Name a place in the UK with official city status: rare answers

Answering “Name a place in the UK with official city status”? Our list has 75 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. London, Edinburgh and Birmingham only score 10. Deep cuts such as Lichfield, Salford and Wakefield score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 75
Category: Geography
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 26 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 8 answers
First letters: 19 different; S is the most common (12)

🐙 Abyssal: 9 answers (12%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 17 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 23 answers (31%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 20 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 6 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

9 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Lichfield, Salford, Wakefield and Wells. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Lichfield, Salford, Wakefield, Wells, Newry, St Davids, Ripon, Lisburn, St Asaph

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Doncaster, Truro, Wrexham, Stirling, Perth, Chichester, St Albans, Carlisle, Lancaster, Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, Worcester, Ely, Brighton and Hove, Armagh, Dunfermline, Bangor

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Derry, Dundee, Kingston upon Hull, Winchester, Canterbury, Bradford, Exeter, Wolverhampton, Derby, Stoke-on-Trent, Chester, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Salisbury, Gloucester, Durham, Sunderland, Newport, Colchester, Westminster, Lincoln, Hereford, Preston

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Oxford, Newcastle upon Tyne, York, Leicester, Cambridge, Sheffield, Bath, Nottingham, Southampton, Aberdeen, Coventry, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Swansea, Norwich, Inverness

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

St Davids: St David's
Southend-on-Sea: Southend
Brighton and Hove: Brighton
Derry: Londonderry
Stoke-on-Trent: Stoke
Westminster: City of Westminster
Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle
London: City of London

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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