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| Largest city in British Columbia province and host to the 2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver | 94%
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| The composers Mozart, Schoenberg, and Schubert all called this largest city on the Danube, home | Vienna | 94%
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| Third largest city in Venezuela or Spain | Valencia | 88%
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| The largest and bloodiest battle of World War II took place in this city, then known as Stalingrad | Volgograd | 88%
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| Schaan is the largest municipality in this small European country, not this capital city | Vaduz | 81%
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| Europe's southernmost capital city and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site | Valletta | 81%
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| St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel are located in this city | Vatican City | 81%
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| Largest Baltic city, and home to a UNESCO inscribed Old Town | Vilnius | 75%
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| Capital of Primorsky krai and eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway | Vladivostok | 75%
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| The National Congress of Chile is set in this important Chilean port city | Valparaíso | 69%
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| Third largest city in Bulgaria, and houses the world's oldest processed gold | Varna | 69%
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| Goan (state) city named after a famous Portuguese explorer | Vasco da Gama | 69%
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| Forms a metropolitan area with Padua and Treviso, and home to the Grand Canal | Venice | 69%
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| Capital of British Columbia province located on Vancouver island | Victoria | 69%
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| Largest city in Veneto region and setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet | Verona | 63%
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| Largest city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, and home to the longest pleasure beach in the world | Virginia Beach | 63%
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| Fourth largest city in Washington state, and part of the Portland metropolitan area | Vancouver | 56%
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| This African world capital is home to a famous botanical gardens, Eden Island, and Arulmigu Navasakti Vinayagar Hindu Temple | Victoria | 56%
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| Patuxai and Pha That Luang are famous sites in this world capital on the Mekong | Vientiane | 56%
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| Major port city in Mexico and hub for Son Jarocho music | Veracruz | 50%
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| Fourth largest city in Belarus and host of the Slavic Bazaar music festival | Vitebsk | 50%
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| Important Alaskan (state) port city notable for the 1964 Alaska Earthquake and Exxon ___ Oil Tanker Spill (1989) | Valdez | 44%
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| Largest city (and capital) of and on a same-named Turkish province and lake respectively | Van | 44%
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| City in Mississippi state and was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi river | Vicksburg | 44%
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| Capital of a same-named Russian oblast near Moscow, home to the White Monuments of ___ and Suzdal (UNESCO World Heritage Site) | Vladimir | 44%
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| Third largest city in Albania and capital of a same-named county | Vlorë | 44%
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| This city in Gujarat state is famous for its abundance of banyan trees | Vadodara | 38%
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| This town is home to the largest ski mountain in Colorado state, and located in the White River National Forest | Vail | 38%
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| Major suburb of Helsinki that is currently Finland's most unsafe city | Vantaa | 38%
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| City in Meuse department and site of the longest battle in modern history (during World War I) | Verdun | 38%
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| City in Veneto region and home to the Palladian villas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site | Vicenza | 38%
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| Capital of Labuan federal territory and named after a British monarch | Victoria | 38%
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| Suburb of Philadelphia home to a same-named university that won the 2016 and 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Championships | Villanova | 38%
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| Bilingual (Finnish/Swedish) capital of Ostrobothnia region, formerly known as Nikolaistad | Vaasa | 31%
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| This city on the Ganges river in Uttar Pradesh is important for Hindus, and is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities | Varanasi | 31%
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| Capital of Västmanland county and located on the shores of Lake Mälaren | Västerås | 31%
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| Commune in Yvelines department home to a world-famous Palace | Versailles | 31%
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| Largest city in Andhra Pradesh state, formerly known as Waltair | Visakhapatnam | 31%
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| Capital of a same-named northwestern Russian oblast, and the former center of Ivan the Terrible's personal demesne | Vologda | 31%
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| Capital of Los Ríos region and hit by the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake | Valdivia | 25%
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| Popularly known as Pucela, this city is the de facto capital of Castile and León autonomous community | Valladolid | 25%
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| Notable city in the Toronto metropolitan area and home to Canada's Wonderland amusement park | Vaughan | 25%
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| Second largest city in Andhra Pradesh state, located on the Krishna river | Vijayawada | 25%
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| Second largest city in Carinthia state, and located in the Gailtal Alps | Villach | 25%
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| Fourth largest city in Chile and is a twin city with Valparaíso | Viña del Mar | 25%
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| Fifth largest city in the San Joaquin Valley and closest major city to Mount Whitney | Visalia | 25%
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| Capital of Espírito Santo state with Brazil's largest port complex (Port of ___ and Tubarão) | Vitória | 25%
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| Capital of North Ossetia–Alania republic and on the Terek river, home to the famous Mukhtarov Mosque | Vladikavkaz | 25%
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| Coal-mining city in Komi republic, holding the record for the coldest temperature recorded by a European city (-61 F) | Vorkuta | 25%
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| Capital of a same-named oblast in southwestern Russia, and hub of the Central Black Earth Region | Voronezh | 25%
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| This commune in Drôme department is known as France's "Gateway to the South" | Valence | 19%
