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Second Cities of Europe
Name the second-largest cities of each country in Europe (by metropolitan area population).
Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/continent/europe with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Europe and additional data searches for countries with only one city listed in some of these lists.
Defining a metropolitan area is difficult, and different sources define them differently! I've re-updated this quiz using a consistent source now, which changed several answers. It's probably the best it can be!
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The name of the city is written as "Гомел" - which, if you transliterate from (Russian) Cyrillic into Latin, gives you "Gomel."
However Belorussian is not Russian. In Belorussian (as well as Ukrainian and a few other Slavic languages), the letter "Г" is pronounced as an "H" not as a "G." Meaning that the name of the city is (locally) pronounced as "Homel."
Since the only authoritative spelling is the Cyrillic one, it becomes ambiguous as to how to spell it in Latin.
Personally I would recommend having "Gomel" as the answer but accepting both "Homel" and "Homiel" as type-ins.
I know that I always try both "Gomel" and "Homel" for this city in quizzes just in case one is accepted but the other isn't.
(Which isn't to even begin addressing the case of Monaco - where both Monte Carlo and La Condamine are merely neighbourhoods inside the singular city of Monaco which is co-extensive with the country as a whole, and one could make an argument that this answer should appear as "N/A" the same way that Vatican City's does.)
But eh. It is what it is. I understand that the data was just taken from a Wikipedia page (yuck) and it's maybe best to not editorialize/mess with it.
As the world urbanizes more, and some urban areas stretch so far that they practically meld into others, it gets increasingly complicated. How long until Washington D.C. and Baltimore are a single metropolitan area? How much longer after that before you never leave urbanization taking I-95 up to Philadelphia? I'm sure there's also a lot of debate at the fringes of metro areas as to what communities are included.
City proper population is much easier, but also much less intuitive.
If anyone has any specific changes, I'm all ears.
Esch is the main part of the name, and "sur Alzette" (on Alzette) is a qualifier.
Do you have any better data sources that I haven't found? Would love suggestions.
However, this has only a population of ~200k (metro area ~650k), while Antwerp has a population of ~565k (metro area ~1.2m)