Guess the City

China seems like a good suggestion. It has plenty of cities that would be big enough, and I see some that have undeveloped hills not unlike the ones in the photos very near to a dense urban area.

Having just looked at a few Chinese cities with canals and near undeveloped hills, there's certainly a similarity, but the Chinese cities seem a lot more high-rise. This shot of Shaoxing looks a bit similar to pic 2 though:
https://image.baigolf.com/course/613/29db5ab8ad8f49820a668fe0e283df80.jpg

this is great

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excellent stuff

Found it! Sapporo Teine (Olympia Ski Center)

well done, secret ride

SAPPORO TEINE
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGZrogGroTBzkhwy8

also, ahem:

my guess is it's either Japan or somewhere in Europe

― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 09:53 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nothing about this says Japan to me, sorry

― StanM, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:10 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I sit corrected. well done!

Good work secret ride! How did you get to Sapporo?

First tried Vancouver (but as caek mentioned, vegetation was wrong) and Denver (too arid). Then a few South Korean cities, which seemed better on vegetation, but there were too many high rises. After that I tried Sendai, Kyoto, and finally Sapporo.

https://i.ibb.co/7KmmkxS/24.jpg

Monday again

Medellin? There's a lot of cocain on the roofs

other than that, feels Eastern European

something big, near mountains that are that high - power station in the city - several churches that feel +/- orthodox maybe? mmmmm - I'm trying to make Zagreb work but it feels too small

Don't think it's Tbilisi or Yerevan, mountains feel too low for Budapest... (could be wrong about everything, of course) - I really have no idea - I thought there were more big cities near mountain ranges over there

Stuck thinking China...

Košice ? Meh, too small

feels more greek influenced, like macedonia

I think the buildings aren't colourful enough to be southern europe?

could it be sofia?

the more I look at it.. it very well could be

can't seem to find the power station towers though

(chimneys)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Power_Plant

oooooh

was looking at Sofia a couple of days ago but couldn't identify whatever that stadium/arena/mall is

likewise. spent a while with Sofia aerials and wound up ditching it

yean, I can't seem to find the right angle - power station & mountains could be it though

I can't make the distance between the leftmost cooling tower and the others fit with what I see on Google Earth with 3D buildings turned on.

The game is "guess the city", not "provide a gmaps link to the exact photo published by the setter". Next, please!

the game has been exactly the latter for a while now

Agreed that the point shouldn't be to replicate the exact thing. My post was an argument that it might very well not be Sofia!

https://i.ibb.co/bsQWbQq/wiku.jpg

what the

Boom, I was only looking at Iaşi this morning, amongst several other Romanian and eastern European cities, and luckily remembered seeing the Palace of Culture

Biserica Sfântul Nicolae Domnesc
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HwkiyU67K9AanFsy9

still can't find that damn arena/stadium/mall tho

found it: MCM centre

and here's the aerial

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TVGbKfWvWEdv3dso8

hats off to you - I had completely misguessed how big the city should be

oh yeah so did I initially. I certainly checked Bucureşti before Iaşi

well i guess i was sort of close!

https://i.ibb.co/MN9FPHv/Screenshot-2022-04-08-at-10-19-49.png

Friday

Somewhere pretty well off in the south of England, would be my guess.

British isles fo sho

Identifying those hills is key I think. Bit of a Welsh Borders feel, Shropshire maybe?

I wondered about the north downs. Potentially Guildford or Dorking?

Looks like there's a large stadium just left of centre in the distance at the edge of the town/city. Any help to ilx's city guessing avid sports fans?

Bingo, Shrewsbury

https://maps.app.goo.gl/KCLL4fJjnxxY6CW69

Nice one!

Ooh, well done

Bravo.