AERIALEGuess the city from above
An aerial image of a city somewhere on Earth. Five tries to name it. Every wrong guess zooms the camera out and shows you more.
How it works
- You start close in, looking straight down, over a recognisable spot: a square, a station, a river bend.
- Type the city. Wrong? The camera climbs and the photo covers more ground.
- By the fifth try you see the whole city. Solve it to tick it off; your stats are saved on your device.
A cities-from-above quiz with 2,613 cities
Play all cities at once or one difficulty: Easy (50 world-famous cities), Medium (118), Hard (343) and Super Hard (2102). Cities by continent: Europe 828, Asia 649, Africa 581, North America 264, South America 187, Oceania 104.
The Easy tier includes Milan, Rome, Venice, Florence, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Athens, Vienna, Brussels, Dublin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Prague and more. Turn on Unsolved only to see only cities you haven't found yet.
How to recognise cities from aerial images
- Street grid: perfect grids suggest the Americas or a planned city; tangled lanes suggest an old European, Middle Eastern or Asian core.
- Roofs: terracotta tiles point to southern Europe or Latin America, flat pale roofs to hot dry climates, dark pitched roofs to northern Europe.
- Water: the shape of a coast, a river or a harbour is often the strongest clue.
- Sports grounds: football pitches, cricket ovals and baseball diamonds tell you which sports, and so which countries, you're over.