First choose any Europe 10K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any Europe 10K+ city in each 100 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice, trying to name SECOND LARGEST city in each circle. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.
PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the largest one will be counted.
You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named in relation to the second largest city in the circle. A smaller city’s point total will be the ratio of its population to the largest, so if you name a city of 75K people and the largest city has 100K, you get 75 points. Naming the largest city will get you points based on the ratio of the 2nd largest city's population to the largest city's.
When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring’s 2nd largest city at right (under ‘Answer Stats’ by your coordinates).
For example, if you choose ‘Paris’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 km to appear outside that circle, however - you will want to try naming the SECOND LARGEST city you can to get more points. After completing that circle, you now need to name any 10K+ Europe city in the new ring (but not within any previous circles/rings), again trying to name the 2nd largest city. If there are not two cities within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until two cities fall within it.
Damn, I have to wait for the number of cities to get all the way back up to 9936 before I can try for the highscore again
3 days is honestly outrageus. World, US, and Europe city quizzes are the best part of the website.
I seriously considered becoming a member, but the free usage going from a week to 5 days to 3 days just shows your greed, and I can’t reward that.
Well if you realized how much Google charges for their Maps API, you’d think differently. Also, this is my full-time job, so there’s that too.
I can’t understand anyone that complains about some of the quizzes being locked behind a paywall – this isn’t a huge website that makes a profit. Darin is the sole dev who puts a huge amount of time into making and maintaining these quizzes. To consider him greedy is ridiculous.
I don’t mind the paywall itself, as I’ve said, it’s the fact that the days available decrease with time. Instead of making the website better or finding alternative ways to profit off of it, he just resorts to the easy way out. He’s in his right, but I don’t respect it.
the only person being greedy is you.
id rather support a website i enjoy a lot than have ad spam everywhere
Just pay money for a service that you enjoy bro. its not that big a deal
Czy można zrobić ten sam quiz na przykład po polsku? Jest to denerwujące się, że po polsku wiem, jak nazywa się dane miasto, a po angielsku już nie i przez to mam słabszy wynik.
I love the challenge. The Russian part at first is annoying, but the more you practice, it gets more and more interesting
i love looking up wikipedia articles for places that have 11,000 people that are in the middle of nowhere and are nevertheless the biggest town in a 100km radius.
Can we just pretend that Russia is not Europe, i think everyone would be happier.
In quiz terms, of course xD
Could you please update the country codes to reflect ISO standard? I know it’s a Europe quiz, but AUS is Australia, not Austria. San Marino is SMR not SAN, etc. etc.
Sorry, that’s just how I have the countries coded on this one. Wasn’t really thinking about the standard 🙂
Fantastic quiz but PLEASE make a version without russia…
Mate, that’s cringe.
russia is the only challenging part ngl, getting rid of it will make it boring
Great quiz!
How do you get 9909 when 9897 is max on Int.?
It changes over time as cities are constantly being updated – it will be up over 9909 before long.
back to first (int)
🙂
how to get Russia….
honestly no clue
it is really easy
this ever gonna be free again?
It’s free the 1st thru the 7th of every month (the week the Europe city and World city map quizzes are all free).
Castellón de la Plana isnt working for advanced
it works it fills in under just ‘castello’
9899 finally lol
9874/9899 SOOO CLOSE
Sintra (Portugal) not working as well
the locality is under 10K:
http://citypopulation.de/en/portugal/lisboa/sintra/022713__sintra/
Why Piraeus (Greece) doesn’t work?
https://citypopulation.de/en/greece/athens/5101__dímos_peiraiós/
population 168151
That’s counted as part of Athens (as are other munis)
9379 new high score 😀
Nice!
If stuck on Russia 1. follow the roads up along the Urals 2. flush out the borders 3. Naryanmar
Where do you get your cities and positions from?
mostly citypopulation.de
9427. i dont think its too bad.
Good one, got 9667/9885
8808, but I did it in a beginner level. Being russian quite helped, although I’ve mostly spent time correcting spelling mistakes and remembering the cities I’ve been and seen on my russian version of the Ticket to Ride map.
