Can I Name the Biggest EUROPEAN City in Expanding Circles?

[@ChicagoGeographer]

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[@eddog6666]

Here is a tip for remembering how to spell the Russian city: break it up. Mak Hach kala

[@RileyMcGreevy]

What if you started in Reykjavik? Or even crazier Longyearbyen?

[@roevhaal578]

Longyearbyen doesn't have 10k, they have like 2k.

[@notj6g64]

⁠@@roevhaal578plus it’s a city in Norway not even a country

[@minamagdy4126]

​@@notj6g64 I mean, the whole idea of the quiz is to select a city, not a country

[@notj6g64]

@@minamagdy4126 cities in countries

[@minamagdy4126]

@@notj6g64 I don't understand what you mean, then

[@Kevbot6000]

This honestly feels easier than the US version as Europe as a whole is more densely populated than the continental US so you’re much more likely to get a large or at least decently sized city every circle as opposed to the US where you could get one that hardly anyone knows about.

[@durengaad4477]

Bro he has to wirte down the BIGGEST City in that circle. Their a like 20 or more big citys in each circle. In the US everything is far bigger and further away from another. Hitting multiple big is by logic not so realistic

[@TyllToons]

I can't believe you thought of Bremen before Hamburg

[@inwalters]

Ok, I've said it before and I'll say it again - looking up how to spell something is not cheating - it's a geography, not a spelling quiz!

[@ChicagoGeographer]

I respectfully disagree, knowing how to spell place names is an important part of geographic knowledge, and looking things up mid-quiz no matter the intent would just feel wrong to me

[@csstuff421]

I do understand the cheating feeling tho

[@deepowls]

I did some playing around to figure out what starting point yields the most rings. CG has 33 cities with Copenhagen. One might think Iceland, but that doesn't work because the next two rings are very wide at 400-600 km. Akureyri is only 41 cities and Reykjavik is 42 cities. I think the most cities would involve starting in Russia, near the Asia border. Here's what I found after messing around for 10 minutes (all cities are Russian unless otherwise specified): 50 - Makhachkala 53 - Ponta Delgada, Portugal 55 - Orsk 55 - Tarifa, Spain 56 - Lagos, Portugal 56 - Yekaterinburg 57 - Troitsk 57 - Chelyabinsk After doing this, I noticed that the high score is 58, so I assume that's the most possible. I don't know my 10k Russian cities along the Europe/Asia border. The 58 ring solution is probably near Troitsk or north of Chelyabinsk. HugeQuiz did not include Kamensk-Uralsky nor Rezh as being in Europe. Heading north, Serov is west of Yekaterinburg, but it isn't counted as Europe, either.

[@deepowls]

Miasskoye, Russia generates 58 cities. The user prplt mentioned that in a different comment.

[@charliekoohler4774]

Could the Canary Islands be part of it? I wa just thinking, since technically they belong to spain. Or Greenland?

[@deepowls]

@@charliekoohler4774, no, since continents don't genetally go by political boundaries. I don't know how you could justify including Greenland or the Canary Islands, but exclude eastern Russia. Arguably, Reykjavik shouldn't count, as it's geologically part of North America. Most people find it easier to consider all of Iceland to be in Europe. North American Reykjavik would annoy quiz takers.

[@jss.42]

be here or be more circles

[@Xamwolfire]

Another HUGEQUIZ!! Love the expanding circles. Thanks for the wonderful content!

[@haroeneissa790]

This is a minor problem, but the video would look better if the map was in the middle of the screen because the white background takes up half the area.

[@ChicagoGeographer]

That's kinda just how the website is (can full screen the map but I don't really like playing that way), but I'll see if I can find a workaround next time

[@UserUnkown5]

Fun fact - Tolyatti was renamed after italian communist.

[@alessandrocozzi3299]

Yes, Palmiro Togliatti was the president of the communist party in Italy from like the 20's to the 60's.

[@El-Djazir-Blobfish]

NOT BERLIN IN SUDETENLAND AT THE THUMBNAIL

[@tastycheesegeo]

My beloved Tolyatti claimed an entire circle, let's goooooo

[@prnzssLuna]

Germany has a lot of fairly large cities, but not a lot of truely large ones (except Berlin maybe). Munich only has like 1.5 Million people. Vienna has almost 2.

