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.
why is there an orange pin with 48k population next to Middelburg? There is no big town there.
Netherlands uses ‘urban centres’ which are sometimes larger and have geographic centroids not necessarily in the ‘city’ area of a place – that pin is Middelburg.
The map is way too blurry on the higher difficulties. I know that this is done on purpose to prevent people from using streets and other random hints to find the names of the cities, but it is essentialy impossible to see if you are finished with an area because the smaller towns are almost completely invisible on the map. Is it not possible to have a normal resolution map with all the lables turned off?
I can allow zooming in a little more for this one as Netherlands is smaller.
Diemen is still an independent town and municipality in the province North Holland.
Diemen – Wikipedia
It is on my munis quiz for Netherlands but is not listed on my source as an ‘Urban Center’…
https://citypopulation.de/en/netherlands/noordholland/
Leiden definitely does not have 250k+ citizens
Netherlands uses urban settlements for its census:
http://citypopulation.de/en/netherlands/cities/
I have got a list of all “living cores” from cbs (all places which normal dutch people will count as a place, blue sign when entering). I can send it to you if you are interested.
yes I can look at it, send to my email on the contact page.
I have send it to your email
Sorry, saved the document at a strange place. I have send the shapefile to you at the 4 of december, hope you received it well
yes got it. will see if i can use it for a quiz
When entering results the number of cities adds up, but it shows for example 10 out of 0….
Haren, in the province groningen, a clearly separate village from the city, is missing
the Dutch census counts Haren (as well as Ten Boer) in the Groningen urban centre total.
http://citypopulation.de/en/netherlands/admin/groningen/0014__groningen/
Thanks for your reply, the link goes to the municipality of Groningen. But I saw that Haren (not Ten Boer) is also taken as part of the urban centre Groningen (strange choice but okay).
Maybe you can add Heerenveen, Hogeveen and Wijbosch.
Hogeveen is not an urban centre. The other two are in this quiz.
it is Hoogeveen
goirle is missing. and what about zaandam/zaandijk/zaanstad?
My source citypopulation.de shows them as municipalities only not also cities or towns, even though Wikipedia does. Maybe something changed, but I’m going to rely on my source for now for those.
you must add Zaanstad. it is a city. according to my passport the city i am born in!
Ha – Netherlands actually doesn’t even have cities technically – if my source adds it I will too 🙂
the first city in the Netherlands was founded in 1061. Not sure by what you mean technically doesn’t have cities…
I believe their census doesn’t call them cities but rather urban centers
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Could Brunssum be added?
it’s a municipality. this quiz uses urban centers which are the closest things the Dutch have to cities.
Brunssum is both a municipality and a city. Same as Landgraaf.
ah i see – will get them added and adjust perfect scores accordingly.
Schiedam not an Urban Center?
nope just a municipality
It’s both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiedam
ahh just added it 🙂
how can I see the one I forgot?
need to be a Premium Members per directions.
Drenthe is so devoid of life
easy