Photo location game · Europe
Slovakia landmarks quiz: guess where 9 photos were taken
9 photos from Slovakia and where each one was taken. A round is five photos, and all 9 are listed below.
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Five of the 9 places, one at a time. Put a pin where you think each photo was taken.
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Where they are
9 on the mapAll 9 places
The oldest national park in Slovakia, the highest peaks of the Carpathians.
Photo: Piotr J / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
A Slovak mining town with a leaning clock tower on its main square.
Photo: Milan Bališin / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Slovak capital on the Danube, with a white castle above the old town.
Photo: Rob Hurson from Kentstown, Ireland / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest castle ruins in Central Europe, sprawling over a limestone hill.
Photo: Andrei Stroe / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Slovakia's second city, with the easternmost Gothic cathedral in Europe.
Photo: Maros M r a z (Maros) / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
A Slovak city with a Gothic cathedral on a long spindle-shaped square.
Photo: Ing.Mgr.Jozef Kotulič / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest peak of the Carpathians, 2,655 metres in the High Tatras.
Photo: Midnight Runner / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A ruined castle on a cliff where the Morava meets the Danube, on the Austrian border.
Photo: Unknown author / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Slovakia's national mountain, a 2,495-metre peak on the 5-cent euro coin.
Photo: Achernar / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
The places here stretch 320 km from Devín Castle in the west to Košice in the east. Gerlachovský štít and Kriváň are both within 40 km of Tatra National Park, near the middle of the map.
This is a hard set: five of the nine photos are rated hard. Banská Bystrica, Košice, Prešov, Devín Castle and Kriváň are rated hard. Bratislava is rated easy. Gerlachovský štít is the highest peak of the Carpathians, 2,655 metres in the High Tatras.
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How many places from Slovakia can come up?
There are 9, from Tatra National Park down to Bratislava. A round uses five.
Which places in Slovakia are the hardest to find?
The hard ones are Banská Bystrica, Košice, Prešov, Devín Castle and Kriváň. Every 693 km of miss cuts the score in half.
Which photo from Slovakia gives the most room for error?
Try Tatra National Park. Anything within 60 km of it counts as a direct hit.