Krillion Recorded answers
699 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work country by country rather than free-associating. Pick a handful of nations whose urban networks you know reasonably well, and for each one list municipalities in the target band from memory: the second-tier industrial centres, the provincial capitals, the port and river cities. Keep a strict mental boundary between the city proper and the wider metro area, because the second figure is usually far larger and will tempt you into the wrong range. Then sanity-check each candidate against the population band before committing. Once the obvious names are exhausted, push into regions the average player rarely reaches; the scoring system rewards picks that few other entrants made, so breadth of geography matters more than depth in any single country.
Get a hint
Start from countries with very large urban populations, then think of individual municipalities inside them rather than of the whole built-up area around a core.
A little more
Mid-sized regional capitals and industrial or port cities are fertile ground, especially where administrative borders absorbed surrounding districts as the city grew.
One step further
Look beyond the obvious giants: a name sitting just under the ten-million mark, or a fast-expanding city in a densely settled river plain, is often the kind of entry a crowd overlooks.
Reveal answers 699
- DongyingDeep Cut85points
- DoualaDeep Cut85points
- DushanbeDeep Cut85points
- EcatepecDeep Cut85points
- EkurhuleniDeep Cut85points
- EnuguDeep Cut85points
- ErbilDeep Cut85points
- EzhouDeep Cut85points
- FaisalabadDeep Cut85points
- FangchenggangDeep Cut85points
- FaridabadDeep Cut85points
- FengchengDeep Cut85points
- FortalezaDeep Cut85points
- FoshanDeep Cut85points
- FuqingDeep Cut85points
- FushunDeep Cut85points
- FuxinDeep Cut85points
- FuyangDeep Cut85points
- FuzhouDeep Cut85points
- Fuzhou (Jiangxi)Deep Cut85points
- GanzhouDeep Cut85points
- GaozhouDeep Cut85points
- GaziantepDeep Cut85points
- GazipurDeep Cut85points
- GhaziabadDeep Cut85points
- GoiâniaDeep Cut85points
- GorakhpurDeep Cut85points
- GoyangDeep Cut85points
- Guang'anDeep Cut85points
- GuangyuanDeep Cut85points
- GuarulhosDeep Cut85points
- GuayaquilDeep Cut85points
- GuigangDeep Cut85points
- GuilinDeep Cut85points
- GuipingDeep Cut85points
- GuiyangDeep Cut85points
- GujranwalaDeep Cut85points
- GurugramDeep Cut85points
- GuwahatiDeep Cut85points
- GuyuanDeep Cut85points
- GwaliorDeep Cut85points
- GwangjuDeep Cut85points
- HaichengDeep Cut85points
- HaidongDeep Cut85points
- HaikouDeep Cut85points
- HainingDeep Cut85points
- HaiphongDeep Cut85points
- HandanDeep Cut85points
- HanzhongDeep Cut85points
- HarbinDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal shows what the scoring curve actually rewards. Only one entry reached the top band at 100 points, so the perfect pick was something almost nobody else thought of, while 526 answers landed at 85 and 123 at 60. That middle tier is where most competent players ended up: solid, recognisable secondary cities such as Adana, Antalya, Bursa or Konya in one country, or Bandung, Bogor and Bekasi in another, all correct and all common enough to be shared by many entrants. Lower scores went to the names that come to mind first, the biggest and most famous cities inside the range, which nearly everyone writes down. The lesson is that accuracy alone puts you at 85; rarity is what pushes a correct answer toward the ceiling. Hulunbuir at 100 is the clearest illustration: a large municipal population attached to a name that rarely surfaces in quizzes, so almost no one duplicated it. Picking a well-known city is safe but capped; picking an obscure but genuinely qualifying one is the only route to the top.