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Colour in the Flag Map by Guessing Cities #2

There are some incomplete flag maps below. To fill them in, guess the largest city by metro population, within each colour area.
Using citypopulation.de as a source
Quiz by Jiaozira
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Last updated: October 3, 2020
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First submittedMay 29, 2020
Times taken35,102
Average score55.0%
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Ireland
 
 
 
 
 
Galway
 
 
 
 
 
Cork
 
 
 
 
 
Dublin
Canada
 
 
 
 
 
Vancouver
 
 
 
Winnipeg
 
 
Thompson
 
 
 
Toronto
Norway
 
 
 
 
 
Stavanger
 
 
 
 
 
Bergen
 
 
 
 
 
Oslo
Spain
 
 
 
 
 
Bilbao
 
 
 
 
 
Barcelona
 
 
 
 
Madrid
 
 
 
 
 
Seville
Peru
 
 
 
 
 
Trujillo
 
 
 
 
 
Lima
 
 
 
 
 
Arequipa
United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
London
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Birmingham
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nottingham
 
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Level 78
May 29, 2020
Wow, thats different...the canadian within the maple leaf was obscure ! I'll give it 5 stars and a nomination, well done
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Level 70
May 29, 2020
I really should have lowered the maple leaf to make the city Winnipeg, in hindsight. At least if you miss it you'll still get the Canadian flag at the end--kind of.
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Level 70
Dec 30, 2020
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! It is surprisingly difficult to choose suitable countries. I am around 40-50% done the third entry, and I am beginning to think it will have to focus on European countries (most countries just don't have their cities in the right place, or perhaps their flag is too complex).
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Level 75
May 29, 2020
This is a great series. Please do more!
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Level 70
May 29, 2020
Cheers! I like making these, although it takes a while to get each one out.
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Level 64
Sep 8, 2021
Yes please!
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Level 70
May 29, 2020
That a great an original idea, nominated!
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Level 70
May 29, 2020
Thanks mate!
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Level 88
Jun 1, 2020
Like most people, I completely blanked on a few. Like the other commenters, I nominated it. Great visual quiz.
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Level 70
Jun 1, 2020
Cheers, really appreciate it!
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Level 74
Jun 16, 2020
I was desperately trying different spellings of Fort McMurray before realising Saskatchewan wasn't Alberta, and ended up missing that, like almost everyone else. 5 stars and nominated :)
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Level 70
Jun 16, 2020
Thank you, I do what I can to feature the wonderful city of Thompson here on Jetpunk :) (if only Churchill was bigger, I think some people would actually recognise Churchill, MB)
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Level 58
Jul 18, 2020
I tried Churchill
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Level 60
Sep 13, 2020
I tried Churchill but thanks to your comment I got Thompson before I ran out of time. Unfortunately missed Stavanger and Galway. I'm loving this series, the visual appeal of the flags in the map with the subdivisions (which is rare) is so pleasuring and fascinating. Hope to see more (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
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Level 70
Sep 13, 2020
Thanks for playing! Besides visual appeal, I believe subdivisions are necessary so quiz-takers can get an idea of where the colours trace over. I am midway through the third instalment, but it is going slow as I have less free time nowadays, and I'm getting to a point where I don't have pre-created subdivisions and must draw each one seperately before adding them to the greater map. Im also struggling to include non-European countries at this point. It is on the way, however!
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Level 62
Oct 1, 2020
You aren't supposed to look at the comment section until you finish the quiz...
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Level 61
Jun 28, 2020
I wish I could nominate multiple times the same quiz
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Level 82
Aug 7, 2020
In the map legend, the white and blue colours for Norway are switched.
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Level 63
Oct 2, 2020
Yup, Oslo should be white, and Bergen blue.
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Level 70
Oct 2, 2020
Apologies, that should be fixed.
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Level 76
Aug 8, 2020
I'm a huge Liverpool FC fan so I'm genuinely upset that I didn't get that one right.
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Level 62
Aug 15, 2020
Amazing work! I got UK and Spain, 3/4 on canada but blanked out on most of the others.
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Level 70
Aug 15, 2020
Thank you! It's certainly not an easy quiz.
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Level 56
Aug 17, 2020
I love these quizzes. Thank you.
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Level 70
Aug 20, 2020
Glad to hear that, thanks for playing!
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Level 69
Aug 18, 2020
Quality quiz! I'm sure these take a while to make, but I would certainly be up for more like this.
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Level 70
Aug 20, 2020
Thanks! You're right, these are time consuming to create, but I really liked how the first two turned out so I'll probably make more.
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Level 88
Aug 31, 2020
Great quiz idea, mate, but is Liverpool not in the blue segment for the UK as opposed to the white? Just north of the Mersey from the Wirral
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Level 70
Aug 31, 2020
Yes however Greater Liverpool's borders extend over the River Mersey and onto the white section, creating a strange scenario. Glad you enjoyed the quiz mate.
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Level 71
Aug 31, 2020
But it's not called Greater Liverpool. Liverpool is entirely north of the Mersey.
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Level 62
Aug 31, 2020
I ended up completing Peru´s flag by not guessing the two lateral stripes. Ugh, my mind.
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Level 84
Aug 31, 2020
I've lived in Canada my whole life, and I just found out that we have a city called Thompson. I had to look it up just to figure out which province it was in. Manitoba, apparently. 13,678 people, which puts it well out of the top 100 for the country. This is probably the smallest community, both by numbers and by ranking, for any of these quizzes so far.
