Can you name the most populous cities of the world?

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Most Populous Cities Quiz

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Published: September 13th, 2008
Category: Geography
Plays: 245,551

Tags: Population Quizzes, City Quizzes, World Quizzes, populous

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	bencraft:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 06:45 GMT	33 points
	No London? I just searched most popolous cities on google and the first 5 lists i looked at all had london in the top 20.

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	EasilyConfused:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 11:06 GMT	18 points
	If you click on the reference link, you will see that the source they used does not include London. Re "Mr." Kolkata and Karachi are there.

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	danc1005:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 15:49 GMT	37 points
	Re: "Chris" New Delhi is the capital of India, a relatively small city located close to Delhi. Delhi is one of the largest cities in the world. They are two separate municipalities.

	MarkK:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 16:45 GMT	13 points
	There are numerous sources for city populations which have quite different figures. I've seen many differing lists for city populations.

	buiksloot:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 17:09 GMT	17 points
	Without suburbs, London only stands at 16th in top population. While there's a purity in those figures, they're pretty inaccurate for representing the size of a "metroplex". The confusion lies in each municipality's definition of a suburb, I think. Are Santa Barbara and Brighton considered suburbs yet? Who knows?

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Sep 13th, 2008 at 23:19 GMT	18 points
	Hoping now for the most populous countries next.

	davidr:	Sep 14th, 2008 at 18:04 GMT	18 points
	@Vernon Gonsalves. Most populous countries would be a good quiz, yes. And there's much less scope for argument about definitions!

	will1:	Sep 14th, 2008 at 21:42 GMT	21 points
	This is the type of quiz I come to sporcle to play. Only wish they were ranked. Bravo sporcle!

	A_is_for_Addict:	Sep 15th, 2008 at 13:36 GMT	6 points
	Lagos is positioned wrong on the map, needs to be moved from Ghana to Nigeria.

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	magister:	Oct 5th, 2008 at 03:28 GMT	56 points
	@Xizer: London is located in England. It is on the Thames River.

	WalterSobchak:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:31 GMT	6 points
	Is Chicago really among the top 25? It has less than 3 million people, though its metro area has about 10. Actually, good idea for another quiz: top 50 metro area populations.

	jumanji:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 GMT	2 points
	could somebody pleeeeease put up Africa most populous cities and South America (or both Americas combines) most populous cities? Thank you

	Kevin:	Oct 26th, 2008 at 04:41 GMT	14 points
	@magister: Well played, sir.

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	magister:	Nov 1st, 2008 at 17:41 GMT	7 points
	@Zach: Zach, I've answered this statement on another page quiz. Many of these quizzes are based on measured statistics. If London does not have the required numbers based on the measured ramifications, it should not be on this quiz. Some of these quizzes are based on subjective things, but most are based on objective, measurable statistics.

	rahv:	Nov 30th, 2008 at 17:10 GMT	21 points
	i really wish you could change the quiz so that the cities are ranked (same as in all the other "most populous..." quizzes). otherwise, great quiz.

	Dustfinger:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 22:47 GMT	8 points
	This quiz has a lot of debatable points on definitions of most populous, so all of you argumentative people please just shut up.

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	Hurricanehink:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 02:44 GMT	0 points
	I'd like to see a "Most populous cities by country". 7 of the cities are in another country on the list, so I think having something like that would be really interesting.

	Bretzky:	Feb 9th, 2009 at 03:36 GMT	7 points
	beerslayer: The list of the world's largest cities in the world that I put the most faith in is the UN's urban agglomerations list. Which itself does not include London in the top 25 (it's #26). Of course, all of the stats are imperfect. London's population according to the UN is roughly 8,567,000. Guangzhou, China is #25 at 8,829,000. It's certainly conceivable that you could define a city's borders in such a way as to give London more people than Guangzhou without doing anything others would deem to be not entirely truthful. However, the limits of a city's population must be defined somehow and it's not a sure thing that London would get included in the top 25 on one of these lists. Although, I do agree that it is more likely than not that it is one of the 25 most populated cities in the world. In any case, it's certainly one of the five most significant ones.

	Kaytayyyyyyy:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 03:54 GMT	-3 points
	i don't understand why london isn't here, i thought chicago was smaller. both very fierce places.

	Etheridge2:	Mar 30th, 2009 at 13:56 GMT	0 points
	I live in Chicago and we are most definately smaller then London.

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	Denzil:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 13:10 GMT	-2 points
	Nothing to do with pathetic Jake, just consistency...

	schoopdawoop:	Apr 12th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	5 points
	consistency as in what? people just automatically assume certain cities based on a hunch and if there wrong they get defensive.

	lavraiemusicienne:	Apr 20th, 2009 at 21:50 GMT	1 point
	harder than i thought. i missed a few of the non-capitals. good quiz :D

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	robbert_o154:	May 12th, 2009 at 12:54 GMT	-1 points
	I always seem to miss a couple of obvious ones on quizzes like these. Tokyo! Delhi! C'mon!

	Tongueforker:	May 12th, 2009 at 22:22 GMT	0 points
	didnt accept sao paolo, had to be sao paulo? i also thought london was bigger than paris.

	GeoExpert:	May 18th, 2009 at 23:32 GMT	7 points
	Perfect for me 1st time around. But I think the cities should be numbered. 1-Tokyo, 2-Mexico City, 3-Mumbai, etc.

	Filipe Matos:	May 19th, 2009 at 01:45 GMT	11 points
	@Liakias of course not Sao Paolo...what if i had written New Yark?

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