20 European Cities on a Map but They Have Been Randomly Translated
I'll give you the names of 20 European cities, but neither in English nor in their local language. Your job is to guess their English names, will you be able to do it?
I'll tell you something more shocking. Swedish is the ONLY true national language in Finland, as Finnish is not official on the Åland islands, but Swedish is. Finnish and Swedish are both considered national languages in Finland according to Finnish law.
And yeah, I tried to include some less common languages (but the farther a language is from a city, the lesser chances that it has a translated version of the name of the city, so it was a bit hard)
Loved it. As an Italian, I've never heard anyone refer to Dubrovnik as Ragusa. Yes, it was called that while under Venetian control, but not anymore. Plus, we already have a Ragusa in Sicily so that would be just asking for trouble
Thanks! And I thought it was still in use (I don't speak Italian myself) and the Wikipedia page for Dubrovnik in Italian is called Ragusa, so that seemed to confirm it for me... but following your recommendation I changed it to another city.
Also yeah, I can see how it would be confusing to have 2 cities with the same name so close to each other
I enjoyed this - thank you! Nominated. The Turkish for Antwerp turns out to be the same as the French, which is a bit less exotic (just in case you were hoping that was a middlingly hard one)
Nominated.
Would make a great series too.
I actually spent more time deciding which cities to use so that it was balanced than making the map this time Xd.
I will definitely make a series out of this quiz!
Thanks for the nomination!
People from Helsingfors should start speaking Swedish then, I guess Xd
https://www.jetpunk.com/series/1374763/cities-in-foreign-languages
Cool to see things like Hawaiian and Uzbek get a mention.
And yeah, I tried to include some less common languages (but the farther a language is from a city, the lesser chances that it has a translated version of the name of the city, so it was a bit hard)
Also yeah, I can see how it would be confusing to have 2 cities with the same name so close to each other