| Hint | City | % Correct |
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| Capital city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. | Kingstown | 94%
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| Former imperial capital of Japan for over 1,000 years and part of the huge Keihanshin metropolitan area | Kyoto | 94%
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| Capital city of a Caribbean country with its airport and former capital on a nearby sand spit | Kingston | 92%
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| Capital city at the foot of the Himalayas | Kathmandu | 86%
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| Capital city on the Dnipro River in Eastern Europe | Kyiv | 86%
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| Lies partly in Kansas (naturally), but for the most part actually in Missouri | Kansas City | 83%
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| Capital city home to the Petronas Towers, the tallest twin skyscrapers in the world | Kuala Lumpur | 83%
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| Largest city of Pakistan | Karachi | 81%
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| One of the world's fastest-growing megacities and the third city largest in Africa | Kinshasa | 81%
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| Capital city on the Persian Gulf | Kuwait City | 81%
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| Capital city of Sudan | Khartoum | 78%
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| Capital city of Rwanda | Kigali | 78%
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| Known as Yorkshire's maritime city, it is unique for having its own white telephone boxes instead of red ones | Kingston upon Hull | 78%
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| Regarded by many as cultural capital of India and the most significant city in the historic region of Bengal | Kolkata | 78%
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| Largest city of Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland | Kaliningrad | 75%
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| Thanks to intermittent Russian fire, a quarter of this Ukrainian city has been damaged or destroyed | Kharkiv | 75%
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| City in Hyōgo Prefecture or first name of famous basketballer that died tragically | Kobe | 75%
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| Former Polish royal capital on the Vistula River, home to Wawel Castle and a UNESCO Old Town | Krakow | 75%
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| Capital city surrounded by the Hindu Kush mountains that has experienced serious conflicts in modern times | Kabul | 72%
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| Second biggest city of Lithuania that has also served as a placeholder-capital during the Polish siege of Vilnius | Kaunas | 67%
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| This city was one of the seven medieval Hausa kingdoms and is now the second biggest in its country at over 4m inhabitants | Kano | 64%
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| Largest German city on the Baltic Sea and capital of Schleswig-Holstein | Kiel | 64%
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| Second largest city of Slovakia, located on the Hornád River close to Hungary | Kosice | 64%
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| Core city of the urban area also known as the Upper Silesian metropolitan area | Katowice | 58%
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| Capital city on the northern shore of Lake Victoria, built on seven hills | Kampala | 56%
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| Lies on a chain of islands and is the southernmost city in the contiguous United States | Key West | 56%
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| Only major seaport of Lithuania, located near the Curonian Lagoon | Klaipeda | 53%
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| A former capital of the historical region of Baden, this city lies close to France's northeastern tip | Karlsruhe | 50%
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| The largest city in southern Russia, as well as the Southern Federal District | Krasnodar | 47%
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| Central German city were the Brothers Grimm lived and wrote most of their fairy tales | Kassel | 44%
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| City located along the Tennessee River and a former capital of its state in the 18th/19th century | Knoxville | 44%
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| One of Germany’s oldest cities, founded by Romans at the Rhine-Moselle confluence | Koblenz | 44%
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| Usually home to about 100,000 people, an additional 45,000 NATO military personnel are based in this German city | Kaiserslautern | 42%
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| This city, the largest in Taiwan by area, is the countries third largest population wise and the largest southern city | Kaohsiung | 39%
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| Capital and largest city of the state and historical region of Carinthia, close to the Slovene border | Klagenfurt | 39%
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| This Ukrainian city is claimed to have the longest stretching city-boundaries in Europe | Kryvyi Rih | 39%
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| The second most populous city of the Central Anatolia Region after Ankara. | Konya | 36%
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| Largest city of the province of Yunnan and nicknamed "City of Eternal Spring" | Kunming | 36%
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| Site of the largest tank battle in history (1943), Germany's last major offensive against the Soviet Union | Kursk | 36%
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| The largest city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, close to Lucknow | Kanpur | 33%
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| Lively city in western Canada that is known as the "Tournament Capital of Canada" as well as its film and wine festivals | Kamloops | 31%
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| This tourist destination in British Columbia lies on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley and derives its name from Okanagan | Kelowna | 31%
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| Main urban centre and only port city of this "Alpine-Adriatic" country | Koper | 31%
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| Junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, on the Yenisei River | Krasnoyarsk | 31%
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| The only city in Japan with a population exceeding 1m that is not a prefectural capital | Kawasaki | 28%
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| Industrial Japanese city at the Kanmon Strait linking Kyushu and Honshu | Kitakyushu | 28%
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| Prussian silk capital with Mennonite roots and Bauhaus villas in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region | Krefeld | 28%
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| Historically known as Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since ancient times | Kayseri | 25%
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| Capital and largest town of the Scottish Orkney Islands | Kirkwall | 25%
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| Biggest city in the north of the DRC and the biggest in the Congo River Basin | Kisangani | 25%
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| Capital of the current Ashanti Region and formerly the Ashanti Empire | Kumasi | 25%
