Guess the City/Metro from Satellite Image

[Allein 329]

22 minutes ago, Bendinerd00 said:

No, sorry after some more looking I can confidently say it is Freiburg 

(Those little lakes threw me off)

Yes, your turn.

[Bendinerd00 19]

Here is the next city!

[Bendinerd00 19]

It's been two weeks so I guess I'll put some hints 

This city is in Asia

This city's name starts with a B

This country doesn't use the Latin alphabet 

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,030]

@Bendinerd00 Those three hints are super general, and looking at the size of the urban area, it looks like a smallish city as well, still devoid of enough usable information for the guess. Really tough case for us to guess!

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[Bendinerd00 19]

I completely forgot about this site, but here we are also the city was Barnaul for anyone wondering

[Bendinerd00 19]

Let's restart this thing, so I'll start with an easy one 

[matias93 7,535]

That's Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and a very recent entry in the list of cities with a metro system, having inaugurated its first line on December of 2023.

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Let's ramp up the difficulty just a bit, with a big city that it's not a country capital:

(edit: I'll be trying to remake the previous images on the game, though I cannot promise they will look exactly the same)

[Bendinerd00 19]

omg i know this, Salvador, Brazil right?

[Bendinerd00 19]

here is the next one, good luck!

[Bendinerd00 19]

seeing as though no guesses have been submitted I will give you some hints:

This city is in Africa

This country will be at the World Cup this summer

The country in which the city is located was colonised by multiple nations

[Oliver25 59]

It's Durban, in South Africa.

Here is the next guess. Fun fact, the airport on the satellite image is the 3rd-busiest airport in the country where this city is located by passenger traffic.

 

 

[simmering 2,706]

You made that one easy: Nice in France.

This one is not very big, but well known:

[Bendinerd00 19]

I was looking for this place all day and for the life of me I couldn't find it, so I commited the ultimate sin and reverse image searched it, and all I have to say is hats off, because I never would have found it lol

[Lucario Boricua 7,030]

@simmering This one is easy for me, Guantanamo Bay! It's officially supposed to be Cuban territory, but the entrance of the bay was seized by the USA to establish military facilities in the context of the Cold War.

Feels instantly recognizable to me due to the characteristic Caribbean dry scrubland biome growing on karst terrain on the dry coastlines of the islands and on the lower-lying islands. It also features one of the few glaringly visible borders, in the form of that cleared land strip delimiting the American-controlled area.

 

Proof of correct guess:

https://www.google.com.pr/maps/@19.9429424,-75.1500895,16447m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Lucario Boricua 7,030]

For my next entry, this is one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It's not especially famous, but it serves a super important international purpose.

 

 

[Bendinerd00 19]

Found it! Ciudad del Este/Foz do Iguacu/Puerto Iguacu the hint gave it away. anyways here is the next one

[Lucario Boricua 7,030]

Wow, this one was really tough for me to figure out! I won't give the answer just yet in case someone else wants to try. This city took me through an exhaustive elimination process, especially as I was 100% oblivious to its geography. Only thing I can tell from the screenshot is the climate isn't too cold nor too dry; and that the city looks relatively important without being so big.

[Bendinerd00 19]

if you've got it post the next one, without saying the city

[Lucario Boricua 7,030]

I'll do the opposite now, reveal my answer but cede my turn to anyone else who wants to take it.

The city @Bendinerd00 presented for us to guess is none other than Tbilisi, Georgia! In my search process, I notice the mountain vegetation is more saturated, which to me tends to indicate a warmer climate. With that in mind, I first considered tropical islands with clear wet and dry sides from orographic rainfall. None of my options in the Caribbean, the Pacific, volcanic hot spot islands nor even the African coasts turned up anything favorable. From the size of the urban area and the type of infrastructure visible, I could tell it's a relatively important city that's not too populous, and didn't seem to have the order that's more typical of New World urban centers. I then remembered that the areas surrounding the Caspian Sea have some noticeable rain shadow effects, so I started to search there, until I found the river to the west, lake to the east, and the small mountain ridges surrounding on the north and south sides.

 

Proof of correct guess:

https://www.google.com.pr/maps/@41.7781262,44.7774216,22586m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Bendinerd00 19]

Welp no one is posting so I guess I will here it is:

Good luck!

[Oliver25 59]

This would be Duluth, MN, USA: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7pGHvJnW5jy1obFN6

To me, this place has the ideal layout of a tropical coastal city: a long, narrow sandbar, beautiful beaches, and tranquil lagoons, but set in a cold climate.

At the height of summer, I’d bet this place has nothing to envy of Florida.

[Oliver25 59]

The next city is a bit of an oddity. It is the largest and most populous city in its county, and with 100k residents, its the second most populous city in its CSA. Yet it remains a complete suburban underdog, thoroughly overshadowed by two significantly smaller cities in the same county: