How many european cities can you name на русском

FAQs about the cities quizzes

What counts as a city?

I use the term ‘city’ very loosely to encompass almost any populated human settlement, whether its official designation is city, town, village or anything else. I decided to name the quizzes «How many cities can you name?» because that sounded better than «How many cities, towns and villages can you name?» even if it’s less strictly accurate.

For the U.S. quiz, I use the Census Bureau’s definition of an incorporated place. I’ve included townships in New Jersey and first-class townships in Pennsylvania as these these entities usually correspond to the commonplace notion of a city or town. I’ve also included New England towns, except when they coincide with a census-designated place.

Will I lose my progress if I close the page?

No. You can refresh the page, close it, and even turn off your computer and your progress will still be saved. However, you will lose it if you clear the site data in your browser for my site.

Can I share my results?

Yes! Once you click «Finish and Save», you will be redirected to a page showing your results, with a link that you can share with whomever you’d like.

Can I transfer my progress from one device to another?

Unfortunately, this is not possible. Once you start a game on one device, you cannot continue it anywhere else.

Why doesn’t the quiz accept a certain city?

First, try entering a more specific name, like «Valence, France» instead of just «Valence». If that doesn’t work, look the city up and make sure you spelled its name correctly. If you have, make sure that it is an independent settlement and not part of another municipality. If it is indeed an independent settlement, then it is probably just missing from the database. See the question about reporting a bug below.

Why is Istanbul missing from the Asian cities quiz?

Due to technical limitations, a city can only be in a single quiz, so I chose to put Istanbul in the European cities quiz and exclude it from the Asian cities quiz. If you look closely at the Asia map, you will see that the European part of Turkey, where the bulk of the city of Istanbul lies, is missing.

How do you add two cities of the same name in the same country?

In general, you can only get credit for the larger one. However, in many cases two cities with the same common name have different full names. For example, there are many communes in France named Saint-Étienne, but most of them have official names like Saint-Étienne-d’Albagnan or Saint-Étienne-de-Crossey, which distinguishes them.

Where did you get the list of cities?

Can I enter city names in my language?

Most cities are accepted under both their common English name and their native name, e.g. Cologne and Köln. In countries that use the Cyrillic script, you can enter city names in Cyrillic. Large cities, especially in Europe, may be listed under their names in several languages, so for example ‘Londres’ is accepted for London.

Why is a city’s population much smaller than the official population?

A city’s population is for the city proper whenever possible, rather than its urban area or metropolitan area. This is the only way to include every city without double-counting population. For some cities whose urban area is significantly smaller than the city proper (notably, many prefecture-level cities in China), I use the population figure for the urban component of the city proper instead.

Is there a limit to the number of cities I can add?

You cannot save a game with more than 5,000 cities (7,500 for the world quiz). However, you can continue adding cities to your map; you just won’t be able to save your results permanently and get a shareable link. At around 22,000 cities, you will reach the limit for local storage in your browser. If you use Firefox, you can follow these instructions to increase the limit. If you use another browser, unfortunately there is no way around the limit.

Why do some cities not show up in the rarest cities list?

Some cities were added to the database later, so their rarity scores would be artificially low because earlier plays of the quiz did not have the opportunity to name them. These cities are excluded from the rarest cities list.

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Угадай место по Google Street View

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City Guesser

В этой игре надо угадать город по карте – jamaps.github.io/city-guesser

Это не так легко, как может показаться: на карте нет никаких названий, хотя есть дороги и здания.

Обманчивые размеры стран

thetruesize.com – сайт на котором, можно узнать настоящие размеры всех стран мира. О том, почему карта мира в проекции Меркатора вводит нас в заблудение можно прочитать статье Константина Ранкса “Иллюзия величия: как в реальности должна выглядеть Россия на карте мира“.

Вспомни все 50 американских штатов

На сайте Seterra десятки таких географических тестов, и его можно настроить на русский язык.

