The Australian one is almost 400 times the size. Which is saying more about how tiny Darwin, Minnesota is, because Darwin, Northern Territory is not a huge city by any measure.
For Stuttgart my first thought was the duck-hunting capital of Arkansas, then figured with a population of less than 10,000 versus half a million, the city in Germany might be a tiny bit more well-known.
100%. Fun and challenging. Only city I was unfamiliar with was Camaguey but got guessed by listing every Spanish speaking country not previously listed.
Oh but you need them in Spanish to get the u pronounced between g and e or i. For example Sergio Agüero for the ahem soccer lovers. Otherwise the u just hardens the g.
What FadKrashmor said but I want to add that it is somewhat rare due to the very specific usage of it so most people with limited exposure to Spanish have never seen it
That one always gets me. Unlike the other cities that have a namesake, but where all but the most populous one are incredibly obscure, Guadalajara (the original one, that is) is definitely a very well-known Spanish city.
And there are the dutch, bergen/bergen aan zee and bergen op zoom.
funny in a country that is nearly completely flat (bergen means mountains). Besides in the most southern appendage, where we border belgium and germany (achen). In the rest of the country the biggest "hills" might be the where one road is build to go over another. And the dunes I guess. Anything above 10 meter is high!!!
(Maybe that s why we are known for cycling, I cant imagine doing that in hilly places)
Been through Brno on a train, right hole, that was around the point where the police got on and shoved guns in everyones faces demanding to see passports... open borders at their best!
I have found travelling round Europe that you know you're getting into eastern Europe when every city you pass through has an old power station and a massive red and white chimney smack bang in the middle of the city lol
I don't get San Bernardino. Like why that name. It got me typing all the Spanish speaking countries. And then I came up USA for random reasons and got surprised. Well I should've known because El Paso is also Spanish sounding.
There are tons of Spanish place-names in the USA. Florida, Texas, California, and all the land west of the Mississippi were originally colonized by the Spanish. That's more than half the country.
The US has the third most native Spanish speakers of any country in the world. Only Mexico and Colombia have more - the US has more than Spain or Argentina.
I mean, we've also got the much better-known cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, among many, many others, and that's without even leaving California (a state that was, after all, colonized by the Spanish Empire for over 200 years before it became part of the US.)
doesn't have to be as difficult or expensive as people imagine it to be. Though I get around a lot and have only been to 5 or 6 of these (not sure about San Bernardino). My favorite was probably Odessa though Haifa and Nicosia are nice, too.
"Camagüey" is the correct spelling. There is no English spelling distinct from the Spanish spelling, unlike, for example, "Zürich" (German) vs. "Zurich" (English).
I've never head of it and I don't associate umlauts with Spanish.
In my mind, the umlaut is more the domain of German, Turkish, Swedish/Scandinavian and languages of that ilk. It actually served as a misdirection rather than cluing me in where it might actually be.
The instructions make it clear they're referring to the more populous of the two, and the one in Mexico has something like sixteen times the population of the one in Spain.
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Oh also it's not an umlaut it's a dieresis
I kept filling in Switzerland for San Bernardino as it is also a little town there which I visited. :)
funny in a country that is nearly completely flat (bergen means mountains). Besides in the most southern appendage, where we border belgium and germany (achen). In the rest of the country the biggest "hills" might be the where one road is build to go over another. And the dunes I guess. Anything above 10 meter is high!!!
(Maybe that s why we are known for cycling, I cant imagine doing that in hilly places)
I have found travelling round Europe that you know you're getting into eastern Europe when every city you pass through has an old power station and a massive red and white chimney smack bang in the middle of the city lol
In my mind, the umlaut is more the domain of German, Turkish, Swedish/Scandinavian and languages of that ilk. It actually served as a misdirection rather than cluing me in where it might actually be.
Darwin, MN
Stuttgart, AK
Odessa, TX
Bergen, NJ (Now Jersey City Heights)
Hmmm...
Rome - United States
Paris - United States
Berlin - United States
etc...
Camagüey so it was guessing with odds of 1 in 195.