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World 50K+ City Coverage Quiz
DirectionsFirst choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 1000km radius, Intermediate 500km, Advanced 250km, and Expert 100km. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that radius will automatically fill in. When you have at least 160 countries, the countries remaining will be shown.
hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers – you can mouseover them to see city details for each.
NEW: Premium members can now also play a 3-hour time limit ‘custom’ coverage quiz of any distance from 50km to 2500km, simply enter the distance followed by a ‘.’ instead of choosing from one of the four levels, i.e. ‘1500.’ Quiz score is not recorded for the custom coverage option.
Quiz Takers 
For some reason Gitega is missing
Based on citypopulation.de it’s under 50k. no current estimates for a long time from Burundi
shout out to Darin, this guy is thorough, nice job 🙂
Why is Muscat not there, if going of urban area that is almost at a million
populations on my city quizzes are city proper, Muscat is tiny city proper
What is missing for France if you have mainland and French Guiana?
French Polynesia
I see no 50k+ city
Now that I have premium I can see that Noumea was missing
I’m a bit confused… I just paid to become a Premium Member but I still can’t see the city names anywhere? When I hover my mouse over a checkmark, it only indicated the population number… I am very disappointed
it’s when the quiz is over you mouse over the purple colored markers that appear, 25 of them will appear, those are missed cities. the markers that appear during the game that you get only show populations
I tried to put in Yelizovo cuz it was one of the two Russian ones I was missing, but it didn’t seem to work, is it under a different name (I ended up typing Magadan to get it within the circle but I’m curious for the future)
it’s under 50k
whats the petropavlosk kamchatskiy city name i cant spell it right
Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky, don’t use an “i” in the Kamchatsky part.
It’s petropavlovsk kamchatsky and magadan
Hi, could you consider put a untimed possibility for learing purposes?
Premium users get a 3 hour practice with the radius of their choice.
Did a new city get added to Saudi Arabia? On the intermediate level, I don’t remember having to type Riyadh to complete the country. Putting in Doha, Sanaa, Mecca, Hail, Abha, Basra, Tikrit, & Salt seemed to cover it before. But now I have to type in Riyadh to cover the country. Or did one of the cities I listed get slightly moved away from the center of the country?
new cities from updated data on citypopulation.de
It appears Nuuk doesnt work for greenland. is it under another name?
not 50k population
What is the city in northeast Alberta? It’s obviously Fort McMurray, but that isn’t an accepted answer. Is it in the list under another name?
use Wood Buffalo – Ft McMurray is a very large regional muni.
This isn’t quite right, Wood Buffalo is the extremely large regional municipality (over 60000 sq km according to Statistics Canada), and Fort McMurray is the local population center (how StatCan classifies towns, cities, etc) with population 68002 according to the Canadian 2021 census
I’m going by this:
http://citypopulation.de/en/canada/cities/alberta/
I’ll add Ft McMurray as an alternate answer
Interesting, this one seems to have it correct: https://citypopulation.de/en/canada/cities/
with no Wood Buffalo listed. Similarly, https://citypopulation.de/en/canada/alberta/_/UA0292__wood_buffalo_fort_mcmurra/
also Statistics Canada has Fort McMurray as the population center and Wood Buffalo as the large region
Great puzzle and website, congrats! It would be nice to add Cordova as a valid spelling for the Spanish -speaking cities of Córdoba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba,_Spain
added
Cape Breton, Canada doesn’t seem to be a valid answer, but it shows up on other quizes as a 50k+ city. According to this http://www.citypopulation.de/en/canada/cities/novascotia/?cityid=2799, it has a population of 94007.
that’s the urban area – proper is here: http://citypopulation.de/en/canada/novascotia/_/UA0913__cape_breton_sydney/
But the world cities random grid quiz does not use urban area. I had Cape Breton as an answer there multiple times. Its also an answer in North America city grid and Canada city grid and its given population there is about 90k.
fixing it for the other quizzes now.
Kazakhstan ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
haha 🙂
Sānménxiá (Henen, China) is a bit off, too, lies in Shanxi. Also, as BaronBones remarked below, Pematangsiantar in Indonesia is placed on the wrong island. Maybe you could correct this, too.
Might I ask what source you used for the cities in Myanmar (name, population); I can’t recognise your selection on citypop? Thanks a lot!
Sorry. me again, Milange (Mozambique) lies im Malawi on your map. Maybe you could double check? Thanks
yeah it was a little off – corrected.
This quiz seems to be missing Shepparton, Australia, although other quizes do have it (as a 50k+ city)
latest estimates have it just under 50K – I updated World cities most recently so when I updated Oceania-only populations it will be just under 50K.
On Australia city grid for example Shepparton has a 50-75k pin though.
Also, Pematangsiantar in Indonesia seems to have the wrong coordinates: it’s supposed to be in North Sumatra, but it shows up on Central Java. Seems to be in the wrong spot on random grid world as well (had a tile that had to be Pematangsiantar according to citypopulation.de, but instead the answer was Tebbingtinggi).
Missed one city in Russia and one in Algeria. Looks like either Tamanrasset or Djanet in Algeria, it appears by other comments that Salekhard was the one in Russia I missed
Finally a 100% on intermediate. What a tough but fun quiz. How people are able to figure out the least amount of cities to be the most efficient, I’m not sure how they are able to do it so well. I’ll have to redo intermediate a few more times before I dare try advanced.
I’ve added a handful of missed cities and upped the point totals of the perfect scores accordingly.
Great. Now there’s some random Portugal oversees territory city out there I can’t find now. It’s not Praia. What a pain to be so close to 100%. 9453/9455.
Ah, it was Funchal.
I got 9448 but can’t find that elusive missing Russian city. It’s not Norilsk, Magadan, Novy Urengoy, Yakutsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Murmansk, Surgut, Ufa, Omsk, Tomsk, Bratsk, Kazan, Volgograd, Moscow, Syktyvkar, Arkhangelsk, Salekhard, etc. I cannot figure out if it’s in Siberia or farther east. It’s driving me crazy.
I think it was Neryungri, btw.
Is petropavlovsk on the quiz? I always seem to get a marker around that area whenever i do cities in that vicinity, but im not able to type it in.
the city name is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
I tried to enter this but I missed the second ‘v’
i always used a different spelling or just tried “petropavlovsk”, never worked so i usually left it.
I got 9240 on my first try. I did search up some cities to get their spelling, but I already knew those before.
new cities added! 140 or so with my every 2-year or so updated of world 50K+ city populations 🙂
First attempt was 9081, all from memory
9213
9000 on the first try, with the help of wikipedia, sometimes the city names are very different in english xD
btw, great quiz
Is there a time limit to this quiz? Suddenly, it just stopped.
yep there is a timer going you can see
Yes, thank you! Eventually figured it out 🙂 Great set of quizzes!
out of curiosity: where did you get the raw data for this, is it publicly available?
citypopulation.de
very cool, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Why isn’t bucarest a city
it’s spelled Bucharest
i am very disappointed i didnt get everything in russia, i have no idea what i even missed
premium members can see top 25 missed 🙂
Did you get Norilsk?
The hard cities are Norilsk, Yakustk, Salekhard, Magadan etc.
Yakutsk is easy if you’ve played Risk! 🙂
Why doesn’t Muscat, the capital of Oman work. it has a population of over 1 million.
according to citypopulation.de the actual city proper is small
The city proper still has a population of 750k according to multiple sources.
you’re looking at the whole governate…city itself is much smaller http://citypopulation.de/en/oman/cities/