Comments on: How many European cities can you name?

How many European cities can you name?

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:09:13 -0800

After the US version (previously), the hyper-addictive game is back, this time challenging your knowledge of Europe.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:10:22 -0800

I'm at 15.54%, still missing 11 cities over 1 million...

By: poffin boffin

poffin boffin — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:18:50 -0800

just pick all the american cities or states that start with new and leave off new

By: os tuberoes

os tuberoes — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:33:27 -0800

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

By: Lanark

Lanark — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:33:51 -0800

They seem to have a rather generous definition of City, e.g. Pittenweem in Scotland is not normally considered a city.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:37:11 -0800

yeah in theory it contains all the small towns etc. as well. The dataset does not seem to be perfect but pretty damn good overall.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:51:03 -0800

The hours I spent as a youth hunting Carmen Sandiego has prepared me for this task. I am ready.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:52:55 -0800

Also, the KLF would have been masters of this game

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:05:47 -0800

I like that it is very forgiving of my attempt to spell ~~Rekyavik~~ Reykjavik.

By: motdiem2

motdiem2 — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:08:18 -0800

Took me forever to complete the countries, I was so focused on micro nations and it turned out to be a eu member country

By: Dysk

Dysk — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:09:09 -0800

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.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:34:55 -0800

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.

By: Dysk

Dysk — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:35:25 -0800

...which rapidly accelerated to over 300 as we realised we can list every tiny little town in the UK.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:43:51 -0800

Am I going mad or doesn't it have any places in Kosovo? Which is weird, given that North-Macedonia is up to date.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:45:37 -0800

Kosovo does not show up on the list of countries, even though it is shown as a separate place.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:04:54 -0800

god i am drawing so many blanks on medium-sized german and french cities, it's so frustrating

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:17:11 -0800

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.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:18:06 -0800

How are your umlauts? "Koln" is no good. "KÖln" works. "Cologne" is easier to type on my machine...

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:23:12 -0800

Also: can we have an Australian version? Three answers and you've got most of the population.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:30:03 -0800

Yeah, the Canadian version would also be somewhat similar.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:35:18 -0800

St. Flabdabletburg Popular acclamation hasn't been a thing for a while.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:36:23 -0800

My version of the umlaut problem is remembering Z's. I was going mad trying to get it to accept "Nishny Novgorod" (thank you 2018 World Cup for cities in Russia).

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:39:06 -0800

Is there a French name for that?

By: Pyrogenesis

Pyrogenesis — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:41:33 -0800

I know every tiny town around my neck of the woods, of course, but having a difficulty thinking of a third city in France...

By: Catseye

Catseye — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:49:12 -0800

How the hell are there 14 cities of 1,000,000+ inhabitants that I can't get? [stares suspiciously at Russia]

By: gaybobbie

gaybobbie — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:12:07 -0800

can we have another mefi collaborative link, because i won't get near as far on this one by myself ...

By: motdiem2

motdiem2 — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:12:45 -0800

(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

By: motdiem2

motdiem2 — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:14:25 -0800

also I find it funny that the largest city is from a country whose territory is not depicted

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:16:06 -0800

Three answers and you've got most of the population Dapto, Dapto, Dapto

By: ambrosen

ambrosen — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:19:50 -0800

Well, the territory that half of the largest city in is depicted.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:24:05 -0800

I got to 34 out of 38 cities of a million plus, said fuck this for a hill of beans, checked the list of largest European cities, found two I had missed, but no more. I'm still at 36. I CAN'T EVEN CHEAT MY WAY TO VICTORY I AM A HORSE MADE OF FAILURE

By: kwartel

kwartel — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 06:57:52 -0800

14.57% so far. Am amused that most of my smallest towns are misspellings of larger cities (hello, Díon, Greece and Bârca, Romania!)

By: box

box — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:01:25 -0800

can we have another mefi collaborative link, because i won't get near as far on this one by myself ... Here you go--so far, I've only named three cities, so there's plenty of room for growth.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:10:17 -0800

I'm stuck in the same 36/38 spot as Kattullus and wonder if the missing cities are Novosibirsk and Ankara or something - both in countries only partly in Europe. Hmmmm.