Real’no +++
Even with the 3-hour mode, I still wasn’t able to get all. 13 cities in northern Russia were all that was left though. Great fun!
managed to get 8847/9882 cities, i would say not too bad
I did alrigt 😉
fyi added Russian rural settlements/villages which hadn’t been included, so we are nearing 10K total places 🙂
hi darin, there are some settlements on European side of turkey, in canakkale region. Across the strait from main city of canakkale, there are gelibolu, enez which are +10k
hey…yeah but I’m just including cities in provinces where the whole province is on the Euro side (except Istanbul)
Why when I type Izmir (Turkey) it doesn’t work?
not in europe
only Turkish cities in Europe included
interesting challenge
can anyone do sweden it is impossible
depends what level of difficulty you mean?
It’s impossible even on beginner
I got 34 🙁
On Intermediate, naming Kiruna, Luleå, Skellefteå, Umeå, Sundsvall, Östersund, Gävle, Borlänge, Stockholm, Örebro, Karlstad, Jönköping, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Halmstad, Västervik, Kalmar, Kristianstad and Copenhagen (Denmark) does it.
I´m always missing something in Norway and I can´t for the life of me figure out which one it is.
Probably one of this: Harstad, Alta or Forde.
Is expert even possible???
Everyone – I’ve had to shut this quiz down except for Premium Members – this will change but for now it’s costing me over $100/day just for the Google Maps usage associated with this quiz alone. Please consider becoming a member to support the site, and check back soon to see if this quiz is available again.
Hi Darin, and thanks a lot for this great game! Have you tried switching to an OSM provider instead?
it would be a ton of work and I wouldn’t be able to have the nice Google features everyone loves, there are a ton of maps quizzes on this site 🙂
I know you probably get a ton of suggestions now, but if it costs that much, maybe try caching responses from google?
it’s not that, it’s that every time the quiz is loaded it is a Maps API request, which can’t be cached. But I think we’re getting things under control now 🙂
Just messaging to say that the quizzes are much appreciated!
thx!
im so sad right now
you’ll be ok 🙂 $3.99 only for three months 🙂
not everyone has 3.99.
bro it’s costing him $100 a month bro
bit more than that lol
Probably many are playing this quiz because a few days ago the YouTuber GeoWizard played the quiz. And his video has over 50,000 views.
over 500,000 🙂
When will the quiz be accessible again? Are there any similar quizzes, or have they all been made Premium?
probably within a couple weeks. just search for Coverage or Europe Coverage there are many others 🙂
Nie ma ani jednego
that sucks 🙁
I’m legit missing 2 cities for a max score in Russia, can anyone help me maybe? What are the most obscure/difficult cities to get?
no one cares about russia
I do, problems?
Check Kem, Elista, Syktyvkar
I’m confused about when a country is “completed”. I swear that I have a blue circle covering every single part of France, including Corsica, and yet it’s not putting France as complete. 🙁
france have a lot of colonial parts like french polinesia or frech guyana
yes other countries do too, I only consider geographical Europe for this quiz
Im so sad… wanted to play but i dont have any money 🙁
I wouldn’t have any either if I didn’t get this quiz under control lol 🙂
8920/9666 – beginner
ok for the first try?
Beginner about 9300, intermediate about 8300.
8831 on beginner. Not bad. But the one that really annoyed me was I couldn’t fill in the east of Iceland and I couldn’t fill in Crimea. I tried Simferapol and Sebastopol but it wouldn’t take it. I tried different spellings but I guess either I never got the spelling right or for some reason it’s not considered as Europe. Frustrating.
Sevastopol with a V and Simferopol with an O 🙂
personally i wouldnt say that the faroe islands are part of denmark
they’re a territory of Denmark 100%
*A territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. I would personally seperate the two.
*A territory of the Kingdom of Denmark* I wouldn’t say it’s as black and white as you put it, and personally I would seperate the two, but I respect it if you don’t – still a cool map!
9637. how cover Portugal? is Funchal (Madeira) included?
