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Challenge yourself with the World City Random Grid Quiz and test your knowledge of cities around the globe.

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World City Random Grid Challenge

Directions

Choose a number of cities by typing ‘3’, ‘5’, or ’10’. A random 15-degree by 15-degree grid will be placed on the map. Enter the largest number of cities you chose in each square (min 10K population). Only green squares contain answers. When you have 2 left to go in a square it will fill in faintly yellow, 1 left it will be orangish, and all done it turns red. A time bonus is given for completing a square (it is greater for higher levels).

For example, if you choose ‘3’ for your number of cities to start the quiz, only the 3 largest cities in each grid square will be accepted as answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

Enter '3', '5', or '10' to begin.

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Milek

1 year ago

Why is Johannesburg not working?

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to Milek

As city proper it’s actually under 1M… the metro is much larger. Soweto as a census place is actually bigger.