CityQ Answers: June 12, 2026
The most famous valid city for each cell, plus how many alternative answers the grid accepted.
The grid
Rows
- Ocean: Pacific Ocean
- Language: Austronesian (Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay)
- Language: Turkic (Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek)
Columns
- Capital city
- Population: Mid-size (100K–1M)
- Largest city in country
Cell-by-cell solutions
Ocean: Pacific Ocean × Capital city
Tokyo
Also valid: Hong Kong, Singapore + 23 more
Ocean: Pacific Ocean × Population: Mid-size (100K–1M)
San Francisco
Also valid: Seattle, San Jose + 467 more
Ocean: Pacific Ocean × Largest city in country
Shanghai
Also valid: Tokyo, Hong Kong + 28 more
Language: Austronesian (Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay) × Capital city
Jakarta
Also valid: Manila, Kuala Lumpur + 14 more
Language: Austronesian (Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay) × Population: Mid-size (100K–1M)
Cebu City
Also valid: Johor Bahru, Pasig City + 361 more
Language: Austronesian (Indonesian, Tagalog, Malay) × Largest city in country
Jakarta
Also valid: Quezon City, Kuala Lumpur + 16 more
Language: Turkic (Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek) × Capital city
Ankara
Also valid: Baku, Tashkent + 3 more
Language: Turkic (Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek) × Population: Mid-size (100K–1M)
Samarkand
Also valid: Erzurum, Eskişehir + 133 more
Language: Turkic (Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek) × Largest city in country
Istanbul
Also valid: Baku, Almaty + 3 more
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