By: pharm

pharm — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:13:34 -0800

Seconding the idea that this seems to be more "urban settlements" than cities per se.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:15:01 -0800

Been playing wargames on these maps all my life. Sad to say this is now tangible and concrete evidence of the decline of my metal facilties... Many many obvious ones I should know just not coming to the surface. Ouch.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:18:47 -0800

Ankara is very much not in Europe, and I'm not even trying to work out how to properly spell Istanbul with the dot on the I.

By: Dysk

Dysk — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:23:06 -0800

The dataset is all over the place. Tiny towns of a few hundred (or even less than a hundred) appear from some countries, but a town like Glyngøre (pop. 1500+) does not appear valid.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:26:35 -0800

The author told me in email is that if someone finds at least a 50k+ city that's missing he will add it manually. His email is iafisher@protonmail.com

By: ambrosen

ambrosen — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:37:37 -0800

In the millions category, I've got 36, which distributed by country are: 1 country with 8 cities, 1 with 5, 1 with 3 3 with 2 and 14 countries with one city over a million.

By: motdiem2

motdiem2 — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:54:56 -0800

I'll just keep refreshing that shared link until someone finds that 38th city

By: bigendian

bigendian — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:02:49 -0800

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. :)

By: pharm

pharm — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:19:10 -0800

I think we killed the server :(

By: bigendian

bigendian — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:19:15 -0800

504 Gateway Time-out We did it!

By: grandiloquiet

grandiloquiet — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:27:50 -0800

We're free!

By: grandiloquiet

grandiloquiet — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:28:27 -0800

Wait, no, it's back.

By: peacheater

peacheater — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:32:03 -0800

It's incredibly slow at the moment.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:29:34 -0800

It is just not working for me. I keep putting in cities that I know exist (er... Berlin?) and it's not registering. Maybe we've borked it.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:51:34 -0800

Just got an email from the creator, he's working on getting things going again.

By: mandolin conspiracy

mandolin conspiracy — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:27:40 -0800

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. Unless that theory about Finland is right. Hmmmm...

By: jrochest

jrochest — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:38:21 -0800

Bad gateway, alas.

By: dinty_moore

dinty_moore — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:56:06 -0800

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. So Far: *I noticed that my attempt to reverse-engineer the European->US City tactic doesn't work as well - I was trying to name random places in Puerto Rico and Mexico for Spain, and I don't think I got one hit - the saint's name trick also doesn't work as well, since Spain wasn't as into setting up missionaries in their own country. Place names in Massachusetts still work fine for England, though. *The random nice sounding phrases also does not work as well as it did in the US, even after translating. *What has worked for me: Remembering the cities for Civilization, remembering conference rooms at the international corporation I used to work for, remembering where coworkers were from (if I could spell Polish city names. . .). Clothing terms, styles of food, styles of beer, last names that start with 'of' in various languages, remembering where various historical figures are from. *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.

By: motty

motty — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:59:14 -0800

Now 'Under Maintenance' :(

By: grandiloquiet

grandiloquiet — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:49:44 -0800

Spelling was easier for me on this one than the American one. I left out a bunch of accented "e"s for Hungarian cities and the game accepted them anyway, and it also seems programmed to accept cities under different names. (I entered "Gallipoli" thinking it would add the Italian city, but since I didn't specify the country, it added the larger Gelibolu in Turkey instead.)

By: chainsofreedom

chainsofreedom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:09:44 -0800

It's back up. Oh no.

By: eyeofthetiger

eyeofthetiger — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:15:24 -0800

Seconding those hours poured into Civilisation helping. If you ever got really into Championship Manager/Football Manager, that's a real help.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:25:59 -0800

I'm going to really suck at this after Halloween.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:26:22 -0800

Also, years of watching Eurovision. "Hello from Skopje!"

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:32:27 -0800

Oops, I misread Europe as the EU. I think it speaks to how dire and confusing the world has become.

By: Pyrogenesis

Pyrogenesis — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:32:37 -0800

Does the collective link still work? Here. It shows more than a thousand cities. But I don't know whether it works collaboratively. Anyway I put every random village in Estonia into it.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:35:18 -0800

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.

By: Dysk

Dysk — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:43:09 -0800

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.

