Name a City - European Countries

For each European country, name one of the five most populous cities or towns that is NOT either the capital or the largest city.

Only including countries with a city with >100,000 that fits the qualifications

Source: citypopulation.de. By city proper population, unless listed in red, then it is by urban area

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Country	Cities
Albania	Durrës \| Vlorë \| Elbasan \| Shkodër \| Fier
Austria	Graz \| Linz \| Salzburg \| Innsbruck \| Klagenfurt
Belarus	Homiel \| Mahilou \| Viciebsk \| Hrodna \| Brest
Belgium	Antwerp \| Liege \| Ghent \| Charleroi \| Kortrijk
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Banja Luka \| Tuzla \| Zenica \| Mostar \| Bijeljina
Bulgaria	Plovdiv \| Varna \| Burgas \| Ruse \| Stara Zagora
Croatia	Split \| Rijeka \| Osijek \| Zadar \| Pula
Czech Republic	Brno \| Ostrava \| Plzen \| Liberec \| Olomouc
Denmark	Aarhus \| Odense \| Aalborg \| Esbjerg \| Randers
Finland	Espoo \| Tampere \| Vantaa \| Oulu \| Turku
France	Marseille \| Lyon \| Toulouse \| Nice \| Nantes
Germany	Hamburg \| Munich \| Cologne \| Frankfurt \| Stuttgart
Greece	Thessaloniki \| Patras \| Heraklion \| Larissa \| Volos
Hungary	Debrecen \| Szeged \| Miskolc \| Pecs \| Gyor
Ireland	Cork \| Limerick \| Galway \| Waterford \| Drogheda
Italy	Milan \| Naples \| Turin \| Palermo \| Genoa
Lithuania	Kaunas \| Klaipeda \| Siauliai \| Panevezys \| Alytus
Moldova	Tiraspol \| Balti \| Bender \| Ribnita \| Ugheni
Netherlands	Rotterdam \| The Hague \| Utrecht \| Eindhoven \| Leiden
Norway	Bergen \| Trondheim \| Stavanger \| Baerum \| Kristiansand
Poland	Krakow \| Lodz \| Wroclaw \| Poznan \| Gdansk
Portugal	Porto \| Vila Nova de Gaia \| Amadora \| Braga \| Funchal
Romania	Cluj-Napoca \| Timisoara \| Iasi \| Constanta \| Craiova
Russia	St. Petersburg \| Novosibirsk \| Yekaterinburg \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Kazan
Serbia	Novi Sad \| Nis \| Kragujevac \| Subotica \| Zrenjanin
Slovakia	Kosice \| Presov \| Zillina \| Banska Bystrica \| Nitra
Spain	Barcelona \| Valencia \| Sevilla \| Zaragoza \| Malaga
Sweden	Goteborg \| Malmo \| Uppsala \| Vasteras \| Orebro
Switzerland	Geneva \| Basel \| Lausanne \| Winterthur \| Lucerne
Ukraine	Kharkiv \| Odessa \| Dnipro \| Donetsk \| Zaporizhia
United Kingdom	Birmingham \| Glasgow \| Liverpool \| Bristol \| Manchester

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88 Comments

+22

Level 71

Mar 9, 2020

Great, a well deserved feature!

Level 75

Mar 9, 2020

Thank you!

+18

Level 76

Mar 9, 2020

Great quiz, it stretches us out of our usual batch of most famous cities. Frustrated that I couldn't remember Mostar, despite having visited it !!! How about doing the same quiz for the other continents? (Antarctica might be a bit of a struggle)

Level 75

Mar 9, 2020

Working on the Asia version!

Level 75

Mar 9, 2020

.... here it is!

Level 72

Mar 9, 2020

Ow my god, I dont dare to click that one haha. Only asian countries I know more than one city might be china and india haha. (barely..) ow and japan

Level 75

Mar 11, 2020

Now the editions for Africa and other places are now out!!

Level 75

Mar 18, 2020

Now you can try the extreme version here!

Level 75

Mar 25, 2020

And now the version for Countries of the World is out!

Level 89

Mar 9, 2020

Yeah, good to refresh some of the more specific geography.

Level 72

Mar 9, 2020

yea excellent idea, for most countries we only know the capital and/or the biggest city. (In some cases still neither, working on it..)

Level 73

Mar 9, 2020

That was blinking tricky. Even looking at the answers there are a few countries where I just knew the capital. Great idea though.

Level 72

Mar 9, 2020

Tough! There were 2 more I could ve gotten (denmark and ukraine), but bottom 11 in stats I would have next to no chance. (novi sad maybe, I answered that on other quizzes) and I missed greece too, I allready typed thessalo.. but didnt know how the rest goes haha, so erased it again and moved on.

I did have belarus though, by typing brest, no idea where that came from, I typed it pretty early. I think it was my first random guess. First did a few by going down the list, but then thought it might be faster to throw some names out there. Then after naming a few I looked at the list again.

