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Test your knowledge with the World 1M+ Population Cities Quiz. Can you name the cities with a population of at least 1 million?

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World 1M+ Population Cities

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Name the World cities with at least 1M population. Population and country shown.

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Alphy

1 month ago

What’s the 12th japanese city ?
Chiba doesn’t even work

xBwFc

1 month ago

Reply to Alphy

Sendai

Bladselleri

1 year ago

I feel like this would work really well as a map quiz! In this format it can be hard to keep track of what you are missing and what you already typed, especially for China and India. Would be super cool with a version where you could see the locations of the missing cities!

jblo38387

1 year ago

update please and thank you!

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to jblo38387

This quiz is basically live, even though the date updated date may be in the past. It’s current with citypopulation.de at all times 🙂

bnabreaker

2 years ago

Honestly what is with the timing on some of these quizzes? Even if I could think of all of these cities in rapid succession and typed a hundred wpm I still wouldn’t have enough time to type them all.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to bnabreaker

there are bonuses along the way for almost all quizzes, and double time for PremIum members.

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bnabreaker

2 years ago

Reply to darin

I respect all the work you put into these quizzes, and appreciate that you’re trying to mix it up to keep it interesting with the time bonuses. But I feel like most people would just prefer to simply have the time to exhaust their knowledge fully, because as it’s set up now it’s as much, if not more, about knowing what order to type the answers in rather than whether you know the answers or not. Example: You could know 98% of the answers, but if the answers you don’t know include, say, a couple in China, a couple in India, and one in Japan, you have zero hope of having enough time to type all the answers you know. Anyway, just one man’s opinion. Again, regardless of my critiques, I thank you and appreciate you for putting this all together!

Inhale

2 years ago

The time limit is way too low, I know all the cities but can’t type them fast enough

ITolerateHugeQuiz

2 years ago

Reply to Inhale

Agreed

Danisharsan

2 years ago

Reply to Inhale

kinda agree

gortystinker

2 years ago

SO OH GOOD!!!

Geographiker

2 years ago

Some of these seem not right. For example Oslo, Vienna and Copenhagen are included although they have far less then 1m inhabitants, Tokyo has way less then in Reality as well… What numbers are used here?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to Geographiker

citypopulation.de…all of those are over 1 million

Roasty247

2 years ago

Reply to Geographiker

Vienna definitely has more than a million…you might be right about Oslo and Copenhagen though…

Ovamiat

3 years ago

Wikipedia — Population of 11th (10th?) Largest city in USA — 1,028,225 (US, TX)

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to Ovamiat

that’s an estimated 2022 population – I’m using the 2020 census. I do update with estimates every few years but haven’t yet. Maybe next year.