Asia City Quiz

[ursus arctos]

How about Dhaka for D?

[ad hoc]

Dhaka it is

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Ulaanbaatar, Tashkent and Riyadh are correct. Not Doha (don't think Doha has a river. Not one of any size anyway)

No, was chancing that. I thought it might have been an odd night-time view across the harbour.

[San Bernardhinault]

F is for Faisalabad

[ad hoc]

Effing right

[San Bernardhinault]

Jakarta

Muscat

[ad hoc]

We're racing through this lot

C, G, I, L, N, W Z left to get

[tee rex]

Chiang Mai?

Went there ages ago but don't recognise it. But we haven't had Thailand and running out of countries.

[San Bernardhinault]

I knew there had to be an Indian city somewhere

L: Lucknow

[ad hoc]

Yes to Chiang Mai and Lucknow.

5 more to get
G, I, N, W, and Z

For 3 of those I had to search for a picture that didn't quickly give the game away. One of them is the obscure one mentioned in the OP.

[ursus arctos]

G must be Gaza

[ad hoc]

I wondered how long it would be before someone realised there had to be a Palestinian city in there.

And, yes, Gaza was one of those I needed to find a picture that didn't give the game away - in this case one that didn't involve bombing or its aftermath

[Sam]

Some guesses: Islamabad; Nagasaki.

[ad hoc]

Sadly no, both Pakistan and Japan have already been taken (Faisalabad and Osaka)

[tee rex]

Ah, I was going to say Gaza but feared mockery and lost my nerve ("don't you follow the news? FFS!"). There's a glimpse of a flag there as well.

I'm now reduced to thinking of countries we haven't done. But I can't identify a (South) Korean city there.

It's N, presumably.

[ad hoc]

Not sure how much I'll be online today, so here are second pictures of I,N,W, and Z (in that order)

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Tricky tricky ad hoc. N was called Astana until they changed it to Nur-Sultan.

[ad hoc]

That's not tricky, that's its name. Get with the times Granddad.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Z looks Turkish but I can't think of anywhere beginning with Z.

[ad hoc]

There's Zonguldak, but it's not that (nor is it in Turkey)

[Levin]

I'd guess Jordan for Z but I don't know enough cities.
And I'd go for middle east foe w as well.

[seand]

Great work ad hoc, enjoying the quiz even if I can contribute nowt, not even a guess now that we're down to 3 letters!

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Should have got Muscat, I was there in February. There's a new big shopping centre in the foreground of that picture now, and the main places we visited were the Souk (in the photo but not in sight) and the Presidential Palace and the massive new Mosque (which are not in the photo), but i should have recognised the harbourfront and mountains.

[tee rex]

Do we have a Turkish one yet?

Izmir? (assuming Ad Hoc wouldn't give us Istanbul)

W has a decent looking sports stadium over to the right. I bet the team's rubbish though, because they haven't registered in my head.

[ad hoc]

I left Turkey and Russia out of this one as I'd been using both countries in the European quizzes