Where on Earth? World cities travel quiz

Can you name the world’s highest, southernmost and most Michelin-starred cities? Take our quiz and see if you’re a city slicker

It's a long way from here to Timbuktu (pictured above), but where is the city?

Ethiopia

Mali

Mauritania

Sudan

What is the world's highest capital

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kathmandu, Nepal

La Paz, Bolivia

Quito, Ecuador

Brasilia has been the capital of Brazil since 1960, but where was the country's first capital?

Recife

Rio de Janeiro

Salvador

São Paulo

Three of these places in Wales are cities – which is the only town?

Bangor

Newport

St Asaph

Wrexham

Dutti-Galla, Batmania and Bearbrass were interim names of which southern-hemisphere city?

Jakarta

Johannesburg

Lima

Melbourne

Which is only city to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times?

Athens

London

Paris

Rome

Which city has the most Michelin-starred restaurants?

Paris

Lyon

Dubai

Tokyo

Which is the world's most southerly capital?

Cape Town

Montevideo

Santiago

Wellington

And the most northerly?

Helsinki

Moscow

Reykjavik

Tallinn

Where is this skyline?

Newcastle-Gateshead

Saint Louis

Stockholm

Sydney

The hit single Pop Muzik by the band M references all but one of these cities. Which one?

London

Munich

New York

Tokyo

Which city has the world's longest metro network?

Beijing

London

New York

Shanghai

And where is this stunning metro station?

Buenos Aires

Moscow

Stockholm

Vienna

Christopher Columbus airport serves which city?

Genoa

Havana

Lisbon

Madrid

Which city has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents?

Brussels

Dubai

Los Angeles

Sydney

This famous funicular railway line runs in which city?

Barcelona

Lisbon

Marseille

Naples

Leaving aside their impromptu private gig on the rooftop of the Apple building in London in 1969, in which city did the Beatles play their last concert?

Liverpool

Manilla

New York

San Francisco

Who wrote that the Paris slums were "a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent"?

Ernest Hemingway

George Orwell

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Victor Hugo

Which city opened a Museum of Literature in 2019?

Dublin

Edinburgh

Manchester

London

Baron Haussmann is best known for the planning of which city?

Athens

Berlin

Paris

Rome

16 and above.

Well done, quite the city slicker

11 and above.

Almost an urban legend

0 and above.

Bit of an urban miss!

6 and above.

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