I've been following Guangzhou ever since they started building that TV Tower a couple years ago...very respectable city indeed, even if Shanghai Tower will be taller.
Well, this opened my eyes! I am from the -6:00 time zone in the US (central time), and I was convinced that the quiz was broken because it wouldn't accept Chicago. It didn't even occur to me to extend my view all the way south. Respect, Mexico!
So 55,000 constitutes a major city? I think that one would be very hard for people to get. Even Praia in Cape Verde is pretty much off the radar for most people.
Missed ten. Sao Paulo, Caracas, Santiago and all of the cities under 1M. Damn South America! Know all of the three, but that was impossible for me to realize their actual locations, distances and zones.
The International Date Line stretches all the way around to the east of Kiribati, so there are two extra hours. Yes, this means that it can be 3 different days at the same time.
+08:45 is such a weird time-zone, it consists of a small strip of roadhouses around the Western Australia-South Australia border, servicing an isolated section of road connecting the population island around Perth to the rest of the country. It's mindblowing how small all of those communities are too.
Genuinely the most interesting thing I learnt while researching my timezones map quiz!
I never really liked how Guangzhou's population is calculated, but it's based on the fact that it has absorbed like 7 cities around it (Huizhou and Shenzhen are two notable ones), severely boosting its population. Keep in mind Tokyo has about 12 million people before counting pretty much the entire region of Kanto in Japan
-12:00: Uninhabited
-9:30: Taiohae, French Polynesia, pop 2,183
-2:00: Vila dos Remédios, Brazil, pop 2,629
+8:45: Eucla, Australia, pop 53
+10:30: Lord Howe Island, Australia, pop 382
+12:45: Waitangi, New Zealand, pop 250
+14:00: Tabwakea, Kiribati, pop 1,881
Genuinely the most interesting thing I learnt while researching my timezones map quiz!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
Santiago (west coast) ahead of New York (east Coast)
Nepal on 45 minutes
Nur Sultan being on the same time as Dhaka