Ghost Cities of 2100 Quiz

Can you name the Ghost Cities of 2100?

created by dbub

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Source: forbes.com
These are world cities that are predicted to either completely disappear or decline in population drastically by 2100.
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reason for shrinking/continent	city
population flight/North America
lack of drinking water and sinking/North America
volcanic eruption/Europe
earthquake/North America
desertification/Africa
sinking/Europe
population flight/Europe
rising sea levels and erosion/Africa

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Ghost Cities of 2100 Quiz

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Created Feb 18, 2010 in Geography
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	zzyzx501:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 03:08 GMT	5 points
	Interesting thought, but your source is an article rather than an actual list. If your plan to just list every city they mentioned, you left out Leipzig, Manchester, Liverpool, Alexandria, Tianjin, Jakarta, and Bangkok.

	dbub:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 03:15 GMT	-4 points
	Well I only see some of those barely mentioned at the end of the article but not part of the main list. Where does Forbes consider those to be ghost cities like the others?

	zzyzx501:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 04:38 GMT	2 points
	Okay, now I see...you used the cities from the "In Pictures" part. But that's not where your link directly goes...I have to click another link to get to those, hence my confusion.

	qbsamoa:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 05:18 GMT	11 points
	they are all going to be ghost cities after 2012... just kidding. am I?

	cuendillar:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 07:50 GMT	2 points
	I would seriously question that these are 'World cities'. Some have as little as 30.000 inhabitants, though they may be important in their respective countries. I thought the entire Sahel region was threatened by desertification, though I guess the cities along the Nile, Congo and Niger are relatively protected unless an Aral Sea-like disaster occurs upstream.

	theBeast:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 11:35 GMT	1 point
	nyc?

	HiddenPalace:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 13:04 GMT	4 points
	I've heard Detroit is a really ruined city with a lot of problems.

	Geo_Crazy:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 14:11 GMT	2 points
	New Orleans, Miami, etc. with sea levels rising?

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	abanazerb:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 15:25 GMT	4 points
	Thanks for the link to an interesting article, but I don't think you've made a credible quiz out of it. You've simply picked the ones they chose to include in the picture sequence. If you included all cities mentioned in the article, it would make a much more credible quiz.

	dbub:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 15:50 GMT	-3 points
	Well I'll address this again. Places like Banjul are expected to sink entirely whereas Alexandria, Bangkok, Tianjin, and Jakarta according to the article will just be affected by sea level rise.

	RichN95:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 17:06 GMT	20 points
	Johnannesburg should be on here. It's being overrun by prawn-like aliens. I saw a documentary about it.

	eigenvector:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 18:06 GMT	4 points
	Well, the Forbes article is interesting, but wrong. For example, it says San Francisco is shrinking, which isn't true. It's actually growing: see http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-12-18/news/17331659_1_bay-area-counties-western-states-counties-had-more-people. Besides, we'll handle the Big One just fine, thanks.

	Ibarez:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 18:50 GMT	3 points
	"Lack of drinking water and sinking/North America" - I thought I had it for sure with New Orleans. I didn't know Mexico City was sinking.

	Stewart:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 19:17 GMT	8 points
	All these Forbes lists seem to have serious flaws as quiz sources, and this is no exception. Why Ivanovo but not Leipzig? Why Naples but not, say, Seattle or Tokyo? There are no real criteria for what's on the list and what isn't.

	johnlk:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 20:48 GMT	11 points
	God, all these Forbes lists are terrible.

	csjoholm:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 20:58 GMT	3 points
	Accept "Tombouctou" for Timbuktu.

	rudyfernandez5:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 22:54 GMT	0 points
	i think hel'sink'i should be a bonus answer for the europe sinking one

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	joebobs:	Feb 20th, 2010 at 00:09 GMT	7 points
	I have to agree with stewart and johnlk, Forbes make terrible lists. Frankly, I just don't like Forbes at all. Their primary purpose is brown nosing the elite and praising greed, and whenever they turn their hand to anything else it's badly researched, reactionary, incomplete and sensationalistic. They should leave social commentary like this to the National Geographic or the New Scientist, or the Economist. Boo Forbes! / And re: RCHPfan96, Timbuktu seems to have the same reputation as Transylvania, many people don't know they're real places.

	joebobs:	Feb 20th, 2010 at 00:21 GMT	1 point
	And what it says about Mexico City makes no sense. If the aquifer dries up, it should stop sinking. It can't both keep sinking and dry up, it can only do one or the other. I can't see that country with such a rapidly growing economy as Mexico, which will probably be one of the world's foremost powers by 2100 (according to The Next 100 Years by George Friedman) would allow its capital to vanish. By then it should have the technology to prevent it.

	Remot:	Feb 20th, 2010 at 00:41 GMT	3 points
	the guy with the Bob Saget pic talking about bombing Los Angeles is frightening me

	Chocolatl:	Feb 23rd, 2010 at 05:14 GMT	2 points
	Of course, any quiz that claims to predict what will happen in the year 2100 is based on speculation--informed speculation, perhaps, but speculation nevertheless.

	Julie:	Feb 25th, 2010 at 14:32 GMT	1 point
	could the clues be any more vague? population flight could be any number of cities... including buffalo, Minneapolis, etc.

	ConorONeill:	Apr 18th, 2010 at 15:26 GMT	1 point
	what about Las Vegas, i thought the Colorado river was running dry by next couple of years.

	Pepikx:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 11:50 GMT	3 points
	And what about Male (Maldives). It can be under water because of global warming and rising of sea level.

	thesurrealbunny:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 13:16 GMT	1 point
	This quiz has been made before

	sweetfreedom99:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 14:35 GMT	2 points
	Wow, funny. I JUST read the article for this before coming on Sporcle!

	SomeoneRandom:	Nov 6th, 2011 at 14:13 GMT	2 points
	New Orleans should definitely be here. I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone long before 2100. It's only a matter of time before the next big hurricane hits and New Orleansers finally cut their losses and move.

	Dralcoffin:	Nov 6th, 2011 at 23:16 GMT	1 point
	The city of Detroit is a dysfunctional disaster but some of its suburbs are among the wealthiest in the country. Also, San Francisco seemed to survive 1906 just fine, and I don't see a teeming metropolis of 20 million (Mexico City) vanishing shy of a meteor or nuclear strike.