Guess the City

sydney

i thot it might well be tucson - the houses looked very phoenix-y, but the mountains were off - but couldn't GIS a picture that looked similar - are those mountains part of tucson mountain park or something else?

I don't think so, cause that doesn't include Mt Lemmon, right? Which I think is within Catalina State Park. I doubt any of the other surrounding mountains could accumalate that large of an amount of snow.

96 Miami?

the rocks over circular quay: A+, would visit again.

It's sydney

it is sydney. the pic i MEANT to post was of pago pago, though. :(

97. Pago Pago

91 is driving me mad. This is what I can see:

- it's on a coast, with open sea beyond - no islands, no opposing coastline, nothing
- it's got what looks like 3 harbours. On is man-made, the other two are natural (and could conceivably be rivers or, on the left, a lake)
- all the harbours are underused. Only the man-made one has anything in it, being a fairly large cruise ship, a container ship and a couple of smaller craft
- one steel-arch bridge over the harbour/river mouth. Quite a big bridge, nice red arch
- it's full of high-rises, so really dense, and yet there is loads of woodland on what should normally be perfectly-habitable ground. There's one crazily-dense part in the middle, surrounded by forest. Why build like this?
- it's all very green, the only bare ground is on the rocky hills in the foreground
- only two distinctive buildings - a round tower block just below and to the left of the bridge; and what could be the top of a space needle dead centre, at the back behind the hill.
- looks quite clean
- the photographer is higher than the hills in the foreground, so the city lies on a thin strip twixt mountains and sea
- the area round the man-made harbour is low-rise, suggesting a historic centre. Not so many tower blocks as would suggest breakneck growth
- I'm guessing a population of around 300,000

Help me please. Please.

looks like it could be a canal between those two green fields?

it's full of high-rises, so really dense, and yet there is loads of woodland on what should normally be perfectly-habitable ground. There's one crazily-dense part in the middle, surrounded by forest. Why build like this?

key question

indian burial ground?

haha that's what i was thinking. some sort of ruins. maybe a park?

93 is pondicherry/puducherry

lol pudcherry

i'm thinking wet ground/unbuildable swamp

are you guys thinking latin america?

that waterway is way too small for panama canal, right?

yeah latin america. first thought was mexico, due to that building in the left foreground resembling a mayan pyramid.

91: Kobe?

i think its not dense enough for kobe. i think its colon, panama.

doesn't appear to be big enough for Kobe, no? per google earth Kobe does have a sizable forested area just nearby though

xp

also the one bridge i see in kobe looks different

ok not colon either

I got to Kobe too when looking for the bridge, but Kobe's too big I think.
I was thinking European Mediterranean, but I see no spires or churches. I think it's too green for east/south Med.
I don't think it's an island country because the port isn't busy.
I think the bridge is over a rivermouth, as there seems to be the remnants of an old harbour just inside it, and if it was a natural harbour it would have been developed in preference to building a new one
A lot of the residential towers appear to have cube shapes perched on top. Is that characteristic of anywhere?

it's not kobe, there are not open fields that close to the city center. downtown kobe looks nothing like that. the tiered hotels are not a japanese style.

Also, I see no shanty town, which I'd expect to see if the country was poor because of all the unused land

a lot of things could be out of the frame: shantytowns, a central tourist area, etc

I can't find any coastal city in Mexico or Cen America that is both as large and as hilly.

xp true

this part of town could be a hole
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/shitholearea.jpg

Hualien City is similiar but not quite.

i thought i was onto something with Hobart, but nope

is it Penang / Butterworth Malaysia ?

i don't think so. there's not two big green fields seperated by a waterway near the shore.

this is frustrating

To answer Ismael I'd say most of the points are correct except this one

- I'm guessing a population of around 300,000- I'm guessing a population of around 300,000

I think its population is more like 100,000

i feel like im running low on cities i can think of to post.

Great, that means it's even less likely that it's somewhere notable xp.

I thought of a reason for the crazy density among the woodland left-of-centre. I think the forest is on higher ground than the buildings, so that the high-rises are in narrow, shallow canyons snaking back from the main city. Don't suppose this'll jog any memories?

Not A Coruna, in Galicia?

alternate view of 91

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/2958597096_63d1ed43b1_o.jpg

almost has to be japan, korea or Taiwan

97

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/3040343837_1a4f4fa2c8_o.jpg

Bradford?

Actually I think it is Keighley

Correct first time!

98. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/3040343573_6d41a27c5c_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/3040343573_6d41a27c5c_o.jpg

Are you going to tell us what 91 is first?

Oh yes!

91 is here - you should be able to see the distinctive shape from this

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.194347,128.587074&spn=0.050457,0.076904&t=h&z=14

Well that's a relief. You have no idea how many hours I spent gazing at that photo, hoping the Eiffel Tower or the Pyramids would suddenly emerge into view

Ha sorry. I know it was kind of an obscure one but people were successful at getting all kinds of obscure ones and I thought the shape kind of distinctive

Is 94 Charlotte?

98=Roanoke Virginia, from Mill Mountain!

P.S. Hi dere!