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:54:55 -0800

So, it turns out I'm not super-great at knowing major European cities that aren't capitals, but I am FUCKING MURDERING this by running through cathedral cities! From, like, the year 600 to the present. My brain is a graveyard of Catholic trivia, apparently.

By: chainsofreedom

chainsofreedom — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:04:17 -0800

I put in a bunch of random-ass towns from southern Spain. You're welcome.

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:05:25 -0800

Me: "Brain, what is the capital of Spain?" Brain: "uh .... I think it's Madrid?" Me: "Brain, what cities in Spain have cathedrals?" Brain: "Madrid! Seville! Barcelona -- that's a really nice one! Bilbao! Palencia! Burgos! Grenada! Malaga! Cartagena! Cadiz! Cordoba! Valencia! Majorca! Menorca! Ibiza! Oviedo -- I like that one too! Leon! Pamplona! Calahorra! Jaca! San Sebastian! Santiago de Compostela but I'm not sure what the city's called, try all combos! Lugo! Girona! Toledo! Avila -- ooh, that's a good one! Salamanca! Segovia! Ummmmmmm ... Zaragoza or however it's spelled. Barbastro-something-or-other. Can we do Portugal now?"

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:24:39 -0800

You named 182 cities, with a total population of 117,144,299 (16.79% of the European urban population). (ignore Krasnodar at the end there, that was from me testing something) Not too shabby, considering I did way less random-ass guessing in the end compared to the USA quiz. Though it was frustrating to discover how many of the UK cities I thought I knew were actually counties. (Also cheated to look up the one country I was missing -- Bratislava! -- but consider that a fair trade for the curious absence of Kosovo). I wonder what the last city with >1,000,000 is on the MeFi map.

By: madajb

madajb — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:37:44 -0800

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.

By: oulipian

oulipian — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:44:43 -0800

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).

By: motty

motty — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:48:12 -0800

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.

By: acb

acb — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:48:54 -0800

It seems to handle duplicates intelligently, allowing them only once; this works for pairs like Derry/Londonderry, or Turku/Åbo, and presumably also on properly-written/ASCII-stripped renderings of names (I'm guessing that München, Munchen and Munich all map to the same city).

By: bigendian

bigendian — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:51:10 -0800

smallest found (and in the MeFi map no less): Ottenstein, Austria (1) -- fairly confident that's not a city, though.

By: acb

acb — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:00:46 -0800

110 people fewer than Fucking, Austria.

By: KTamas

KTamas — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:01:39 -0800

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.

By: box

box — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:07:52 -0800

So, with Izmir struck, should be 98 out of 102 cities w/populations >500k in the collaborative map--just four cities remaining.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:08:29 -0800

But... but... we already have Izmir.

By: The Wrong Kind of Cheese

The Wrong Kind of Cheese — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:02:44 -0800

I believe it does not work in Safari, or at least the version of Safari I have. Nothing I added, in any permutations, states or countries or left unselected (in both games) did anything. I moved to Chrome, and it worked. (In case anyone else is feeling maddeningly left out.)

By: oulipian

oulipian — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:01:41 -0800

I found a bunch of the missing over 500,000 cities, all in Turkey: Bagcilar, UEskuedar, Bahcelievler, and Esenler. It says 101 out of 103 now.

By: I'm always feeling, Blue

I'm always feeling, Blue — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:47:00 -0800

I am ashamed by how many places throughout the continent I've delivered to in Euro Truck Sim 2 but whose names I can't recall.

By: schmod

schmod — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:32:24 -0800

> Svitz NOT FOUND > Nugulgorsk NOT FOUND Oh no. My knowledge of Europe consists almost entirely out of fictional Night Vale cities.

By: oulipian

oulipian — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:27:24 -0800

Oh, I found another 500,000+ city – it was Pristina, Kosovo. The game data seems to have been updated to properly include Kosovo, and so I guess Pristina had to be entered again. We're only missing one 500,000+ city now. I would guess it's in Russia.

