- Novgorod, west of Moscow, closer to SPB, which is older, more famous, also called Novgorod Velikiy (Novgorod the Great) to distinguish it and since 1999 also oficially called Velikiy Novgorod
- Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, formerly Gorky, much bigger nowadays, commonly called just Nizhny
As someone who used to live in Nizhny NovgorodI have to say that there is a huge difference between the two cities. They are completely different places. As for accepting the shortened word, that's perfectly acceptable as many of the people I knew and spoke with colloquially said "Nizhny" instead of "Nizhney Novgorod". I lived there for a year and a half and I'm excited each time see it on these geography quizzes.
This was really hard, but I felt good! That's because usually I have one or two in the revealed answers that are just facepalms. But this time, the ones I missed were ones I have legitimately never heard of before. Yay!
Interesting. Completely clueless on the city in Serbia and never heard of Novi Sad. Nor apparently have iMaps, which took me to Munich until I insisted on the right country at least 😁
Naha looks like it is in the middle of the ocean not even on a island and yeah like onegonecat just said there is no way you can distinguish that that is Naha it could be Nago too, Definitely!
I accidentally misspelled Nanning with a 'j' after the first 'n'. So I guess that was the most helpful error I've ever made although I would have got Nanjing regardless...
- Novgorod, west of Moscow, closer to SPB, which is older, more famous, also called Novgorod Velikiy (Novgorod the Great) to distinguish it and since 1999 also oficially called Velikiy Novgorod
- Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, formerly Gorky, much bigger nowadays, commonly called just Nizhny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliky_Novgorod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich
It's not that small city though. ;)