After getting 100% on this quiz https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/99277/biggest-cities-in-europe-with-more-than-100000-inhabitants by wojtaw, I moved on to this quiz to try and learn the roughly 1000 extra cities between 50k and 100k inhabitants. I've been attempting it every few days now for the last two weeks, and am slowly getting there: at 1247/1644 as we speak!
Thank you for making this enormous quiz, I appreciate the effort!
Made it to 1642/1644, only just doable within the hour. Forgot Slupsk of all places, and didn't realize I was missing Giugliano in Campania (dot is barely visible on the map)
The only reason I would highly doubt this, is that Giugliano in Campania has over 100k population, meaning it’s featured in the 100k+ Europe population quiz. Surely you wouldn’t have finished this quiz without discovering and finishing the other one, no?
Why isn't this described as 'cities and towns'. Most of the UK answers aren't cities and I would imagine the same is for other countries. I spent ages trying to work out how there were so many dots in the UK when there are only 69 cities.
in the uk, city status isn't determined by population or size, but rather by the king himself. you have reading with 300k, that is officially not a city, yet tiny saint albans is considered a city
I am confused by some of the UK answers. Thundersley is a tiny town, according to Wikipedia it has a population of 24k so not sure how it made the list. Whereas somewhere like Grantham is much larger, the latest census puts the population at 75K (although that includes surrounding villages) but that doesn't make the list? I guess the sources are hard to pin down accurately at this scale.
This keeps happening in similar quizzes: you're using municipalities in Norway, instead of towns. They usually share names, but not always. As a result there are two major mistakes here: there are no towns called Bærum or Nordre Follo. The biggest town in Bærum is Sandvika; in Nordre Follo it's Ski. The simplest solution would be to replace the municipalities with their respective biggest towns. However, this isn't a perfect solution either; Ski only has about 20k people, and Sandvika's population is poorly defined because it (like the rest of Bærum) is so integrated into Oslo. The same is true for Lillestrøm: the town of Lillestrøm only has 14k, but the municipality has >80k. That's because it (like Nordre Follo) has a lot of little towns and villages which are suburbs to Oslo.
I don't understand why you included Solna and Sundbyberg when you had the urban area population for Stockholm. There are multiple municipalities surrounding Stockholm that are bigger and further away from the city center.
One question though. I presume the fainter map lines represent first level subdivisions, but why does England have second level subdivisions marked? And why does Ireland not have subdivisions at all?
There is a type in for Rho that accepts "ro". So when someone wants to guess Rome it will give them Rho when they type in the first 2 characters.
I'm not that surprised that around 10% of people might forget a major city like London on a quiz like this where there are so many other options to guess. When you're going fast its easy to lose track of what you've guessed, and unless your zoomed in on the map you can't really tell based on what cities turn green on the map.
Incredible effort. Only 750 needed for five points! I'm afraid I'll have to satisfy myself with three, as I've only even heard of maybe 20 or 25 that I didn't include.
This quiz is downright amazing, but while I like it a lot, the time is too short. One hour is not enough to get all the cities - even after practising, I struggle to break 1000. If you could extend it by around 15 to 30 minutes more, it would be very appreciated.
Are you planning on doing this quiz for all continents? I've seen the America ones. Asia could be 'fun', but probably takes the rest of your life to create. xD
A couple notes that hopefully will be in the next update (at least).
Can you accept Braunschweig for Brunswick? It's maybe the only German city which won't take the German name and it makes me sad.
Why is Aachen written as Aix-la-Chapelle? I know it's called that in French, but since the city is in Germany and is more commonly known as Aachen in English, it's a bit weird. Totally fine to take Aix as a type-in still.
Why is there a smaller Heraklion inside the other Heraklion? Is there something going on there that I don't know about?
Honestly a phenomenal quiz that I'm quite enjoying and obviously a lot of effort went into it, but I'd rather share the nitpicks than just stay silent and you may not even know/
hey vicky, you used the municipality population for the Netherlands, however I found a source that uses city proper population for Dutch towns. I noted the source in my quiz of Dutch towns with 10k+ population. Nice quiz!
Great Quiz!
Thank you for making this enormous quiz, I appreciate the effort!
I'm sure I'll get the perfect 100% next time!
However I failed to find some cities in my own country (Greece) as they are basically neighborhoods of Athens.
Nea Ionia is mislocated (the one near Volos is only some 25k) and so is Zografou (both are in Athens).
This keeps happening in similar quizzes: you're using municipalities in Norway, instead of towns. They usually share names, but not always. As a result there are two major mistakes here: there are no towns called Bærum or Nordre Follo. The biggest town in Bærum is Sandvika; in Nordre Follo it's Ski. The simplest solution would be to replace the municipalities with their respective biggest towns. However, this isn't a perfect solution either; Ski only has about 20k people, and Sandvika's population is poorly defined because it (like the rest of Bærum) is so integrated into Oslo. The same is true for Lillestrøm: the town of Lillestrøm only has 14k, but the municipality has >80k. That's because it (like Nordre Follo) has a lot of little towns and villages which are suburbs to Oslo.
Source: Table 1 here:
https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/folketall/statistikk/tettsteders-befolkning-og-areal
Or look up all those places on Wiki (I'd link, but I reached the character limit)
Last updated: July 23, 2020
One question though. I presume the fainter map lines represent first level subdivisions, but why does England have second level subdivisions marked? And why does Ireland not have subdivisions at all?
I'm not that surprised that around 10% of people might forget a major city like London on a quiz like this where there are so many other options to guess. When you're going fast its easy to lose track of what you've guessed, and unless your zoomed in on the map you can't really tell based on what cities turn green on the map.
Can you accept Braunschweig for Brunswick? It's maybe the only German city which won't take the German name and it makes me sad.
Why is Aachen written as Aix-la-Chapelle? I know it's called that in French, but since the city is in Germany and is more commonly known as Aachen in English, it's a bit weird. Totally fine to take Aix as a type-in still.
Why is there a smaller Heraklion inside the other Heraklion? Is there something going on there that I don't know about?
Honestly a phenomenal quiz that I'm quite enjoying and obviously a lot of effort went into it, but I'd rather share the nitpicks than just stay silent and you may not even know/
Among the ones I missed, I am most upset about:
Metz, Oberhausen, Parma, Utrecht, Ufa, Granada and Newcastle - usually, I forget them in EVERY quiz in which they appear.