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Ultimate "Burg" Geography Quiz

Can you name these geographical answers whose English names ends in berg, burg, bourg, burgh, borg, bjerg or bergen?
Whole Series: Burg | Cardinal Directions | Colors | Great & Grand | Lake | Land | Mountain | New | Saint | Ville
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Last updated: October 20, 2021
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Capital of Scotland
Edinburgh
America's "Steel City"
Pittsburgh
City of the Winter Palace
St. Petersburg
Where Mozart was born
Salzburg
Biggest city on the Elbe river
Hamburg
Prussian city annexed by Russia
and renamed Kaliningrad
Königsberg
Southernmost megacity in Africa
Johannesburg
Biggest cities in Bavaria
after Munich
Nuremberg
Augsburg
Regensburg
Würzburg
Parliamentary capital of the EU
Strasbourg
Judicial capital of the EU
Luxembourg
German "forest" that was site
of a Germanic-Roman battle
Teutoburg
Notable Berlin gate
Brandenburg
Capital of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Sweden's second largest city
Gothenburg
Dutch city between Eindhoven
and Breda
Tilburg
Germany's oldest university
Heidelberg
Brooklyn neighborhood
Williamsburg
City unofficially called the
"Asian capital" of Russia
Orenburg
Denmark's fourth-biggest city
Aalborg
Town that was site of the
bloodiest U.S. Civil War battle
Gettysburg
Most populous city in the Urals
Yekaterinburg
Swedish city home to the closest
point to Denmark
Helsingborg
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Mountain range is South Africa
Drakensberg
Capital of Sint Maarten
Philipsburg
Swiss castle that was the original
seat of Austria's royal house
Habsburg
Name of a Dutch or Belgian province
Limburg
Westernmost state of Austria
Vorarlberg
Major city in Germany's Ruhr
Duisburg
Biggest city in Virginian Appalachia
Blacksburg
Main island of Norway's Svalbard
Spitsbergen
City in Lower Saxony with a
historical influential royal family
Oldenburg
Baden's counterpart, German state
Württemberg
Vorpommern's twin, German state
Mecklenburg
Range in western PNG with
namesake of a historical airship
Hindenburg
Mississippi city captured by Grant
Vicksburg
City that makes Jack Daniel's whiskey
Lynchburg
Largest city on Denmark's west coast
Esbjerg
Northern German city that
headquarters Volkswagen
Wolfsburg
Capital of KwaZulu-Natal, SA
Pietermaritzburg
Capital of Saxony-Anhalt
Magdeburg
Museum in Mainz that houses the
first printed bible
Gutenberg
Museum
Swedish counties ending
in "borg" or "berg"
Gävleborg
Kronoberg
Former name of Bratislava
Pressburg
The British burned Washington DC
following their victory in this city
Bladensburg
Capital of the Dutch Zeeland
Middelburg
Swiss canton west of Bern
Fribourg
EvanAviator
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Level 58
Sep 22, 2020
hard
JohnnyYeet
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Level 56
Dec 7, 2020
Bergen, Norway?
Raminoodles
+3
Level 52
Dec 16, 2020
Where's Heisenberg lol
JohnnyYeet
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Level 56
Jun 9, 2021
Brandenburg is also a German State
bluesdjben
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Level 74
Jul 19, 2021
Great quiz!
FSLiudger
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Level 60
Jul 19, 2021
Canton in western switzerland: Neuenburg (Neuchâtel)
Damangio
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Level 65
Jul 19, 2021
Aha. I had wondered why a major NYC bridge was named after a city in Virginia. It turns out it isn't.
Potatoe1187
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Level 64
Jul 19, 2021
Great quiz, congrats on the nom!

Slight grammar error: 'Mountain range is south africa' but im just nitpicky ;-;

Yoshimano
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Level 63
Jul 25, 2021
well seen
sumguy
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Level 83
Jul 21, 2021
Should probably split this into two or three quizzes. I lost patience half way through and just skimmed to the end.
Yoshimano
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Level 63
Jul 25, 2021
Another interesting one no one interestingly had thought of before

Thanks!

voilashechkin
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Level 40
Mar 26, 2022
Lol, who calls Orenburg an asian capital of Russia? It's not even in Asia)
redsplat
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Level 74
Jan 14, 2023
Another excellent and challenging quiz! But needs more time for head-scratching.
Badeghut
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Level 70
Feb 9, 2023
Can you accept Koenigsberg please?
Islandcarver
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Level 78
Feb 9, 2023
Nice Quiz!! Could include Freiburg (im Breisgau) - a relatively well-known German city with a highly regarded university and a very good footie club.
NewMexican
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Level 52
Jun 28, 2023
Consider accepting "Spitzbergen" for "Spitsbergen." Thanks!
Hedgehog76
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Level 58
Sep 11, 2023
As "-burg" refers to a castle and "-berg" refers to a mountain, I'd either group the question/answers or make it two different quizzes.
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