Десятки геотестов можно найти на Sporcle, и не только по географии. Такой же тест на американские штаты проходит чуть по-другому: надо вспоминать штаты самому, а потом они будут показываться на карте.

Paper Planes

В браузерную игру Paper Planes надо играть со смартфона (также есть приложения на Android и iOS).

Делаете свои самолетики, ставите на них печать с геоточкой. Ловите чужие и смотрите, где они уже побывали. Абсолютно бессмысленно, но затягивает.

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5 Russian cities you can find on the U.S. map

Through the centuries people have left their motherlands guided by the dream of a happier life. Resettling in remote areas, immigrants established new cities with a touch of nostalgia for their former homes. RBTH has found a few examples of Russian outposts in the American West.

Moscow, Idaho

From the more than 20 U. S. Moscows, the one in Idaho is the most populous. The state’s oldest public university provides the city with almost half of its inhabitants, which numbered 24,000 in 2012. It’s just a grain of desert sand by comparison with Russia’s Moscow and its 12,000,000 residents, but is its size necessarily a negative? This green and calm educational and agricultural hub could be a dream destination for many Russians tired of the hustle and bustle of their capital … if they only knew of its existence.

While this town has been called Moscow for more than a century, it didn’t bear this name at the beginning. The area was once known as Hog Heaven for its rich soil. In 1877 postmaster Samuel Neff wrote Moscow in the official papers for the town when applying for a postal permit. However, Neff was referring to the Pennsylvanian Moscow where he was born and not Russia’s largest city. Moscow, Pennsylvania was supposedly named by Reverend Peter Rupert, a Lutheran minister, whose former home was in Russia. Now it’s a tiny borough with less than 2,000 inhabitants like most of the other U. S. Moscows.

St. Petersburg, Florida

Rainy, snowy, windy and gray – this is how Russians describe their St. Petersburg. Americans describe theirs as shiny with a celestial sky and sandy beaches. Russian St. Petersburg, the former pompous capital of the Romanov Empire, is the northernmost city in the world with a population of over one million. Its proximity to the Arctic Circle makes its nights white during the beginning of the summer and plunges the streets into darkness early during the long winter days.

In 1881 a liberal minded aristocrat, Pyotr Dementyev, departed from here to New York after experiencing persecution for his revolutionary sympathies. Once abroad he decided to enter the lumber business, but eventually became involved in the railroad in Florida. On June 1888 the first train pulled into the terminus in southern Pinellas County with just one passenger on board. The land reached by train had no official name yet, so Dementyev named it after the Russian city where he had spent half of his youth.

Today Florida’s St. Petersburg with its 250,000 inhabitants is the antipode of its elder brother. Its 360 annual days of sunshine are unimaginable for the more than 5,000,000 inhabitants of Russian St. Petersburg who use their umbrellas far more often than their sunglasses.

Sebastopol, California

California’s Sebastopol and Crimean Sevastopol have much more similar climates than the St. Petersburgs do. Although located 10,500 kilometers (about 6,500 miles) from one another, both are in the southwest areas of their countries at almost the same latitude and both have mild winters and warm summers. However, the climate is about the only point they have in common: the city in California is a small community with 8 000 inhabitants, whereas Sevastopol has 340,000 residents and is a strategically important port and the historical home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The fleet has been based here since 1783 when Crimea joined the Russian Empire. It played an important role in the Crimean War (1853-1856) that pitted the Russian Empire against Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war is how the tiny California town got its name.

“Evidently, many Americans in the west sympathized more for the Russian than the British cause as there were at one time four other Sebastopol’s in California,” says the town’s official website.

Volga, South Dakota

Similar to the three cities mentioned above, Volga in South Dakota is not the only one in the U.S., but it is the largest by population – 1,800 people live here. This tiny rural town with a supermarket received its moniker from the even smaller Volga in Iowa, which has just 200 residents. This smaller version got its name from the Volga River, on whose shores it is nestled – in Iowa (it is 81 miles long in the northeast part of the state)! Of course, this little river got its name from the mighty Russian Volga.

