GeotchaA geography quiz on a real globe
9 largest cities in the Syrian Desert
9 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.
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The cities
- 1Ramadi464 k
- 2Fallujah380 k
- 3Arar224 k
- 4Al-Qa'im116 k
- 5Qurayyat112 k
- 6Haditha94 k
- 7Abu Kamal89 k
- 8Hit68 k
- 9Al Khalidiyah61 k
Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. The Syrian Desert: what lies inside the desert’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit). Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Wikidata names (CC0).
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