yeah except it's not. A suburb is an outlying residential district on a city's outskirts. New Delhi is right smack dab in the middle of Delhi, completely surrounded by the much larger urban sprawl of Delhi, and is not a residential area but actually where all the government buildings are.
Yes Kal, I completely agree, I would never consider New Delhi a suburb of Delhi. It is just a district in the union territory of Delhi, or, a part of Delhi Urban Area, which also include cities like Ghaziabad, Noida, Grugram and Faridabad which are not inside the borders f Delhi Union Territory. New Delhi is a name given to the part of Delhi constructed by English people.
No, Delhi is the urban area comprising New Delhi and Old Delhi (still a very much alive and thriving city) as well as the ruins of several older cities. New Delhi was built by the British as the new capital right before they lost it at independence.
UK did not 'lose' India at Independence. India was given Independence because she deserved it. Read PM Atlee's speech in 1946: ..................
It is worthwhile recording that twice in 25 years India has played a great part in the defeat of tyranny. Is it any wonder that today she claims – as a nation of 400,000,000 people that has twice sent her sons to die for freedom – that she should herself have freedom to decide her own destiny? My colleagues are going to India with the intention of using their utmost endeavours to help her to attain that freedom as speedily and fully as possible. What form of
Government is to replace the present regime is for India to decide; but our desire is to help her to set up forthwith the machinery for making that decision. There we are met sometimes with the initial difficulty of getting that machinery set up. We are resolved that machinery shall be set up and we seek the utmost cooperation
Based on the current quiz stats, I'd say that at least 11 are fairly obvious. Also, if your math is right, it looks as though the quiz has been pared down significantly.
I got the 11 ones that are guessed above 50% percent and was about to give up when I suddenly remembered Douala. I have no idea where I learned about it.
Being a child of the '70's, I was brought up when Jakarta was spelled Djakarta. On this quiz, once that extra D's in your head, it's game over for the rest.
The country for the Detroit agglomeration may need to be tweaked to USA/Canada, since "Detroit" includes (according to citypopulation.de) Windsor, Ontario.
Dhahran is tiny compared to Dammam, if we're counting populations of the city proper. If looking at urban areas, then most likely Dhahran is considered part of Dammam, along with Khobar, and possibly even Qatif and Ras Tanura.
I live in Michigan north of Detroit. The current population of Detroit is under 700,000, and it has never been north of 2,000,000 even at its peak back in the day. Denver and Dallas are way off as well. The two cities' combined population doesn't even reach 2,000,000.
The quiz counts the population of the urban area, not the city proper. According to Wikipedia, the population of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA is over 2.8 million, and the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth area is about 7.1 million. These are slightly different than the citypopulation.de numbers, but definitely both big enough to make the list.
I missed South Korea and Saudi Arabia's cities, but I surprisingly managed to guess Dalian, without knowing it was in China and just going off of memory.
Almost missed Detroit. Do they include like Toledo and Flint and like all of the lower peninsula in this "Detroit" urban area? Denver's probably just as large, if not bigger with Lakewood, Aurora, Colorado Springs, Boulder, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan
Also, in India, we rarely use the word suburbs.
New Delhi is the capital of India.
Get your geography facts right, bro.
It is worthwhile recording that twice in 25 years India has played a great part in the defeat of tyranny. Is it any wonder that today she claims – as a nation of 400,000,000 people that has twice sent her sons to die for freedom – that she should herself have freedom to decide her own destiny? My colleagues are going to India with the intention of using their utmost endeavours to help her to attain that freedom as speedily and fully as possible. What form of
Government is to replace the present regime is for India to decide; but our desire is to help her to set up forthwith the machinery for making that decision. There we are met sometimes with the initial difficulty of getting that machinery set up. We are resolved that machinery shall be set up and we seek the utmost cooperation
of all Indian leaders to do so.
Dortmund: 585K
Dresden: 543K
(Wikipedia)