Upon clicking START you will be shown 5 circles, one at a time, with increasing radii: 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 km. The object is to move the circle to the location in the US such that it covers the most amount of people, based on Europe population density data. You are scored based on how many people you cover compared to the maximum possible (score is based on the ratio of people in your circle compared to max possible - score is not an exact ratio but falls faster than that).
PLEASE NOTE: ALL of Turkey is included in counting population (not just European portion), and the portion of Russia west of 61.5 degrees E (just east of Chelyabinsk). Nothing outside Europe (such as Africa or middle east other than Turkey) is included toward the population count within a circle.
Fredensborg seems bugged
this is fixed – was under Fredensborg Stationsby.
Missing a lot of cities around copenhagen.
Ballerup, Herlev, Glostrup, Gladsaxe, Søborg, Rødovre, Hvidovre, Gentofte, Hellerup, Holte, Ishøj, Albertslund, Klampenborg, Vandløse, Skovlunde, Charlottenlund, Bagsværd, and so on. Hope to have them added in some way. Maybe a newer list of city names is available.
those are municipalities, Denmark uses urban areas as the closest thing to cities, or if they are in the Copenhagen area their census counts them toward Copenhagen total.
They are not all municipalities. E.g. Søborg is a town Gladsaxe municipality. I get that a lot get bunched in with Copenhagen as a greater urban area, but it’s waay too “inclusive” in this quiz. In general, most municipalities are named after the largest city in the area, but some have different names e.g. if they used to be two municipalities that were then joined and to make it “fair” they made a 3rd name, usually a nearby lake, forest, or something similar landmark’y.
yeah I just go by my source, http://citypopulation.de/en/denmark
That source identifies Copenhagen as ~ what is normally referred to as the “greater Copenhagen area”, but that’s a region not a city. Somewhat subjective too. It would probably be better to go by municipalities as the umbrella parameter, and then focus on the cities after that. But I get that the source doesn’t do that and you would have to do them manually so I understand completely. It’s just that the natives might be somewhat annoyed. E.g. in Copenhagen there is an enclave (Frederiksberg) that is it’s own municipality (and city) but for all intents and purposes have merged with Copenhagen, similar to the suburban areas.
CityPopulation lists Statistics Denmark as its source. So if anyone disagrees with what’s considered a “city” in this context, it’s probably best to raise it with Statistics Denmark (a Danish government agency) and their definitions/methodology.