I don't think that's true. Cheaters will still find a way to cheat without a map. It's simply a matter of different quizzes testing different types of knowledge: in map quizzes, you just have to recognize things on a map, while in other quizzes, you have to 1) tell exactly which cities/countries etc. belong on the quiz and which don't 2) recall them one by one, sometimes without very specific clues. Especially in quizzes like this one, this can be almost impossible.
That argument hardly flies, there are onl around 45 countries form the top of my head. And for the several the capital is not even on here ( mainly the balkan countries, but also baltic and iceland and the tiny countries)
probably because they are part of the top 100 most populated cities in Europe? also helps they have a large population. I don't understand why you're so pressed about it lmfao
Why only 97 cities? Yes, I know it is because there is the Ruhr and Cologne - Dusseldorf and Upper Silesia but sing as you aren't going to include those maybe you should add the next three biggest ones.
Hey, looks like you're right. I copied this from the featured Europe map quiz. That one has a dot over all the small countries. Turns out they weren't even included in that map.
@TWM03, I believe you are thinking of the city proper populations. Most of Bristol's urban area is included in the city proper population, but Leicester has a larger portion of its urban area outside of those boundries.
All cities in this list appear in that top 200 list as well. The reverse isn't necessarily true, because the map cuts off a part of Russia that contains some big cities
Another example of the insane generosity of citypopulation.de. The Saarbrucken metro area is very loose. There's no way I would consider it one of the 100 biggest cities in Europe.
I got slightly confused once I started doing the Russian cities. Turns out this isn't "100 biggest cities in Europe" but "100 biggest cities on the map we're shown".
Never heard of this place before but I was able to get it just by looking at your suggested type-ins and then guessing a spelling that is more obvious based on them.
Oh yes, Netherlands already has a megalopolis which is called "Randstad". It should be incorporated in quizzes like this just as Ruhr or Upper Silesia. It is just a complete waste of time to separate Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Utrecht.
Surprised to see places like Cardiff and Nottingham on here. They've got pretty small populations compared to places like Bristol and Bradford. Probably some caveat and I know parts of Bristol lie in Gloucester and Somerset but most sources I can find place it in the top 10 in the UK with around 700,000, way above places like Notts and Cardiff
I was initially surprised by Nottingham but then remembered that it sprawls quite a bit. My grandparents live so far out from the centre that I've rarely been to it.
I used to have that problem with the first two but after taking many Russia quizzes I remember them most of the time. Zaporizhzhia still gives me problems though.
Map should cut off a bit more to the east - as to include such cities as Samara, Kazan, Ufa, Perm and Saratov (all urban areas contain over 1m people). Perm is probably the easternmost of those that should be included in Europe.
Maybe nitpicky, but I would advise to use an inset for iceland. The map how it currently is makes it seem that that is the actual location of iceland. It is not above ireland and the UK. On this map it is actually put closer to where the Faroe islands are (Some might know anyway, but other people might learn it the wrong way now, imagine you would do that with the US map and people would think Alaska is an island haha )
For god sakes it actual seems to be partly above france even! (tiny but I just noticed it ;) ) While in reality it misses not only france (if you would go straight south) but also spain ánd portugal. The first thing you would hit would be the canary islands actually. Ow wait, Madeira. (it just misses the azores btw) (and for those thinking of western sahara as separate, it hit western sahara but not the Morocco part of Morocco). Sorry for the long post :) Got wrapped up in facts and measuring, kinda fun to find these things out :)
There are many cities connected to Aachen through built-up area. That's what this quiz uses, as it's a fairer comparison. If you go by city proper, cities in Russia and Ukraine would dominate everything
The urban area of Aachen stretches across the border with the Netherlands and includes Heerlen
You need to be able to write and edit SVG files. I use Inkscape for that
Next, you need a file to edit. Quizmaster has written a blogpost on how to do that. Alternatively, you can scrape any existing map from a quiz using inspect-element in the browser
Last, you need to put your data in the map. For this quiz, I put in all data by hand, which requires a lot of editing. For other quizzes, I automated the process. You can use programming to automatically generate data into the svg file. I've done this for quizzes that have more answers
That's city proper population. City proper is an administrative thing and you can't easily compare them across countries. That's why I use urban areas instead. See this post for more details
Can you accept Novgorod for Nizhny Novgorod? I've never heard of anyone calling it Nizhny Novgorod, at least here in the US and I tried Novgorod but didn't get it.
Good quiz, even if "city" populations do depend a lot on definition. Coventry needs moving slightly - it's shown almost south of Birmingham and is in fact almost east of it.
I think that this approach to "loosely defined urban areas" on Jetpunk perhaps isn't the best. A better approach would be to accept any of the main cities in the metro area or the overall name of the metro area (e.g. "Upper Silesia", etc.) rather than just giving them on every featured quiz like this. Obviously, there's no easy way to handle this but in my opinion doing this would be better.
like half of these numbers are completely wrong and dont even match your source. Frankfurt for example has 700k instead of fucking 3,2 million like how to u even get it that wrong?
That is the population in the administrative area. These often have arbitrary boundaries, so it's hard to compare cities with each other. This quiz counts urban area instead, which is a much more fair comparison. Cities in Eastern Europe typically merge suburbs into the administrative area of the main city. Western Europe doesn't do this, so using administrative area creates a lopsided view
Nottingham's urban population is definitely not 1.38 million. Even the source you've used says 320k in 2020, which updated to this year is 321k. Okay, yes, that's the city proper. But the urban area is in the high 700k.
So 28 out of 100 I wouldnt say many of them are capitals at all.
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1. Riga (the capital of Latvia) has 1 million people. Why Riga isn't in this quiz?
2. Wrocław has 638k, Katowice has 300k. Why Wrocław isn't in this quiz and Katowice is in this quiz.
PLEASE FIX THE MISTAKES!!!
For god sakes it actual seems to be partly above france even! (tiny but I just noticed it ;) ) While in reality it misses not only france (if you would go straight south) but also spain ánd portugal. The first thing you would hit would be the canary islands actually. Ow wait, Madeira. (it just misses the azores btw) (and for those thinking of western sahara as separate, it hit western sahara but not the Morocco part of Morocco). Sorry for the long post :) Got wrapped up in facts and measuring, kinda fun to find these things out :)
There are many cities connected to Aachen through built-up area. That's what this quiz uses, as it's a fairer comparison. If you go by city proper, cities in Russia and Ukraine would dominate everything
The urban area of Aachen stretches across the border with the Netherlands and includes Heerlen
Still, I like Aachen. It's a nice place and has a great ice cream shop.
Next, you need a file to edit. Quizmaster has written a blogpost on how to do that. Alternatively, you can scrape any existing map from a quiz using inspect-element in the browser
Last, you need to put your data in the map. For this quiz, I put in all data by hand, which requires a lot of editing. For other quizzes, I automated the process. You can use programming to automatically generate data into the svg file. I've done this for quizzes that have more answers
Amsterdam - 821.752
Rotterdam - 623.652
Utrecht - 352.866
For example the urban population of Basel is 170 000 and metro area is 560 000.
Riga URBAN population is 630 000 and Riga metro area is 1M.
How come Basel is in the map and Riga isn't?
That's just an example, there are way more cities that should be there and a lot that shouldn't, but are.
Can "Brum" be accepted for Birmingham?
You can't be serious.