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Ultimate "Burg" Geography Quiz

Can you name these geographical answers whose English names ends in berg, burg, bourg, burgh, borg, bjerg or bergen?
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First submittedSeptember 21, 2020
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Capital of Scotland
Edinburgh
America's "Steel City"
Pittsburgh
City of the Winter Palace
St. Petersburg
Where Mozart was born
Salzburg
Biggest city on the Elbe river
Hamburg
Prussian city annexed by Russia and renamed Kaliningrad
Königsberg
Southernmost megacity in Africa
Johannesburg
Biggest cities in Bavaria after Munich
Nuremberg
Augsburg
Regensburg
Würzburg
Parliamentary capital of the EU
Strasbourg
Judicial capital of the EU
Luxembourg
German "forest" that was site of a Germanic-Roman battle
Teutoburg
Notable Berlin gate
Brandenburg
Capital of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Sweden's second largest city
Gothenburg
Dutch city between Eindhoven and Breda
Tilburg
Germany's oldest university
Heidelberg
Brooklyn neighborhood
Williamsburg
City unofficially called the "Asian capital" of Russia
Orenburg
Denmark's fourth-biggest city
Aalborg
Town that was site of the bloodiest U.S. Civil War battle
Gettysburg
Most populous city in the Urals
Yekaterinburg
Swedish city home to the closest point to Denmark
Helsingborg
Mountain range in South Africa
Drakensberg
Capital of Sint Maarten
Philipsburg
Swiss castle that was the original seat of Austria's royal house
Habsburg
Name of a Dutch or Belgian province
Limburg
Westernmost state of Austria
Vorarlberg
Major city in Germany's Ruhr
Duisburg
Home to Virginia Tech University
Blacksburg
Main island of Norway's Svalbard
Spitsbergen
City in Lower Saxony with a historical influential royal family
Oldenburg
German state: Baden–_______
Württemberg
German state: __________ –Vorpommern
Mecklenburg
Papua New Guinea mountain range which shares its name with a famous German airship
Hindenburg
Mississippi city captured by Grant
Vicksburg
City that makes Jack Daniel's whiskey
Lynchburg
Largest city on Denmark's west coast
Esbjerg
City in northern Germany home to Volkswagen headquarters
Wolfsburg
Capital of KwaZulu-Natal, SA
Pietermaritzburg
Capital of Saxony-Anhalt
Magdeburg
Museum in Mainz that houses the first printed bible
Gutenberg Museum
Swedish counties ending in "borg" or "berg"
Gävleborg
Kronoberg
Former name of Bratislava
Pressburg
The British burned Washington DC following their victory in this city
Bladensburg
Capital of the Dutch Zeeland
Middelburg
Swiss canton west of Bern
Fribourg
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45 Comments
EvanAviator
+15
Level 61
Sep 22, 2020
hard
JohnnyYeet
+3
Level 66
Dec 7, 2020
Bergen, Norway?
loganite
+1
Level 93
Feb 23, 2024
* English name ENDS in berg, burg, et al.
partdavid
+8
Level 74
Mar 13, 2024
In what way does "Spitsbergen" end with "berg" et al. and "Bergen" doesn't?
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Mar 14, 2024
Too hard to have type-ins for; how would one accept Bergen without the Bergen, since most questions don't require the suffixes?
Raminoodles
+4
Level 52
Dec 16, 2020
Where's Heisenberg lol
mf3
+14
Level 90
Feb 26, 2024
It's uncertain
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 93
Mar 17, 2024
You're goddamn right.
JohnnyYeet
+2
Level 66
Jun 9, 2021
Brandenburg is also a German State
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
Jul 19, 2021
Great quiz!
FSLiudger
+4
Level 60
Jul 19, 2021
Canton in western switzerland: Neuenburg (Neuchâtel)
Damangio
+4
Level 64
Jul 19, 2021
Aha. I had wondered why a major NYC bridge was named after a city in Virginia. It turns out it isn't.
sumguy
+3
Level 87
Jul 21, 2021
Should probably split this into two or three quizzes. I lost patience half way through and just skimmed to the end.
Arp2600
+6
Level 89
Feb 23, 2024
Well it's an ultimate quiz ;).
Yoshimano
+1
Level 66
Jul 25, 2021
Another interesting one no one interestingly had thought of before

Thanks!

