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« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2016, 08:10:17 PM »


Yes, which is odd considering my grandfather is the most Italian person I've ever met.
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« Reply #26 on: October 05, 2016, 11:47:03 AM »


Yes, which is odd considering my grandfather is the most Italian person I've ever met.

Maybe you know it as Torino?  There was an Olympics there a few years back.
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« Reply #27 on: October 05, 2016, 01:14:17 PM »


Yes, which is odd considering my grandfather is the most Italian person I've ever met.

Maybe you know it as Torino?  There was an Olympics there a few years back.

That sounds more familiar.
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« Reply #28 on: October 05, 2016, 06:14:20 PM »

24. Zagreb
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« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2016, 06:59:11 PM »

25, Valencia. Followed by 46, Málaga, followed by 72, Palma de Mallorca.
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« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2016, 09:24:22 PM »

25, Valencia. Followed by 46, Málaga, followed by 72, Palma de Mallorca.

You must really hate Spain. Tongue
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« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2016, 09:33:46 PM »

Palermo, Italy (#31)
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« Reply #32 on: October 06, 2016, 05:48:57 AM »

46: Malaga, although I only knew Wroclaw because it just got mentioned in another thread.
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« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2016, 03:21:52 PM »

53. Poznari
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« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2016, 06:20:59 PM »

I know the entire list except for Wakefield (#89).

Wakey itself only has a population of 77k so that's not surprising. Interesting old place; lot of history, lot of character. David Peace's Red Riding novels are set in and around it.
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« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2016, 06:22:27 PM »

Dortmund, Essen, Krakow and Turin are all... er... surprising answers.
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« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2016, 07:08:05 PM »

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« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2016, 09:31:53 PM »
« Edited: October 06, 2016, 09:33:45 PM by Jante's Law Revivalist »

Dortmund, Essen, Krakow and Turin are all... er... surprising answers.

I was genuinely baffled I didn't know a German city apparently so large. I thought I had a pretty decent grip on German geography. I'm disappointed.

(I checked and the second I didn't know after Essen was Duisburg too. Weird.)
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« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2016, 01:17:13 AM »

Dortmund, Essen, Krakow and Turin are all... er... surprising answers.

I was genuinely baffled I didn't know a German city apparently so large. I thought I had a pretty decent grip on German geography. I'm disappointed.

(I checked and the second I didn't know after Essen was Duisburg too. Weird.)

Both Duisburg and Essen are part of the Ruhr district, no one outside Germany knows the towns and cities of the Ruhr district, just as most non-French people don't know the names of Parisian suburbs. It also make this list pretty ridiculous, as it mention small areas of massive metropolitarian areas, which often don't have the same name as those smaller areas.

I as example live in a Copenhagen suburb, I can take my bicycle and in 20 minutes I could be in the centre of Copenhagen (as in at the city hall), I wouldn't cross one green area or even one area which wasn't a densely populated urban area. I'm not counted in the first list, neither are the urban enclave inside Copenhagen municipality (Frederiksberg) which are the 7th largest municipality in Denmark.

So the correct name for this threat "What is the biggest municipality you've never heard about".
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« Reply #39 on: October 07, 2016, 03:43:44 AM »

Lodz. Never heard of that.
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« Reply #40 on: October 07, 2016, 08:17:49 AM »
« Edited: October 07, 2016, 08:20:36 AM by IceAgeComing »

77. Bochum for me

Reading the list reminded me that Szczecin existed, and I really like its name for some reason.  I mean Polish city names are usually great anyway but I really like Szczecin for some reason...\

e: The list in Latvian is pretty funny; I really like the way that some languages change the name of cities.  One doesn't get a Latvian name for some reason, you can probably guess which one
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« Reply #41 on: October 07, 2016, 08:48:30 AM »

Zaragoza

Dortmund, Essen, Krakow and Turin are all... er... surprising answers.

I was genuinely baffled I didn't know a German city apparently so large. I thought I had a pretty decent grip on German geography. I'm disappointed.

(I checked and the second I didn't know after Essen was Duisburg too. Weird.)

Both Duisburg and Essen are part of the Ruhr district, no one outside Germany knows the towns and cities of the Ruhr district, just as most non-French people don't know the names of Parisian suburbs. It also make this list pretty ridiculous, as it mention small areas of massive metropolitarian areas, which often don't have the same name as those smaller areas.

I as example live in a Copenhagen suburb, I can take my bicycle and in 20 minutes I could be in the centre of Copenhagen (as in at the city hall), I wouldn't cross one green area or even one area which wasn't a densely populated urban area. I'm not counted in the first list, neither are the urban enclave inside Copenhagen municipality (Frederiksberg) which are the 7th largest municipality in Denmark.

So the correct name for this threat "What is the biggest municipality you've never heard about".

Most Americans don't even know the Ruhr exists. If you polled Americans on the largest metro area in Germany >90% would say Berlin.
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« Reply #42 on: October 07, 2016, 09:09:51 AM »

54. Gothenburg
63. Duisburg
77. Bochum
79. Bydgoszcz
80. Wuppertal
85. Plovdiv
92. Alicante
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« Reply #43 on: October 07, 2016, 11:17:54 AM »

#99 Timișoara

...were the three I didn't know.

Surprised by that, as the Timișoara massacre sparked off the revolution against Ceausescu.
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« Reply #44 on: October 07, 2016, 12:19:48 PM »

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« Reply #45 on: October 24, 2016, 08:24:36 PM »

Bydgoszcz is the only one I've never heard (#79)

Following football over the years - as well as politics - gets one usually to know such things.
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