Naming every European town to cover the map!

[@ptero]

Some russian cities for foreigners to know (from northwest to southeast) Pskov - the former capital of Pskov Repiblic, was once the most protected fortress in Rus Veliky Novgorod - the former capital of Novgorod Republic Vyborg - city near Finland border, that was Finnish before 1939 Petrozavodsk - city on Onega Lake, named after Peter the Great Saint Petersburg - no introduction Arkhangelsk - city on the White sea, was once the most important port of Russia Murmansk - city near Norway, port on the Barentz sea Naryan-Mar - capital of Nenets Region, port on the river Pechora, one of the longest rivers in Europe and the most northern one Smolensk - ancient city near Belarus, port on the Dnieper river. Bryansk - city near Belarus and Ukraine, which took it's name from impenetrable forests it was surrounded with Tver - city between Petersburg and Moscow, located on Volga river, once rivaled the Moscow for dominance over region. Tula - city to the south from Moscow, famous for it's Tula Pryaniks sweets Moscow - no introduction Belgorod - prosperous city near Ukrainian border. (Though right now it suffers from the war) Kursk - city near ukrainian border. Near the city was the Kursk Battle of ww2 Voronezh - large city near the Ukrainian Border Rostov-Na-Donu - large city on the Azov sea, got it's name from the city Rostov. The name literally translates "Rostov on Don". Volgograd - large city on the river volga. It was once named Stalingrad, and is famous for ww2 battle. Krasnodar - extensively growing city in Kuban Region, the "Sun Belt" of Russia Stavropol - city in the planes north caucasus, was once important russian southern fortress. Golden Ring of Russia cities: Rostov - ancient city, located on the lake Nero, one of the first to be established in northeastern russia Vladimir - ancient city, that was once the capital of the most important russian duchy. Yaroslavl - was once the second most populous city in Russia, is very beautiful Kostroma - was once the third most populous city in Russia, the birthplace for Romanov Dynasty. Vologda - decent, calm russian city in the northern cultural region, rich for culture and architecture Nizhny Novgorod - large city, established by Novgorodians, named after their republic capital. It's located on the confluence of the river Oka into the river Volga. Kirov - city on the river Vyatka, was once the capital of Vyatka Republic, most probably governed by russian pirates Saransk - capital of Erzya and Moksha peoples Yoshkar-Ola - capital of Mari Republic. It got a cool name, also Mari people are considered the last people in europe that practice native pagan religion Izhevsk - capital of Udmurt Republic Kazan - large city, located on Volga, capital of Tatarstan, famous for it's old mosques and orthodox churches Cheboksary - capital of Chuvash Republic, located on Volga. Chuvash people are direct descendants from Volga Bulgars Samara - large, beautiful city with a beautiful name on Volga River Tolyatti - industrious city on the Volga river, the name has some Italian vibes, and yes, it was named after italian communist. Ulyanovsk - industrious city on Volga river, named after the Lenin, with his real surname Perm - large city on the river Kama, the largest tributary of Volga. It's located on the western slope of Ural Mountains. It's named after Great Duchy of Perm. The Permian Period was also named after this region. Solikamsk - city in the Perm Krai, one of the first to be established by russians. It's famous for it's old architecture and scenery. Ufa - large city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, south urals. Despite being a capital of Bashkir region, it's very multi ethnical, and also has russians and tatars inside it's borders Orenburg - city in the steppes near Kazakhstan border, located on Ural river. It was one of the most important frontier fortresses for russians, and has great historical significance. It also has very cool old architecture. Syktyvkar - capital of Komi Republic. One of the oldest frontier cities in the Russian northeast, located on the ancient track, that led to Siberia. That's it for now. Later will probably write about asian cities. You can read about them too, though! They're just as interesting as European cities, if not much more. I am just tired rn and want to sleep :)

[@cathylin6140]

L russia

[@Fyr35555]

glad that after studying Russia at A level I actually know about quite a few of these :)

[@PLF...]

Problem with Russia is that even if you input those, you're still 200 cities short. The quiz actually goes as far east as to include Yekaterinburg and south to Derbent and Grozny. Getting Russia in this quiz is harder than all the other countries put together which you can do in less than 10 fairly easy after few tries.

