Show Us What You Know About The World's Largest With This Quiz!

Phoenix

Phoenix is the largest city in Arizona with a population of over 1.7 million. The next two largest cities in the state, Tucson and Mesa, each have a population of over 500,000 residents. It is also the most-populous state capital in the U.S.!

Brazil

Brazil's flag has a starry sky on it which contains the Southern Cross constellation. Across the sky, there is a banner which reads "Ordem e Progresso" which is Brazil's national motto and means "Order and Progress".

New York City

New York City is the largest city in the state of New York with a population of roughly 8.6 million people. It is also the largest city in the U.S., having a population over twice as large as the next-largest city of Los Angeles. New York City also served the capital of the United States after the ratification of the Constitution until it was finally moved to Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the largest city in California with a population of over 4 million. California is home to two other cities of over 1 million people - San Diego with over 1.4 million people and San Jose with over 1 million people. After Los Angeles, the next largest city in the United States is Chicago with a population estimated around 2.7 million.

Paris

Paris is home to over 10 million residents and is the largest city in the EU.

Seattle

Seattle is Washington's largest city and is considered to be one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. in the 2010s with an estimated population over 766,000. Seattle is also home to the headquarters of many of the most well known companies in the United States such as Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, and Starbucks.

Cairo

Over 20 million inhabit Cairo's metro area.

Algeria

The flag of Algeria has a crescent and a star at its center, a symbol of Islam as its most prominent faith. It was adopted in 1962, but was first created in 1934 by Émilie Busquant.

Houston

As of 2019, Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas with an estimated population of 2.3 million people. Houston is an important city for NASA as it is the home to both Space Center Houston and the Johnson Space Center.

Panama

The Panama Canal, open since 1914, serves more than 14,000 vessels per year.

Great Barrier Reef

If you want to float amidst the world's largest living structure, then the Great Barrier Reef welcomes you. Spanning nearly 135,000 square miles, the ecosystem is home to thousands of species, including dolphins, turtles, and sharks. Now, put your flippers on and get diving!

Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the city with the largest population in Minnesota with over 420,000 residents. Together, St. Paul and the surrounding metro area has a population of roughly 3.6 million.

Phoenix, Arizona

With a population of approximately 1.5 million residents, the city of Phoenix, Arizona weighs in as the most populated state capital in the United States of America.

London

London, U.K., is still the largest English-speaking capital after all these years.

Providence

With a population of around 179,000, Providence is the largest city in, and the capital of, the state of Rhode Island. The next largest cities in the state have roughly 100,000 less people. 75% of the population of Rhode Island live within 15 miles of Providence.

Beijing

Beijing has been the capital of China for much of its history, and though it has moved a times, in recent history it has remained in Beijing since 1949. China has the world's largest population as of 2019 with nearly 1.5 billion people.

Argentina

“Argentum” means silver in Latin, lending its elemental name to Argentina. Characterized by the rugged landscape of Patagonia, which it shares with its neighbor, Chile, Argentina is a natural wonderland, featuring more than thirty national parks and bordering the Andes mountains. Ushuaia, known as “the end of the world," is also located here, making for a great launching point from the southernmost city to Antarctica.

Beijing

Beijing, China, took over capital duties after the fall of Nanjing.

Atlanta, GA

Metro Atlanta has a population over 5,000,000 strong.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia is by far the largest city in Pennsylvania with a population of more than 1.5 million people. The next closest city in population size, Pittsburgh, comes in with a population of roughly 300,000 people. Philadelphia was the original capital of the United States during the Revolutionary War as this is where the First Continental Congress met.

Chile

At 3,241 square miles, Chile’s Isla Grande of Chiloé is the largest island in South America. With rainforests, dunes, and countless beaches in the west, and farming, crafting, and fishing in the east, the island’s culture is incredibly diverse and divided by its Coast Range peaks.

Mexico City

Greater Mexico City has a population of between 21.5 - 25 million, making it one of the world's largest metro areas.

Tripoli

Tripoli is Libya's capital city. The city was founded by the Phoenicians, but was captured by many other empires throughout the ages.

