My effort at inventing a meme

[Poll #518148]

The counter-intuitive list above is the fifteen biggest cities (counting urban areas as cities, hence the top one ...) of the EU. All more than 2.6 million people. LJ won't let me list more than fifteen tickyboxes; the next few are Lisbon, Budapest, Munich, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Vienna, and that gets down to two million.

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[Poll #518184]

I may have missed out some really obvious destination 'near' Australia; never sure as to the value of 'near' to use in that part of the world.

I never cease to be amazed at the number of huge cities in Indonesia whose names are not household words; Bandung's bigger than Liverpool, Ujung Pandang the size of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And just how big places that you know as 'what's the capital of Sudan?' pub-quiz answers are: more than seven million in Bogota or Lima or Kinshasa; nearly six million in Khartoum, which I know only as a small desert settlement in a Flashman novel.