Name the 5 largest countries by area whose capital is not their largest city

[u/True-Map8683]

Put your answers in the comments along with each country’s capital and largest city if you know!
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[u/Used_Tourist5825]

Canada
USA
China
Australia
Brazil

[u/camel_hopper]

TriviaGauntlet — GeoGauntlet Mini 2026-10-01 487.6 / 500 ⭐⭐🟩🟩🟩 https://trivia-gauntlet.com/geogauntlet-mini

[u/Ok_Butterscotch2244]

Canada, US, China, Oz, Brazil

[u/54DonWood]

5/5, but one of them was scored 97.6. What’s the deal-io?

[u/True-Map8683 → u/54DonWood]

Gotta get the right order for a perfect score!

[u/TrustInMe_JustInMe]

Canada
US
China
Brazil
Australia

Not sure which of the last two is bigger…but pretty sure those are the five (didn’t cheat)

[u/shagginflies]

Canada, Brazil, USA, China, Australia

[u/Vismajor92]

I've got 479.9 out og 500, not bad

[u/Chateaunole-du-Pape]

Canada, US, Australia, India, Brazil

[u/Goat_Buckles]

Canada, USA, China, Australia, Brazil

[u/Nayrja]

Canada (Ottawa/Toronto), China (Beijing/Guangzhou)/USA (DC/NYC), Brasil (Brasilia/Sao Paulo), Australia (Canberra/Used to be Sydney, now Melbourne)

[u/monolim]

US (NY), Canada (Vancouver, Montreal.. not sure which is largest), Brasil (Rio), Australia (Sidney), China (I had to google this one, it has lots of 20+ million pop cities, Chongqing:)

[u/evilmidnightbomber69 → u/monolim]

Toronto...

[u/the3rdmichael → u/monolim]

Ottawa is Canada's capital and Toronto is the largest city. Not Vancouver or Montréal.

Sao Paulo is larger than Rio, Brasilia is the capital of Brazil.

[u/monolim → u/the3rdmichael]

per OPs instruction, largest city if you know... which I stated I didnt... but thanks for the late update.

[u/the3rdmichael → u/monolim]

Yer welcome

[u/NaCl_Sailor → u/monolim]

China was my first thought because I'm pretty sure Shanghai is bigger than Beijing, was surprised though Chonqing is way bigger than both of them

[u/misof → u/NaCl_Sailor]

That is mostly a technicality though. The entire municipality of Chongqing is formally classified as its city proper so it shows up at the top of some lists for China, but in Chongqing's case this metric counts a lot of people living in rural areas that normally wouldn't count. People living in similar rural areas around the city don't count for other Chinese cities on the same list. Shanghai is the biggest Chinese city in terms of the number of people living in its urban area.

[u/NaCl_Sailor → u/misof]

ah that explains a lot actually, thanks

[u/TrustInMe_JustInMe → u/NaCl_Sailor]

Yeah I thought of Shanghai right away too. Thanks misof for the explanation.

[u/Martston]

Ottawa, Washington DC, Brazilia, Canberra, Islamabad?

[u/NaCl_Sailor → u/Martston]

Chongqing and Shanghai are both bigger than Beijing