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Can you name the Largest Inland Metro Areas Outside Asia?
created by
theologystudent
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I've tried to list the metros in which the core city does not lie on a body of water connected to the oceans without resorting to rivers. Let me know if I've made any mistakes.
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Metro
Population
23,400,000
20,900,000
15,200,000
13,600,000
12,400,000
10,400,000
9,850,000
8,900,000
8,600,000
8,250,000
7,550,000
6,500,000
6,200,000
6,000,000
6,000,000
5,900,000
5,900,000
5,750,000
Metro
Population
5,700,000
5,550,000
4,975,000
4,675,000
4,625,000
4,400,000
4,325,000
4,325,000
4,150,000
3,850,000
3,775,000
3,575,000
3,550,000
3,550,000
3,500,000
3,450,000
3,425,000
3,400,000
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Non-Asian Inland Metros Quiz
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Golden
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 05:21 GMT
3 points
Johannesburg? I was really surprised to see Houston on there (really? It doesn't reach the water? You learn new things every day.) I also am surprised that if you take into account all 20 million of Sao Paulo's population, it isn't including the settlements that go down as far as the water too.
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Patricio
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 05:42 GMT
-19 points
caracas, johannesburg, delhi, dhaka, baghdad, tehran, beijing, minneapolis, guatemala city, lahore, riyadh, kano, kiev, etc...
theologystudent
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 06:46 GMT
3 points
Golden, I somehow missed Johannesburg, but I've added it now; thanks for the tip. Houston, I believe, only reaches salt water via a lengthy canal (whereas Galveston is on the Gulf). As for Sao Paulo, Santos, which is on the Atlantic, is a separate metro area. Patricio, I'm not even sure what to say.
cuendillar
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 08:38 GMT
2 points
Albeit it definitely isn't inland, St. Petersburg do technically fulfill your definition as the Gulf of Finland actually is a freshwater sea. Toaccount for this, and any major cities on inland salt lakes, would it be correct to rewrite the criteria to "lying at a body of water connected to the oceans without resorting to rivers"?
gowhere
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 14:38 GMT
2 points
Yes, the devil is in the details of how you define coast. Although both London and Washington are on rivers, those rivers are tidal in nature, so an argument could be made that they are coastal cities, even though neither are great ports (any longer, in the case of London). Conversely, Houston, Chicago, Montreal and Toronto are definitely major ports but not directly on the ocean. I am not sure if the Delaware is tidal up to Philadelphia or not.
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Patricio
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 15:27 GMT
-11 points
theologystudent: don't say nothing, just add those inland metro areas to the quiz LOL
dtro
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 15:37 GMT
6 points
Outside Asia chief, reading comprehension before smugness Patricio.
Bri G:
Mar 18th, 2010 at 15:42 GMT
2 points
Clearly you've used a metro estimate for Washington that includes Baltimore. That should be enough to count it on the coast and therefore off of this list.
abanazerb
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT
2 points
Interesting quiz despite "Ruhr" not actually being a city.
theologystudent
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 16:37 GMT
1 point
Good idea for the criteria, Cuendillar; I'll put that in the description. Bri G, I thought about that, but Washington is clearly the core city in that metro, and Baltimore is becoming a mere appendage to a mostly inland metro area. Abanazerb, "Ruhr" will take any major city in the region as an answer. The source listed "Ruhr" as a metro, so I only feel obligated to make those major cities count for it, not to list it as "Dortmund" or some such thing.
Patricio
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT
1 point
dtro: ooops! LOL I feel stupid now... (BUT still: caracas, minneapolis, guatemala city, kano, kiev)
theologystudent
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 20:33 GMT
0 points
Patricio, I've added Caracas. I had mistaken it for a coastal city since it's so close, but you're right: It is inland. Although the others that you mentioned are all smaller in my source than the last city I had included, I've added a couple more cities (among them Minneapolis and Kiev) for the heck of it.
BagelPopper
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Mar 19th, 2010 at 00:57 GMT
-4 points
ah... the age old question of Moscow being in Europe vs Moscow being in Asia.
Unidentifiedkiwi
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Mar 19th, 2010 at 01:25 GMT
5 points
It's definitely in Europe, though.
rpfpoa
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Mar 19th, 2010 at 02:52 GMT
2 points
Porto Alegre is not coastal and has over 4 million.
brittain33
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Jun 16th, 2010 at 14:48 GMT
2 points
Porto Alegre should be a tough case, it is connected to the ocean via a lagoon and not a river or canal (like the other edge cases like Philadelphia, Houston, or London.) In none of the cities listed do you have a large, open body of water connecting to the sea like Porto Alegre has.
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