First choose any World 50K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any World 50K+ city in each 500 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 500 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 500 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 50K+ World 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.
Rabat?
N’Djamena?
Just under 1M according to most recent data from citypopulation.de – hopefully new data will come soon.
Taizhou gives two circles currently
There are 2 of them 🙂
Yes, but shouldn’t they be differentiated like the Hyderabads, so you can do one without getting an extra circle?
Oh, yeah. I will add a note in description how to answer them.
Great, thanks! 😀
Is a score of 50 still possible with the more recent cities added? There seems to be one city added recently that is a totally isolated circle
Hey mate, out of curiosity:
Obviously, with the mercator projection, circles all the way up in the north are bigger, I get that. But shouldn’t they another form as well, instead of perfectly round? Right now, I don’t think it perfectly depicts 1000km in each direction.
Thanks in advance, love your games!
they aren’t perfectly round anywhere really. they get more egg-shaped near the poles. if you play a World Coverage with all cities at beginner level you will see it much more easily with even more northern cities.
wow… cant believe atlanta and seattle dont have 1m+ people. their sheer size is incredible
city proper no – metro area yes well over.
ah yes thats why XD. similar to the city of london i suppose
why no Khartoum?
please see instructions above…
It seems to be impossible to use Hyderabad in Pakistan or Haiderabad in India?
see directions
I spent hours trying to hit 50 .. can only seem to hit 51 .. it’s bugging me what changes I should make
51? I can only get down to 52. I wonder if more cities have been added since that make it impossible.
Khartoum doesn’t create a circle,only Omdurman seems to work
per directions you need a ‘.’ at the end of it
Thanks for the updates. My quiz doesn’t seem to be counting completed countries (still says countries 0/0). Is that a bug or should I keep refreshing?
yeah it’s fixed now.
I’ve put the newest data in this quiz so many more 1M+ cities – I’ve reset the scores as a result as the # of circles will change.
Hi! None of the cities in South Africa are working for me. Is that a bug?
no, I think only Soweto as a place has 1m+ in its city proper. Cape Town, Johannesburg etc are large metro areas but contain lots of localities and therefore their city proper population is a little under 1M.
Thank you so much!
yes this helped me alot too!