Level 80

Mar 9, 2020

Zurich should be one of the answers for Switzerland

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Level 75

Mar 9, 2020

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland.

Level 86

Mar 9, 2020

Novosibirsk is in Asia. You should only consider the European part of Russia.

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Level 75

Mar 9, 2020

I am happy with my decision

Level 86

Mar 11, 2020

Ok, then, not that it matters but I give 1 star to this quiz, as I do with any quiz that contains an obvious error.

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Level 61

Mar 15, 2020

The quiz maker should actually count Novosibirsk because it's about the five largest cities in the country, and not the five largest cities in the European part. Sure, this is for the European countries, but Novosibirsk is in Russia and Russia is part of the European countries, so I really don't see any problem or "obvious error", other than your being sour after taking the quiz.

Level 60

Nov 12, 2020

1 star? Why?

Level 86

Apr 19, 2021

I just saw the link on the new quiz and now I remember this one. Well, maybe I've been a bit cutting back then and I'm sorry for that, but the HinesBrothers' laconic response still seems especially haughty and stubborn to me. Why can't people just question themselves, or at least give you a proper explanation of their choice? So I expect nothing for the exact same remark that I made on the new quiz today...

Volcanicdevil: In my opinion, if it is about Europe, only European cities should be considered. And don't be ridiculous, everybody can answer St Petersburg and get that one, so no reason for being "sour" about that.

Pandora49: As I said, it doesn't matter. Those stars are symbolic. It was probably mean from me to say I would give 1 star, but it reflects my opinion, and my idea of excellency. If everybody was a bit more critical about the quizzes' design and about mistakes, the makers would have to question themselves and improve their work.

Level 75

Apr 19, 2021

Maybe we were laconic, sorry about that. We decided to use the whole of Russia because it seems that more people would assume that to be the case and fewer would complain about Novosibirsk, etc. not being accepted.

Level 75

Jul 21, 2021

It does seem strange to include cities that are not in Europe in this quiz. Not a big deal unless you're looking for perfection - I typed St Petersburg like - I would imagine - 99% of people did anyway.

Very nice quiz, 4.95 stars from me :p

Level 78

Mar 9, 2020

Nice one. Missed only Belarus.

Level 81

Mar 10, 2020

I tried Vitebsk. Couldn't think of anything else.

Level 83

Mar 10, 2020

Vitebsk should be accepted

Level 69

Mar 14, 2020

Level 80

Mar 9, 2020

Whoops - Zurich is Switzerland's biggest city

Level 71

Mar 10, 2020

yeah need to fix that

Level 79

Mar 10, 2020

Surprises me that 60.7% of people know cities that are neither the capital nor the largest city for more than 17 of these countries!

Level 61

Mar 10, 2020

This is the best thing ever.

Level 76

Mar 10, 2020

Some of those I recognise as names mostly from winter sports, I think, but just can't remember a single one: Split, Banja Luka, Kosice.

Level 61

Mar 11, 2020

A tough, challenging quiz! This will spur me to deepen my knowledge.

Level 76

Mar 11, 2020

Easy for me, around ~3min extra. Gotta start preparing for that Oceania part, though...

Level 75

Mar 11, 2020

You want me to do one for it? Just warning you - it might be very tricky!

Level 75

Mar 14, 2020

Here it is!

Level 78

Mar 11, 2020

There's a place called "Bender" in Moldova? I didn't know they liked Futurama that much!

Level 89

Mar 15, 2020

They don't, but their favorite pastime is binge drinking. ;)

Level 83

Nov 8, 2023

maybe they're big fans of Avatar: the Last Airbender

Level 57

Mar 11, 2020

Great one!

Level 63

Mar 13, 2020

Dnepropetrovsk is called Dnipro since 2016.

Level 62

Mar 14, 2020

This is a cool quiz

Level 34

Mar 14, 2020

Like the quiz, although I did horribly ;)

Comment regarding Norway: Baerum is not a city. Went to the source listed - Baerum is there listed as a top 5 municipality, not a city. The city list looks a tad different.

Level 57

Mar 15, 2020

Kind of. Bærum is the municipality, although a lot of statistics count the whole population of Bærum into the city of Sandvika. I live there and it definitely isn't the case for real, but a lot of statistics include it.

Level 57

Mar 14, 2020

done with 1:12, but I'm from Czech Republic though

Level 69

Mar 14, 2020

nice one! didn't get belarus (oh well) and bulgaria (shame).

Level 70

Mar 14, 2020

Superb quiz! I learned a lot, and had to think hard. I got a whole bunch of them thinking of football clubs :D

Level 85

Mar 14, 2020

Same here. Missed 7, but got ones like Moldova (Sheriff Tiraspol), Hungary (Debrecen) and Romania (Cluj), et al, thanks to following the Champions League.

Level 62

Mar 14, 2020

Nice quiz but I'm pretty sure Drogheda is not a city.

