Cities Word Guessing Game
Play Cities Now π₯Hangmango's Cities category takes you on a world tour one letter at a time. Guess city names from every continent β from instantly recognisable capitals to obscure cities that will challenge even seasoned travellers.
How to play the Cities category
City names vary enormously in length and letter patterns. Many world capitals end in "-a" (Roma, Vienna, Ottawa) or contain double letters. Try common vowels first. Easy covers major world cities everyone will know. Medium introduces significant cities that well-travelled players will recognise. Hard features cities whose English transliterations are long and unusual β Reykjavik, Ulaanbaatar, Ouagadougou.
Sample city words
- Easy: london, paris, tokyo, rome, berlin, sydney, dubai, moscow, cairo, delhi, seoul, toronto, miami, oslo, lima
- Medium: istanbul, bangkok, amsterdam, barcelona, singapore, nairobi, jakarta, montreal, melbourne, casablanca, budapest, santiago, karachi, lagos, tehran
- Hard: reykjavik, ulaanbaatar, vladivostok, ouagadougou, antananarivo, kathmandu, montevideo, guadalajara, thessaloniki, tallinn, windhoek, tashkent, islamabad, johannesburg, wellington
Educational value
World cities vocabulary is core to GCSE Geography and supports broader cultural education. The hard difficulty deliberately includes cities from underrepresented regions β Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America β encouraging players to extend their geographical knowledge beyond the usual Western-centric perspective.