How many World Cities can I name? (PART 1: Oceania)

[@mitchellsmith300]

You know he's good when you can only just beat him in your home continent.

[@zi8gzag]

this guy is a beast

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Still not as well as you would have done 👑

[@VitalEwe]

@@jakelyonsgeo I feel like zigzag might only beat you on australia if even

[@paschtetli_geo]

Awesome! Can‘t wait for Europe!

[@jessali_]

It's really kinda soothing to hear you come up with a bunch of city names. 😂 Your knowledge is incredible, by the way! I also think that the 30ish-minute length for this kind of video is perfect. Dividing the world into regions makes it easily digestible.

[@Sal.K--BC]

especially if your stoned... that was impressive.

[@TheMajorMicro]

damn you know we are in a treat for this series when Jake is pulling Bordertown SA 2 minutes in. I'm from SA and that is a deep pull.

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Just remembered it for the distinctive name :)

[@peterhammond1701]

"Wagger Wagger" ... love it. Your pronunciation is not terrible, and you know as many cities as I do so 9/10 from a well-travelled Aussie.

[@kpsavg]

You can just delete Rockingham, NC from the My Cities list with the trash can icon on the right

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Ooh this is big brain advice, thanks

[@kormagogthedestroyer]

For me personally, I prefer the quizzes be done on the individual continent maps. I know there isn’t one for Oceania, but it’s easier on the eyes for me to have the dots more spread out and I have an easier time telling what I have missed

[@pikachude5490]

"If I butcher any pronunciations" instantly says albury wrong

[@jakelyonsgeo]

I told you I would…

[@pikachude5490]

@@jakelyonsgeo haha yeah was said all in good fun, I'm just glad you pronounced bendigo right

[@mellorifick1730]

watching this back again, please continue this series!

[@oelrich]

You were definitely conned out of the markers for Kaikōura, Akaroa and Lake Tekapo (though it may have just been Tekapo in game?) there, those all do exist and were spelled right

[@wintrooz7861]

I seems like it gave you Rockingham NC because there was a comma you put in there, but I don’t know why it would do the US when you have Australia selected

[@Goofy685]

Loving this, looking forward to the rest! A "city" with an easy to remember name in French Polynesia is Faaa, more like a suburb of Papeete, but it has a fun name lol

[@amber921]

This sounds super fun! Will defintely stick around for the future parts!!

[@unknown6000]

What a great series idea! Really hoping you'll do this for every region. Will give me a good score to work towards ;)

[@vanaox3690]

Great video, I’m super excites

[@diamondarmorsteve]

You can actually remove cities that you've already named. Scroll down to the city and hit the trash can. That way you can get rid of Rockingham

[@vimzie41]

Excited for this series

[@jameshl1137]

There is another Palmerston (South Island) that is the reason for Palmerston North being called North, surprising it didn't pop. Also another name twin to remember for NZ is Havelock and Havelock North, named that way for the same reason. You only really missed 2 cities in Rotorua and Wanganui so that was a great effort! And the one on the South Island between Dunedin and Timaru you were trying to think of was Oamaru :)

[@1.FutureBoy]

I'm looking forward to the rest of this series. North America is gonna be fun!

[@Tom-hv7hs]

Nice Job! I think the biggest cities you missed are Ballarat and Ipswich.

[@Ogbosh]

Love your videos, Jake. You are very charismatic person. Waiting for part with Russia :)

[@kiribatiforlife8193]

Good video mate

[@kentziti8752]

If u entered a city u don’t want u can delete it from the count like the rockhingham one

[@lazii1605]

Great start to the series, looking forward to the next episodes !

[@SnowTheJamMan]

Nice, the city GOAT, can't wait for Europe, even though i'm European and my record is 596 i think you'll beat it haha

[@yeh386]

The only two territories I can think of that you missed are Bougainville Island and Torres Strait Islands. I love the concept and I'm looking forward to future episodes!

[@jakelyonsgeo]

If only I knew cities there 😢

[@mellorifick1730]

There's a few big towns in New Zealand that don't show up on this website for some reason: Kaikoura and Akaroa definitly should count, and there's others like Ohakune which definitely are large enough to show up but don't :/ Also you were thinking of Hokitika rather than Hokitiki

[@lcmortensen]

It's caused by the database only including New Zealand towns with a population over 2500. Kaikoura (2330), Ohakune (1490) and Akaroa (780) fall short.

[@mellorifick1730]

@@lcmortensen weird why it's like that for nz, many European and American countries have towns with populations down to just 10 people, and they even show up on the website

[@Tvillingklippan]

I'm not surprised that there is inconsistencies in different countries. Imagine the nightmare that is compiling this list. Having to get population data from around 200 countries with different definitions, varying levels of digital precences, different levels of knowledge of where the population resides. Imagine how many places in India or China houses 2500+ people. Should be several thousands each

[@lcmortensen]

@@mellorifick1730 Not sure why. Statistics New Zealand defines 195 urban areas (pop. >1000) and 402 rural settlements.

