Thank you to everybody who took part in last week's challenge.

The Quarterfinal round of the 2022 IAF Gold Cup ended Sunday, and the semifinal round started today.

Congratulations to the medallists from last week's challenge:

· Gold: 1PrawdziwyPolak (393); Gormuisge (380); CascadianLiberty (375); Tsukumowan (368); Tygret (362); MATI--sL (360); Far-Operation-5262 (355); Autismic123 (354); CallMeOceanMan (352); turbulantquetzal (350); Willie393 (347); Athlonian (345); Alfred_lettuce (338); gabrieleboh (337); Gudetrauma (324); GoldenHair74 (323); ymcmoots (320); ODVODVO (320); HopeNotTake (319); PokshaPan (316); Boltenhagen4 (309); Juxlos (308);

· Silver: Echodart (298); tt-lit (286); balalaikaswag (285); sylvalmao (280); Sup3r_poop (280); Kaspar278 (278); cakecat223 (272); retstyre (266); IMP1017 (261); Character_Regret4270 (238); ydr0 (236); LeTastyButter (230); Ok_Quail_3657 (227); Blourp (222); Tielsie (202);

· Bronze: Melker0811 (191); Odd_Recognition_1075 (187);

Your flairs have been awarded.

The special flair was awarded to gabrieleboh, who had a population of 681,993,985

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This week's challenge was suggested by Ok_Quail_3657. The challenge is to name a specific number of cities based on the country's population ranking.

General rules:

- Use the table from this Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

- Every country you add must have the exact number of cities listed next to the country name in the above link.

Example: China is in the first place, so only one city from China. Spain is in 30th place, which means you must have 30 cities from Spain.

- You add fewer cities than what is listed, none of the cities from that country will be eligible.

Example: Yemen is in 42nd place, which means you need to have 42 cities from Yemen; if you add 41 cities, none will be eligible.

- Territories are considered their entity and do not count for their dependent country.

- For territories, you will use the number from the previous country because they don’t have a number next to them.

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This week's medal criteria are as follows:

· Gold: 250 cities

· Silver: 175 cities

· Bronze: 100 cities

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Special flair: This week's special flair will be awarded to the person with the highest total population. Please specify in the comment the population.

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Beat the moderator; my result for last week's challenge was 431, with a population of 673,836,880

https://www.iafisher.com/projects/cities/world/share/659821

Nobody beat my score, so I granted myself 1 IBTC medal.

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Competition Rules:

· You must play from memory (no Google or 'every country/state' option).

· Any format of the city name is accepted as long as one of the formats matches the above criteria.

· I would also advise against guessing cities.

Duration:

I will always post the challenges Tuesday evenings at London time. You have one week to submit your results. I will still consider submissions from Wednesday, but you will not be considered for the special flair and IBTM.

If you want to submit your score, you must comment on this post with your link, score, and any special flair for that week.

Below is the current ranking for the season:

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Thank you for taking part in this challenge.

Good luck!