Guess the City

(Alegre with an -e) (so, it's not that)

The city itself, with its size and sprawl, looks Californian, but the hills are way too green for that. I'm not sure there's any city that big surrounded by mountains in the Pacific Northwest or in the Appalachians. So if its in the US I'm stumped on where it might be.

the grid seems too irregular for the the west coast of the US, and the vegetation seeems wrong for the PNW, but i also don't have any better suggestions.

looks like a port based on the second photo (towers/cranes? by water)

Huh, I didn't notice the water over there at first glance. Guess that rules out Appalachia.

Is it Wellington NZ?

See I thought the second picture was looking down from Karori across Zealandia so Wellington was an option for me but it's way too big I think.

Yes I think it's way too big for NZ, this looks like a city of a few million. Trees are wrong for Australia, but I don't know what they're right for. Pretty green, so somewhere with decent rainfall. Doesn't look European. A second-tier city in South America perhaps, or in a temperate part of Africa.

Way too big to be Split, tho for a second I'd convinced myself

my guess is it's either Japan or somewhere in Europe

Nothing about this says Japan to me, sorry - I see a building with a red water tank on the roof in the first pic (bottom left corner -ish) which feels like it's very North American? Just looking for the right mountainous/flat region - maybe the water is a lake and not the ocean? The trees are very green, nothing arid anywhere - maybe Canada?

it IS on Earth, right? :-)

I'm now thinking a city in China somewhere, I'm shit out of ideas.

The green lines that cross the city in the first pic I think are canals, because on at least one there are bridges.

Can't see much that resembles a church, which may or may not imply something.

Pretty striking how the city just stops, doesn't peter out into suburbs or shantytowns - there's city and then right next door there's forest.

Lots of public housing style developments.

If we could identify what sort of trees we're looking at in pic 2 that might give an idea of the region.

And yet for all that I'm still completely stumped!

first pic: looks like a golf course (mentioned earlier) and maybe also a ski station in the woods in the front (the succession of poles could be the skier-puller-up-the-mountain thingy?)

also in the first pic: a very twisty/meandery river in the distance and maybe a sports stadium with red chairs?

second pic: there's something in the water to the in front of the wind turbines (to the left from our POV) - and I can't seem to imagine what it could be - a dam?

No churches may suggest China.

China seems like a good suggestion. It has plenty of cities that would be big enough, and I see some that have undeveloped hills not unlike the ones in the photos very near to a dense urban area.

Having just looked at a few Chinese cities with canals and near undeveloped hills, there's certainly a similarity, but the Chinese cities seem a lot more high-rise. This shot of Shaoxing looks a bit similar to pic 2 though:
https://image.baigolf.com/course/613/29db5ab8ad8f49820a668fe0e283df80.jpg

this is great

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excellent stuff

Found it! Sapporo Teine (Olympia Ski Center)

well done, secret ride

SAPPORO TEINE
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGZrogGroTBzkhwy8

also, ahem:

my guess is it's either Japan or somewhere in Europe

― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 09:53 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nothing about this says Japan to me, sorry

― StanM, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:10 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I sit corrected. well done!

Good work secret ride! How did you get to Sapporo?

First tried Vancouver (but as caek mentioned, vegetation was wrong) and Denver (too arid). Then a few South Korean cities, which seemed better on vegetation, but there were too many high rises. After that I tried Sendai, Kyoto, and finally Sapporo.

https://i.ibb.co/7KmmkxS/24.jpg

Monday again

Medellin? There's a lot of cocain on the roofs

other than that, feels Eastern European

something big, near mountains that are that high - power station in the city - several churches that feel +/- orthodox maybe? mmmmm - I'm trying to make Zagreb work but it feels too small

Don't think it's Tbilisi or Yerevan, mountains feel too low for Budapest... (could be wrong about everything, of course) - I really have no idea - I thought there were more big cities near mountain ranges over there

Stuck thinking China...

Košice ? Meh, too small

feels more greek influenced, like macedonia

I think the buildings aren't colourful enough to be southern europe?

could it be sofia?

the more I look at it.. it very well could be

can't seem to find the power station towers though

(chimneys)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Power_Plant

oooooh

was looking at Sofia a couple of days ago but couldn't identify whatever that stadium/arena/mall is

likewise. spent a while with Sofia aerials and wound up ditching it

yean, I can't seem to find the right angle - power station & mountains could be it though

I can't make the distance between the leftmost cooling tower and the others fit with what I see on Google Earth with 3D buildings turned on.

The game is "guess the city", not "provide a gmaps link to the exact photo published by the setter". Next, please!

the game has been exactly the latter for a while now

Agreed that the point shouldn't be to replicate the exact thing. My post was an argument that it might very well not be Sofia!

https://i.ibb.co/bsQWbQq/wiku.jpg

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