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Level 70
Sep 1, 2020
It's pretty big by Manitoba standards, but I hope I don't have to choose such a small city in future.
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Level 75
Oct 1, 2020
It's tiny and relatively new (barely 50 years old - started solely as a mining town), but plays a lot bigger, since it's the transportation, government, service, and goods hub for all of northern Manitoba - in particular the many Indigenous communities. A town of comparable size outside the north in Canada wouldn't have anywhere close to the same importance.
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
That's true, I was surprised when I first learned how big the city was, compared to how far north it's location is.
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Level 70
Sep 1, 2020
Absolutely loving this series, can't wait for the next one!
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Level 70
Sep 1, 2020
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2020
Wow! This is beautiful!
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Level 70
Sep 7, 2020
Thanks, glad you think so!
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Level 81
Oct 1, 2020
A quiz that warmed this Manitoban's heart. Winnipeg and Thompson named, while Calgary and Edmonton are out? That's the dream.
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
Yes! I'm from Southern Alberta and I hate to see Calgary and Edmonton get all the credit. Manitoba deserves more time in the spotlight.
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Level 44
Oct 1, 2020
Man, this quiz is awesome! Do more!
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
The third quiz is half finished :)
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Level 67
Oct 1, 2020
Great quiz, enjoyed that!.. Perhaps Nottingham instead of Liverpool for UK's white portion. Liverpool is just in the blue, whilst it's the Wirral in white. But that's me nit picking. Well done!
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
Thank you! I am changing the white stripe to Nottingham. Liverpool is a bit of a stretch (although I believe my source exaggerates Liverpool's size so that it encompasses Wirral).
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Level 35
Oct 1, 2020
SOOOOOOOO coool!! :)
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
Cheers! :D
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Level 55
Oct 1, 2020
These are great! I love how you just cut the borders instead of aligning each of them to correctly fit their subdivisions ie the Canadian maple leaf takes up parts of multiple provinces...I wonder how you're even able to do that!
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
Thank you! It's time consuming, but I trace the borders of each country, within the colour region. The paths for all the different subdivisions are just lines and have no fill, and they overlay on top of everything else. It's really hard to explain, however now that this quiz is featured anyone can download the map for themselves.
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Level 55
Oct 1, 2020
Yeah I know, but what I meant was finding the data - usually there's only data for certain regions!
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
My bad. I used citypopulation.de's city population figures for each country, and since there are subdivisions included here, it isn't hard to figure where cities are. The nice since about citypopulation is that they have their data plotted on a map, and that makes it much easier to see which city is biggest in any given area of the country.
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Level 55
Oct 1, 2020
Oh cool! Thanks!
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2020
Only got half. Would have gotten one more if I knew how to spell Seville.
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2020
Tried "Galloway." My fault really but could that be an acceptable type-in?
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Level 51
Jan 12, 2021
I got everything besides the Red part of the flag of the UK and than, I ran out of time but, when I lost since I did not get the Red part of the UK and it replaced it with RED because I got it wrong, it looked like I go it right because it turned red again replaces well, RED
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Level 70
Jan 12, 2021
Yes, but the red of the Union Jack is deeper than the red used for incorrect answers.
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Level 34
Apr 1, 2021
i can see the mongolia flag's symbol in spain
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Level 65
Apr 29, 2021
More please
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Level 73
Sep 22, 2021
I love these quizzes, please make more. Had randomly heard of Thompson before but couldn't recall it.
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Level 70
Sep 23, 2021
Thank you! I'm sure the 13,000 Thompsonites would be honoured to hear that :)
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Level 84
Dec 8, 2021
Brilliant quiz! Thank you for creating it!
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Level 70
Dec 8, 2021
Thank you, glad to hear that!
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Level 68
Feb 6, 2022
Brilliant idea, thank you.

Trying to think of a way you could colour the flags using a criterion other than largest settlement. I suspect I'll struggle more if you have fewer European countries in the next one!!

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Level 70
Feb 6, 2022
Thanks for playing!

It would be hard to include many non-European countries, not just because of the difficulty guessing, but because Europe loves tricolour flags. Tricolours make life so much easier :)

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Level 68
Feb 13, 2022
Thanks for taking the time to reply Jiaozira. :)
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Level 70
Feb 13, 2022
No problem!
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Level 58
Apr 23, 2022
Great Quiz! I am one of 5% that got Thompson, I don't think any non-Canadians will get that
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Level 60
Jan 30, 2023
it should be named "biggest city" not just cities, because limerick didnt work for ireland, and cusco/cuzco didnt work for peru. even though theyre very big cities in their area
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Level 70
Jan 30, 2023
While this would be ideal, I can't fit anything more in the title (there is a character limit).
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Level 56
Aug 14, 2023
Really good! I definitely struggled with Canada (I admit, I checked Google maps) but this is a really cool idea! Can’t wait for the 3rd entry in this series!