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Three Biggest Cities by Time Zone With Map
For each time zone, can you name the three biggest cities by urban population? When you guess the city, it will appear on the map. Good luck!
Only cities above 10,000 are included
Using estimates from citypopulation.de with Wikipedia as a secondary source
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| First submitted | May 23, 2020 |
| Times taken | 25,259 |
| Average score | 47.8% |
| Rating | 4.97 |
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It really highlights the absurdity of time zones though. Like, I guess you could make the justification for large countries having their own time zone, but why do Afghanistan and Nepal need them? Why is Dhaka in the same time zone as Almaty, despite being significantly further to the east? Why does Central Australia have its own time zone even though it aligns perfectly with Tokyo's time zone? I don't expect you to know the answer to these questions, I just find it crazy that each country kinda does its own thing with time zones. It would make more sense in my opinion to have it standardized globally.
Honestly, it is one big mess and geopolitics/economics are often more important than actual sun time when timezones are chosen! A good example of this is Spain, who changed from Greenwich Mean Time (+0) to +1 in WWII as Francisco Franco wanted to be aligned with Germany's timezone. This means that in Galicia, Spain there is over a two hour difference between sun time and clock time.
Another problem is Daylight Savings Time. Yukon used to be green on the map like British Columbia, but when they scrapped DST they became in line with Alberta for half the year, even when Whitehorse is by far the westernmost city in Canada.
In Xinjiang, they officially follow the same timezone as Beijing (as does all of China). Since this is far off from sun time, there is an unofficial timezone called 'Xinjiang time' which is used by the ethnic Uyghur population, while Han Chinese people in Xinjiang still use Beijing time.
In short, it is madness!
Glad to be one of the 6% who got Mount Gambier on this quiz!
To be honest, I find the figures to be a little inflated but the source is pretty uniform across Jetpunk.
but god I hate looking at this map every time
(I guess that is mostly due to the choice of colours, If hard primary colors would have been chosen, I would have probably found it very unpleasant to look at. Chaotic and clashing instead of calming (especially if it included red)
I understand that having the timezones at the top of the map isn't possible (nor the amount of cities you still need for that "column"). But as someone mentioned before I also thought of having a timezone fade (or change color) when you have guessed all three for that zone. Becuase I spend most my time checking what I had already guessed and what I still needed.
Or maybe, but that would sort of make it a different quiz. Have the dots for the cities there already. Then it is easier to check what you still need. (but sort of takes away the guessing which cities are biggest for that time zone, at least partially/for those that are geography experts and can immediately tell what city is indicated (not me!))
Still, an excellent quiz