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| Second largest city in the North Bay region of the Bay Area, and named the most diverse small town in America (2022) | Vallejo | 19%
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| City on the Jutland peninsula, and Denmark's ninth largest city | Vejle | 19%
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| Capital of Novgorod oblast and one of Russia's oldest cities | Veliky Novgorod | 19%
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| City in Limburg province, which Gertruid Bolwater (allegedly) defended during a siege by Emperor Maximilian I | Venlo | 19%
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| Twelfth largest city in South Dakota state, and home to the University of South Dakota | Vermillion | 19%
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| California city that forms an urban area with Hesperia and Apple Valley | Victorville | 19%
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| City in Pontevedra province where the 1702 Battle of Rande occurred | Vigo | 19%
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| Southernmost village in Iceland and home to a famous "black sand beach" | Vík í Mýrdal | 19%
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| Third largest municipality in Portugal, and major suburb of Porto | Vila Nova de Gaia | 19%
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| Capital of Tabasco state and home to the La Venta archaeological site | Villahermosa | 19%
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| Capital of a same-named Portuguese district, home to the Grão Vasco Museum | Viseu | 19%
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| Vietnam abolished two "V" cities with a population of over 150,000 in 2025. Name either one | Vũng Tàu | Vinh | 19%
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| Second largest city in Mauritius, home to one of Mauritius' oldest Hindu temples. | Vacoas-Phoenix | 13%
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| Capital of Cesar department lying in a valley between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá mountain ranges | Valledupar | 13%
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| Third largest city in Armenia and capital of Lori province | Vanadzor | 13%
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| Capital of Kronoberg county and home to Linnaeus University | Växjö | 13%
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| Historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, and namesake of an ice piedmont in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) | Veliko Tarnovo | 13%
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| City in Gauteng province and important for South Africa's manufacturing industry | Vereeniging | 13%
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| Coastal municipality part of the Greater Vitória Metropolitan Area, and home of the Penha Convent | Vila Velha | 13%
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| If you know the largest city in the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland, you'll easily get this Buenos Aires neighborhood - "Villa ___" | Villa Lugano | 13%
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| Second largest city in Guatemala department, located on Lake Amatitlán's north shore | Villa Nueva | 13%
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| Capital of a same-named Ukrainian oblast, and largest city in the Podolia historical region | Vinnytsia | 13%
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| Third largest city in Bahia state and birthplace of acclaimed filmmaker Glauber Rocha | Vitória da Conquista | 13%
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| City in Rio de Janeiro state named for its layout around the Paraíba do Sul river | Volta Redonda | 13%
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| City in Volgograd oblast important industrially, and is twinned with two Cleveland suburbs | Volzhskiy | 13%
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| City in Gauteng province named after Hendrik van der Bijl | Vanderbijlpark | 6%
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| Suburb of Los Angeles and the largest neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley | Van Nuys | 6%
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| Seat of a same-named county in northeastern Romania and historically important for the Moldavia region | Vaslui | 6%
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| Seventh largest city in North Macedonia, and located on the Vardar (Axios) river | Veles | 6%
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| This town in Valais canton is home to the largest ski area located entirely within Switzerland | Verbier | 6%
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| Capital of the same-named most northwestern Bulgarian province, near the famous town Belogradchik | Vidin | 6%
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| Capital of Meta department, known as the "Gateway to the Llanos" | Villavicencio | 6%
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| City in Rostov oblast on the shores of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir | Volgodonsk | 6%
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| City near Montana home to Ledenika cave and Vrachanska Skaklya (highest waterfall in the Balkans) | Vratsa | 6%
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| City in Trujillo state and gateway to Venezuela's Andean region | Valera | 0%
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| Frédéric Chopin (mid) and George Sand famously lived in this small town on Mallorca island | Valldemossa | 0%
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| This city in Minas Gerais is equidistant from Brazil's three largest cities (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte), and has an interesting history with UFOs | Varginha | 0%
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| City in northern Tamil Nadu and site of the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company (1806) | Vellore | 0%
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| Notable borough of Mexico City and home to Mexico City International Airport | Venustiano Carranza | 0%
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| This coastal city in Gujarat state is also known as Somnath, and is an important Hindu pilgrimage site | Veraval | 0%
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| Largest municipality in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region and located near Itapuã State Park | Viamão | 0%
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| City in Negros Occidental province, home to the Angry Christ Church (Saint Joseph the Worker Parish Church) | Victorias | 0%
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| This city in Karnataka state was important historically to the Adil Shahi Dynasty (Sultanate of Bijapur) | Vijayapura | 0%
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| Rapidly growing coastal town in Inhambane province, and gateway to the Bazaruto archipelago | Vilankulo | Vilanculos | 0%
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| City in Central Department that was the only Paraguayan colony inhabited by Swedish people | Villa Elisa | 0%
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| Capital of Presidente Hayes department, and sister city with Fremont (OH) | Villa Hayes | 0%
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| Municipality in Şanlıurfa province important for Turkey's cotton industry | Viranşehir | 0%
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| Largest town in Taita–Taveta county, with historical importance for the Ugandan Railway | Voi | 0%
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| Famous suburb of Athens named after Lord Byron | Vyronas | 0%
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