Personally I found this one more interesting than the other grid one--but I'm not sure how the average viewer feels about it. Mozambique really seems to be your nemesis in these, lol
Problem with South Africa is that they don't really have a clear cut definition of what is a city and what isn't. There is the municipaliy Johannesburg with 5+ million inhabitants, containing the metrolopolitan area of Johannesburg (with less than 1m inhabitants), as well as Soweto (the only "city" per hugequiz definition with 1+ million inhabitants) and several other regions. The creator just sticks to one data source for consistency and they classify the regions within the metropolitan area of Johannesburg as a separate cities. PS: There's a new "blackout" mode on hugequiz, I'd love to see you attempt this!
Looking through the comments for ones I see still unmentioned, I didn’t see East Honolulu, which qualifies as a "random suburb" and is just barely over 50k. Hawai'i has several cities of 40-50k that you did mention: Hilo, Pearl City, Kailua, and Waipahu. You can call it a moral victory.
The soweto/Johannesburg is purely down to the source used, note Muscat will also almost never work on hugequiz because of a tiny city proper population according to the source and New Taipei is bigger than Taipei. Great video 👍 😊
More generally, the varying definitions of what is a city are wild. The US is also notorious for making each suburb its own city, resulting in misleadingly small population counts for the big ones (with the weird exception of New York). Meanwhile, cities like Chongqing just gobble up everything in their vicinity.
Very, very impressive. I think the last city in the Trondheim/Tromsø rectangle is Umeå, looks like it's just inside the border. Super hard format, I did terribly myself
@@erikstenviken2652 no, Tromø is larger than Sundsvall but smaller than Umeå. If you split up Tromsø into multiple urban areas because it's on different islands it would also be less than 50k and smaller than Bodø. Gävle is also right on the border.
@@alienoidyt1 Östersund has 53k while Sundsvall has 59k, right on the green line is Gävle with 79k and Umeå with 92k. Looking closer on the map I'm certain that Umeå is inside the square while Gävle is outside.
Very impressive! I'm in awe of your knowledge, as always. Wouldn't mind seeing you attempt the 5 or 10 cities a square, either - that's where you'd really have an edge given your encyclopedic knowledge of obscure cities.
I really love the hugequiz videos. Closest coverage and Population Coverage are two other modes that I think are very fun on hugequiz. Both have variable sized circles that will include a set amount of either cities or population number in them, making it harder to cover more densely populated areas, while it might lead to huge circles in sparse areas.
I think the Argentina one was Comodoro Rivadavia, the bottom China rectangle was Chongqing and Kunming/Nanning and Lanzhou would have been one in the rectangle above that, but other than those I think you had me solidly beat haha
The missed chinese cities gotta be chongqing in the south, and 2nd might be kunming, nanning or qujing. Then yinchuan and lanzhou in the center, and hulunbuir and daqing in the north. Kinda hard to tell in the west, but i think it is turpan and hami. Also, the Naha and okinawa square was missed.
Very impressive (except for the Comodoro Rivadavia incident), can’t wait for the city quiz videos. Imma try it later tonight to see how many I can get (which will surely be embarrassingly low, I suck at these despite knowing so many cities) but hopefully mine will be at least 1/2 of your score Josh
Very cool to watch even though I can’t remember all these cities you name ! Maybe focusing on a region like Europe for these quizz would help your figures
Fun to watch, you have better city knowledge than me so fun when you guess the ones I'm thinking of lol. Seriously inpressive. I always struggled with China but I found learning the physical geography first and cities second helped me, because almost all the cities' locations make geographical sense. Chonqing is one a lot of TH-camrs miss: if you grab a Goode's Atlas or another topographic map, youll see right at the southwestern edge of the Tibetan plateau is the Sichuan Basin, which is surrounded by mountains. The Yangtze River flows across its southern edge before reentering mountains (where the Three Gorges Dam is) to reach the Yangtze river plain. In the north of the basin is Chengdu, and in the south where the Yangtze exits the basin is the river port of Chongqing. It's basically the gateway to the basin, much like a seaport. Hope that helps some.
This should really not allow suburbs of the same city to count imo. What's the point of having Mexico City have 2 cities represented, same with Santiago, etc. I would find it more fun to find the next biggest agglomeration tbh... BTW, try to get used to CTRL+A and then Backspace, that way you don't have to keep Backspace pressed for as long as the word you typed. Nice video!
I’m thinking you missed Dar es Salaam in Africa and maybe Cabo or Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Those are the only ones I could think of that you didn’t think of. Seriously impressive place name and spelling abilities. Why are we calling you Josh now? 😂
Not sure if it helps any but I really enjoy these videos personally. Also, how do you memorize cities? I know a lot of people can see them on a map or hear about them once or twice and have them memorized, but I can barely name 10 from my home state in the U.S. I have to memorize something about the location or use seterra quizzes over and over again until I memorize them.
