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.
For Friesland:
(these are a few municipalities)
For the Netherlands, Wikipedia (for each municipality seperately) is a better source than Citypopulation
This isn’t munis though, this is “Urban Centres” which is how Netherlands tabulates their census data:
https://citypopulation.de/en/netherlands/
I do have separate Netherlands municipality quizzes.
I meant these are points for a few municipalities in Friesland. I live there, and all those places have placename markers. Citypopulation is very inaccurate for the Netherlands. This website https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/86312NED/table?ts=1775233527049 of the Dutch Bureau for Statistics contains all official places in the Netherlands.
Helden, Oirsbeek en Amstenrade seems to be missing in Limburg… They should be large enough
I’m not even seeing Helden on citypopulation.de – maybe the census doesn’t consider it one of the places they tabulate?
strange, i’ts relatively ‘big’, maybe it is added to Panningen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helden,_Limburg
These are not places in Flevoland, just neighbourhoods: #1 Emmeloord-Emmelhage (0%) #2 Nobelhorst (23.52%) #3 Lelystad-Zuigerplas (0%)#23 #4 Lelystad-Kromkamp (0%) #5 Houtribhaven (0%) #6 Lelystad-Parkhaven (0%) #7 Flevopoort (5.88%) #8 Lelystad-Groene Velden (0%) #9 Lelystad-Jagersveld (0%) #10 Almere-Schapenbos (0%)
Can you remove them from the list?
Many regards, Paul
The Dutch census counts them as ‘urban places’ which is what I use for Dutch populations. The Dutch census actually doesn’t even tabulate ‘city’ populations.
Thanks for your reply.
I’m afraid they are wrong. I grow up in that province and never heard of those ‘places’.
Yeah the Dutch census is weird in how they tabulate data…they do use ‘urban places’ instead of ‘cities’ though, you can see on this page:
https://citypopulation.de/en/netherlands/
Oud-Loosdrecht/Nieuw-loosdrecht are here with Utrecht (it’s in North Holland). On the map you can see both fall outside of the provincial borders.
Interesting – citypopulation.de has them in Utrecht, however Wikipedia says they are in North Holland. I’ll move them to North Holland.
Maybe you should’t rely too much on our Germans friends. They have 80 years old maps probably 😀 And we’re continuously changing our lower administrative divisions as you know by now. 🙂