Lonely Planet Top 200 Cities

Have to say that I'm surprised that neither Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp or Kraków was on here.

Damascus?

Is Memphis the one in Tennessee or the one in Egypt?

There are so many bizarre choices in this Lonely Planet list that it's hard to know where to start. I'll just mention Switzerland. Bern is a fairly ordinary sort of place but there are other beautiful cities with the backdrop of stunning lakes and mountains, so it's hard to understand why Geneva and Zurich are out but Bern in.

I've been to 47 of these

I am pretty sure Damascus is not one of these cities. I might of just read the wrong book. Great Quiz!

I came back to this quiz as a challenge, but...

Phnom Penh and no Siem Reap / Angkor, Calcutta and no Agra, Toronto and no Niagara Falls, Bern and nothing else Swiss, no Brugges, Wuhan, Osaka or Harbin. New Zealand is beautiful, but Auckland and Wellington are just cities, nothing special. I just stopped and took it for a typical lazy travel writer's list.

i've been to 35 of these. i think the list is very weird

Finally got 5 points on this. Just wanted to reiterate that this is an absolute bollocks list with many inexplicable inclusions and omissions, obviously printed to make money without much research or thought put in to it, and I could write a better top 200 cities travel guide in an afternoon.

Some places like warsaw, lima and jakarta should be on here

Rotterdam, Dublin, Berlin, Porto, Bilbao. For anyone going to Europe

I believe 'Carcasonne' is spelt wrong. It should be 'Carcassone', with a double 's'.

I answered Nuuk just for fun, but yeah. I guess its great in greenland

lol, heaps of these cities I knew but didn't bother entering because I was certain they wouldn't be there... e.g. Pyongyang, Maputo, Asmara etc.

Aleppo and Pyongyang yes. Medellin and Milan no. Makes a lot of sense.

My very favorite city of any I've visited is Bruges, Belgium. I LOVED Bruges.

Also San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

Cuenca, Ecuador is charming. Guayaquil is awful. (Personal opinion obviously.)

Also agree that a big drawback to cities like San Antonio and Austin is the lack of public transportation. They are the two most interesting cities in Texas, but you have to have a car and fight the traffic. I've lived in Dallas (yuk) and now live near Houston (double yuk).

Actually had a great visit to Honduras, including the Mayan ruins of Copan and the capital, Tegucigalpa, but that was many years ago. Don't think I'd opt for camping out there these days.

My personal list of 100 best cities for Lonely Planet-type tourists in no particular order: 1. Jerusalem 2. Haifa 3. Amman 4. Petra 5. Jerash 6. Aqaba 7. Beirut 8. Byblos 9. Tel Aviv 10. Cairo 11. Alexandria 12. Luxor 13. Mecca 14. Dubai 15. Agra 16. Jaipur 17. Varanasi 18. Tbilisi 19. Kutaisi 20. Yerevan 21. Konya 22. Antalya 23. Istanbul 24. Thessaloniki 25. Fira 26. Athens 27. Delphi 28. Sofia 29. Varna 30. Vama Veche 31. Constanta 32. Bucharest 33. Kiev 34. Odessa 35. Pripyat 36. Minsk 37. Moscow 38. St Petersburg 39. Tallinn 40. Stockholm 41. Oslo 42. Copenhagen 43. Amsterdam 44. Munich 45. Berlin 46. Krakow 47. Gdansk/Sopot/Hel 48. Bratislava 49. Prague 50. Vienna 51. Cluj-Napoca 52. Rome 53. Amalfi 54. Naples 55. Venice 56. San Marino 57. Zagreb 58. Dubrovnik 59. Kotor 60. Durres 61. Tirana 62. Paris 63. London 64. Dresden 65. Tokyo 66. Seoul 67. Hong Kong 68. Singapore 69. George Town, Penang 70. Ho Chi Minh 71. Phu Qoc 72. Bangkok 73. Pattaya 74. Chiang Mai 75. Patong/Phuket

London is overrated

Love this quiz! I've always wanted to travel to Iceland or Greenland, or even Alaska to go see the northern lights. I've heard they're really awesome.

suprised not to see jakarta or bali there tbh i forgot so many basic ones :/

Ah, Paris and New York. The two most over-rated cities in the world.

And any list which thinks Johannesburg is one of the 1000 cities in the world most visiting should really be ignored

i need to have a talk with whoever made this list. pyongyang? kabul? damascus? but not milan or orlando. makes perfect sense

This seems more like a list of one person's personal favorites than a general overview for travelers. Sydney no.3 above Barcelona, London, Rome? no Tehran? no Zurich but includes Bern? Sarajevo above st.Petersburg? Male? Brussels over others in Belgium? Montreal no. 20? Ulaanbaatar? nothing in Indonesia? no Xi'an? Kathmandu no.13??? and many more that seem like personal choices rather than general traveler opinion.

surprised to see no Milan

Kabul!!!! WOW! Kabul is better if u don't think about war but sorry now it is stable

Wow, the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan is the worst out of the top 200?

I am most surprised at the absence of Milan. I visited it and I thought it was a great tourist destination

Aren't you only allowed inside mecca if you are a muslim? I guess it makes up for the ~6 billion that can't visit through the 1.8 billion that are obligated to go.

Surprised by the absence of Brisbane, personally my favourite spot of Australia.

While I think this list is full of crap, I do adore Isfahan.

95

Let me tell you something, this list is an absolute joke!

i think we can all agree that that list is a joke... I still enjoyed that quiz tho, thanks for the effort :)

seriously? kabul,talinn,minsk,riga yet no warsaw or bucarest

damascus ????

Might be worth putting the date that the list was compiled/published in the description, and a link to the source.

Also - do we know which Perth that is being referred to?

Detroit was #2 in the entire world according to Lonely Planet in 2018.

Detroit.

No disrespect to the quizmaker, but this list is legitimately unhinged.

Pyongyang?

PYONGYANG?

ah yes i would definitely love to go to pyongyang one day, i just hope nothing very bad happens!

Lonely Planet is laughable. This is such a weird bunch of cities. Seriously, no Swiss cities except Bern? I was able to get Pyongyang after realizing how awful the list was, so I started guessing random national capitals. And that's how I got five points.

Bizarre list. Needs another 5 minutes.

Damascus is on the list AND it's about 100 above Dubai!?

bruh, no Norwegian cities, shit list.

Having played this quiz, I would like to just say that this Lonely Planet does not seem credible with where it wants to send you.

Sanaa, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Damascus, Delhi, etc. are all on this list, while Munich, Lyon, Milan, Cologne, Stuttgart, and many others are not.

Sanaa is in Yemen. Jerusalem is currently in a state of war. Aleppo and Damascus are in Syria. Delhi is in India, which is unfortunately highly polluted.

Just find it silly that Lonely Planet would want me to go to Sanaa rather than Milan or Lyon xD

What are these obscure places, or places in a dangerous country? Then there aren't cities like Zurich, Oslo, Honolulu, Denpasar etc...

Pyongyang over miami is hilarious

This list doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Some absolutely horrifying places are included that are literally in war territory while some real gems are excluded. It feels like they just included every capital they could think of and added some well known cities. For example, Damascus (Syria) is somehow in 55th place above gems like Dubrovnik, Siena, Naples, Arequipa, Seoul just to name a few...

pyongyang???

also, dubai should be way higher

Nice Quiz, but the list is bullshit.

Skip Warsaw and Oslo, go to Sanaa, Pyongyang, Ashgabat, Rangoon or Kabul. Sounds good. Thanks for the recommendations