I think it’s just a consequence of staring at maps for so long tbh, that and having to remember specific ones for geoguessr purposes. Generally I don’t go out of my way to learn them
This is very inaccurate as far as I can tell. There's no way Dublin was one of the biggest in it's square and there's definitely other examples of giant cities that didn't count over smaller cities
For most of them, I think it's the thing with city proper populations being unexpectedly small for some large cities. But the Dublin one is weird. Not sure how Dublin is bigger than Birmingham under any defined boundary for the city. I don't get that one either. I wish it just did metro pops instead of city proper, but maybe that's hard with the google map api so it is what it is.
Small criticism - listening to this video with headphones is slightly unbearable bc of the low sound the typing causes in the microphone Not sure if this is fixed in future videos but its super distracting
Honestly, your spelling and typing speed with tricky place names is just as impressive as the geography knowledge.
zigzag punching the air rn
Personally I found this one more interesting than the other grid one--but I'm not sure how the average viewer feels about it. Mozambique really seems to be your nemesis in these, lol
Problem with South Africa is that they don't really have a clear cut definition of what is a city and what isn't. There is the municipaliy Johannesburg with 5+ million inhabitants, containing the metrolopolitan area of Johannesburg (with less than 1m inhabitants), as well as Soweto (the only "city" per hugequiz definition with 1+ million inhabitants) and several other regions. The creator just sticks to one data source for consistency and they classify the regions within the metropolitan area of Johannesburg as a separate cities.
PS: There's a new "blackout" mode on hugequiz, I'd love to see you attempt this!
Looking through the comments for ones I see still unmentioned, I didn’t see East Honolulu, which qualifies as a "random suburb" and is just barely over 50k.
Hawai'i has several cities of 40-50k that you did mention: Hilo, Pearl City, Kailua, and Waipahu.
You can call it a moral victory.
The soweto/Johannesburg is purely down to the source used, note Muscat will also almost never work on hugequiz because of a tiny city proper population according to the source and New Taipei is bigger than Taipei. Great video 👍 😊
More generally, the varying definitions of what is a city are wild. The US is also notorious for making each suburb its own city, resulting in misleadingly small population counts for the big ones (with the weird exception of New York). Meanwhile, cities like Chongqing just gobble up everything in their vicinity.
Wasn’t it maputo?
Very, very impressive. I think the last city in the Trondheim/Tromsø rectangle is Umeå, looks like it's just inside the border. Super hard format, I did terribly myself
Both Sundsvall and Umeå is larger than Tromsö. So, I guess it has to be Sundsvall. And that means Umeå is outside the square.
@@erikstenviken2652 no, Tromø is larger than Sundsvall but smaller than Umeå. If you split up Tromsø into multiple urban areas because it's on different islands it would also be less than 50k and smaller than Bodø. Gävle is also right on the border.
@@erikstenviken2652 Ostersund?
@@alienoidyt1 Östersund has 53k while Sundsvall has 59k, right on the green line is Gävle with 79k and Umeå with 92k. Looking closer on the map I'm certain that Umeå is inside the square while Gävle is outside.
Very impressive! I'm in awe of your knowledge, as always. Wouldn't mind seeing you attempt the 5 or 10 cities a square, either - that's where you'd really have an edge given your encyclopedic knowledge of obscure cities.
I really love the hugequiz videos. Closest coverage and Population Coverage are two other modes that I think are very fun on hugequiz. Both have variable sized circles that will include a set amount of either cities or population number in them, making it harder to cover more densely populated areas, while it might lead to huge circles in sparse areas.
Nice work! I'll get the showing of missed answers and stats delay thing at the end fixed soon!
Sounds good 😁
@@jakelyonsgeoYou might really like one of the "10x10" geography quizzes I have, there's one for US, World and Europe. A little different.
Hey Josh, the city in west Cape Verde is Mindelo, and the one on south Bahia was either Ilheus or Porto Seguro (or maybe both)
there probably wasn’t one in the south, but the surrounding squares made it look like there was
I hope you dont stop these hugequizzes, i really enjoy them
I think you're missing a "don't" in there somewhere haha
@@SnowTheJamMan haha thanks man
I think the Argentina one was Comodoro Rivadavia, the bottom China rectangle was Chongqing and Kunming/Nanning and Lanzhou would have been one in the rectangle above that, but other than those I think you had me solidly beat haha
Omg I knew I was forgetting something obvious in Argentina 🤦♂️
@@jakelyonsgeoI think the midd east one was Shiraz as well I think
For the Norway square, I was wondering if it could be a Swedish city.
I still enjoy these :)
Probobly Sundsvall.
Probably Umeå
The missed chinese cities gotta be chongqing in the south, and 2nd might be kunming, nanning or qujing. Then yinchuan and lanzhou in the center, and hulunbuir and daqing in the north. Kinda hard to tell in the west, but i think it is turpan and hami. Also, the Naha and okinawa square was missed.
i enjoyed that you said every city out loud except that one in india 😆fun format, impressive as always!!
hey josh, love the hugequiz videos, they break it up from the geoguessr vids :)
I really enjoy watching these videos! Don’t worry about it being similar or too long. Impressive to see your memory and spelling
I still really enjoy these quizzes. I hope you do some more from time to time. I'll always love duels the most, but these are a nice change.
