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.
could you please make a total population of 10276 largest cities on the planet
could you please make a list of the top 1000 largest cities on the planet
I still think this one should be always free to play
Shenzhen has higher population than Guangzhou?
this is pretty fun!
quiz doesnt seem to accept jhumri tilaiya, india. Only found out about this when i was almost finished
On citypopulation.de it’s classified as a Nagar Parishad which I didn’t include.
weird… there is a marker exactly where that place is and the population matches up with the one listed on citypopulation.de
Jumri Tilaiya seems to work
I’m having a bug where, once I zoom on the map, the number of cities listed both at the top and at each population range will double, although the markers stay the same. Anyone else experiencing this?
Hmm, apparently it’s the same for all of these “Largest Cities” type quizzes, but if I zoom before I pick a number, it doesn’t seem to happen? Weird.
Never heard of this issue and can’t replicate it on my side.
In my experience, what you do is wait for all the markers to load before zooming in
Bug Report: The game (on ‘all’ setting) increasingly stutters (both in terms of loading the map and typing in the answers) as you fill in more cities, until it becomes basically unplayable – this also affects typing in the comments section. It shouldn’t be a problem on my end (I use Firefox browser) because reloading the page, or even starting a new game simultaneously on a separate tab, removes the stutter on the new game.
I just tested it and the map loaded instantly with the 10K+ markers and went very smoothly as I typed in answers.
Thank you for your response! I just checked on Google Chrome and yes, it works normally! Guess I will shift to that from now on.
It took me forever to think of the one beside Shenzhen… I took 20 minutes of my life just naming cities I thought could be around there, then it hit me. Shenzhen was the one I was missing.
It seems like the data for Sabah is using the data from CityPopulation for subdivisions instead of urban areas, leading to places like Kinabatangan showing up as over 100K when really it has less than 50K.
Per the source there are only district populations for Sabah:
https://citypopulation.de/en/malaysia/admin/12__sabah/
If you know of another source with their census info for cities/townships you can let me know.
You could use the urban area population from here:
Malaysia: States, Federal Territories, Major Urban Areas & Conurbations – Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information (citypopulation.de)
Seems like it would be a much better equivalent for cities than the districts.
Actually I think the “urban area” populations that I linked are just the city proper populations, which is even better. I noticed that some other parts of Malaysia on the quiz are using district populations instead of city populations, so I think you should switch all of Malaysia to the “urban area” populations.
What is the Libyan one east of Benghazi?
Tobruk
I have finished this after 16 hours 48 minutes 47 seconds. Great job, Darin!
Congrats!
That is insane. You’ve got my maddest respect
darin you killed it with the show/hide map button
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What is the town east of Edmonton, Canada?
st albert?
whats the one in Kuwait? ive tried everything
Caborca in Mexico doesn’t work
it’s a municipality not treated as a city by my source
World 50K+ city populations updated! Welcome about 140 new cities 🙂
Getting ever closer to the 10k mark!