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Cities by Satellite #2

Difficulty level: impossible. Guess the cities that are depicted in these satellite images.
All images from the Landsat satellite
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: April 3, 2018
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First submittedJuly 28, 2017
Times taken21,274
Average score40.0%
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27 Comments
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Level 83
Jul 29, 2017
Knew Marseille from having been there and having read Count of Monte Cristo one too many times. Missed too many obvious cities though, like New York.
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Level 70
Jul 31, 2017
I would have never known Marseille if I didn't watch this years Tour de France.
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Level 70
Jul 31, 2017
I thought the same thing- except that I SHOULD have known it but didn't.
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Level 74
Dec 19, 2017
I only guessed it because I always have trouble with Marseille on the city skylines quiz. Got all the others pretty easily.
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Level 60
Mar 26, 2021
same
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Level 67
Jul 6, 2021
C'est la sardineu qui a bouché leu poreu deu Marseille.

With the right accent

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Level 70
Jul 31, 2017
This is another great addition to the Satellite Image series. Hope to see several more. I would say that for 15 photos, 4 minutes may be necessary to give adequate time to really look closely at the non-obvious ones. 3 is a little bit short.
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Level ∞
Aug 2, 2017
Upped the time to 4 minutes
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Level 73
Aug 3, 2017
Blinking tough one that. I worked out five and got four more by pure luck from guessing cities.
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Level 78
Aug 4, 2017
Is it bad that I got both Naples and Manila because I am obsessed with volcanoes? I recognized Laguna Caldera for Manila, and for Naples, well, with three volcanoes in the picture (Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia) it's kind of a no brainer. :P
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Level 83
Sep 27, 2017
It's a no-brainer if you're looking for volcanoes rather than city layouts
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Level 81
Dec 19, 2017
Not impossible. Could have used some more time, though. Probably never would have gotten Lagos or New Orleans unless I was randomly guessing.
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Level 65
Dec 19, 2017
The "San Francisco" image depicts about 100 cities, one of which is biggest than San Francisco.
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Level 81
Dec 19, 2017
100? Are you confusing the term "city" with the term "In n Out Burger?"
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Level 66
Oct 2, 2021
The bay area technically contains 101 municipalities, even though not all of them are shown, 100 isn't very far off.
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Level 81
Dec 19, 2017
also if the city you are referring to is San Jose, in addition to being a suburb of the greater San Francisco metro area, it also occupies about 1/50th of the photograph down in the extreme bottom-right corner.
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Level 83
May 1, 2018
Agreed that SF is about 10% of that photo. Oakland is shown in its entirety, and I think most of San Jose would disagree that it's a suburb of SF.
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Level 66
Oct 2, 2021
Agreed. San Francisco only makes up about 3% of the picture, also, the picture contains about 40 different cities (depending on you're definition) other than San Francisco.
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Level 51
Dec 20, 2017
Only got 6, but got Lagos due to the horizontal coastline. OK, guessed Lagos.
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Level 57
Dec 23, 2017
Got 6 - of which 2 were incorrect guesses!
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Level 59
Feb 8, 2019
Waiting for part 3
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Level 65
Jun 28, 2019
10/15 is pretty decent here, got seattle by guessing toronto on the pointing tower
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Level 48
Jun 30, 2019
After I gave up *then* i saw what part of the city it was showing...

Really only got Seattle bc I had been there a few days back and Paris bc I recognize the spiderweb design

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Level 61
Oct 12, 2019
I just saw a fact about Betelgeuse in Interesting Facts. It's wrong. It's actually about VY Canis Majoris, the largest star found yet.
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Level 72
Apr 8, 2020
Man.. somehow I got it in my head all answers needed to be capitals.. not the first time today something like that happened hah.

But em.. why is there a 5 at the bottom of the new orleans lake?

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Level 64
Nov 26, 2020
barely missed mecca and capetown, missed new orleans
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Level 64
Jun 3, 2024
I never would have guessed so many american cities were on here