Largest City Is Not Always The Capital City Quiz

Answer:

All populations are based on 2024 figures.

CORRECT-

London has just over 9 million residents, Paris has 2.1 million, Berlin has 3.6 million and the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, has 1.8 million. Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, has over 7 million, Santiago in Chile has 6.5 million, Madrid, Spain is 3.5 million. Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, a small country nestled between Austria and Switzerland, only has about five thousand inhabitants, and is dwarfed by Mexico City which is home to over 9 million. Tokyo has about 14 million, but taking figures from Greater Tokyo, this number balloons to over 30 million!

INCORRECT-

Sydney was the first settlement in Australia, in 1778, but has never been the capital. It is, however, the capital of the state of New South Wales, with Canberra being the national capital. Auckland is by far the largest city in New Zealand, but was only the capital from 1841 to 1865, when the mantle was transferred to the more centrally-located Wellington. The huge city of New York is not even the capital of its own state- Albany is. NYC is about 350kms from the US capital of Washington DC. South Africa has THREE capitals, Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfontein, all of which are dwarfed by Johannesburg's population. In China, Shanghai is slightly larger than Beijing, and Mumbai is larger than New Delhi, in India. Istanbul was capital of Turkey until 1923, when it was replaced by Ankara. Ho Chi Minh City was capital of South Vietnam when it was called Saigon, but since the end of the Vietnam war, the capital is now Hanoi, in the north of the country.