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16 ugliest cities in the world by picture - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 233 times
- The average score is 6 of 16
Answer Stats
| Picture | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Asia - "[biggest hotel] wildly out-of-scale" | Pyongyang | 65%
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 | North America - "poster child for urban blight and poor financial planning" | Detroit | 62%
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 | Oceania - "persistently unimpressive blandness" | Brisbane | 59%
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 | Africa - "Piles of uncollected garbage have made the city an unsightly, stinking mess." | Cairo | 53%
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 | Africa - "The city’s glory days are far behind it, and what’s left is an undistinguished collection of worn down buildings, a few camels, and yes, sand." | Timbuktu | 48%
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 | Europe - "combining the glorious drabness of Stalinist architecture with deadly radiation levels" | Pripyat | 47%
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 | North America - "Outside of Downtown [cityname], you will find innumerable avenues and boulevards that are just so ugly and so bland you could not tell if this is [cityname] or some random city somewhere." | Houston | 45%
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 | Europe - "worst traffic congestion in Europe, if not the world" | Brussels | 38%
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 | North America - "The town always attracted a certain kind of tourists with its cheap goods and questionable side shows. Lately it has become embroiled in northern [nation]’s drug wars and the nation’s economic problems." | Tijuana | 38%
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 | Asia - "A 2006 article in the [cityname] Telegraph newspaper described the cityscape as consisting of roadside urinals, piles of garbage, exhaust fumes and, perhaps worst of all, shopping malls." | Kolkata | 33%
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 | North America - "About 60 percent of [city] residents live in poverty. Most cram into the tenements, called palomares. The Development Planning Unit at University College, London, describes these as dilapidated old buildings with temporary enlargements. " | Guatemala City | 29%
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 | Europe - "It is literally a whole bunch of space, lined by humongous, insanely boring and bland government buildings. Oh yeah, there is also some sort of a triumphal arch there too." | Chisinau | 26%
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 | Asia - "At least 600 factories pour their wastes into the sickly-green waters of the Citarum River, which flows through [city]" | Jakarta | 26%
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 | North America - [The (cityname) Building] sets it on this list | Portland | 12%
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 | North America - "The unfiltered rudeness of many residents can seem fascinating" | Washington D.C. | 12%
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 | Asia - "The city is almost exclusively comprised of Soviet-era apartment complexes, all neat blocks of concrete, arranged in the most boring ways possible. There is the other part of the [cityname] experience, of course, the innumerable smelting plants and other metallurgic operations that provide breath-taking vistas everywhere you look." | Norilsk | 7%
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