[@SwissEditz24]

Vienna has not almost 2 it has over 2 million

[@prnzssLuna]

@@SwissEditz24 barely, by not even 6000 people but you're right

[@SwissEditz24]

@@prnzssLuna Yes

[@200sx16v]

That was great! You should do this again with the highest mountain.

[@azrule6663]

yo these videos are so fire man

[@alessandrocozzi3299]

Damn, I hoped to see some Italian cities, but Milan (1.3 mln) was in the same circle as St. Petersburg (5.6 mln) while Rome (2.8 mln) was in the same as Moscow (13.1 mln)

[@jonjanson2]

have you done the one its similar to this? game starts the same way, but you name the top 3 cities in that region. The circle expands just like this.

[@ChicagoGeographer]

Interesting! I should try that one too

[@KellerTwigg]

That sounds fun

[@jonjanson2]

It’s called “North American 100km Expanding circles top 3 challenge-Choose City”

[@KellerTwigg]

@@jonjanson2 nice

[@artemfilimonov7001]

Crazyyyyyy geographical knowledge!!!!!

[@Togangehver14dag]

Denmark is in the middle of Europe if you consider how far north Norway, Sweden and Finland goes (and you also count Iceland to it)

[@plushcap3320]

I think you should start from stockholm city hall... altho that might be too close to copenhagen

[@UserUnkown5]

As they say in Russia - "Gde Dagi, tam napryagi", which means "There are tensions when there are Dagestan people around". (Makhachkala is a capital of Dagestan Republic in Russia)

[@benjaminbiro5849]

2:42 good job at pronouncing Budapest with "sh" as if it would be written in English! 👋🏻🇭🇺

[@IcyyRL415]

As a bilingual american, sometimes I forget how difficult it is for people to pronounce things in different languages. Greatest advice I've ever heard for that is to stop pronouncing (insert language) words in English. Pretend you can't read and forget all English rules, and then try pronouncing it in (insert language).

[@igglye6805]

"Americans are so bad at geography” Americans:

[@nilsp9426]

You overtook me at Tolyatti 😕

[@BerkheRust]

How can Samara or Tolyatti be the biggest city when there is Ankara there? If you say Ankara is not on the European side, you are right, but then what was your reason for trying Izmir? Also, how are Samara and Tolyatti considered in Europe?or most cities in russia you wrote

[@nilsp9426]

If you want to try for a high score some time, maybe start in Portugal?

[@Lor-dn1vz]

I think warsaw would be a good spot. that way you don't end with just russia at the end.

[@Tornnnado]

I would've lost on the second circle 😅

[@matteow101]

Hollup, Turin is a bigger city in any metric than Dublin. Larger in city proper and in metropolitan. As an Italian-American, I am pressed

[@matteow101]

Also Naples is larger than sofia

[@Nooben2550]

the way you said göteborg made me feel weird and idk why

[@JellyDark583]

3:46 No Rome?

[@svinskowaino69]

Why does bro look like FranzJ

[@arnaul_de_lapras5853]

So Barcelona but not Madrid. Funny enough

[@Blacid.]

I think cg should travel to iceland 🇮🇸

[@furkanyilmaz0]

Isn't Ankara bigger than Kazan and Tolyatti?

[@gabsol7397]

It's not in Europe

[@explorernate]

It’s also in the asian part of Turkey, when this quiz is Europe. Easy mistake to make

[@furkanyilmaz0]

oh yeah i thought it was just the biggest city in that circle

[@narwaffl]

Start in Gibraltar

[@o_s-24]

of course makhachkala is the one

[@aiden1156]

Super!

[@arekzawistowski2609]

Start i geographical center of Europe

[@Sabsuba_Mapping]

What about tbilisi?

[@prplt]

it's not in Europe

[@Sabsuba_Mapping]

@@prplt it is in europe what are you even saying?

[@prplt]

@@Sabsuba_Mapping so why isn't it on the quizzes then 🙄

[@Sabsuba_Mapping]

@@prplt that's why i asked it

[@prplt]

@@Sabsuba_Mapping well it's not on the quizzes because it's not in Europe but Asia

[@tihk89]

lol, i did this quiz before watching the video and i started from Malmö, Sweden. I got almost the same answers for each circle :D

[@MrDanielms20]

First I guess :)