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World's Fair Host Cities

Fifty-one different cities have hosted (or will host) a World Exposition or a Specialised Exposition. How many can you name?
Source: Wikipedia
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First submittedAugust 28, 2020
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Year
City
1851
London
1855
Paris
1862
London
1867
Paris
1873
Vienna
1876
Philadelphia
1878
Paris
1880
Melbourne
1888
Barcelona
1889
Paris
1893
Chicago
1897
Brussels
1900
Paris
1904
St. Louis
1905
Liège
1906
Milan
1910
Brussels
1913
Ghent
1915
San Francisco
1929
Barcelona
1933
Chicago
1935
Brussels
1936
Stockholm
1937
Paris
1938
Helsinki
1939
San Francisco
1939
New York City
1939
Liège
1947
Paris
1949
Stockholm
1949
Lyon
1949
Port-au-Prince
1951
Lille
1953
Rome
1953
Jerusalem
1954
Naples
1955
Turin
1955
Helsingborg
1956
Beit Dagan
1957
West Berlin
1958
Brussels
1961
Turin
1962
Seattle
1965
Munich
1967
Montreal
1968
San Antonio
1970
Osaka
1971
Budapest
1974
Spokane
1975
Okinawa
1981
Plovdiv
1982
Knoxville
1984
New Orleans
1986
Vancouver
1988
Brisbane
1991
Plovdiv
1992
Seville
1992
Genoa
1993
Daejeon
1998
Lisbon
2000
Hanover
2005
Aichi
2008
Zaragoza
2010
Shanghai
2012
Yeosu
2015
Milan
2017
Astana
2021
Dubai
2025
Osaka
2027
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27 Comments
barmanitan
+3
Level 84
Oct 20, 2024
Nice quiz! (Spokane is marked as European btw)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 20, 2024
Fixed
UG332
+10
Level 72
Oct 20, 2024
Wow my home city tagged as Europe that's crazy Dan
Jesus59
+4
Level 76
Oct 20, 2024
World fair in Spain 1992 was held in Seville, not in Barcelona
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Oct 20, 2024
Shoot. Had to reset the stats for this. Now fixed.
barmanitan
+2
Level 84
Oct 20, 2024
0/5 is a better reason to improve than 2/5 at least haha, here we go again
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
Oct 20, 2024
Also, looking at the wiki list is there a reason you didn't include Riyadh 2030?
UG332
+5
Level 72
Oct 20, 2024
It's pretty far out, locations have been known to change
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
Oct 20, 2024
Fair, just seems slightly arbitrary to include 2 future hosts and not the 3rd but obviously your decision
Neodymium
+6
Level 63
Oct 20, 2024
Map quiz version next?

also, glad to see this type of international gather is a bit more varied by continent than another i could mention

neither has africa yet tho

buck1017
+10
Level 78
Oct 21, 2024
I honestly didn't know the Worlds Fair was still a thing. I thought it ended some time in the 50s.
brandybuck96
+9
Level 82
Oct 21, 2024
For my part I thought it happened like three times and never again lol
wheikes
+9
Level 77
Oct 21, 2024
I'm shocked Knoxville isn't higher up on the list. They have the Wig Sphere! Oops, I mean Sun Sphere.
AbiA
+3
Level 88
Oct 21, 2024
TIL that the Sunsphere has also been called "The Lord's Golf Tee" which made me smile.
FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Oct 22, 2024
I thought it was in Nashville...
French2010
+6
Level 96
Oct 22, 2024
One of my best memories of all time was going to the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. However, it didn't get official recognition since, among other reasons, it ran for two years instead of the one six-month period stipulated by the Bureau International des Expositions, which decided to recognize the 1962 fair in Seattle. Still a fantastic experience for a 10-year- old kid.
TheAlternateNY
+7
Level 69
Nov 13, 2024
a lot of these cities are just so baffling to me -- Plovdiv, not once, but twice? TIL
mpepperdine
+7
Level 80
Nov 13, 2024
Wow would never had guessed some of these. Imagine holding a World Fair in Port-au-Prince today!
Trolololz
+3
Level 79
Nov 13, 2024
Who got Knoxville from the Simpson's episode?
shrekcena
+1
Level 60
Nov 14, 2024
I got Knoxville because I live there. Go Vols!
levic
+3
Level 71
Nov 13, 2024
Crazy and sad to see tha Port-au-Prince was able to host a event like this and is just a turmoil
SpartanLlama
+2
Level 79
Nov 13, 2024
Somehow thought to guess Zaragoza
RealBillGates
+5
Level 77
Nov 13, 2024
Now who is deciding how often to host these things, because they are terribly inconsistent
Li8m09
+1
Level 58
Nov 13, 2024
thought of so many of the ones i missed but didnt bother guessing them because i thought other larger nearby cities would come first
bloxbob
+1
Level 36
Nov 18, 2024
same

guessed Milan, Rome, Venice, and Palermo for Italy and Austin, Dallas, Houston for Texas and ended up missing the one city for both

Napoleon1821
+1
Level 57
Nov 15, 2024
The Pan-American Exposition that was held in Buffalo in 1901 was a World's Fair
tuxedo725
+1
Level 30
Sep 11, 2025
New York hosted in 1964 as well as 1939
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