Geography quiz - Page 4

wave46 · #61 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 2:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by Peggerino

I got 109 cities representing about 60% of the population. My smallest city is around 700 people.

129 cities reprsenting ~63% until I gave up.

The suburbs of Montreal and Vancouver I struggle with.

isaidso · #62 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 2:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

Why not do this again?

Farther north:
1. Portland Oregon or Toronto?
2. Perth or Sydney?
3. Dublin or Manchester?
4. Warsaw or Berlin?
5. Buenos Aires or Santiago?

Farther west:
1. Vancouver or Los Angeles?
2. Beijing or Shanghai?
3. Paris or Toulouse?
4. Nairobi or Cairo?
5. Bangkok or Singapore?

I'll probably get most of these wrong but here goes:

1. Portland
2. Perth
3. Dublin
4. Berlin
5. Buenos Aires

1. Vancouver
2. Beijing
3. Toulouse
4. Nairobi
5. Singapore

Zeej · #63 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 3:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by wave46

129 cities reprsenting ~63% until I gave up.

The suburbs of Montreal and Vancouver I struggle with.

Stopped at 158 cities, 68% of urban population. Good procrastination exercise!

Xelebes · #64 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by JHikka

https://iafisher.com/projects/cities/canada

How many Canadian cities can you name?

Smallest ones i've had accepted have had pops. of ~500.

I got 356, which was roughly 71% of the Canadian population.

Smallest was Halkirk (117), which I knew because it was always on the path towards my grandmother's place in Castor. Perhaps better known for the Circle Square Ranch where Shane Doan grew up. Now has a windfarm which my dad hates.

ssiguy · #65 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 6:58 AM**

How many Ontario cities/towns can you name that are named after European capitals?

I'll start with the hard one...........London.

Chadillaccc · #66 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 7:27 AM**

Paris
Zurich
Vienna
Moscow
Athens
Copenhagen
Warsaw
(formerly) Berlin - now Kitchener
Hanover - for the capital of the former Kingdom of Hanover

ssiguy · #67 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 7:45 AM**

^^^ Well done Chad but you are still missing 2................Moscow & Brussels.

Chadillaccc · #68 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 8:53 AM**

Moscow was on my list. But yeah didn't know about Brussels.

jonny24 · #69 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 12:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

Why not do this again?

Farther north:
1. Portland Oregon or Toronto? Portland
2. Perth or Sydney? Perth
3. Dublin or Manchester? Gonna go with Manc
4. Warsaw or Berlin? Berlin
5. Buenos Aires or Santiago? Santiago

Farther west:
1. Vancouver or Los Angeles? Vancouver
2. Beijing or Shanghai? Shanghai
3. Paris or Toulouse? Paris
4. Nairobi or Cairo? Cairo
5. Bangkok or Singapore? Bangkok

Mostly guesses, even the ones I know where they are it's tough.... off to Google to check.

jonny24 · #70 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 1:29 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by JHikka

https://iafisher.com/projects/cities/canada

How many Canadian cities can you name?

Smallest ones i've had accepted have had pops. of ~500.

I got to 142, 66% of the population.

A couple were "accidents" - i.e. it gave me credit for St Mary's, NFLD, which I've never heard of, when I meant St. Mary's Ontario. My smallest was 235 (Pelee).

jonny24 · #71 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 1:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Xelebes

I got 356, which was roughly 71% of the Canadian population.

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Damn, that's impressive!

hipster duck · #72 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 1:43 PM**

I got 189 and 74.1% of the population. The “big” places I was probably missing were either smaller Montreal suburbs and merged township-sized municipalities in Ontario with hyphenated or designed-by-committee names.

Innsertnamehere · #73 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 2:05 PM**

229 cities, 74% of the population.

HomeInMyShoes · #74 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 2:36 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by JHikka

https://iafisher.com/projects/cities/canada

How many Canadian cities can you name?

Smallest ones i've had accepted have had pops. of ~500.

I got a 272 one.

I gave up 67.62%. Just wasting too much time scanning my memory at that point.

MolsonExport · #75 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 6:11 PM**

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You named 283 cities, with a total population of 23,438,439 (72.64% of the national urban population in 2016).

after which I gave up out of boredom

Innsertnamehere · #76 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 6:16 PM**

Did anyone get brant county to work on it? Norfolk County worked, but none of "Brant", "Brant County", "County of Brant" seem to work.

MolsonExport · #77 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 6:20 PM**

a lot of stuff I typed in did not work. Even some relatively common municipal names like Chatham, (probably now some hyphenated monstrosity).

Innsertnamehere · #78 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 6:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

a lot of stuff I typed in did not work. Even some relatively common municipal names like Chatham, (probably now some hyphenated monstrosity).

Chatham is "Chatham Kent".

you have to use the municipal name unfortunately, so if the town name does not align with the municipal name it doesn't work. I.E. Simcoe doesn't work but Norfolk County does.

jonny24 · #79 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Did anyone get brant county to work on it? Norfolk County worked, but none of "Brant", "Brant County", "County of Brant" seem to work.

Dammit, I didn't think to include "County". Dumbass.... Same for Haldimand.

rousseau · #80 Posted **Jan 20, 2021, 9:37 PM**

Answer key:

Farther north:
1. Portland Oregon or Toronto?
2. Perth or Sydney?
3. Dublin or Manchester?
4. Warsaw or Berlin?
5. Buenos Aires or Santiago?

Farther west:
1. Vancouver or Los Angeles?
2. Beijing or Shanghai?
3. Paris or Toulouse?
4. Nairobi or Cairo?
5. Bangkok or Singapore?