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Can you name the major European cities that have exactly 6 letters in their English names? Enter a city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger Source: citymayors.com You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 6034 Broadway Opening Lines 4028 TV Shows (U.S.) 3972 You Do Know Jack 1659 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1628 Same Last Name 1350 And more...
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Rank	City	Population
1		8,297,000
2		7,074,000
4		3,387,000
5		2,824,000
13		1,615,000
15		1,540,000
22		1,195,000
23		1,193,000
24		1,165,000
32		1,047,000
36		1,002,000

Rank	City	Population
43		868,000
49		772,000
52		740,000
79		578,000
82		563,000
84		543,000
85		540,000
89		528,000
98		502,000
106		482,000
117		458,000
62 (656,000)		458,000
125 (430,000)		458,000

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	rockgolf:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 21:38 GMT	18 points
	Very good quiz. I expected to find Zurich, but, while the Zurich metropolitan area has 1.68 million people, which would put it in the top 15, the city itself only has about 361,000.

	zalagreensbury:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:24 GMT	16 points
	Looking at the population and going in geographical order really helps. I love these quizzes.

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	mrnrjct:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:31 GMT	25 points
	Isn't the English name for "Genova" actually "Genoa", which has only 5 letters?

	lukejameslarson:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:34 GMT	11 points
	did that guy just say "jehovah?" stone him!

	Onno:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:34 GMT	5 points
	Damn Russia... and I didn't bother trying other Spanish cities after Bilbao didn't work... ah, great challenging quiz! Oh and I thought about Odessa, but I thought was with one 's'... such a shame.

	ianr:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:35 GMT	-4 points
	@mrnrjct: Just what I was about to say.

	montecarlo:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:35 GMT	2 points
	@ mrnrjct: (sarcasm) it's the combination of populaces from genoa and geneva.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:37 GMT	2 points
	I loved this quiz- more continents, please!

	TeganX7:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:39 GMT	7 points
	@mrnrjct: Along the same lines, what about Milano? Torino? I may be wrong, but aren't those also the Italian names (and both would make the list). This is a great idea for a quiz, but I think there can be problems with alternative spellings ... maybe some bonus answers?????

	Chumley:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:40 GMT	15 points
	I suppose technically Ankara is in Asia, but since it is a capital of a European country I was surprised it was not on the list.

	davidr:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:40 GMT	0 points
	@jd1z: It seems that City Mayors is counting Istanbul as Asian, even though two-thirds of the population is on the European side of the Bosporus.

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	pa_dutch:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:41 GMT	22 points
	I was suprised by some of the ones that didn't make the cut... Geneva and Venice, for example.

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	davidr:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:43 GMT	0 points
	@chumley: As you say, Ankara is in Asia. So is the overwhelming majority of Turkey (about 97% by area).

	rockgolf:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:44 GMT	31 points
	@shawnoc: Those were the Winter Olympics. Remember: To everything there is a season. Turin, Turin, Turin.

	davidr:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:44 GMT	3 points
	@shawnoc: The English names of those cities are Turin, Milan and Naples (which is included). CNN used `Torino' in its winter Olympics coverage, too.

	minor9th:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:45 GMT	0 points
	Love this quiz. Needed some lateral thinking. More please! (Btw only got top 15 but happy to get Bremen!)

	mrgenova:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:48 GMT	7 points
	Didn't even get my own name...damn it.

	SporcleAdmin:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	35 points
	Apologies - we have removed Genova, we had spaghetti for lunch and were thinking in Italian.

	shawnoc:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:56 GMT	2 points
	Right. 2 English-language broadcasts referred to the city as Torino. You proved my point. I guess I never understood why we need to have an "English translation" for city names in the first place.

	rockgolf:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 23:58 GMT	7 points
	@SporcleADMIN: The hyperlink to the citymayors website needs to be fixed. The link literally starts with the word "Source:". @Everyone: According to the link, #3 is St Petersburg, with Rome, Kiev, Bucharest and Budapest finishing off the top ten. No Turkish cities at all are listed in the top 500. Don't blame the messenger! The website is very inconsistent on providing English versions of city names. For example, Napoli (Naples) & Torino (Turin) are translated. Roma (Rome) and Genova (Genoa) are not. Migawd, if you can't trust what you read on the internet, what can you trust? Perhaps those exonymic cities with 6 letters should be bonuses.

	chicago:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:00 GMT	2 points
	got 14 should have gotten krakow...im pretty sure i was thinking/thought of it but i guess i wasnt or i forgot lol! havent even heard of malaga, ryazan, poznan, samara or tyumen lol!

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	kidcanada:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	2 points
	@HollywoodLeo - Venice is about 250,000 people.

	Psycho:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:06 GMT	-2 points
	Istanbul has eight letters, so it's not included.

	IHateRegistering:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:11 GMT	-3 points
	It seems like most european capitals are 6 letters.

	ared:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:11 GMT	3 points
	i was missing skopje which should have a population of over 500k people. but citymayors lists it with just 430.000 (and also misspells the name) @hollywoodleo: citymayors lists venice with a population 297.000 at position 206 (and uses the italian name "venezia").

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	tobinw:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:38 GMT	3 points
	LOVE this quiz!

	davidr:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:41 GMT	0 points
	@Hanz: Athens is there. Venice is small (297k). Geneva is tiny (179k).

	BeatNavy:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:44 GMT	4 points
	'merica

	davidr:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:47 GMT	3 points
	@IHateRegistering: Fifteen out of 47 isn't `most' (and that's counting Ankara).

	Blue_Iguana:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 00:52 GMT	3 points
	-throws a stone a lukejameslarson- well, he did say jehovah..

	math_teacher_mom:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT	7 points
	-stone to Blue_Iguana - you just said jehovah, too!

	Iceberg:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 01:36 GMT	3 points
	I thought this quiz was going to be kinda stupid and random, but surprisingly a lot of the major European cities actually have six letters. Whoda thunk it.

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	wischr:	Aug 15th, 2009 at 01:48 GMT	1 point
	A lot of battles with exonyms and endonyms here.. it's so hard to know which.