The Azores are, not Funchal.
Isn’t Cyprus an Asian?
You included even Orenburg (Russia) but not the Atyrau (Nort-West Kazakhstan) which seems odd.
Cyprus is included in Europe on many quiz sites. I include Russia east to the Urals as part of Europe. Kazakhstan is always considered Asian.
Kazakhstan is mostly considered as Asian, but part of it’s territory in Europe. What you are consider as southeast boundary of Europe after Urals? Kazakhstan–Russia border? Wiki says it’s Ural River and such towns as Uralsk and Atyrau placed right on it.
I don’t know a single quiz site that considers any part of Kazakhstan in Europe, sorry. Yes I can see that geographically it may be considered partly in Europe but for all my quizzes I consider it Asia.
Really fun, well done making this! Got 9256, I’m guessing almost all I missed were in Russia as I only know ~10 Russian cities, and the rest of the map was pretty well covered, except for rural parts of Scandinavia and a couple of islands which won’t account for many cities.
One question: it lists there as being 4 cities with 5m+ population and 5 with 2.5-5m, and says I got all of both categories, but I can’t work out the 5th 2.5-5m city after Madrid, Rome, Berlin, and Kyiv. Is there one? All the sources I can find only list those 4, and all the 1-2.5m ones on the Wiki list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cities_by_population_within_city_limits) show up as the same here, meaning either there isn’t a 5th, or it’s one not on that list at all. It said I found all 5, I just can’t think what it could be, and being a bit OCD it’s bugging me, so thought I’d ask!
Thanks again for a great game!
Although 99% of turkey doesn’t count for the quiz, the city you’re looking for is Istanbul.
I love this, can we expect other continents in the future? 😀
there are some already, just search for Coverage
Why isn’t Georgia included in Europe?
Georgia is never really included in Europe, either politically or geographically. Same with Armenia and Azerbaijan.
As a mostly Christian nation, one could argue that Georgia (and also Armenia) is at least culturally a European nation. The case for Armenia is even stronger, since Armenian is an Indo-European language. But geographically they are both in Western Asia
Georgia and Azerbaijan are for a small part geographically in Europe. Just like Khazakstan and Turkey. In all 4 of them the majority is in Asia though.
I don’t know if Georgia has any 10k+ cities in Europe as nearly all of Georgia that is in Europe is on the mountain range.
I’m not managing to complete greece with: Athens, Corfu, Thessaloniki, Sparta and some coverage from plovdiv and tirana. Does anyone know what i’m missing?
Herklion as well, on beginner difficulty.
something on islands near Turkey I presume?
I’ve been looking but i cant find a city that works
Kalimnos and Mytilene should do it 🙂
Yes thank you!
Also Rhodes, Greece’s 4th largest island
You’re getting a lot of critical comments, but I think this is really good, keep it up
can’t please everyone! and city populations and spellings can differ but I typically get these all from citypopulation.de.
it didn’t take Örebro (Sweden )
It doesn’t allow ö,ä or å, so you have to replace ö with o, ä or å with a. It’s pretty annoying, but I understand why it’s done that way, better to allow both.
yes getting a lot of European users recently with the geowizard video. ill see if I can address this soon so non English letters are accepted.
Same goes for the letter č
I didn’t try Örebro. But it sure accepted “Göteborg” so I think you’re wrong about åäö
I’ve fixed a few things so a lot of accented/umlaut letters will be accepted, try refreshing the quiz and holding Ctrl so you get a non cached version
Cities like Nuremburg and Caligari arent working for me
they are ‘Nuremberg’ and ‘Cagliari’
In fact its Nürnberg. Many cities have different names in different languages. I’d like to see this adressed. Else I would have to “translate” via Google or Wikipedia what takes the fun.
yeah I usually have the English names for cities, I don’t know if it’s even practical to look up all the thousands of spellings for the thousands of cities in their native languages, sorry.
my comment is that I am surprised not to know anything about the scandinavian countires, they are yet so popular but yet so unpopular (when it comes to geography)
Höfn is not registering
needs to be 10k or more population