Milwaukee

Milwaukee has a population of over 580,000 and is Wisconsin's largest city. Milwaukee is the home of the NBA team the Milwaukee Bucks and the MLB team the Milwaukee Brewers.

Dubai

The Burj Khalifa stands 160 stories and 2,722 feet to its tip. But to reach the observation deck on the 124th floor, you'll only need a minute, as it tops speeds of 32 feet per second. What other superlatives does Dubai boast? The world's largest manmade island, the world's largest flower garden, and the world's fastest police force (they drive the Bugatti Veyron), just to name a few.

Komodo Islands

Indonesia's Komodo National Park is an untamed natural paradise for the adventure-seeking traveler. The islands are renowned for stunning mountain hikes and spectacular dive sites (as well as those formidable lizards).

Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo has over 21 million people in its metro area and a staggering 33 million in the Extended Metropolitan Complex.

Louisville

Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky with an estimated population of roughly 620,000 as of 2019. Each year, Louisville is home to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Olympia, WA

Olympia, WA averages 163 rainy days every year.

Birmingham

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama with a population of over 210,00. In 1963, images of aggression and violence against civil rights protestors in Birmingham caused public outrage and created political pressure that helped bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Cambodia

Angkor Wat may get all the glory, but the temple complex near Siem Reap, Cambodia has many gems. When you visit Angkor Archeological Park, be sure to check out Bayon temple, as well – a temple of many faces.

Asia

The most sparsely populated country with undisputed independence is Mongolia in Central Asia.

Mexico

Mexico has over 120,000,000 people, including over 20 million in the Mexico City area alone.

Pyongyang, North Korea

Apparently, North Korea wanted to pack the whole country into the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium. Accommodating 150,000 people, the stadium is the largest in the world – and has been since it opened in 1989. You might not want to visit though. Rumor has it that it's been the stage of public executions.

San José

Formerly called Villa Nueva, San José has been the capital of Costa Rica since 1823. At the end of the Contra war in neighboring Nicaragua in 1990, air traffic into the city has been steadily increasing due to the country's popularity as a tourist destination.

Bolivia

On Bolivia's flag, the red stands for its brave soldiers, the green for its fertility, and the yellow for its nation's mineral deposits. Since 2009, the Wiphala, a multicolored flag representing some Andean native peoples, has held the status of dual flag in Bolivia.

Charlotte

Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina by population with almost 890,000 residents. The city is named after the wife of King George III.

Istanbul

Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey, with a population north of 14 million.

Norway

Norway was unified under a single king, Harald Fairhair, after the Battle of Hafrsfjord way back in 872.

Venezuela

Venezuela stakes its claim in the world’s tallest waterfall, Angel Falls, at 3,212 feet. Located on the northern coast, Venezuela is megadiverse, with species like sloth, anteaters, manatees, Amazon river dolphins, and crocodiles roaming the land. It also has one of the largest natural gas and oil reserves on the planet.

Bangladesh

Shared with India, Bangladesh features the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the largest in the world. You may know it as the Bay of Bengal.

Kinshasa

Over 20 million live in Kinshasa's metro area, surpassing even Paris.

Algeria

On the Mediterranean coast sits the largest country in Africa. At 11.73 million square miles, around 90% of Algeria is covered by the great Sahara desert, while the continent's largest mountain range, the Atlas Mountains, stretches through the north of the country. A rich source of oil and gas, Algeria is home to the Berber people, an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa.

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic had a GDP of over $174 billion in 2014 and brought in over 6 million tourists.

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa is the capital and largest city in Ethiopia. The city was founded in 1887 near a natural hot springs at the request of the wife of Emperor Menelik II. She named the city Addis Ababa, which means "New Flower".

Uganda

Winston Churchill called Uganda "the pearl of Africa," writing: “Uganda is a fairy-tale. You climb up a railway instead of a beanstalk, and at the end there is a wonderful new world." And Churchill was right. Uganda is a large diverse country with its capital of Kampala lying on the shores of the largest freshwater lake in Africa: Lake Victoria. As for that volcano, with a base spanning 50 to 80 kilometers, Mount Elgon is so big that its forests are home to hundreds of bird species, buffaloes, leopards, elephants, and bush pigs.

