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Cities in European Economic Areas on a Map

On this map you see discontinuous corridors of urbanisation characterised by similar industries. Try to name all cities with a population of at least 250k located with in them.
By city proper according to citypopulation.de
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First submittedApril 20, 2020
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Atlantic Axis
546 k
Lisbon
296 k
Vigo
271 k
Gijón
251 k
A Coruña
 
 
Gulf of Finland
5.65 mil
Saint
Petersburg
996 k
Stockholm
684 k
Helsinki
457 k
Tallinn
321 k
Espoo
251 k
Vantaa
 
 
String
1.86 mil
Hamburg
724 k
Oslo
667 k
Copenhagen
609 k
Gothenburg
366 k
Malmö
253 k
Kiel
Blue Banana
8.78 mil
London
1.51 mil
Munich
1.37 mil
Milan
1.12 mil
Birmingham
1.03 mil
Cologne
943 k
Amsterdam
857 k
Turin
756 k
Frankfurt
674 k
Rotterdam
619 k
Düsseldorf
613 k
Stuttgart
603 k
Dortmund
575 k
Essen
569 k
The Hague
564 k
Genoa
562 k
Antwerp
536 k
Leeds
530 k
Nuremberg
507 k
Liverpool
502 k
Duisburg
501 k
Sheffield
470 k
Manchester
437 k
Zurich
407 k
Leicester
378 k
Utrecht
359 k
Bochum
358 k
Wuppertal
344 k
Coventry
334 k
Bradford
323 k
Bonn
318 k
Mannheim
309 k
Karlsruhe
308 k
Münster
301 k
Augsburg
300 k
Nottingham
294 k
Strasbourg
289 k
Wiesbaden
276 k
Derby
273 k
Ghent
271 k
Kingston upon
Hull
268 k
Gelsenkirchen
267 k
Mönchengladbach
263 k
Aachen
261 k
Stoke-on-Trent
255 k
Verona
Golden Banana
1.71 mil
Barcelona
1.37 mil
Milan
886 k
Marseille
857 k
Turin
842 k
Valencia
699 k
Zaragoza
564 k
Genoa
515 k
Toulouse
478 k
Murcia
366 k
Alicante
358 k
Nice
310 k
Montpellier
292 k
L'Hospitalet de
Llobregat
Green Banana
2.03 mil
Vienna
1.86 mil
Warsaw
1.69 mil
Budapest
806 k
Kraków
652 k
Łódź
487 k
Gdańsk
478 k
Bratislava
403 k
Brno
326 k
Bydgoszcz
305 k
Graz
291 k
Ljubljana
283 k
Ostrava
279 k
Katowice
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53 Comments
Nathaniel
+13
Level 77
Feb 8, 2026
After six years of existance and so many of you nominating this quiz, showing me how much you enjoy playing it, I have decided to sit down again and revamp the map. I think it turned out quite a bit nicer than what I was able to produce back then. Thank you for your appreciation!
Nilles
+24
Level 50
Apr 20, 2020
A quiz that doesn't add The Hague with Rotterdam! Finally! Nominated
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Apr 20, 2020
thx
SWATkun
+3
Level 59
Apr 20, 2020
Well, Den Haag is counted as a part of the Rotterdam.
Nathaniel
+3
Level 77
Apr 20, 2020
city proper in this case
NINJAQKk
+2
Level 70
Apr 20, 2020
Now if only I could spell Utrecht...
baptistegorce
+3
Level 57
Apr 20, 2020
Very nice! And I think it represents a lot of work... Congratulations! Nominated!
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Apr 20, 2020
thx
SWATkun
+4
Level 59
Apr 20, 2020
Didn't even know that Europe has so many Economic Models
TomatosRaafatos
+5
Level 76
Feb 22, 2022
I wonder who came up with these regions?
dug28
+2
Level 88
Apr 20, 2020
Nice job! I knew nothing about this, so thanks for teaching me something!
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Apr 29, 2020
thx, you're welcome
InfiniteBulk
+2
Level 72
Feb 18, 2021
Interesting color array ;). I enjoyed this SVG, and nominated!
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Feb 18, 2021
Thank you very much!
WillemLAif
+1
Level 81
Mar 2, 2021
Nominated. However, I think a couple of minutes could be sliced off. For example, I had over 8 min for the last ten and nearly 7 min for the last five. Cannot be the only one with such buffer.
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Mar 3, 2021
Yes, you're right, I'll remove five minutes
Jiaozira
+2
Level 72
Apr 9, 2021
Congratulations on the spotlight! I hope that a feature is next for this quiz :)
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Apr 9, 2021
Wow, thank you very much!!! I hope so too. Maybe I'll even update it with the JetPunk Europe map.
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Feb 8, 2026
Almost five years later and I've finally gotten round to it
Islandcarver
+4
Level 83
Apr 9, 2021
Excellent quiz - the best geography quiz I have seen on this website in months. I was surprised to see Wuppertal. I guess the legacy of a suspension monorail?!
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Apr 10, 2021
Thank you very much!
HeyItsMeJJ
+8
Level 65
Jun 7, 2021
He couldn't chose which banana to use, so he just went bananas.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Feb 22, 2022
I didn't know there were so many bananas in Europe.
SpencerGT
+1
Level 68
Feb 22, 2022
Totally missed London.
Belgian
+2
Level 66
Feb 5, 2023
Great quiz! But could add Brussels and Leeds
LoganP25
+5
Level 75
Dec 4, 2023
What about Brussels or Trieste?
Farigiraf2
+5
Level 68
Dec 8, 2025
The threshold for a city to be included in this quiz is 250k. Brussels and Trieste both have a city proper population of around 200k.

