Photo location game · Europe
Romania landmarks quiz: guess where 9 photos were taken
Every place in Romania that is in the game, 9 in all, with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. The round at the top uses five of them.
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Five photos from Romania. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
9 on the mapAll 9 places
A colourful Transylvanian citadel with a clock tower.
Photo: Pudelek (Marcin Szala) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Transylvania's unofficial capital, a university city of Gothic churches and baroque squares.
Photo: Nuță Lucian / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Gothic fortress of towers and drawbridges, said to have held Vlad the Impaler.
Photo: Carcea Daniel / CC BY-SA 3.0 ro, via Wikimedia Commons
The heaviest building in the world, Ceaușescu's colossal palace in Bucharest.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The gorge where the Danube squeezes between the Carpathians and the Balkans.
Photo: Pudelek / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 1690 monastery, the finest example of Romania's Brâncovenesc style.
Photo: Cristian Chirita / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Romania's highest peak at 2,544 metres, in the Făgăraș Mountains.
Photo: Amorphisman / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Romania's Black Sea port, ancient Tomis, where the poet Ovid died in exile.
Photo: Julian Nyča / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A neo-Renaissance castle of turrets and timber, summer home of Romania's kings.
Photo: Myrabella / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
There are 490 km between the two sides of the map, from Iron Gate across to Constanța.
Medium is the most common rating, with five of the nine photos. The hard ones are Sighișoara, Corvin Castle, Constanța and Peleș Castle. Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world, Ceaușescu's colossal palace in Bucharest.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many photos from Romania are in the game?
9. The furthest north is Cluj-Napoca and the furthest south is Constanța. Each round on this page picks five.
Which photo from Romania is the hardest?
Sighișoara, Corvin Castle, Constanța and Peleș Castle, all rated hard. A pin 693 km outside the radius leaves 2,500 of the 5,000 points.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Romania?
Sighișoara, which has an accuracy radius of 80 km, the widest on this page.