Cities of Benelux Quiz

Can you name the Largest Cities of Benelux?

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Rank	City	Population
1		739,390
2		539,650
3		473,940
4		472,071
5		255,200
6		237,250
7		209,700
8		201,593
9		190,102
10		185,430
11		182,150
12		179,000
13		151,030
14		148,873

Rank	City	Population
15		146,960
16		140,780
17		139,810
18		136,510
19		132,560
20		126,750
21		118,540
22		118,020
23		117,480
24		117,073
25		116,200
26		112,250
27		107,939
1,048,491	107,939
142,042	107,939
141,000	107,939
137,775	107,939
109,441	107,939
107,623	107,939
99,085	107,939
94,216	107,939
92,704	107,939
92,203	107,939
92,080	107,939
91,221	107,939
88,586	107,939
80,176	107,939
77,487	107,939
68,931	107,939
63,787	107,939
34,900	107,939
34,026	107,939
14,144	107,939

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Cities of Benelux Quiz

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Created Oct 15, 2009 in Geography
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	pbysr:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 20:33 GMT	2 points
	This was a bit confusing to make. Let's start with Belgium. What is known as "Brussels" is officially the Brussels Capital Region and has a population of over 1,000,000 people. However, City of Brussels, one of the 19 municipalities of Brussels, is what is generally counted as Brussels in population data. Other cities, like Antwerp are considered as one unit for whatever reason. The Netherlands was also difficult because of the municipalities. I took the data from the Dutch CBS which calculated the city populations by excluding some of 'municipal' towns. I have tried to make this quiz as accurate as possible by putting in a bunch of bonuses but there is bound to be controversy when dealing with such hyper urban countries as Belgium and Netherlands.

	Wing:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 20:53 GMT	2 points
	Decent quiz. I would just go with common names. Also, it might be neat to indicate which country of the Benelux each city is in...

	johnlk:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 22:02 GMT	1 point
	If 's-Hertogenbosch has 137,775, shouldn't it be 18th on the list, and not a bonus?

	pbysr:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	2 points
	Just to clarify my first comment: In the Netherlands, cities are grouped into conglomerations. The name of the conglomeration will generally be one of the constituent towns. For New Yorkers, a similar concept is the "Town of Hempstead" made up of dozens of towns including one called Hempstead. Adding to the confusion, it is not clear which parts of the "municipality" belong to the constituent towns. Thus, the Dutch estimate as to the size of each city is somewhat arbitrary. For instance, Zaanstad has 140,00 people, but the Dutch CBS does not consider Zaanstad to have a constituent city of more than 100,000 inhabitants. To return to the New York example, the "Town of Hempstead" is not called a city of 750,000 people. The towns on the list are those that have sufficient population even after the subtraction of associated sub-municipalities (i.e. Rotterdam is large enough even after the Dutch CBS subtracted Hoek van Holland). Thus, in the spirit of accuracy, I included as bonuses those towns/municipalities with large populations that were not included by the CBS. Den Bosch, on the other hand, is solely a 'municipality' made up of smaller constituent towns, while not being among the constituents itself. I included Den Bosch, along with other Benelux cities, solely as a gratifying bonus.

	lpjanneke:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 01:30 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz!

	Onno:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 19:45 GMT	1 point
	18/21 bonus answers. Now I kinda want to have them all...

	pbysr:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 21:46 GMT	1 point
	The bonuses (in order of population) for those that are interested are the following: Brussels (capital region), Haarlemmermeer, Zaanstad, Den Bosch, Emmen, Ede, Anderlecht, Alkmaar, Leuven, Leeuwarden, Venlo, Mons, Luxembourg, Mechelen, Roosendaal, Ostend, Genk, Ypres, Knokke-Heist, and Bastogne.

	bart122333:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 13:51 GMT	1 point
	Ypres is in Flanders so it's Ieper in Dutch. Also Ieper, Knokke-Heist and Bastogne are waaaaay smaller than cities like Hasselt, Kortrijk, Aalst, Sint-Niklaas,... And nobody speaks about Brussels as if it was just that one municipality. But since you did separate it, you should add Schaarbeek / Schaerbeek (French). It's bigger than Anderlecht, which is on the list.

	D3nn1s:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 17:06 GMT	1 point
	Why are things like Ypres listed as a bonus answer? Even small villages are bigger than that.

	Triffid:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:55 GMT	1 point
	Only very large small villages.