# What's The Largest World City You've Never Heard Of?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-world-city-youve-never-heard-of/531131 "2010-03-03T15:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-world-city-youve-never-heard-of/531131/101 "2010-03-08T01:19:59Z")

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> [@Kyla](#):
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> Wuhan for me as well.
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> I’m surprised by the people who haven’t heard of Kinshasa, to be honest, if only because there are two Congos, and they are often referred to as “Congo (Kinshasa)” or “Congo (Brazzaville)” for clarification.

Well, that’s news to me! I’d heard of Kinshasa but didn’t know about the two Congos.

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-world-city-youve-never-heard-of/531131/102 "2010-03-08T03:53:49Z")

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#13: I didn’t realize that there was a _new_ York… 😛

Actually, not much further down: #14 - Wuhan, China.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-world-city-youve-never-heard-of/531131/103 "2010-03-08T09:42:47Z")

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Surat for me too.

Tianjin was once Tientsin, which fell to the Japanese in 1938.

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**Author:** ![GreatStuffMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f04885/32.png) [@GreatStuffMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreatStuffMan)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-world-city-youve-never-heard-of/531131/104 "2010-03-08T12:48:26Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> You are not alone.
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> I got to #3, and thought, “Clearly, I should have heard of Karachi.” No. I’ve certainly heard the city name before, but I could never have told you it was in Pakistan. If I can’t tell you the country, I’ve not heard of it. After that, it was Wuhan.

This.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-world-city-youve-never-heard-of/531131/105 "2010-03-08T13:55:29Z")

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I assumed it would be someplace in China. I don’t think I’d heard of Wuhan (14) or Tianjin (30) and there would probably be others if I kept going.

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