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Test your knowledge of world cities with the 'World 100 Closest Cities - Choose Any City' quiz. Can you correctly identify the closest city to various locations?

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Yes. Most quizzes allow common abbreviations, alternate spellings, and short forms. Try typing just the first few letters — if it matches, it will autofill.

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World 100 Closest Cities – Choose Any City

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Begin by typing in any 50K+ world city in the format City, Country – i.e. ‘Moscow, Russia’. Use ‘Bosnia’ for Bosnia & Herz, ‘Czech’ for Czech Republic, ‘CAR’ for Central Afr Republic, ‘DRC’ for Dem Rep of the Congo, ‘UK’ for United Kingdom, ‘UAE’ for United Arab Emirates, and ‘US’ for United States. There are a handful of cities with the same name in the same country. For those in the US, add the state in the format ‘City, State, US’ – i.e. ‘Aurora, CO, US’ – for other countries, add a number corresponding to the population rank for that city among similar-named cities in that country, i.e. for the largest Fuzhou, China, type ‘Fuzhou, China1’. Then name the 100 closest cities to the one you chose.

Enter city to begin (i.e. 'Cairo, Egypt').

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rombik97

20 hours ago

Could it please show all missed cities or something similar? Or otherwise at least one should also be able to choose whether to sort by population, distance to the original city or how frequently it was guessed by people in general

rombik97

4 days ago

After playing a couple of games, the checklist on the right for some reason shows double the number of cities that there should be, both for the size and for the “3 closest” etc. Example: 3 Closest: 0/6

5 Closest: 1/10

10 Closest: 3/20

25 Closest: 6/50

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darin

2 days ago

Reply to rombik97

Hmm, tried a few times and never saw that issue come up.

slayku

1 year ago

Can you change is so you can see the ones you missed on the map instead of just 20 missed

quidditch

1 year ago

I think there might be an issue with multiple cities in a certain country. When I try doing Yushu, Qinghai, China; I get led to the one in Jilin. Even when I type “2” and then the rest before, it doesn’t recognize “Yushu, China2.”

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to quidditch

Fixed this.

bobzox

2 years ago

I have a premium account and not able to see missed answers on this quiz…will that be added?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to bobzox

On this one you can by clicking on the ’20 Missed’ after the quiz is over and the table appears. They won’t appear on the map for this quiz.

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rombik97

5 days ago

Reply to darin

Could it please be all missed ones or something similar? Or at least they should also be sorted by population and not just by distance to the original city (like choosing whether to sort by distance or population)

mevmev

2 years ago

US cities don’t work for me, though UK do. Is there some issue with the abbreviation?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to mevmev

per instructions you need city then state then US…”Chicago, IL, US” for example