Biggest City by Region #2

Hmm, I would have said Tampa for the Gulf of Mexico question - don't you think Houston is a bit far inland to be described as coastal?

I wouldn't say so, Houston's city limits stretch to the Bays behind Galveston Island & Bolivar Peninsula.

And yet Houston does include part of the coast. I think that makes it coastal.

Houston does not touch the Gulf of Mexico. I does touch Trinity Bay which is not really part of the Gulf of Mexico. I don't really agree that Houston is a coastal city.

This quiz also uses metro areas, and no one would dispute that the Houston metro (which does include Galveston) is coastal.

I think Houston's city limits stretch to like 20 metres away from the coast lol. But metro areas are what we are looking at.

As a Houstonian I absolutely would say that Houston is on the Gulf Coast. There is a portion of the city that is literally called the “Port of Houston”, and even if it doesn’t directly touch the ocean, the entire economy and climate is influenced by the Gulf.

Hm with Zealand I was stuck thinking about the Dutch province...

I had already typed middelburg, terneuzen and vlissingen before I realised there were more zealands

I got Auckland on my first try ;)

I was shocked to see Istanbul considered to be on the Balkan peninsula. Most maps I have seen show the Balkan peninsula or Balkan region ending at the Bulgaria/Turkey border, although some do show it going all the way to the Bosphorus Strait.

The Balkans politically don't include Turkey, but I've yet to see a single geographic interpretation that doesn't include Istanbul.

Can Kuwait be accepted for Kuwait City?

I wasn't too sure if it was Kuwait City or not, still was lazy and typed just "kuwait" and when it wasn't accepted figured I was wrong.

VERY difficult!

Pretty easy except never heard of Melanesia before, and perhaps erroneously I don't think of New Zealand as part of Polynesia so I missed that one, too. Counting Istanbul as in the Balkans is extremely odd and I would have probably missed that one, as well, except the caveats kind of gave it away. I'm sure most people are thinking Athens.

I think the New Zealaand/Polynesia relation is bit ambiguous. I think sometimes New Zealand is not considered a geographic part of Polynesia, but ethnically, culturally and linguistically, the Maoris are definitely a Polynesian nation.

I had never heard of Melanesia either. But my first (random) guess was Port Moresby, so I think I struck pretty lucky.

I'd heard of Melanesia and new it was in Oceania, but didn't have a clue apart from that. Just had lots of time to guess.

Great quiz, reless! Thanks a hundred. Probably Kuwait City is better than just Kuwait though.

"Pacific Northwest"? Are we supposed to guess that means the northwest of the United States?

I can imagine that for non-US citizens it could mean the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, so the area around Kamchatka, Japan and maybe Korean Peninsula. Although, as a proud Pole, I knew what the author meant ;)

Actually, Kamchatka... is in the Eastern Pacific because of the IDL, so I can understand northwest as the Canadian/USA coast.

Nice quiz! However, being Dutch, I also went for the Dutch province. I never knew Sjælland in Denmark was named Zealand in English.

I think Zeeland is written the same in English.

Constantinople / Byzantium / Istanbul must feel unloved. Nobody ever wants it.

According to lots of websites, Dubai is MUCH larger than Kuwait City.

Istanbul is not part of the Balkans.

I didn't know Melanesia included New Guinea, and that Polynesia included New Zealand.

21/24, time ran out as i was typing Seattle...