[@mellorifick1730]

@@lcmortensen yeah that's more what I thought

[@arrowheaded]

13:25 Also unsure why it won't accept it. It's technically spelt "Kaikōura", but you didn't have to add the diacritic for other Maori names so idk. Good video, looking forward to the other continents (🇦🇶 moment?)

[@kfkele5302]

Only youtuber that i really watch everyday you upload

[@norbertkaldy7563]

Thanks for doing Aus first. Love watching your videos from Australia!

[@Fanro3]

Great series

[@burhankizilel8561]

Hi from Turkey, love your videos. Keep up the good work

[@tobiasschlogl6262]

You can highlight the last named location in the games settings, right below the map, to have a better overview of you last named city

[@LucasHirata_]

Well done, waiting for the other continents!

[@noambarsh]

Awesome series!

[@tobiasschlogl6262]

Please continue this series!

[@callum8147]

Excited for the series even though Australia is likely the only country you wouldn't clobber me on :)

[@Colpolmen]

Love how many new cities i learn from this vids

[@fenilpatel6931]

This series is gonna be a lot of fun to watch and also a great opportunity to learn cities all across the globe…Can’t wait for India but please don’t disappoint me Jake lol😂😂…just kidding…Really enjoyed the video😁😁

[@andydoesgeo7440]

I was shocked when you managed to name Tom Price. Small mining town in the middle of nowhere, WA. I used to work there for a while!

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Wow, cool! I remembered it because the Plonk It Australia guide mentions its unique landscape :)

[@basby76]

Was hoping he’d say Newman where I work, just down the road 😊

[@Guessther]

always fun hearing you name places i've never heard of! already excited for when you get to my country 😁

[@Maddie_flamingo246]

I mean, we australians are genuinely just lazy and almost always ignore the 'r' in words, or its a lot softer than other accents. Like for cairns and melbourne, we just act like the r isn't in the word, basically. Our accent sucks, we all sound like bogans 😂 Your knowledge is so impressive, its mindblowing how many places you can name! And it was pretty cool to get a newcastle shoutout, we're usually ignored because sydney is so close lol

[@MikeP2055]

Well done! I look forward to continents I'm more familiar with, ha. I think I could probably name six cities in Australia and two in New Zealand, max. I'd probably end up naming English cities, hoping they had duplicates. "Um, New Liverpool? South Birmingham? Other Portsmouth? Cardifferent? London II, Electric Boogaloo?" Oh, and YOU MISSED SOME OBVIOUS ONES! (I don't know which ones, but you told us to yell at you in the comments. Just following orders.😉)

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Cardifferent would be a fantastic city name 😂

[@wookgg]

short answer: a lot 🐐

[@dblockjumper6929]

Good job in tourney today btw

[@wookgg]

@@dblockjumper6929 ty, it was a good one

[@XatuYs]

25 Minutes only for Oceania makes me feel like a amateur xD

[@lynxraide]

Someone said Port Headland in WA, but I am laughing at SA: get some smallish towns, miss 5 of the biggest: Whyalla, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Renmark and Murry Bridge. Also surprised you missed Ballarat in Victoria and possibly Gosford/Central Coast in NSW

[@JayJayGamerOfficial]

Well, you know your cooked when the only state you can name more towns in is your own state

[@ImPasta766]

You can delete cities so if you scroll down you can delete the us city by clicking the garbage can button next to the place name

[@peepeetrain8755]

Australian maps show places that aren't towns bc of how sparse it is, i am only 5 mins in and Cocklebiddy is a motel (no town, just a motel and service station) because its in between a good days drive between the nearest towns. and Davenport is a station, a ranch you'd call it in America, it is only on maps bc it is the only nameable place in the area. NT and QLD has a lot of these stations that you'd think are towns but just massive cattle ranches. Also this quiz is weird with it's towns, actual towns (of reasonable size, i don't expect all tiny villages to be here like Ebor) like Merriwa and Charters Towers aren't in the map at all but some suburbs like South Wentworthville and Shellharbour City Centre are? i wanna know what data source they are using. And Kingston gave you Kingston in Tasmania bc it is bigger

[@alienoidyt1]

good job! expected you to get whanganui

[@jakelyonsgeo]

And there’s the big one I missed 😔

[@hugequiz]

You can do the hugequiz Europe Largest Cities or US All Places quizzes to name them all too, and you can hide the markers if you'd like :)

[@70s80schick2]

As a Kiwi, there are a lot of towns/cities that don't come up here in the South Island. A bit annoying really

[@AnthonyRochester]

You actually pronounced Launceston correctly - something that mainland Australians can't do.