[@ptero]

@@PLF... I am sure you can get almost all Russian cities just by knowing regions capital cities. They are also pretty big, and you can do even better if you're proficient in Russia's geography and can guess cities with smaller population. I personally am very amazed at author's knowledge of European cities, I personally can only name like 30 of them. This is probably only why Russia seems hard - because it's just more unknown to people in other countries. It's not about population density. The only real problem I think is with northern regions of Russia, there's still a few lot of cities but they're distant from each other and you need to know them separately. Same thing with Lapland, though, but it's somehow was easier to do. UPD I actually ran the challenge and made input of all regional capitals in European Russia. Yep, it checked out, almost all of Russia was covered. There were only chunks of unclaimed land in northern parts of country and in South Urals (also some in chernozem region, but very small). Though when I tried to input cities that were ACTUALLY there (Like orsk and veliky ustyug) I couldn't do it, so I dunno, make your own lesson out of it

[@LillaJag]

Try Östersund next time for coverage of middle Sweden and middle norway. Its a city jn the middle of Sweden

[@dantesillstrom9445]

Bor där 🕶️

[@LillaJag]

@dantesillstrom9445 Nope. It's northern, but its more of the middle of Sweden. And not close to Örebro at all

[@PLF...]

and Mora.

[@roevhaal578]

@@Ezanke11 Lets find out, the northernmost point in Sweden is 69.06°N and the southernmost is 55.34°N which would make the middle point 62.2°N. Östersund is at 63.18°N so it's a full degree into the northern half.

[@Ezanke11]

@@LillaJag did i ever say that Örebro is close to Östersund? No

[@ILCMango]

So Akureyri is the largest Icelandic city outside of the Reykjavik area. Would likely have completed Iceland. Also, Aalborg is with double A, not Ar. Double A is an old way of writing Å in Danish, which has stuck around in a lot of place names and surnames. A little bonus fact from a native Aalborgenser: Since Å is the last letter of the Danish alphabet, Cities like Aalborg and Aarhus should go at the end of alphabetically sorted list, rather than at the beginning, despite starting with Aa.

[@MrQuiz]

That's really interesting!

[@GummieI]

tbf, even if it wasn't that common in Danish to still have aalborg with 2 a's instead of å, it would probably still have been in this quiz, since more people wont be able to type å easily (like can see with Aarhus, which is usually spelled with an Å in Danish, but it took it, when he did it with double Aa

[@bagaboiebailey]

the city in Iceland you missed was Akureyri, you should definitely memorize that city for future quizzes, it's actually the biggest settlement in Iceland outside of the Reykjavik metro area!

[@Bruce-yv9tm]

Mytilene is the main town on the Island of Lesbos in Greece. With that you would have completed Greece.

[@SharksAttack]

Finnish town in Lapland you were probably thinking is Ivalo. But it's too small. One of Kuopio, Kajaani or Joensuu would have most likely finished Finland.

[@wasen_aeon]

Here's a tip of a city that would help you clear the southeast of Sweden: Kalmar. It's the city next to the island of Öland. Visby on the island of Gotland would also be a good choice to clear that area.

[@TheDinisPT]

To complete Portugal you only needed the Azores! The capital is Ponta Delgada

[@MrQuiz]

That's something I should try and remember!

[@alex1231992]

Valletta itself only has a population of arround 6000, so it is too small

[@PLF...]

Problem with Portugal is that the Azores count. Tenerife don't for some reason. A few good ones is Visby (on Gotland), Malaga, Gijon, Murcia, Bodø, Mora, Umeå, Luleå, Östersund, Kuopio, Kalamata, Chios - and like 50 Russian ones.

[@andresilva8444]

Santa Cruz, Angra do Heroismo, Lajes, Ponta Delgada should cover the Azores for you. I also know a town in Norway called Haugesund that's just south of Bergen, should help cover some gaps. Good job, anyway.

[@prplt]

iirc Ponta Delgada is the only one that's big enough

[@hugequiz]

Nicely done!

