Guess the City

maybe should be a separate thread, don't want to derail this one

is the underground transit mass grave scene in the background of dayo's pic one of those dancing gorilla things you only see if you are concentrating specifically on it or is there another reason nobody is mentioning it

I wondered that, but I didn't mention it because no-one was mentioning it.

is it cheating to use another browser window to google stuff like names of businesses and towns or is that part of the game?

Oh, I totally do that. Makes up for the times when you land on a random stretch of highway with nothing but trees in sight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Cloud_city_zpscd43e03f.jpg

I googled a business and got 0.147 km away and 6500 points

Enh it just started to feel like cheating. I preferred the game when you couldn't explore around

http://stochasticplanet.tumblr.com/

interesting. i've never known anyone who uploads to panoramio but it seems quite popular as a post-holiday thing in continental europe.

that site makes me love the planet

there are beautiful places on earth. ok, i'm off to drive my car to a cafe in a shopping complex.

http://i.imgur.com/DySVLbc.jpg

the terrain, fortresses, some of the other buildings suggest adriatic coast within the venetian sphere of influence

is it even a city, it looks fairly small

surely we do not need a 'guess the hamlet' thread

half of the assumptions in your post were correct, aye

makarska?

Positano?

^

city in the old world is an ecclesiastical term so some places with mediaeval or earlier significance are cities even if they are smallish today, in contrast to that place which seems to derive its importance from being written about 50 yrs ago

no cathedral no credibility as pope urban iv used to say

except cambridge ofc

not obscure but a pleasing picture:

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1390/1132698255_43cc76b538_o.jpg

no need to be a city rockist! xp

she said it's your birthday, are you feeling alright?

Not really valid for a guess-the-city game, but I figured this would be as good a place to talk about this as any:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Hluttaw-Naypyidaw.jpg

a friend of mine just got back from there and says all online information is incorrect and it is an empty, ghost city where nobody lives

What does all online information say about it? That it is bustling and vibrant?

That the roofs are color-coded?

No, that it has a population of almost 1m. That it's the third largest city in the country in which it exists. That it was built-from-scratch as the new political capital a la Brasilia but (despite online reports) (according to my friend) there is an occupancy rate of 10% or something equally incredulous.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Uppatasanti_Pagoda-02.jpg

Where is everyone!

Maybe they're inside?

Xxxxxx is a unique city in the region. It is a fully constructed large city but with very few inhabitants compared to its size, so you can experience the amazing and unprecedented experience of never ever being stuck in traffic. It is between two mountain ranges so has little to offer in the way of day trips or activities. The city was constructed to be the capital by the military and lacks the dissarray and wonder found throughout the rest of Xxxxx.

Xxxxxx was constructed in secret by the Xxxxx Junta in the early 2000s. In November 2005 it was officially announced as the country's new capital. Government workers were given two months notice that they would have to move from Yangon, as all government offices and ministries were relocated. Embassies and international organisations like the UN have not yet relocated but are expected to at some point. The international retail chains found throughout all other capital cities are not present in Xxxxxx.

The city has wide boulevards/highways (still almost empty) and extravagant roundabouts. It has housing for government workers, but many still maintain residences for their families in Xxxxx as education and health infrastructure is not yet in place.

Is it in Bhutan?

oh come now. I thought "junta" and this country were basically synonymous

or even "yangon"

Haha yeah, and Yangon. I'm actually planning on going to this country after xmas.

Xxxxxx was constructed in secret by the Xxxxx Junta in the early 2000s.

No government could do something like this in secret without having an iron grip on the media. I'll say it's in Myanmar. The gov there is self-aggrandizing enough and despotic enough, plus it fits the geographic profile for erecting a stupa-like monstrosity, but hell if I know the name of the city.

Apparently it is actually quite beautiful! But crazily empty.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.gadling.com/media/2008/10/naypyidaw.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alPN3KAIcZs/TGNoLlL4EQI/AAAAAAAABio/2eQq59ijLRg/s400/senate_in_naypyidaw1ss.jpg

The name of the city shows up in the jpg names of those pics. Even while seeing the name I cannot pronounce it.

http://i.imgur.com/yaG6CUM.jpg

yerevan?

yesevan

the church in the middle looks like one of those old armenian monasteries

http://i.imgur.com/yapJ8PS.jpg

You ppl are cray what w all yr knowledge of obscure cities

i was going to post one but no one's got this yet !

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1390/1132698255_43cc76b538_o.jpg

amman?

not far off. this is a bigger capital

Damascus?

not as old as damascus

shanghai