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Test your knowledge with the World's Largest Urban Centres Quiz. Challenge yourself to name the most populous urban centres and learn interesting facts.

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World’s Largest Urban Centres – Choose Number

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First, choose type ‘100’, ‘250’, ‘500’ or ‘all’ to choose the number of urban centres you want to choose – then name that many of the world’s largest urban centres according to the European Commission trying to achieve the highest total population. Keep in mind names of urban centres are not always a city name, can also be an area/district name as well. Info on the definition of an urban centre is below:

https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ghs_stat_ucdb2015mt_r2019a.php

Enter '100', '250', '500' or 'all' to begin.

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Lotte

6 months ago

The new progress things (which I love btw!) seems to be counting each city twice.

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darin

6 months ago

Reply to Lotte

Hmm I’m not seeing that, is that on other quizzes too? I just tried Paris then Moscow and they each showed as one.