[@pikachude5490]

Whats mainland australia? Tasmania is fake

[@elainerose8799]

Wow! Impressive performance 😁

[@marttufn6292]

Keep doing these please

[@kormagogthedestroyer]

The only city I knew that you didn’t get is nadi, Fiji. Also I’m kinda surprised you only got 3 in Papua New Guinea

[@mikenash8572]

Thank you for doing my continent!

[@thorvaldenger-ullbraten1383]

Very good and intersting video😊

[@mild1natio2]

Port Hedland, WA was maybe the most obvious one you missed, to me at least. I knew a few others in the Pacific but you had a good 50% more than me in NZ/Aus. Also you didn't type in Kingston, Norfolk Island, but I guess you didn't know Kingston, Tasmania that it gave you so it evens out-if you're trying to not accidentally get ones you don't actually know best to type in the territory and also probably US states

[@jakelyonsgeo]

I think I did actually type Kingston, Norfolk Island 😁

[@filippo5401]

You could balance the US Rockingham by not tiping in an obvious city like NY. Keep up btw you’re a real one👍

[@half55-qo1tq]

How many regions would there be? And would you divide them geographically or by number of cities you are expecting to name like grouping together countries where you don't know many cities and giving a single episode to countries tou know well(for example US)? I know you just started series and probably didn't plan in advance

[@jakelyonsgeo]

That’s probably how I’ll go about the grouping, yes, but I have no idea how many regions that’ll amount to 😅 kinda playing it by ear

[@DylpiqkleSTier]

what are the qualifications for this? How large does the town have to be???

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Any size, but it’s sometimes a bit finicky with what it decides to accept

[@JohnHazl]

This is my crack

[@France_Mapping-r63]

Easter island count ? wake island too ? papua from indonesia (maybe not) ? johnson atoll ? midway island ? east timor ? don't know ? and hawaii i can understant because its united states (a state) even its in the pacific

[@jakelyonsgeo]

I was planning to do Easter island as part of SA, papua and Timor as part of Asia, and Hawai’i as part of the US. As for the others, I don’t know of any cities in those places!

[@Konnen-l9h]

I wanna see how you do in south America

[@oasis1282]

Better get Biak on Biak island in Indonesian Papua when you do Asia.

[@leonhardschumann6037]

Akaroa is the part of the peninsula next to Christchurch and Kaikoura is a town, but the quiz doesn’t list it

[@liminallost...]

Impressive!

[@bedef1980]

Super impressed with that. Kaikōura and Akaroa should have been there for sure. Hokitika and Greymouth on the west of South Island.

[@rejectamenta]

"Only" 149 in Oceania though :(

[@daniellonnqvist2304]

Nadi would have been the one in fiji.

[@blondeandconfused]

Geelong is pronounce juh-long btw!

[@voleqz5025]

Do you have a photographic memory? Wow.

[@jakelyonsgeo]

I’m not sure what qualifies as photographic - I don’t think so, but it’s still a pretty good memory lol

[@luke_bongoman89]

Maybe I missed it but did you do Fiji?

[@jakelyonsgeo]

I think so, yep!

[@isterning1210]

Youre crazy, i only got 21 cities in Oceania

[@camallender]

Pago pago is actually pronounced “pango pango” :). Great video as always

[@ZT3G]

This is great

[@hannesandersson9140]

If you dont want to keep that us town delete it clicking the bin next to it

[@ground.jordan]

yess

[@TheBoyer19]

Something to remember with Australian cities is apparently they don't like to pronounce the letter 'R' so Melbourne is pronounced Melbin

[@je7710]

87 in Australia is insane… how do you remember so much? I’m trying to memorise cities What are your secrets 😂

[@jakelyonsgeo]

Look at maps a lot 😂 also brush up a little bit before recording (but don’t tell anyone I did that 🤫)

[@je7710]

@@jakelyonsgeo I'll let you off... just tried to name as many Oceanic cities as I could and got 39 😭

[@GustavoSbrissia]

Northern Mariana islands

[@roevhaal578]

My favourite town name in Australia is Eromanga, I can't believe you missed it.

[@awesam628]

Bartolo

[@mildertduck]

I think the NZ city you missed was there, you just mis-spelled it...

[@MySisterIsASlytherin]

Humpty Doo?

[@powerek]

random comment for yt algorithm

[@emshanoffAlt]

hi

[@TheMajorMicro]

comment for the algo

[@CatzHoek]

It's not interesting at all. It's fucking mindblowing. 150? I would be proud if i knew 7 in australia and 3 in new zealand and maybe one random on a pacific island.

[@paschtetli_geo]

I think you missed Kangaroo Island ;)

[@jakelyonsgeo]

I mean, I didn’t forget about it but I don’t think I know any cities there 🙃

[@Джеклейланд]

@@jakelyonsgeoI think American River is the one you were most likely to remember on kangaroo island

[@dblockjumper6929]

Yoo