Very impressive (except for the Comodoro Rivadavia incident), can’t wait for the city quiz videos. Imma try it later tonight to see how many I can get (which will surely be embarrassingly low, I suck at these despite knowing so many cities) but hopefully mine will be at least 1/2 of your score Josh
Very cool to watch even though I can’t remember all these cities you name ! Maybe focusing on a region like Europe for these quizz would help your figures
Hey Josh, on your Windows search for "keyboard" and then change the repeat delay to short. it helps a lot.
josh
Josh will be thrilled to know about that, I’ll go tell him right now
@@jakelyonsgeo say hi to him
Chongqing (China)
Ilhéus (Bahia Brazil)
Comodoro Rivadavia (Argentina) i guess❤
Really shame for broken statistics. I enjoy seeing 25 biggest missed cities.
I really enjoy these hugequiz videos, btw maybe try the cities from above format thst geopeter does?
Astonished that USA cities are so small. I would never have guessed Montreal is bigger than Boston, Philly, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta
Hey Josh, I was wondering if you ever thought Zapopan for the western Mexican square. It's a Guadalajara thing
Fun to watch, you have better city knowledge than me so fun when you guess the ones I'm thinking of lol. Seriously inpressive.
I always struggled with China but I found learning the physical geography first and cities second helped me, because almost all the cities' locations make geographical sense.
Chonqing is one a lot of TH-camrs miss: if you grab a Goode's Atlas or another topographic map, youll see right at the southwestern edge of the Tibetan plateau is the Sichuan Basin, which is surrounded by mountains. The Yangtze River flows across its southern edge before reentering mountains (where the Three Gorges Dam is) to reach the Yangtze river plain.
In the north of the basin is Chengdu, and in the south where the Yangtze exits the basin is the river port of Chongqing. It's basically the gateway to the basin, much like a seaport.
Hope that helps some.
Very impressive. Especially the random Russian cities that are longer than German compound nouns... :D Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy? Screw you, sir :P
You will remember it eventually it isn't that bad.
Your city knowledge is so impressive
I love those challenge videos, hope I didn't miss any. (Unfortunately there is no playlist to crosscheck that...)
Might have to fix that!
This should really not allow suburbs of the same city to count imo. What's the point of having Mexico City have 2 cities represented, same with Santiago, etc. I would find it more fun to find the next biggest agglomeration tbh...
BTW, try to get used to CTRL+A and then Backspace, that way you don't have to keep Backspace pressed for as long as the word you typed. Nice video!
Comment for the algorithm. unreal showing. well played sir
I’m thinking you missed Dar es Salaam in Africa and maybe Cabo or Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Those are the only ones I could think of that you didn’t think of. Seriously impressive place name and spelling abilities. Why are we calling you Josh now? 😂
The first comment on this video took the form of “Hey Josh, …”
…and now everyone is doing it 😭
Not sure if it helps any but I really enjoy these videos personally. Also, how do you memorize cities? I know a lot of people can see them on a map or hear about them once or twice and have them memorized, but I can barely name 10 from my home state in the U.S. I have to memorize something about the location or use seterra quizzes over and over again until I memorize them.
I think it’s just a consequence of staring at maps for so long tbh, that and having to remember specific ones for geoguessr purposes. Generally I don’t go out of my way to learn them
@@jakelyonsgeo That is insanely impressive! Thanks for the response. All the best!
Second biggest municipality in Puerto Rico is actually Bayamón!
The Rio Grande do Sul one was either Rio Grande or a Porto Alegre suburb (Canoas or Viamão)
truly a jake lyons moment
Imagine having a person who graped a thousands people as your profile pic
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@@kyanbonus not something to be proud of
This is very inaccurate as far as I can tell. There's no way Dublin was one of the biggest in it's square and there's definitely other examples of giant cities that didn't count over smaller cities
For most of them, I think it's the thing with city proper populations being unexpectedly small for some large cities. But the Dublin one is weird. Not sure how Dublin is bigger than Birmingham under any defined boundary for the city. I don't get that one either. I wish it just did metro pops instead of city proper, but maybe that's hard with the google map api so it is what it is.
I love yelling answers at my phone
You have insane geography knowledge on the map. It's fucking insane dude.
You completely missed the Okinawa square D:
Umeå for the northern one and did you write Rio for South America?
You are insane!
Instant Classic
BRISVEGAS STILL REIGNS VICTORIOUS IN THEIR LAND
I think you missed New Cairo but I’m not sure
Is the Mexico one ever Torreón?
Hey Josh, great video :)
Is this gonna become a thing now 🙄
I don't think you tried Xi'an that was the 5M+ I thought of.
Xi'an was named. I think Chongqing and Kunming were missed, but not sure about most of the rest of the Chinese squares.
Chengdu and Chongqing are together
Dublin is not bigger than Glasgow never mind Birmingham which is bigger than both.
Small criticism - listening to this video with headphones is slightly unbearable bc of the low sound the typing causes in the microphone
Not sure if this is fixed in future videos but its super distracting
Hey Josh - commenting for the algorithm
Uh oh 🤦♂️