In the Yaroslavl Region 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) away from Iowa, there’s a namesake town, which is bigger by population than the Volgas in South Dakota and Iowa combined. However, it is lacking a supermarket. Roughly 3,000 people live in this town, which features a 1000-meter long railway bridge and a dilapidated red brick factory constructed by German manufacturers in the 19 th century. It’s currently out of use.

Tolstoy, South Dakota

Tolstoy city is a neighbor to South Dakota’s Volga and looks similar – a rural, tiny town in the middle of nowhere. However, it has much more in common with the remote Lev Tolstoy city in the Lipetsk Region of Russia than with the nearby Volga and it’s not just the name.

The Russian town comes from the village of Astapovo, which became famous in 1910 after Leo Tolstoy died here of pneumonia. The station and town were renamed for the writer eight years later. Today there’s a Tolstoy museum and the settlement has 300 residents.

Its American namesake features no museums: at the last census in 2010 there were just 36 people living in Tolstoy. The area was settled by German immigrants from Russia in the late 19 th century but received the status of a town in 1907 when a railroad line was completed that went through its area.

“How the town received its name is not definitely known but it is believed that it was named for the famous Russian novelist Count Leo Tolstoy, who was still living then,” according to a web resource about the town.

While there’s no museum, there’s the Tolstoy Post office, the Tolstoy Seventh Day Advent Church, the Tolstoy school and the Tolstoy Service and Repair shop.

Meta Filter

yeah in theory it contains all the small towns etc. as well.

Not all of them, at least for the countries I’m most familiar with.

My boyfriend and I are currently at 160 after about ten minutes.
posted by Dysk at 4:09 AM on October 12, 2019

10 or so of the largest cities are Russian cities you’ve only vaguely heard of.

Though, judging from Petrograd, you can pick any name they’ve ever had.
posted by pompomtom at 4:34 AM on October 12, 2019 [4 favorites]

Pffft. I tried to name them all St. Flabdabletburg but it wouldn’t let me.

I liked the boat naming contest better. But that one’s winning pattern would be a little dubious if applied to countries.
posted by flabdablet at 5:17 AM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Popular acclamation hasn’t been a thing for a while.
posted by pompomtom at 5:35 AM on October 12, 2019

(I’ve sent an email to the author about Pristina missing, although I’m not sure it would make the 100k+ cut)

Knowledge of sports and especially football manager 2014 lower leagues is proving very useful right now
posted by motdiem2 at 6:12 AM on October 12, 2019 [3 favorites]

Three answers and you’ve got most of the population

Dapto, Dapto, Dapto
posted by flabdablet at 6:16 AM on October 12, 2019

I CAN’T EVEN CHEAT MY WAY TO VICTORY I AM A HORSE MADE OF FAILURE
posted by Kattullus at 6:24 AM on October 12, 2019 [11 favorites]

Am amused that most of my smallest towns are misspellings of larger cities (hello, Díon, Greece and Bârca, Romania!)
posted by kwartel at 6:57 AM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Here you go—so far, I’ve only named three cities, so there’s plenty of room for growth.
posted by box at 7:01 AM on October 12, 2019 [4 favorites]

Here you go—so far, I’ve only named three cities, so there’s plenty of room for growth.

Thanks, box, this is way less depressing in this collaborative form. 🙂
posted by bigendian at 8:02 AM on October 12, 2019 [3 favorites]

504 Gateway Time-out

We did it!
posted by bigendian at 8:19 AM on October 12, 2019 [2 favorites]

I thought I could be all smug and clever with obscure Ostrobothnian towns, but it’s quibbling with me on Lappajärvi.

I know it exists because my father was born there.

