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.
What’s the 12th japanese city ?
Chiba doesn’t even work
Sendai
I feel like this would work really well as a map quiz! In this format it can be hard to keep track of what you are missing and what you already typed, especially for China and India. Would be super cool with a version where you could see the locations of the missing cities!
To everyone interested, I found the solution! Just go to https://hugequiz.com/quizzes/world-largest-cities/ and, if you’re a premium member, type #475# (or whatever the current number of 1M cities are), otherwise just type the nearest cap, and there you go!
Bonus: No time limit there!
update please and thank you!
This quiz is basically live, even though the date updated date may be in the past. It’s current with citypopulation.de at all times 🙂
Honestly what is with the timing on some of these quizzes? Even if I could think of all of these cities in rapid succession and typed a hundred wpm I still wouldn’t have enough time to type them all.
there are bonuses along the way for almost all quizzes, and double time for PremIum members.
I respect all the work you put into these quizzes, and appreciate that you’re trying to mix it up to keep it interesting with the time bonuses. But I feel like most people would just prefer to simply have the time to exhaust their knowledge fully, because as it’s set up now it’s as much, if not more, about knowing what order to type the answers in rather than whether you know the answers or not. Example: You could know 98% of the answers, but if the answers you don’t know include, say, a couple in China, a couple in India, and one in Japan, you have zero hope of having enough time to type all the answers you know. Anyway, just one man’s opinion. Again, regardless of my critiques, I thank you and appreciate you for putting this all together!
The time limit is way too low, I know all the cities but can’t type them fast enough
Agreed
kinda agree
SO OH GOOD!!!
Some of these seem not right. For example Oslo, Vienna and Copenhagen are included although they have far less then 1m inhabitants, Tokyo has way less then in Reality as well… What numbers are used here?
citypopulation.de…all of those are over 1 million
Vienna definitely has more than a million…you might be right about Oslo and Copenhagen though…
Wikipedia — Population of 11th (10th?) Largest city in USA — 1,028,225 (US, TX)
that’s an estimated 2022 population – I’m using the 2020 census. I do update with estimates every few years but haven’t yet. Maybe next year.