Guess the City

It's definitely Russian on the sign - котами

https://i.etsystatic.com/16415535/r/il/d5fbfa/3480759424/il_570xN.3480759424_qifb.jpg

the object is the Ukrainian coat of arms with the trident within a horseshoe

Покровско-Терновской (объединенный) военкомат Кривого Рога
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ASo7G51DBhEajdTBA

It is Kryvyi Rih! Tried it with the satellite image turned off and noticed a big depression just north of where I'd been searching

The sign is above the bathroom on the left.

omg well done! I had been looking for mines in Ukraine but somehow this one didn't show up or I did it wrong

what about the Swiss chalet thing?

The sign is above the bathroom on the left.

what about the Swiss chalet thing?

have to say tho: it’s not really fun to scroll through photos of shops and restaurants and seeing people there who may very well be fighting in the war right now, or worse

швейцарський / Кривий Ріг

nothing

Kryvyi Rih it is. Really distinctive geography, being long and thin - tried to get an aerial shot that showed that

As for the second shot, may be difficult to find. I'm on phone at moment but I'll post it this evening when I get back

what about the Swiss chalet thing?

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.9393529,33.4118835,3a,75y,50.99h,83.47t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOQgdmKa6Ys_TcznTZN3dRl05phy4xi9v6YeYxl!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOQgdmKa6Ys_TcznTZN3dRl05phy4xi9v6YeYxl%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya102.585785-ro-0-fo100!7i10000!8i5000

Dukhmyana Pich, Katerynivska St

Pizza place, permanently closed, last review 2 years ago. Very mixed reviews....and none of them even mention the decor

oh wow - thanks!

Pretty curious about whats going on on the tv

Dukhmyana Pich / Духовна піч = Fragrant Oven, great name for a restaurant!

I mean, the eastern European idea of what pizza is are pretty varied and bizarre, from my experience, so the ski chalet thing makes some weird sense. Y’all ever had zapiekanka?

I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy

It is a true chasm! But like you’ll be in a bar that looks like a ski chalet next to a saltmine and they’ll also have a “pizza” place.

It is among the charms of eastern europe tbh.

https://i.ibb.co/j6w9vqZ/Screenshot-2022-06-15-at-12-00-22.png

The outdoors

I love how difficult this is. None of these towers contain big names/logo/signs, does that mean we're somewhere non-capitalistic?

Guessing China or South America, betting the former

xpost great minds think alike!

Woah, that's one hellishly large (and mostly recently built) city. The mountains in the distance give me a bit of a South American vibe, but there aren't many cities there that could be that big - maybe Sao Paulo. If it's not that, then I'm guessing somewhere in China.

Can't see any similar mountains in Sao Paulo aerial shots so I don't think it's that.

To the right there are some lower rise Soviet style apartment blocks, which doesn't align so much with South America, so I'm leaning towards China.

I can't spot a river in the photo posted, but it does have some resemblance to the (in)famous Lanzhou new city.

There's a river upper left.

Just above the very large set of tower blocks on the mid-left edge of the image.

I think it's a river there, at least. Not totally clear where it cuts through above that.

Tbh I'm pretty certain it is Lanzhou, but happy to find out otherwise, too.

it is!

https://www.google.be/maps/@36.0573812,103.8283143,3a,90y,124.32h,60.92t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNnOfhSPX5YtOqUFq9b1VEIku6NTI6aNhaL4Ckm!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNnOfhSPX5YtOqUFq9b1VEIku6NTI6aNhaL4Ckm%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya0-ro-0-fo100!7i4096!8i2048!5m1!1e4?hl=nl

high 5 @ the table is the table

Hell yeah! I think that's the first one I've gotten right in our ILX version of this game, though I've been in the correct country before, if my memory serves. Give me a bit and I'll put one up later today or tomorrow.

Great work, had no idea if that one was going to be easy or difficult!

ngl— i simply did some googling, re-read an article about Lanzhou that I first read in 2012, then did a quick google maps search and it was clear. couldn’t find the exact location tho.

ooooh what is this article abt Lanzhou??

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/06/china-flatten-mountain-lanzhou-new-area

I was reading it back when in context of a writing project I was working on about terraforming.

lol holy shit https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/21/china-west-ghost-city-comes-to-life-lanzhou-new-area

I’ve been busy y’all, I have one for you but won’t get to posting and etc until tomorrow (saturday in the states).

https://i.ibb.co/7RZjPjH/fa.png

Tuesday

Great one again! I'd guess this is on a medium sized lake - nothing to protect against tides. But where? I wanna say it feels like North America/Canada maybe?

I want to say Panama City purely because it looks like the same view as that John Darwin photo.

(Which it isn't now I look at it but I've typed the first bit already.)

definitely a deciduous zone. is that a mall left front?

somehow this doesn't feel like north america to me, too many apartment blocks

oops sorry I forgot, I have one for next tho

(not getting anywhere yet - there are a lot of nice cities on lakes all over the world though)

Not as many churches as I would expect in a densely built area for a Western country. I see one steepled building but it's pretty small.

why has that building on the left for a massive tower on it? it's not a crane because they aren't building. aerial?

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