Great idea, and fun! I tried Krasnoyarsk, which is about the same size as Krakow, first. I guess which one counts as the more "prominent" city of those two depends on where you live.
A better way would be by economic output (as even population does not necessarily equate to being a world city unless they do something in the world). It is hard to find GDP figures by city area, but it appears Krasnoyarsk is about 1/20th of Russia's GDP (a source I found said it and 9 other cities were 1/2 of Russian output) putting it's GDP at 64Bn USD. Krakow is somewhere over 13Bn but less than 100Bn by the vague info I found. Possibly a better way is by S&P credit rating, which gives Krakow as BBB+ and Krasnoyarsk as BB i.e. more risky. Krasnodar is not rated. By some kind of historic measure Krakow has been around for approximately 700 years longer. One thing Krasnoyarsk has going for it which might lean this objective (Non-polish/non-russian) quizzer is its apparent strategic position on a trans-siberian railway. But actually my initial idea of a world city before reading the comments was a destination to visit; not sure I'd take a trip to Siberia unless I had to.
I dont think well known equates with doing well economically. Some small poor places in the world are wellknown ( because they have a famous landmark, resident, or something that occured there) and other very big wealthy places are hardly known at all.
World City is a bit misleading though - I'd hardly have put Krakow into that bracket (to me, a world city is the likes of NY, Paris, London, Tokyo, not the second city of Poland).
I'm one who is terrible at quizzes on world capitals and cities, but I got this one. I never heard of that other one, but if your first answer didn't work surely Krakow would be the next one guessed.(Although I sheepishly admit Krakatoa was the first thing that came to my mind.)
@jerry more prominent (well known etc) Usually means known in places far away with no direct ties to it. Otherwise most known city would always be the city the person itself lives in. most known countries would be the neighbouring ones. So you have to go the amount of "distance" that direct influence doesnt play a role.
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Krakow as a world city is a bit of a stretch. It is certainly famous, and the most famous starting with KRA, but not exactly in the same league as New York, Tokyo or Paris . . . Perhaps a different clue?
Perhaps people would complain less if you just call it a city, or wellknown or similar adjectives. Personally I didnt even stop to think about the description, I saw city and went with the first city that came to mind starting kra (after getting rid of krakatoa which wanted the spotlight..)
Well in that case everything is a world city... that is pushing it a bit far. Other the world is not really dependant on krakow( 's economy/influence) so I wouldnt call it a world city, but world renown yes.
People might no 100% agree on the prerequisites of being a world city, but just being a city, in the world, is definitely not the sole factor ;)
Right. "Region" is a tough category, since it can mean a portion of a country (e.g. Ogaden), a portion of multiple countries (Patagonia), or a collection of countries (Scandinavia). When you combine this with the existence of "US State" as a category, rightly or wrongly it put me off a region that is largely defined similarly - as a political sub-unit. I know - Kashmir is only the main part (demographically) of Jammu and Kashmir state. And then there's Azad Kashmir, the common name for the Pakistani state that exists mostly outside Kashmir proper. Long story short - because of the presence of US States, I wasn't thinking of political sub-units and that put me off the trail.
Maybe because people were mentally sounding out possible words beginning with kas, and adding the h gave the s a completely different sound they weren't thinking about.
i missed ottawa,melbourne,maryland,mojave,krakow,dinar,yangtze,sinai and kashmir. i don't know what is desert mojave ,sinai peninsula and yangzte.Cool quiz
Imo all very easy, only two that stopped me from non stop typing were krakow (but that was because I used the spelling krakau, then figured they meant a different answer..) and dinar (tried dinero first there). Well they didnt stop me, I skipped over them and went back. But didnt get kasmir and wouldnt have (though I recognize the name) I stopped the time at 2 minutes, cause I knew I was never gonna get the last one.
Can you please accept ‘yangzi’ for ‘yangtze’. This is actually the correct spelling based on pinyin, the standard romanisation of Chinese used officially in China since 1958 and in Taiwan since 2009. ‘Yangtze’ or ‘Yangtze’ is based on the old Wade-Giles system of romanisation of Chinese which hasn’t been used in mainland China for 65 years and doesn’t convey the correct pronunciation of Chinese names.
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People might no 100% agree on the prerequisites of being a world city, but just being a city, in the world, is definitely not the sole factor ;)