Guess the City

1.5 million people, that's more than Munich or Milan, but it doesn't rank in the top 50 for China.

Somewhat notable for the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau bridge system, which according to wp "is both the longest sea crossing and the longest open-sea fixed link in the world.

is fgti's Port Louis?

they seem to have the black & silver license plates

Port Louis is an excellent and incorrect guess

Victoria, in the Seychelles?

my guess is Madagascar, also a former French colony in the same region. is it Antananarivo?

(the licence plate seems to match as well)

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTrhKs2ejdVxXXKCVLGpMLZTNf5ykxFA8k59Q&usqp=CAU

Lycée Andohalo

Correct!

Other angles:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2ABAE9P/cathedrale-catholique-d-andohalo-antananarivo-madagascar-2ABAE9P.jpg

https://travel2madagascar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/bigstock-In-The-Streets-Of-Antananarivo-101524019-e1498467221265.jpg

Very cool, one of the places I've wanted to visit more than most.

That second one is "the other cathedral", wrong image sorry :)

One of my closest friends took a trip to Madagascar some fifteen years ago to shoot a documentary on a musician who was there. He had the best time!

He told me a funny story that involved a pig but it's pretty gross so I won't repeat it

It is a pretty fucked up place, from what I can tell, given the nature of the colonialist extraction economy that continues to fuck everything unabated. But all that biodiversity!

https://i.postimg.cc/mknj9xJL/ok.jpg

Blue

Want to spout English seaside cities as I'm sure that's what it is but I've no idea which

Jim OTM.

Is it Hastings / St Leonards?

I never have the slightest clue with these but this looks familiar. I want to say Penzance, but worried it might be too hilly. Possibly too built up as well.

It looks like Anglesey too but again, too built up.

Swansea

Haven't found the blue house yet but there's a hill in the right place, that looks like the civic centre on the left and it would be devon across the water.

Good spot Ledge - quick google for Swansea steep hill leads me to https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4049845 - Constitution Hill.

"In the early 20th century, the Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Railway operated up and down this hill."

Phwoar.

I had managed to persuade myself that the land visible across the water was in fact a cloud formation. Bah. I do try my best not to think too much about north Devon.

I have never been to Swansea but whenever I see a photo of Swansea I think "that looks like exactly like Swansea"

Wasn't sure how easy/difficult to make this one

That looks pretty

https://cdn2.wanderlust.co.uk/media/1004/shutterstock_1281338881-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1440&height=0&format=auto&quality=90&rnd=132246828580000000

I was going to say Iceland but too many trees.

Also, driving on the left?

Port Stanley?

yep. i think finding a decent city / pic to guess is harder than the actual guessing.

It felt like Stanley right off the bat, but those Rover vehicles clinched it

Feel like somebody will get this one very quickly

https://i.imgur.com/L3Lufe3.jpg

Helsinki?

I think that's Helsinki, based on (a) the sign you can see from behind bottom left saying Helsingen something and (b) the brick tower on the right.

Was thinking Helsinki too.

the ferry port right in the city and the island in the bay are also characteristic, if we're right

I got helsinki based on 'tapiola' on one of the buildings but took me ages to confirm, the brick tower is erottaja fire station.

yeah it's Helsinki

That was interesting - I've never been to Helsinki and I imagined it as a modernist / International Style wonderland; although it looks nice I'm a bit disappointed to see quite a lot of neoclassical / 19th century gothicish architecture.

My experience w Helsinki and Finland in general is that the interfacing of of old and new architecture is spectacular. Tallinn, too

I've visited once, and there's a lot of monumental Hanseatic architecture, redolent of Hamburg or Copenhagen, along with some excellent modernism. The huge central station marries the two.

https://i.postimg.cc/8zxWC86S/oy.jpg

Lisbon? Looks like another landmass across a bay.

doesn't feel like Lisbon to me, couldn't exactly tell you why though

First thought was Corsica or Sardinia. Going by the geography (with Sardinia to the south) is it Bonifacio?

Stop sign in English, though? Gibraltar?

there is what looks like a French blue/white street sign on the right side, though it's perhaps too low down to be a street sign.

yeah looks like provincial France to me, no idea where though

Stop signs in France say "Stop" in English, no? I hope that is true as it's one of my favorite things about Quebec (where they stubbornly say "Arrêt")