It’s running really slowly for me, so I’m trying to give it time. I’m glad that it’s not finicky about accents and allows you to enter in the city’s name in language’s spellings, but that’s got to be more difficult to compute. I also wonder what they’re using for source data, since there isn’t a unified source of information like a specific census.

*The random nice sounding phrases also does not work as well as it did in the US, even after translating.

*I apparently have no idea how large these cities are in comparison to each other. Like, I knew that London was larger than any other city in the UK, but so far it looks like it’s nine times larger than any other city I’ve named there (and dwarfing Paris). That’s like if the next biggest city in the US after NYC was Austin. Meanwhile Moscow is like WHAT.
posted by dinty_moore at 12:56 PM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Oh no.
posted by chainsofreedom at 2:09 PM on October 12, 2019 [5 favorites]

Seconding those hours poured into Civilisation helping.

If you ever got really into Championship Manager/Football Manager, that’s a real help.
posted by eyeofthetiger at 2:15 PM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Also, years of watching Eurovision.

“Hello from Skopje!”
posted by Kattullus at 2:26 PM on October 12, 2019 [5 favorites]

Weirdly, and annoyingly, it shows places in the Faroe Islands as being in “Denmark”. Also, Mariehamn, or any other place in the Åland Islands, seems to be missing.

Also, I’m starting to think that the 38th city of over a million people must be an error.
posted by Kattullus at 2:35 PM on October 12, 2019

The dataset for Scandinavia seems to be much much less comprehensive than those for the UK or Italy, for example. Lots of not huge, but regionally significant towns just not there.

Meanwhile, it took quite a bit of trial and error to get the game to accept the particular Newcastle that I wanted.
posted by Dysk at 2:43 PM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

Me: «Brain, what is the capital of Spain?»

Me: «Brain, what cities in Spain have cathedrals?»

I wonder what the last city with >1,000,000 is on the MeFi map.
posted by Rhaomi at 3:24 PM on October 12, 2019

Sooo..what exactly is supposed to happen here?

I get a grey, blank map with country outlines.
If I type something in the box like, say. ‘London’ or ‘Zagreb, Croatia’, nothing happens.
I can zoom in and out, but that doesn’t seem to accomplish anything.

Nothing happens in an alternate browser, either.
posted by madajb at 3:37 PM on October 12, 2019

Hmm, I typed «Parcu» (guessing at Finnish names) and it auto-filled «Altofonte, Italy». Weird.

What’s the smallest place you’ve found? I’ve got Starling, Austria (16) and Minós, Greece (23).
posted by oulipian at 3:44 PM on October 12, 2019

Given that it appears to allow suburbs of cities as well as cities (eg Wembley), I’m wondering if there isn’t a suburb of one of the >1million cities that itself has >1million people, and that this is the missing 38th >1million «city».

Can’t find it though.
posted by motty at 3:48 PM on October 12, 2019

for folks having issues about the 38th city. just got this mail from him:

«By the way it looks like a lot of people are having trouble naming the last city with more than a million people. I checked and realized that I erroneously included Izmir, Turkey, in my data set, which is actually in Asia. I’ll fix it sometime today.»

so. yeah.
posted by KTamas at 4:01 PM on October 12, 2019 [1 favorite]

> Svitz
NOT FOUND

> Nugulgorsk
NOT FOUND

Oh no. My knowledge of Europe consists almost entirely out of fictional Night Vale cities.
posted by schmod at 9:32 PM on October 12, 2019 [8 favorites]

we already have Izmir

then we take Berlin
posted by flabdablet at 10:58 PM on October 12, 2019 [6 favorites]

are there any European cities that start with j or x? I can’t think of or find one.

Spain has a lot of «Jerez».
posted by daveliepmann at 10:12 PM on October 13, 2019

Also, are there any European cities that start with j or x? I can’t think of or find one.

Jokkmokk!
posted by lollusc at 1:12 AM on October 14, 2019 [1 favorite]

I knew memorizing the meaning of liff would pay off someday.