Level 76

Mar 14, 2020

You're right - it's not. Cities in the Republic of Ireland are Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick. Kilkenny is still referred to as a city because of the royal charter granted by King John in the 13th century (it doesn't actually fulfil the requirements for city status nowadays but is regarded as such because of tradition). Drogheda is still a town although it has been pushing for city status since 2016. Dundalk has designated city status but isn't there yet.

Level 45

Apr 14, 2020

granuaile is completly correct above, I live in Dundalk and neither here nor Drogheda have city status though both towns have been pushing hard.

Kilkenny is generally accepted as a city when it comes to quizzing.

I would accept the quizmasters decision on Kilkenny but Drogheda should not be a correct answer here.

Class challenging quiz by the way, I have some substantial gaps in my knowledge to fill it seems :)

Level 89

Mar 14, 2020

Fun and challenging!

Level 69

Mar 14, 2020

I got Ireland with Cork by accident

Level 72

Mar 14, 2020

Albania got to have accented letters, but not any of the other countries...?

Level 49

Mar 14, 2020

Oglem was here.

Level 85

Mar 14, 2020

Cool idea. How about doing U.S. states?

Level 90

Mar 14, 2020

Already exists here.

Level 75

Mar 15, 2020

That one is actually where I got the idea from

Level 85

Mar 15, 2020

Thanks for the link. Turns out I had already taken it! I've lost track after taking hundreds (thousands?) of quizzes... :)

Level 75

Mar 14, 2020

Great quiz! I was surprised to see Bristol instead of Sheffield

listed for the UK though, I thought Sheffield's (estimated) population was larger than Bristol's.

Level 78

Mar 15, 2020

You're right, VanilleFramboise. So too Leeds.

Level 57

Mar 17, 2020

It turns out that there's an Hungary-shaped hole in my city knowledge.

Level 51

Mar 18, 2020

As a self-proclaimed geography nerd, this one was frustrating. I missed about 20 of them and there were very few that I "should have" gotten

Level 79

Mar 19, 2020

Sheriff Tiraspol coming in clutch! Uppa European Qualifiers for the obscure but not too obscure place names.

Level 72

Mar 20, 2020

This football club is quirky. As Tiraspol is in Transnistria, it might be the closest city to provide a genuine Stalinian feel.

And Sheriff is the Walmart of Transnistria, in USA, the club would be something like the Walmart Kalamazoo.

Level 23

Apr 28, 2020

The Polish is very hard, i know: ''Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie w Szczebrzeszynie, a Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie''. On keyboard there are: ę - e + Alt, ó - o + Alt, ą - a + Alt, ś - s + Alt, ł - l + Alt, ż - z + Alt, and ń - n + Alt. There's: Krakow - Krak(o + Alt)w, Lodz - L(o + Alt)d(x + Alt) Poznan - Pozna(n + Alt) etc.

Level 75

Apr 28, 2020

You do not have to do the accents. On JetPunk, ć is equivelent to c. Similarly, Ü and U are treated the same when taking a quiz.

Level 23

Apr 28, 2020

Oh.

Level 49

May 23, 2020

Bærum in Norway isn't a city

Level 62

May 25, 2020

This was fun. I missed four but out of them Albania is the only one that I didn’t recognise a single city name

Level 57

Jun 18, 2020

Excellent quiz, thank you! A few countries missing though - presumably deliberately? Iceland, Slovenia, Malta, Luxemburg... too small?

Level 75

Jun 25, 2020

"Only including countries with a city with >100,000 that fits the qualifications

Level 78

Jul 21, 2020

Great quiz.

For Finland please add Jyväskylä (pop 138,000).

Thank you.

Level 75

Feb 26, 2022

It must be in the top 5 cities

Level 65

Sep 24, 2020

Got Tiraspol thanks to Transnistria

Level 67

Dec 14, 2020

Where is Slovenia?

Level 64

Jan 7, 2021

East of Italy

Level 43

Feb 25, 2022

bordeaux???

Level 75

Feb 26, 2022

Not big enough

Level 62

Dec 6, 2022

Yay I got Moldova

Level 65

Jan 25, 2023

Where is Latvia?

Level 65

Feb 28, 2023

Its still missing some countries such as latvia estonia slovenia

Level 61

Apr 3, 2023

31/31 YES! Hey-diddly-hey! Hey diddly-hey!

Level 61

Oct 23, 2023

Ah 30/31 could've gotten kaunas

I play a lot of cityquiz.io

Level 85

Mar 9, 2024

Seville is not accepted for Sevilla.

Level 60

Apr 5, 2024

Europa League and Conference League carried my 100%

Level 46

Apr 18, 2024

Very nice quiz, but I don't know where you got Leiden from. Because that isn't the number five of the Netherlands. Also not accourding to your own source. First you have Groningen, Tilburg, Almere and others before you get to Leiden. Maybe you could correct this?

Level 27

Apr 23, 2024

There should be a version where you can name any place (village township etc) no matter the population but the biggest city and capital are banned.