:37 GMT	5 points
	OMG my ancestors would be so ashamed >.< My grandfathers were born in Bangalore and Recife, Brazil. I managed to forget both of those on both of these quizzes >.<

	Sparky:	Apr 22nd, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	2 points
	Oh, and I'm still disturbed by the lack of Chongqing - they said it was the most populous urban area in China when we were there (and looking around I could well believe it)

	GeoExpert:	May 19th, 2009 at 01:00 GMT	2 points
	China and India dominate this quiz. Thats what I expected, but did not expect to see Wuhan or Ahmadabad. Riyadh is an isolated city in the middle of a desert

	GeoExpert:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 01:08 GMT	1 point
	Hey davidr, I have a question. When making this quiz did you just tell Sporcle to use a map when sending it in?

	HiddenPalace:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 17:48 GMT	3 points
	@zyf: Most of Russia's population, although not area, is in Europe. It's a bi-continental country. I think I did good on this list but need to work on the lesser known (but still huge) cities in India and China.

	JimKatz:	Jun 25th, 2009 at 22:06 GMT	1 point
	Hi! Istanbul here. I'm still in Europe, in case you're wondering.

	andrea:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 19:20 GMT	6 points
	@davidr, I did enter "Ho Chi Minh City" (well, I entered Saigon), and didn't enter Istanbul because it's included in the European quiz and not shown on this map; if they want to count the Asian portion only, fair enough, but if they're counting the whole area then #26 should be a bonus answer both here and on the European quiz.

	DownSouthJukin:	Jul 10th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT	-3 points
	Istanbul is in europe. And I don't understand why it didn't accept new delhi as an answer.

	motomoto:	Aug 6th, 2009 at 12:07 GMT	1 point
	Only 19/25 - never have even heard of some of those cities in China, India (exc Bangalore-oops), & Pakistan. Really have to brush up on my knowledge of those countries - my bad for being ignorant to that corner of the world!!! Another great quiz, though!

	Yurian:	Aug 7th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	1 point
	@Downsouthjukin: Turkey is an intercontinental country, with the mainland in Asia, and a part east of Greece to Europe, and that is where Istanbul is I think. New Delhi and Delhi are 2 COMPLETELY diffrent things, Delhi is the more urban metropolitan area next to New delhi, the small govermental town. I'm not sure, but my thesis is that Delhi broke away from New Delhi or something or was never annexed. I'm pretty sure Davidr knows :D

	doanie:	Sep 5th, 2009 at 01:21 GMT	-2 points
	wouldnt take delhi or new delhi. and in general, consistency is not consistent.

	jmiketennessee:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	1 point
	19/25; well I also tried Ho Chi Minh City but since Istanbul was counted, Ho Chi didnt. But that's ok; this is great fun.

	Sradz113:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 10:38 GMT	-3 points
	UHHHHHHHHHH NANJING?!?!

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	kingweasel16:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 22:01 GMT	-1 points
	nice quiz