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Test your city knowledge with our World City Population Blitz Quiz. Can you name the world's largest cities and achieve the highest population total in just 2 minutes?

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Yes. Most quizzes allow common abbreviations, alternate spellings, and short forms. Try typing just the first few letters — if it matches, it will autofill.

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World City Population Blitz

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You begin with 2 minutes – name as many of the world 1000 largest cities as you can trying to achieve the highest total population. You receive a 1 second bonus for every city named correctly. There are no time bonuses except the 1 second per city.

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darin

5 years ago

fixed Astana with new name. also Cape Town just city proper isn’t big enough.

anonymous

5 years ago

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Great, thanks!

Klinkhamer

3 years ago

Reply to darin

You can change it back again (in the table). What a circus

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to Klinkhamer

Yeah Kazakhstan needs to make up their minds.