14 November
2013
Puzzle – populous cities
Today, my friend Gasan showed me this. I was totally stunned. The question is “What are the top cities by population in the world?”. Not the population of the metro area but just the city proper. (The metro area list is very different) . You have to do this without Googling. I will give you the city names. Can you rank them?
Try it and then check in Google. Or I will post the answers:
Beijing, Delhi, Guangzhou, Istanbul, Karachi, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Tianjin (in China)
Note that the top 4 cities by metro area population – Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City and New York City do not figure in the above list!!!
Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Delhi, Beijing, Mumbai, Guangzhou, Istanbul, Tianjin, Karachi and Moscow. Version 1 🙂
Tianjin is the only one in the right place!!
Great… Now working V2 out..
Delhi, Mumbai, Beijing, São Paulo, Shanghai, Istanbul, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Moscow and Karachi. v2.
Same result as before 🙂
Shoot me! Ok ok… Have to avoid the “Googtation”…
Interesting!
Shanghai,Mumbai,Istanbul,Guangzhou,Beijing,Delhi,Sao Paulo,Tianjin,Karachi,Moscow the logic being firstly commercial capitals denser than state capitals, so likely to be more populous and secondly ordered by country’s population. Now i know i am wrong since you say you were stunned and logic would not have done that to you can’t wait to google
googled it, was even more stunned by the population densities per square km of Mumbai and Dhaka!
and Chennai and Kolkatta!
Yes, that Mumbai density – in comparison to others – floored me, Jyotsna!
Dhaka… is my original guess. Cities that have slums in the main district will top this list. So, Mumbai would also fit the bill.