I can never completely finish this quiz. This time, I got them all except Wenzhou. Not too bad you might think, since it's the least guessed answer, but I'm living in Wenzhou right now...
It happened the same time Peking/Nanking/Canton etc changed to Beijing/Nanjing/Guangzhou respectively, so it's been called Qingdao for a long time now.
I think westerners are still struggling! The idea of using "q" for that particular sound may make sense, but I'm afraid for newcomers it's more of an obstacle than a help to getting it right.
Hawaii is definitely part of the US as one of its 50 states. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico is only one of the territories of the US. And legally, Hong Kong is part of China, just with much greater autonomy, like Macau.
I know, me too. While I could name almost all of them (thanks to these quizzes), I could probably locate only 8 or 9 on a map without really searching.
I'm a Chinese-Australian and on my first try got all but Shantou. Nice but challenging quiz, and I will be the first to say I got this result because I'm partly Chinese!
Only missed three, which I'd be reasonably happy with if one of the three weren't HK. Kinda an obvious one, especially considering I used to live there (although back then it wasn't part of China).
Combining Guangzhou with Shenzhen and Zhuhai areas is like combining san diego with Los Angeles or baltimore with DC. Nobody does that so you should probably get a better source.
It's a single urban agglomeration - you can drive all the way up from Shenzhen through Dongguan to Guangzhou without leaving a built-up area. The same way it's Tokyo-Yokohama, Leeds-Bradford etc. That's nothing like LA-San Diego.
Chongqing has over 30 million people, not 7. Also, I live in Xiamen and the metro population is 5 million (with only three million on the island), not 9.7 million.
Maybe they count the population of Xiamen and Zhangzhou (even Quanzhou) together -- just like what they did to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou.
By the way, the urban area of Chongqing doesn't have that much population. 30 million is the stat of the whole directly governed city.
I've taken this quiz so many times and still can't remember Zhengzhou and Hangzhou! Don't know what it is about those two but they aren't sinking into my brain
Where the heck do these numbers come from? Xiamen is crazy high and Changsha is crazy low. Some cities are counted together as urban agglomerations, while others have been tabulated independently despite being physically conjoined. Crazy, crazy stuff in these numbers!
Looks like the stats on that German site were done by somebody who doesn't know China except through a computer screen.
In general, the Chinese name has been the accepted spelling. But according to the 2020 edition of citypopulation.de, the Chinese spelling for Harbin is Hā'ĕrbīn (or from keyboard minus accents, Haerbin). The quiz does not accept Haerbin. Why not? All the other Chinese spellings are accepted.
At this point, I'm expecting jetpunk to consider the entire population of China as one 'megacity' and that some pedantic users will try to defend it😂😂😂
This is inaccurate because you can't mix two cities into one. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are separate cities, and so are Suzhou and Shanghai. Plus, Guangzhou and Shenzhen combined together is only a bit less than 30 million in population. Chongqing has 30 million, not 10 million. The other ones looks fine though.
well in that case that are so many other cities in china with over 10 million population. something about the website youre using to get these numbers seems off. no offense.
Never knew that.
The beer is still called Tsingtao though.
Also, Peking/Nanking should be allowed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_metropolitan_area
By the way, the urban area of Chongqing doesn't have that much population. 30 million is the stat of the whole directly governed city.
On a different not, surprised not to see Taipei on here... (ducks)
Me, knowing I’ll only get 2: Is that a challenge?
Looks like the stats on that German site were done by somebody who doesn't know China except through a computer screen.