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

#38 Surat for me.

The first.

Another vote for Wuhan.

Another vote for Wuhan here.

#17, Kinshasa.

I think I’ve heard of Wuhan, though I wouldn’t swear to it. But I’ve definitely never heard of Tianjin.

#38, Surat, India. I totally thought I’d get tripped up on one of those Chinese cities that has quintupled in size over the last decade or two.

Me too. Been to 22 of the cities, though.

For all you people who have never heard of Wuhan, I’ve actually been there. It’s the terminus of the Three Gorges Yangtse river cruise, which I was lucky enough to go on before they finished that humongous damn. The start of it is Chongqing, #35 on the list.

Another vote for Surat.

Ahmedabad for me.

I’ve been to Wuhan and it’s nothing special. All I remember about it was that it was 40C/105F.

The only cities on the list I didn’t recognize were the Indian ones & I’ve been to 8 of them.

#38, Surat, India. I’ve probably heard of it before, but I don’t remember it at all.

I may be in Wuhan later this year, if I decide to go out of the way a bit when going from Xi’an to Nanjing.

So, I’m the only person here who’d never heard of #6, Sao Paulo?

slinks back into hole

Oh, and I’d never heard of Wuhan either. Or the next three Chinese cities on that list. Sigh.

I’m better at capitals, really…

Never heard of Wuhan. Now I want to go there, just to see people’s expression when I tell them where I’ve been.

14 Wuhan for me.

My parents are from Ahmedabad :smiley:

Wuhan for me too and then a couple of other Chinese ones. I had no trouble with the Indian and Pakistani ones though – even though I hadn;t realised Chennai was the same place as Madras. I’m in the UK I’m guessing we carry a lot more news form the sub continent than the US.

#30, Tianjin China

Another Wuhan. It’s a quiet city, isn’t it?

Chennai here.

Yup, Wuhan. I too kinda want to visit now.

After that I made it down to Chennai before getting stumped again. A couple of the Chinese and Indian cities are vaguely familiar and I could obviously tell that they were in those countries simply by the sound of the name but when pressed I couldn’t tell you where in the country they were or anything about them.

Surat for me.

The only other non-Indian city that I haven’t heard of is Abidjan.