Guess the City

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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— Scott Sandalow (@ScottSandalow) March 17, 2022

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

what the

Boom, I was only looking at Iaşi this morning, amongst several other Romanian and eastern European cities, and luckily remembered seeing the Palace of Culture

Biserica Sfântul Nicolae Domnesc
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HwkiyU67K9AanFsy9

still can't find that damn arena/stadium/mall tho

found it: MCM centre