How many cities with a population of more than 5 million have you visited?

[Wouter D]

Hmm, yes, it appears that a bit of artistic license has been taken with that list, but it's the list I've started with so I'm sticking with it for the purposes of this thread.

Yeah, that's more than fair.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Yeah, that's more than fair.

Ian Dury earworm

[Hot Pepsi]

Only 11. The US ones, minus Houston, Toronto, London and Paris. I'm a homebody.

[Foot of Astaire's]

17 for me. I'll take Chennai off the list

[Cal Alamein]

A dozen - all Europe and USA

[Amor de Cosmos]

Only seven, and nowhere exotic. Railway stations and airports not counted.

Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Houston, Toronto.

[Balderdasha]

17 for me. I'll take Chennai off the list

Noted, thanks

[colchestersid]

30 for me, but only one new one you can add - Kolkota

There in 2011, in theory for the Cricket World Cup and a side trip to Bhutan. Obviously, being India, the cricket was switched to Bangalore

[ChrisJ]

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19. 17 already taken but I can contribute Hyderabad and Ahmedabad to the collection, albeit by a combined total of about 2 days.

I've never been to Pune, but in my head it was a smallish place. I was surprised to see it on this list.

[Balderdasha]

30 for me, but only one new one you can add - Kolkota

There in 2011, in theory for the Cricket World Cup and a side trip to Bhutan. Obviously, being India, the cricket was switched to Bangalore

Added, thanks.

[Balderdasha]

19. 17 already taken but I can contribute Hyderabad and Ahmedabad to the collection, albeit by a combined total of about 2 days.

I've never been to Pune, but in my head it was a smallish place. I was surprised to see it on this list.

Added, thanks.

[My Name Is Ian]

Eight for me, all already taken. London, Paris, Tokyo, Moscow, St Petersburg, New York, Philadelphia (I got married there), Los Angeles, and , I rubbed up against Nagoya by going to Toyota City, but while it's in the same prefecture its about 15 miles outside the city and I don't think I can claim it. We got the bullet train to Nagoya and changed, but that fails under the same rule as airports.

[anton pulisov]

Cork
Tokyo
Osaka
New York City
Guangzhou
Paris
Jakarta
Bangkok
Seoul
Nagoya
London
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kong
Houston
Singapore

[tee rex]

I'll claim Yangon, though I can hardly believe it has over 5 million. When I went there it was Rangoon, and felt more like 5 thousand.

I could probably tick off some of those remaining Chinese cities if we're talking about changing trains, maybe even spending a night. But I have no memory of them whatsoever. In the 1980s the overwhelming colour of China was grey.

[Sporting]

Cork

Cork?

[Sam]

In fairness, tee rex, this site estimates the population of Yangon at about 2.6 million in 1985, so if you went there at around the same time you were spending time in China, it wasn't anywhere near 5 million.

I can claim five from the list in the OP, but they're all already taken.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Five, here. NYC, Paris, London, Barcelona, the other one that I've already forgotten. Hang on. Oh yeah, Moscow.

[Felicity, I guess so]

London
Paris
Madrid
Barcelona
Chicago
Miami
Istanbul
and lived in Singapore as a toddler but I bet it wasn’t 5 million then (67-70)

Ms Felicity can add Philadelphia as she lived there as a baby while her dad did a postdoc and her sister was born there

[KyleRoteJr.]

Tokyo
Osaka
NYC
Manila
Guangzhou
L.A.
Moscow
Paris
Jakarta
Bangkok
Seoul
Nagoya
London
Ho Chi Minh City
KL
HK
Singapore
Philly
Fukuoka
St. Petersburg
Washington
Yangon

I think that's 22. You can check me off for Fukuoka. It's the main city of Kyushu, the southernmost main island of Japan. My maternal grandparents hailed from country towns outside of Fukuoka.

[KyleRoteJr.]

I wonder why Melbourne and Sydney aren't on the list of 5M-plus. Wiki gives their populations as 5,078,193 and 5,312,163, respectively.

If you count them, I've been to both.

[Balderdasha]

Cork
Tokyo
Osaka
New York City
Guangzhou
Paris
Jakarta
Bangkok
Seoul
Nagoya
London
Kuala Lumpur
Hong Kong
Houston
Singapore

Added you for Nagoya.

[Balderdasha]

I'll claim Yangon, though I can hardly believe it has over 5 million. When I went there it was Rangoon, and felt more like 5 thousand.

I could probably tick off some of those remaining Chinese cities if we're talking about changing trains, maybe even spending a night. But I have no memory of them whatsoever. In the 1980s the overwhelming colour of China was grey.

Added you for Yangon.

[Balderdasha]

I wonder why Melbourne and Sydney aren't on the list of 5M-plus. Wiki gives their populations as 5,078,193 and 5,312,163, respectively.

If you count them, I've been to both.

Yeah, it's not a perfect list.

[Balderdasha]

15 cities left that no-one has claimed yet.

[ad hoc]

Tactical Genius must be able to knock Lagos off
I'd guess cantagalo will have been to Belo Horizonte
Can't believe no-one here has been to Riyadh. Former member Lodzubelieveit worked in Saudi for a bit, but he's no longer around. Other former (banned) member Linus will have been to Baghdad, I'll wager, but not sure about anyone else. I just checked the recent Guadalajara thread and all the respondents were of the "I haven't been but i know someone who has" variety. But steveeeeeeeee will soon be able to cross it off the list.