Can you name the World's 50 Largest Metro / Urban Areas by Land Area? by wolofsky

Can you name the World's 50 Largest Metro / Urban Areas by Land Area?

created by wolofsky

Enter a Metro / Urban Area Name in the box below
Correctly named Metro / Urban Area Names will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: City Mayors (citymayors.com)
- Answers are for Metro Urban areas greater than population of 1,000,000 - CityMayor Data is compiled from several sources that use Urban Area rather than Metropolitan Census Area.
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Rank	Metro / Urban Area Name	Square km
1.		8683
2.		6993
3.		5498
4.		5083
5.		4661
6.		4497
7.		4320
8.		3644
9.		3355
10.		3267
11.		2996
12.		2891
13.		2875
14.		2723
15.		2642
16.		2564
17.		2470
18.		2396
19.		2316
20.		2309
21.		2266
22.		2208
23.		2150
24.		2147
25.		2080

Rank	Metro / Urban Area Name	Square km
26.		2078
27.		2072
28.		2069
29.		2026
30.		1968
31.		1768
32.		1740
32.		1740
34.		1687
35.		1676
36.		1655
37.		1623
38.		1606
39.		1603
40.		1580
41.		1554
42.		1514
43.		1432
44.		1399
45.		1365
46.		1364
47.		1360
48.		1304
49.		1295
49.		1295

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World's 50 Largest Metros by Land Area Quiz

by wolofsky

Created Jun 4, 2010 in Geography
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	JaxBored:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 06:09 GMT	1 point
	Why is Jacksonville, FL not on this list. It's the largest city by land area in the lower 48 states. The metro area is 885 sq miles/2292 sq kilometers.

	Esme:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 06:48 GMT	2 points
	Please accept "NYC"; it's not like it will be confused with anything else. Took me forever to think of which metro area could be bigger than that.

	Etheridge2:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 07:10 GMT	-2 points
	I second Jax's question where is Jacksonville? makes me question the validity of this list and Alaska has 4 cities larger then Jacksonville..where does this info come from?

	HollywoodLeo:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 07:52 GMT	3 points
	Apparently the info comes from citymayors.com, which lists Jacksonville at #65 and only 1,063 sq km (as opposed to the 2,292 being posted in these comments)

	adamnvillani:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 07:53 GMT	2 points
	You need to note if there's a minimum population size. Otherwise, metro areas like Flagstaff are way larger than anything on this list. Also, I question their methodology --- they obviously aren't using the same definitions of "metro area" as the US Census Bureau, because Los Angeles County just by itself is more than 12,000 km^2, and that's just one county of several in the L.A. metro area.

	HollywoodLeo:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 07:58 GMT	4 points
	As per the source regarding methodology City Mayors’ ‘Land area, Population and Density’ tables rank the 250 largest, by land area, cities and metropolitan as well as urban areas. The data was mostly collected between 2000 and 2005, however, in some cases figures from the late 1990s were used. The data was provided by Demographia who sourced much of the material from the United Nation and national statistical offices. But yeah, it should probably be annotated in the quiz description

	adamnvillani:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 07:59 GMT	5 points
	OK, I finally sourced their measurements for the USA --- they're using Urbanized Area, not Metro Area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas

	peterbullock:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 08:40 GMT	3 points
	should definitely accept "dortmund" "köln" "koln" or "ruhr" for the german Ruhr region only accepted as "essen" or "dusseldorf"

	TheBigE1980:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 09:25 GMT	6 points
	Please accept "Norfolk" for "Virginia Beach"

	teamvatican:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 12:35 GMT	0 points
	Why isn't New Delhi accepted for Delhi?

	esumid:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 13:25 GMT	2 points
	what about chongqing? wikipedia says its area is about 82000 sqkm.

	daisyap:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 13:47 GMT	3 points
	teamvatican: New Delhi is just a small part of the bigger city Delhi, so on it's own it's not that big.

	wolofsky:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 15:27 GMT	-1 points
	I have made some changes based on many of your comments - however, I cannot superimpose my own or your suggestions regarding the data itself. The quiz is based on a specific source and the moment I add "Norfolk" or "Dortmund" or even worse, an entirely new urban area such a Jacksonville, I can no longer effectively cite my source. However, I did add "ruhr" (since it is a regional designation and not an actual city) and "NYC". I also added some notes.

	wolofsky:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 15:29 GMT	-1 points
	Just to clarify, If citymayor.com did not include Dortmund or Cologne as a part of the Dusseldorf/Essen Metro/Urban area, then I cannot either. Same goes for Norfolk, despite the slightly counter-intuitive nature of the data.

	robson2951989:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 15:33 GMT	3 points
	peterbullock: Düsseldorf doesn´t belong to the Ruhr area, I wonder why the source takes Düsseldorf/Essen as a metro and not the Ruhr area (which doesn´t include Cologne and Düsseldorf), the Ruhr Area would be place 7 with 4435 km²

	wolofsky:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 15:44 GMT	1 point
	BTW, my individual research shows that since China is so nebulous in the way it defines its Urban Areas, it makes sense that their megatropolises were omitted from the study. Also, aside from staying true to my source, if I added every municipality from every Metro Area, there would be no room. Thus, places like New Delhi, Hoboken, Osasco and Montreuil are omitted from mention.

	AlexRandom:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 16:45 GMT	2 points
	Please accept just "Washington" without DC.

	wolofsky:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 16:58 GMT	1 point
	Alex, It does accept just "Washington" and always has. I'm not sure what you typed.

	johnlk:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 18:52 GMT	4 points
	Norfolk is clearly part of the Virginia Beach urban area. I don't understand why it would be vitiating your sources to accept it.

	johnlk:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 18:55 GMT	7 points
	To clarify - it's not a case of City Mayors not including Norfolk in the Virginia Beach urban area. It obviously does. If the number it gives is the same as that for the Virginia Beach UA designated by the US Census, it is easy enough to look up the map of that UA and notice that it clearly includes all of the city of Norfolk. The stupid naming rules come up with by the census for some reason mean that the name is just "Virginia Beach" rather than "Virginia Beach-Norfolk," and for that reason the visible answer should be "Virginia Beach," but there's absolutely no reason for Norfolk not to be an acceptable answer.

	wolofsky:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 20:10 GMT	2 points
	Perhaps a compromise would be to have Norfolk accepted as an answer but display only Virginia Beach in the quiz.

	Spelvout:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 20:30 GMT	2 points
	tricky one this, every country seems to adhere to different metro-area-boundary rules, in which the US seem to be the most flexible haha.

	redsimba88:	Jun 4th, 2010 at 21:16 GMT	4 points
	Crazy how the smallest U.S. state has one of the 50 largest metros (even if part of it goes into Massachusetts).

	Patricio:	Jun 5th, 2010 at 01:59 GMT	2 points
	Buenos Aires is at least 4000 sq km