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Test your knowledge with the World 50 Largest Cities By Country - Choose Country Quiz. Identify countries and their largest cities in this population-based quiz.

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World 50 Largest Cities By Country – Choose Country

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First name a country by entering it and clicking the auto-fill result, then name the 50 largest cities in the country. Object is highest total population, not cities. Only countries for which I have current data for their 50 largest cities are included. Quiz is not timed.

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TheSensinator

8 months ago

Typing Catacaos on the Peruvian cities quiz does nothing, even though Catacaos is one of the 50 biggest cities. It’s listed in the statistics at the end, but does not get accepted when you type it. Other than this, I’ve really enjoyed the quiz! It would be cool to get results we can see on the map, if that’s not too much to ask.

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to TheSensinator

This has been fixed.

Lotte

1 year ago

Can we get results on the map for this quiz?

Encephalopedia

1 year ago

Hey Darin, can this quiz be more like “US Largest Cities By State – Choose State and Number”? In that quiz, if a state has fewer cities than the specified number, it just includes all available.

Here’s a suggestion for how this could be done without too much hassle:

Rename this quiz to “World Largest Cities By Country – Choose State and Number”
Append “50” to the name of existing countries (e.g. Kenya50) so the dropdown can still be used
Make a 25 city version for existing countries
Add a 25 city version of most countries that are currently excluded*
For those countries that have between 26 and 49 cites, add a 50 city version similar to the “100 city” version of Arizona
(Optional) Remove countries from this quiz that already have their own similar quiz

*It’s impractical to include countries with very limited data (e.g. Vanuatu), so there still needs to be some minimum number of cities to be included. Making it 25 similar to how it is right now makes sense, but it could be smaller if there was some objective basis for doing so.

What do you think?

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to Encephalopedia

Will think about it – would probably be a separate quiz. Thanks!

AntPai

2 years ago

why isn’t ireland on the map?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to AntPai

i’ve added it.

Sesel

2 years ago

Curious why the Canary Islands aren’t included as part of Spain since it’s not a continent-based quiz.

Batmanlink70

2 years ago

Victoria is not there for Canada

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to Batmanlink70

not in the top 50 based on city proper…it’s just under 100k

jamakl

3 years ago

Noumea is in the French island of New Caledonia not in Réunion

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to jamakl

that’s where it is marked – another city is in Reunion.

Fergenaprido

3 years ago

I’m surprised that Kazakhstan and South Africa don’t have enough cities/data to feature on this quiz.

Encephalopedia

1 year ago

Reply to Fergenaprido

South Africa is included now.