By: daveliepmann

daveliepmann — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:48:49 -0800

I'm able to list both Berlin and its individual sub-cities/districts. So both "Berlin, Germany (3,426,354)" but also Schöneberg, Kreuzberg, Mitte, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Neukölln, Wedding, and so on. These are definitely not suburbs. Are these not throwing off the total population count? I'm not able to do this with, for instance, London.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:58:50 -0800

we already have Izmir then we take Berlin

By: I claim sanctuary

I claim sanctuary — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:20:03 -0800

The districts thing also works for Warsaw (including the delightfully specific Śródmieście, literally midtown, but not the smaller ones like Muranów or Grochów), but not Gdańsk or Kraków. Possibly because they used to be separate administrative units / gminas?

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 04:08:14 -0800

There must've been two of them, because we had Izmir and now it's down to to 36 (all of which we have GOOD JOB FULFILLING THOSE METRICS TEAM).

By: Just this guy, y'know

Just this guy, y'know — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:01:06 -0800

London is in there, but also wembley, harrow and brentford. Which is odd.

By: dinty_moore

dinty_moore — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:29:36 -0800

I found Rey, Italy (population: 4) by guessing king and queen in various western european languages.

By: dinty_moore

dinty_moore — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:49:08 -0800

So I was wrong about Saints as names not working - it totally does work, but it works for Italy, not Spain. (Santa Monica, Santa Laura, San Giovanni, San Marco, Santa Rosa)

By: oulipian

oulipian — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:59:53 -0800

Here are some fun goals for the collaborative map:

Find that last 500,000+ city! I'm starting to think it might be a suburb of one of the larger cities.
Reach 50% of the urban population! Right now, with 4,800 cities, we're at 48.77%.
Is there a city with zero population? The American map had lots.
Explore the periphery! I added some places in the Azores (Ponta Delgada), and the very northern Russian outpost of Amderma. There's some southern stuff that doesn't even show up on the initial map view.
Paint the map red! It's fun to try and fill in empty-looking spaces. So many Greek and Scottish islands...

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:27:27 -0800

Added a whole bunch of tiny random British cities, all that train travel has paid off!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:45:56 -0800

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

By: Dr. Curare

Dr. Curare — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 18:28:33 -0800

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

By: daveliepmann

daveliepmann — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 22:12:27 -0800

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".

By: Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell

Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 22:41:15 -0800

This is hilarious and awesome. Thanks for sharing, OP, and great thread, too.

By: Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell

Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 22:45:15 -0800

Nesvík is a village on the east coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy, located in the Sunda municipality. In 2013 its population was 1. Nesvík is home to a religious camp of the conservative Inner Mission of the national church, and a conference center called Leguhusið í Nesvík. Its name is derived from the Faroese words for cape and bay.

By: lollusc

lollusc — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:12:40 -0800

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

By: Just this guy, y'know

Just this guy, y'know — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:57:53 -0800

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.

By: lollusc

lollusc — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:32:37 -0800

Also Jena

By: ambrosen

ambrosen — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:21:36 -0800

I added Baltimore (population 347) (where I was on my 39th birthday), in mediocre weather - but I did swim off Clear Island and saw porpoises. But it didn't have Calgary, where I spent my 6th birthday, which has one of the most beautiful beaches in Scotland. Both are the original sources of their namesake large cities in North America. Pennsylvania, South Gloucestershire did not show up. 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.

By: arha

arha — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:32:21 -0800

Naming all the booze I could think of got me an embarrassing amount of France filled in.

By: Just this guy, y'know

Just this guy, y'know — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 02:25:25 -0800

100 out of 101 (99.00%) cities with over 500,000 people. Didn't we have 101 out of 102 earlier?

By: oulipian

oulipian — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:06:40 -0800

I noticed that, too! I guess the data was updated again. I wonder what city was expunged or merged or downgraded or whatever.

By: oulipian

oulipian — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:59:10 -0800

I entered some of the world's longest place names today. Welcome to Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya (Austria), Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore (Italy), Gasselterboerveenschemond (Netherlands), Staronizhestebliyevskaya (Russia), Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (UK), and many more!

By: arha

arha — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:05:10 -0800

Moved on to naming cheese. Even more productive!

By: KTamas

KTamas — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:54:19 -0800

Just checked the community map and I am so proud of all of you.

By: oulipian

oulipian — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:07:30 -0800

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.