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| Described as both the Jerusalem of Kurdistan and historical capital of Iraqi Turkmens | Kirkuk | 22%
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| One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is the 3rd-largest city in Georgia | Kutaisi | 22%
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| Japan's southernmost major city on the four main islands | Kagoshima | 19%
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| Capital city of Värmland County at the northern shore of lake Vänern | Karlstad | 19%
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| In eastern Crimea, it lies on a peninsula that was named after the city | Kerch | 19%
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| City on the Dnipro River and capital of its oblast | Kherson | 19%
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| A coastal port city name shared by Japan and India, both historically important trade gateways | Kochi | 19%
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| The second largest city of North-Macedonia and site of a major battle of the First Balkan War | Kumanovo | 19%
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| Was the capital city of the Senkadagala Kingdom, which was sometimes also named after this Sri Lankan city itself | Kandy | 17%
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| Largest city in the Russian Far East, some 30km away from the Chinese border on the formerly disputed Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island | Khabarovsk | 17%
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| This African provincial capital has considerable historical significance because of its diamond mining past and siege during the Second Boer War. | Kimberley | 17%
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| Formerly called Vyatka after river it lies on, this Russian city is known for colorful Dymkovo clay toys | Kirov | 17%
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| This hub in the Russian Far East is located on the Baikal-Amur Mainline | Komsomol'sk-na-Amure | 17%
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| Gateway to a namesake mountain, the highest of Malaysia and Borneo | Kota Kinabalu | 17%
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| Coastal town in a fjord-like bay, famous for its UNESCO medieval old town and Venitian influence | Kotor | 17%
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| Malaysia's largest city on Borneo, founded by the representative of the Sultan of Brunei | Kuching | 17%
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| In Henan, it's one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China and has been capital eight times in history as well | Kaifeng | 14%
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| The founding father of aeronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, was born in this Russian city | Kaluga | 14%
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| Located in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, it is part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland. | Kielce | 14%
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| Sits on a plateau surrounded by the Morava Mountains close to the Greek border | Korce | 14%
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| Located in Rajasthan, it is India's first and world's second traffic signal free city after Bhutan's capital Thimphu | Kota | 14%
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| Westernmost town of Estonia and administrative center of Saaremaa Island | Kuressaare | 14%
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| This centrally situated city in the DRC lies near the Lulua River and was consequently formerly named Luluaburg | Kananga | 11%
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| Located in namesake oblast, this Russian city lies in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin | Kemerovo | 11%
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| This large city in Bangladesh is served by both a riverport and seaport named Port of Mongla | Khulna | 11%
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| Main port and capital of one of the islands in the Caribbean Netherlands | Kralendijk | 11%
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| City on Kyushu, close in proximity to Japan's second largest active volcano after Fuji, Mount Aso | Kumamoto | 11%
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| Outback town known for underground homes to escape the extreme heat | Kalgoorlie | 8%
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| This urban area is the fourth-largest in Iran and lies close to Tehran | Karaj | 8%
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| Widely recognised as the largest Kurdish-populated city in Iran and one of the most significant urban centres of Kurdish culture in the region | Kermanshah | 8%
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| It is located at the center of its namesake autonomous okrug, close to the confluence of the Irtysh and Ob rivers | Khanty-Mansiysk | 8%
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| Tajikistan's second largest city, located at the western periphery of the Fergana valley | Khujand | 8%
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| Thracian city whose name supposedly derives from ‘forty churches’ (Kırk Kilise) | Kirklareli | 8%
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| Kenyan port city on Lake Victoria, cultural center of the Luo people | Kisumu | 8%
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| Sometimes called ___-Nkana, named after a Lamba chief in Zambia’s Copperbelt | Kitwe | 8%
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| This provincial capital lies on the same island as Timor Leste | Kupang | 8%
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| Part of a larger metropolitan area with Taipei, it's the terminal for ferries to the Matsu Islands in Lienchiang County | Keelung | 6%
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| A planned industrial city for arms manufacture in central Turkey | Kırıkkale | 6%
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| Famous landing place of Vasco da Gama in 1498, opening the sea route to India | Kozhikode | 6%
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| City in Skåne län, home to Sweden's lowest point at 2,41 meters under sea level | Kristianstad | 6%
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| This Australian city is 3,040 kilometres away from its state capital via the Great Northern Highway | Kununurra | 6%
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| A special city in the southern part of North Korea, visible from the DMZ | Kaesŏng | 3%
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| Nigerian city that lies very close to the border of Niger, with Maradi on the other side | Katsina | 3%
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| In Northeast Thailand, this city is part of the "big four of Isan" | Khon Kaen | 3%
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| The capital of the North East Indian state of Nagaland | Kohima | 3%
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| The capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the DRC, west of Likasi | Kolwezi | 3%
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| This major atoll settlement serves as the capital of Lakshadweep, India | Kavaratti | 0%
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| Town and capital of the Musandam Governorate exclave of Oman | Khasab | 0%
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| One of the most significant cities in South Maharashtra and has been a hub of historical, religious, and cultural activities for centuries. | Kolhapur | 0%
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