voilashechkin
+10
Level 49
Mar 26, 2022
Lol, who calls Orenburg an asian capital of Russia? It's not even in Asia)
Djilas
+3
Level 86
Feb 26, 2024
Well it's on the river Ural, a few houses are on the Asian side 🙃 But yeah, I can't find any trace of evidence for such a grand nickname. If anything that would be Novosibirsk.
redsplat
+1
Level 72
Jan 14, 2023
Another excellent and challenging quiz! But needs more time for head-scratching.
Badeghut
+4
Level 74
Feb 9, 2023
Can you accept Koenigsberg please?
Islandcarver
+6
Level 83
Feb 9, 2023
Nice Quiz!! Could include Freiburg (im Breisgau) - a relatively well-known German city with a highly regarded university and a very good footie club.
NewMexican
+1
Level 59
Jun 28, 2023
Consider accepting "Spitzbergen" for "Spitsbergen." Thanks!
Hedgehog76
+24
Level 74
Sep 11, 2023
As "-burg" refers to a castle and "-berg" refers to a mountain, I'd either group the question/answers or make it two different quizzes.
RijnMan
+7
Level 70
Feb 22, 2024
Exactly what I was thinking. Probably a source of numerous spelling mistakes from English-speakers, but that’s not a good reason.
Arp2600
+3
Level 89
Feb 23, 2024
Yeah, I don't like that berg and burg are so often mixed up either...

Anyway, once again, the idea here is clearly just to have a big quiz with phonetically similar endings.

D31415
+3
Level 83
Mar 13, 2024
Except Edinburgh is phonetically different. That being the very first answer means I quickly realised it was going to be a rather loose link!
Arp2600
+2
Level 89
Mar 13, 2024
Yeah, but come on, Edinburgh cannot be removed from this quiz ;).
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jun 5, 2024
nah, just add -borough and -bury
jojo8
+7
Level 65
Oct 12, 2023
Perhaps accept Freiburg for Fribourg (Switzerland is tetralingual after all)? Other than that, fantastic quiz.
Djilas
+5
Level 86
Feb 26, 2024
It should be accepted, Freiburg/Fribourg is an officially bilingual canton.
dasubergeek
+1
Level 82
Mar 18, 2024
I came here to say the same thing. The name of the canton in German is Freiburg, and a third of the people in the canton speak German as their first language.
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 95
Dec 24, 2023
Epic
Kingsfisher
+1
Level 69
Feb 22, 2024
Wonderful! One of the best quizzes
Aaron197
+1
Level 76
Feb 22, 2024
Thanks! :)
EcceHomo
+5
Level 85
Feb 28, 2024
Yes, i think this is 2 quizzes - one for the -berg endings and one for the -burg endings.

It is a great quiz though, very tough.

blizzrd33
+6
Level 81
Feb 28, 2024
A Berg is a mountain and a Burg is a hill-fort, a castle or a fortified city.

Some Russian place names adopted foreign (incl. German) names without directly keeping this usage.

Freestatebear
+1
Level 88
Mar 2, 2024
Three cheers for Bladensburg!
Tramp
+1
Level 79
Mar 13, 2024
Well, you were right about mostly failing this one. Tough quiz!
TjizzleDizzle
+1
Level 69
Mar 13, 2024
Only had 17, sees the average is 18. Wow. My ego survived. Most obscure one I got right was Middelburg. Wasn't surprised there were a few Dutch-related ones in there.
partdavid
+1
Level 74
Mar 13, 2024
I've never been more annoyed at only having to type part of the answer, especially when something is accepted before you even type the part up to burg/bourg/burgh/borg/berg. "st peter" ugh, "pitt" ugh, ...

I'm not saying it should change or be different, just kvetching.

CurtisNewton
+5
Level 60
Mar 13, 2024
Makes my hairs stand up as a German speaker. "Berg" and "Burg" being two different things and also pronounced differently.
NineVoltBattery
+1
Level 65
Mar 13, 2024
I liked this quiz, as someone who's from one of them ;)

If you wanted to make it a lot harder, you could've added one below Blacksburg and then have "Seat of the county where the above is located"

Billy1970
+1
Level 59
Mar 13, 2024
A very good quiz!
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
Jan 27, 2025
I think it's lots of fun that words like iceberg, hamburger, and the borough of Manhattan are all cognate from the old word "burg."
ColonelBenedict
+1
Level 76
Mar 7, 2025
Virginia Tech University is not a generally accepted name for the school. The full name is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I would change the clue to something like, "University city, home to Virginia Tech."
Chinook05
+1
Level 73
Jun 16, 2025
As a Virginian, those Lynchburg and Williamsburg questions hurt me

great work on the quiz nonetheless

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