This comment made me remember Didcot (little circles of paper left over from railway ticket punches).

Annnndddd. 50.02%! we did it.

Now just that missing 500,000+ city (it has to be a suburb of some kind)
and 143 100,000 and up cities.
posted by Just this guy, y’know at 2:57 AM on October 14, 2019 [3 favorites]

It did have Ellesmere, my dad’s home village whose namesake island is the next largest island to Great Britain, and has a slightly greater population. I closed in the mid-Wales gap with Lampeter, Llandrindod Wells and Buith Wells, and Hawick nearly covered the last gap in Northumberland from over the Scottish border. So England and Wales are virtually fully red. Working through Scotland and Ireland now. There’s a couple of towns I’ve been to whose names are totally eluding me for the moment. So frustrating.
posted by ambrosen at 12:21 PM on October 14, 2019 [2 favorites]

100 out of 101 (99.00%) cities with over 500,000 people.

Didn’t we have 101 out of 102 earlier?
posted by Just this guy, y’know at 2:25 AM on October 15, 2019

I found the last 500,000+ city! It was Kalininskiy, Russia – an administrative district of Saint Petersburg.

I entered a ton of suburbs/districts around Madrid, Berlin and various Russian cities. We now have 56.19% of the population, and 782 out of 829 (94.33%) cities with over 100,000 people! Also Russia is looking considerably more freckled. I’m going to stop now.
posted by oulipian at 10:07 AM on October 16, 2019 [8 favorites]

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How many Moscows are out there in the world?

Sergey Smirnov/Global Look Press

Did you know that there are approximately 30 cities and villages named Moscow around the world. You’ll be surprised, but the most Moscows are in the U.S.: more than 20.

Only three Moscows (not including the capital) are located in Russia – one in the Tver Region, one in the Pskov Region, and one in the Kirov Region.

Here are seven Moscows you can visit without venturing all the way to Russia.

1. The most European Moscow

2. Oldest Moscow in Europe (apart from the original one)

The small town of Moskwa was established in Poland in 1418. Located 130 km from the capital Warsaw, it has a population of just 110. Legend has it that a landowner named Plichta founded the place after returning from Moscow in Russia.

3. Moscow with an Asian spirit

The Indian settlement of Moscow in the south of the country received its name from the local communists, who were inspired by Soviet Russia. The village is inhabited by Indians called Lenin, Gagarin, Krushchev, Brezhnev, and Pushkin. The Indian trend of naming children after famous Russians has declined since the collapse of the USSR.

4. Moscow on the Volga Burn River

A road sign welcomes careful drivers on August 7, 2013 in Moscow, Scotland.

The small village of Moscow can be found in East Ayrshire in Scotland. The original name of the settlement, Moss-hall or Moss-haw, was replaced in 1812 due to the Napoleonic Wars. After the Crimean War of 1853-1856, Russian refugees settled in this region and gave Russian names to nearby places. Only 118 people live there today.

5. Most populous Moscow in the U.S.

Robbie Love Giles

There are more than 20 U.S. Moscows, but the one in Idaho is the most populous: 24,000 people call it home.

While this town has been called Moscow for more than a century, this wasn’t always the case. The area was once known as Hog Heaven for its rich soil. When the first U.S. post office opened in 1872, the town was called Paradise Valley, but the name was changed to Moscow in 1875. No one seems to know why.

6. Typical American Moscow borough

In 1877 postmaster Samuel Neff wrote “Moscow” in the official papers for the town when applying for a postal permit. However, Neff was referring to the Pennsylvanian Moscow where he was born and not Russia’s largest city.

Now it’s a tiny borough with less than 2,000 inhabitants like most of the other American Moscows.

7. The area that saw the Battle of Moscow in 19th century

The town of Moscow in Tennessee witnessed fighting during the American Civil War on Dec. 4, 1863. Now there’s a memorial to the Battle of Moscow there.

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