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Name the 10 largest cities in each elevation range. Elevations are based on the Google Elevation API using the coordinates of the city used on my cities quizzes. Obviously cities can span a good amount of elevation but I am using the elevation at the point of the city coordinate.

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mickiac

11 months ago

Sorry, but this is a ridiculously poor quiz.

victor_pavao

1 year ago

New Orleans didn’t average below 0 ft?

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to victor_pavao

According to the source no, and it’s not an average it’s the elevation at the coordinate I use for my city quizzes.

porkmanshrekys

1 year ago

this is about as easy as guiding a drunk rhinoceros, this seems arbitrarily weird maybe i don’t understand this

rubenvb

1 year ago

Why are cities like tokyo, new york, london etc. not accepted? They are definitely among the largest cities?

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to rubenvb

They are but not among the largest in their elevation ranges – remember on my site populations are city proper not whole metro area.

porkmanshrekys

1 year ago

Reply to darin

i can’t figure this game out

porkmanshrekys

1 year ago

Reply to darin

also there isn’t enough time

acherry

1 year ago

Reply to darin

Tokyo is the largest city in the world! how is it not the largest in its elevation range???

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to acherry

Not by city proper population. My quizzes use city proper, per the figures on citypopulation.de.

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