[@MarcosArranzSoriano]

For Spain you could have done Gijon, Merida, Jaen and Almeria to fill the gaps. Hope its usefull

[@joaquin.5692]

For Spain you would have filled it with the following: Cáceres (my hometown) Gijon Jaen Almeria Ceuta and Melilla (2 autonomous cities in Northern Africa) And the Canary Islands (Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas)

[@nom3nnescio]

5:16 IVALO in finland, or inari And in Eastern parts are: Joensuu, Kuopio. In middle Jyväskylä. And east/lower part: Lappeenranta

[@PLF...]

For Finland it's enough with Kuopio, Tampere, Oulu and one of the southern ones. East and west will be covered by st. petersburg and Umeå

[@omranmusa5681]

not me watching this 1 hour before my med school entrance exam

[@worldwidequizzes]

Man you absolutely killed it. Knowing all of those cities is super impressive let alone spelling them. You deserve an award for that alone. You crushed my score I only got 8849

[@Labben91]

Try Molde or Ålesund west of Trondheim.

[@FigsyGames]

Great Stuff man

[@davidhansson7041]

Tips for Northern and middle Sweden: Mora, Åre, Östersund, Sundsvall, Luleå, Umeå, Kiruna. And Nothern Finland: Rovaniemi Enare and Norwigian Kirkenes

[@nom3nnescio]

Enare? I live in finland and I've never heard of that. Do you mean Ivalo? Or Inari?

[@nom3nnescio]

Lol I just googled and enare is inari in Swedish

[@roevhaal578]

Uhm Åre and Kirkenes are sub 10k, not even close really. Enare is neither English, Finnish nor local Sami spelling so I don't think it would work, well it wouldn't matter either way since it's below 10k despite being 17,333 km².

[@EskilP]

For Sweden maybe you need to cover the island of Gotland as well? It's in the Baltic Sea and the main city is called Visby. Could be too small though.

[@EskilP]

Ah, nevermind... It seems to be covered by both Stockholm and Linköping!

[@tommyblomkvist5434]

Try falun and borlange there iin the middle of sweden

[@higherorlowergame]

You'd absolutely love our geography higher or lower games. We challenge you to get a score of 20 :D

[@MrQuiz]

I'll have a look :)

[@bagaboiebailey]

in Italian, "gl" is pronounced like "ly", in the same manner aa "gn" is pronounced "ny" as in "sardeGNa". So it would be "calyari" not "cag-liari"

[@bunnyrblxx]

for north iceland do Akureyri, Isafjordur and Borgarnes random place in Finland or Sweden i know is Kolari For Poland do Szczecin and Bydgoszcz

[@bagaboiebailey]

yeah i memorized those two polish ones in a pair because they both happen to contain the consonant cluster "szcz", so I'd just type them one after another when doing city quizzes.

[@6891x]

Kolari is in Finland. It's nowhere near 10K+ though.

[@PLF...]

Konin is shorter, and if you just get Gdansk, Wroclaw and Krakow you're pretty much set when you get the surrounding larger ones in Germany and to the east (Kaliningrad especially)

[@oasis1282]

Salamanca in spain and ilomantsi or kuopio in finland would of gotten you some territory.

[@6891x]

The population of Ilomantsi is not over 10K, it's about 5000... Joensuu would've been good.

[@aleografics311]

Mieres or Cáceres would have filled that void in Spain. 💀

[@ScottishProductionsYT]

I used to live in the town of Kilsyth. Without looking up guess how many people are in this town

[@marbe166]

Hugely annoying that the country abbrevations are very wrong.

[@some______guy]

You missed ålesund

[@ginismoja2459]

I don't get it. You type a city and a dozen dots appear?

[@killianobrien2007]

the dots are cities and when you name a city the cities in a radius around it are covered. the aim is to cover all cities in all the countries

[@ChrisFan890]

Hi

[@bunnyrblxx]

roblox

[@thephilm3535]

I would either learn how to actually say the names of places or just pronounce them the English way because pronouncing "Odense" as 'odinthe' is borderline embarrassing 😅