However, city proper is not very useful, especially in a quiz like this, so I do think urban area population should be used.

Nathaniel
+3
Level 77
Feb 20, 2026
I think city proper is actually quite sensible here, seeing as urban areas are nebulous models and economic areas are already nebulous models. I like to have a bit of reality left in a quiz that already includes so much abstraction. Also there’s a very practical reason for not using urban areas here. Above 1 million there is good universal urban area data for Europe on citypopulation.de, but when you want to include smaller cities, which is necessary here, then citypopulation.de starts becoming quite weird, one example being Vila Nova de Gaia which is not combined with Porto even though it’s only separated by a river, and Porto having the same urban as proper population, which all doesn’t make a lot of sense. Other countries have better urban area population data on citypopulation.de, but I’m not going to use different data for different countries. For obvious reasons city proper population does not need a universal model implemented in all nations the same way.
IsleAuHaulte
+5
Level 92
Feb 24, 2026
Yeah this winds up throwing out Porto altogether and Brussels as noted which is a very important city in Europe.
Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Feb 24, 2026
Well at the end of the day that's Brussels and Porto, small cities with many other small cities in their vicinity. Also note, if I were to use the flawed urban area data of citypopulation.de (for cities smaller than 1 million), that would mean including not 13 cities in the UK, but 21, while Porto would still be omitted, but its suburb Vila Nova de Gaia would be included. In my opinion that is not an improvement: you would have to name Gillingham and Farnborough, while still knowing Porto for naught.
Deuteronomius
+6
Level 69
Sep 28, 2024
I dont know about this tbh. The blue and the golden banana kinda make sense but the other regions just feel like a random selection of orbitrary cities. What is the Atlantic axis supposed to be? You could just as well draw a circle around Lisbon, Sevilla and Cadiz. Or Dublin, Cork, Glasgow. Or Nantes, Bordeaux, Bilbao...

Nice quiz though :)

Nathaniel
+2
Level 77
Feb 20, 2026
I partly agree, and I invite you to create other regions, maybe even make a quiz of it. I’d be interested to play it. If your reasoning for your regions is better than the models included here, and you write a scientific paper about it, they might even become the preferred models in the scientific community.
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Feb 20, 2026
Note however, that these regions are being used as models by local, national and transnational authorities and organisations. See Atlantic Axis, Gulf of Finland and String
Deuteronomius
+2
Level 69
Apr 8, 2026
Yes, I didnt mean to criticize your choices of regions you included, it makes sense to include the ones accepted and published. I just felt the researchers defining them as regions in the first place made very vague and orbitrary choices :D
sulfuratus
+4
Level 71
Jun 8, 2025
Gothenburg is way too far south on this map (should be in line with the northern tip of Jutland and the southern tip of the Vättern) and Rotterdam should be southeast of Den Haag, a fair bit inland.

I also get that you wouldn't want to make quiz takers list every major city in the Ruhr area, but then it seems weirdly inconsistent to ask for L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Espoo.

MrPi2002
+1
Level 77
Jul 6, 2025
I would always count Düsseldorf and Wuppertal as part of the Ruhr area. That might be wrong, but I just gave up after trying a few cities (Essen, Duisburg, Bochum) because I didn't want to guess which cities were included and not. I get that Cologne and Bonn are outside but I definitely think this quiz would benefit if it demanded naming the 8-10 largest Ruhr cities.
Farigiraf2
+2
Level 68
Dec 8, 2025
Shouldn't Milton Keynes and Stoke on Trent be included?
Albrik
+2
Level 66
Feb 4, 2026
Why does Italy have all the bananas
BautyArg
+1
Level 52
Feb 23, 2026
BANANA
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Feb 24, 2026
nice to see the blue banana here
DonTheLamplighter
+6
Level 87
Feb 24, 2026
Not surprised to not see Bielefeld on here. Or anywhere for that matter.
Wistful
+1
Level 72
Mar 4, 2026
We all know Bielefeld isn't real
Algernon
+1
Level 74
Feb 24, 2026
Bleep me that is a tough quiz. Even given the level of obscure knowledge people on this site have, I am amazed the average score is that high, especially as the time is quite tight.
Jiaozira
+2
Level 72
Feb 24, 2026
I am happy to finally see this quiz featured after a few years. A well deserved feature and the map looks better than ever!
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Feb 24, 2026
Thank you very much, you're too kind!
ivceh
+2
Level 70
Feb 25, 2026
Shouldn't Zagreb be in the green banana?
Djilas
+1
Level 86
Feb 27, 2026
Yeah the way it's drawn certainly
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Feb 27, 2026
Yup, sorry, my mistake.
StiDark
+5
Level 67
Apr 7, 2026
Shouldn't Porto in Portugal be in here?
Snoflakes
+1
Level 73
Apr 9, 2026
I've never understood why Paris or even the industralized north of France around Lille weren't part of the Blue Banana. My best guess is that Paris is too far from other industrialized areas and Lille is decaying rather than developing
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Apr 9, 2026
Lille is part of the blue banana, its city proper population is just too small
Cristopia6
+1
Level 50
Apr 14, 2026
Why is there nothing on Southeastern Europe though?
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Apr 14, 2026
How to say this respectfully?... they aren't economically relevant enough
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