Timbuktu

If you've ever been "all the way to Timbuktu", then you know this city is in the midst of the Sahara Desert. The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world at 3.5 million square miles. Timbuktu, located on the southern edge of the Sahara in Mali, was once a prime spot of Islamic scholarship and remains a striking place to visit.

Bern

The capital city of Switzerland is Bern. Bern is either the fourth or fifth largest city in the country, with a lower population than cities such as Zurich and Geneva.

Portland

Portland, Maine is home to roughly 67,000 residents making it the largest city in the state by over 30,000 people. The state capital of Maine, Augusta, is the ninth-largest city in the state with about 18,500 people.

Namibia

With mountains and canyons and deserts galore, Namibia's diverse landscape is a sight to behold...but not so much to live in. Home to only 2.5 million, the small country has plenty of hidden gems – like Namib-Naukluft Park, one of the world's largest conservation areas, and the Namib desert, the oldest desert in the world – which is probably why it's called the "gem of Africa".

Bolivia

A third of Bolivia is within the Andes Mountains, giving the country’s northern section an average elevation of 18,000 feet with its highest snow-capped peak of Nevado Sajama topping out at 21,463 feet. Bordered by Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Argentina, Bolivia features a 24-hectare butterfly sanctuary, one of the world's largest; the world’s highest navigable lake, Lake Titicaca, at 12,507 feet (shared with Peru); and the world’s largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, stretching 4,086 square miles.

Russia

The largest (by volume), deepest, oldest freshwater lake in the world lies in Mother Russia. The crescent-shaped Lake Baikal is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Southern Siberia. At 5,354 feet deep, its lowest point is upwards of 4,000 feet below sea level. And you could fit all five of the great lakes into its 5,521 cubic miles of water!

Lithuania

Lithuania was a Soviet republic between 1944-1990. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius.

Lithuania

This 65,300 square kilometer nation is 151 times smaller than the US, but it's the largest of the three Baltic states. The country wasn't always small though; in fact, by the end of the fourteenth century, it was the largest country in Europe. The other Baltics are Estonia and Latvia, all three of which border the Baltic Sea.

Africa

Lagos is located in the African country of Nigeria.

Burlington

Burlington is the largest city in Vermont. Only four cities in Vermont have populations of over 10,000 people. The state's capital, Montpelier, is the least-populated state capital in the U.S.

São Paulo

Why walk when you can fly? That's what the city of São Paulo asked itself when they built the world's largest helicopter fleet with around 1,300 copters flying daily and around 210 heliports located around the city. The city's millionaires use the quicker mode of transport to avoid traffic jams.

Iceland

The largest ice cap in Europe is, perhaps unsurprisingly, found in Iceland. Vatnajökull (or Vatna Glacier), which means "river glacier", is the biggest ice cap by volume and makes up about 8% of the entire country at 3,050 square miles. As the centerpiece of Vatnajökull National Park, a stop at the Icelandic icecap is a must. Be careful though; it weighs about 3000 million tons.

Billings

Billings is the largest city in the state of Montana with an estimated population of 110,000. Montana only has 7 cities with a population of over 20,000 people.

Nigeria

Nigeria contains the metropolis of Lagos, which has a population north of 21 million.

Bolivia

Stretching across 4,250 square miles, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt flat in the world. Pink flamingos are some of the only wildlife that inhabit the rare ecosystem, as the salt flat is the remnants of a prehistoric lake that went dry ages ago, leaving this otherworldly natural phenomenon behind.

Great Ocean Road

Called "the world's largest war memorial," the Great Ocean Road was built by returned WWI veterans from 1919 onward. The construction project was a win-win, as the scenic coastal road is now one of Australia's main tourist routes, and vets were able to rebuild their lives upon their return through this work. Stretching 151 miles, today the road is dedicated to those lost in the war.

Mackenzie River

The Mackenzie River system runs for 2,635 miles (4,241 km) through the Northwest Territories in Canada. Due to its harsh winter climate, few resources in the area, and difficulty to reach, it follows one of the few areas in the world relatively untouched by humanity.