# Guess the City **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 10, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330 "2010-09-10T20:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/1 "2010-09-10T20:25:16Z")
It’s been suggested in another thread that we post pictures of cities, and invite others to guess which city. Note that if yoiu do this, you need to have no data in the URL of the picture that gives a clue. So, to start it off: [City 1](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2767030668_7b35dd99e4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/2 "2010-09-10T20:32:51Z")
That’s a pretty small city. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/3 "2010-09-10T20:35:59Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > That’s a pretty small city. Well, it’s actually the city hall (or the equivalent in another language). ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/4 "2010-09-10T20:51:07Z")
[Another picture of City 1](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/2773711425_c321731dbb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/5 "2010-09-10T21:10:22Z")
I think it’s Ottawa ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/6 "2010-09-10T21:14:57Z")
Definitely not Ottawa. The flags seem like they should be a clue, but they appear to be different from one picture to the other. In the first picture they almost looked like Polish flags (with something added), while in the second one there’s something that reminds me of a British flag. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/7 "2010-09-10T21:15:38Z")
I’ve not seen Ottawa, but that’s a good guess – but not right. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/8 "2010-09-10T21:16:49Z")
Yes, the flags don’t give you a clue at all, as far as I can see. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/9 "2010-09-10T21:27:03Z")
It seems it should be a relatively small city, based on the size of the city hall. And the line of extremely close buildings in the second picture makes me think it could be somewhere in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/10 "2010-09-10T21:29:02Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > Definitely not Ottawa. The flags seem like they should be a clue, but they appear to be different from one picture to the other. In the first picture they almost looked like Polish flags (with something added), while in the second one there’s something that reminds me of a British flag. This is what I see–the eagle version of the Polish flag in the first picture, and a UK flag added to it in the second. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/11 "2010-09-10T21:37:16Z")
Wherever it is, I’m guessing it’s not the UK or anywhere else where they drive on the left side of the road. The stoplight in the second photo seems installed for right-side traffic. I’m going to take a wild guess and say it’s Bern, Switzerland. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/12 "2010-09-10T21:42:52Z")
It looks to me like the flag in the first picture is the same as the flag on the right in the second picture. ETA: are we allowed to use google? ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/13 "2010-09-10T21:59:19Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Wherever it is, I’m guessing it’s not the UK or anywhere else where they drive on the left side of the road. The stoplight in the second photo seems installed for right-side traffic. Good observation. > [@](#): > > I’m going to take a wild guess and say it’s Bern, Switzerland. [Here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern#Politics) we have two buildings that could be called the “city hall” of Bern, and none of them look like the first picture, so no. > [@Kyla](#): > > It looks to me like the flag in the first picture is the same as the flag on the right in the second picture. I think you’re right. One of them is presumably the city flag, and the second one the national or regional flag. > [@](#): > > ETA: are we allowed to use google? Not to speak for the OP, but I guess so. I’ve been looking for possible cities on Wikipedia, for one. I guess an image recognition search engine would be cheating, though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/14 "2010-09-10T23:56:04Z")
I dunno. The architecture seems vaguely Austrian/Central European to me. I want to guess Salzburg, but I don’t recognize either building as being from there. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/15 "2010-09-11T00:09:06Z")
Well, this is harder than I thought it would be. [A third view of City 1](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3209/2774564604_893c11bb03.jpg), taken by me just 5 minutes earlier than the picture in post #4. (I took all the pictures the same day, and walked between locations). ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/16 "2010-09-11T00:09:14Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] I dunno. The architecture seems vaguely Austrian/Central European to me. I want to guess Salzburg, but I don’t recognize either building as being from there. [/QUOTE] I think even in Austria the architecture looks a bit more exotic than that. I’m thinking western continental Europe. France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland. And most sizeable German towns had their old buildings destroyed in the war, so maybe not Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/17 "2010-09-11T00:33:45Z")
It looks Northern European to me, but googling yielded nothing. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/18 "2010-09-11T01:06:02Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > It looks Northern European to me, but googling yielded nothing. Yeah, my other train of thought had me going around the Baltic Sea, but with no luck. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/19 "2010-09-11T01:10:45Z")
OK, one more clue, then I’m leaving this thread for a few hours: the city does look European, but it’s not in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330/20 "2010-09-11T02:29:19Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > OK, one more clue, then I’m leaving this thread for a few hours: the city does look European, but it’s not in Europe. Something in Quebec perhaps? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-city/553330.md?page=2)