Random City Generator
60 World Cities
Random city generator — 60 world cities at your fingertips
Spin the wheel and land on a famous city from six continents at random. Use it to pick a random city to visit, assign cities for a school project, run a geography quiz, or decide where tonight's imaginary dinner reservation is. Every city gets an equal slice — Tokyo's chance is exactly the same as Suva's.
The wheel starts with 8 cities ready to spin, and the full 60-city library is one tap away in the list panel, so the first spin can land anywhere from the streets of Paris to the harbours of Sydney. Remove cities you want to exclude — the ones you've already visited, say — or paste in your own shortlist for a focused round. If you'd rather spin a whole country first and a city second, the random country generator covers all 197 nations with flags, and the random state generator does the same job for the 50 US states.
How to pick a random city in three steps
- Set your pool. The wheel starts with 8 world cities — load a full continent from the list panel if you want more. Remove any you don't want, or add your own — your hometown, a dream destination, anywhere — by typing them in, one per line.
- Press Spin. The wheel slows and settles on one city. Every city on the wheel owns an identical slice, so the pick is never weighted toward big or famous places.
- Use the result. Turn on remove-after-spin for quiz rounds so no city repeats, and export the results history as PDF, CSV or text when you need a record for a lesson plan.
What's actually on the wheel
The full library holds 60 well-known cities, chosen so every inhabited continent is represented equally — ten each:
| Region | Cities |
|---|---|
| North America | 10 cities |
| South America | 10 cities |
| Europe | 10 cities |
| Africa | 10 cities |
| Asia | 10 cities |
| Oceania | 10 cities |
The list runs from New York City, Mexico City and São Paulo through London, Cairo and Mumbai to Sydney and Suva. It is a curated travel and quiz list, not a database of every city on Earth — but the entries are fully editable, so you can paste in any list you like. For a letter-based geography game instead, the random letter generator is the classic companion for "name a city starting with…".
Five ways teachers, travellers and players use it
- City research projects. Assign each student a world city fairly — the wheel decides, so nobody can claim the teacher played favourites.
- Geography quizzes. Spin a city and have students name its country, continent or a famous landmark. Remove-after-spin keeps a whole class round collision-free.
- Travel roulette. Spin a random city to visit, then check the flights. The travel destination wheel works the same way with a shorter, holiday-focused list.
- Draft-style games. Assign each friend a random city before a trivia league, a weather bet or an Olympics sweepstake and cheer for whoever the wheel gives you.
- Dinner nights. Spin a city, cook its signature dish. The food picker wheel can decide the course order.
Is the pick really random?
Yes — the winning city comes from the random number generator built into your browser, and every city on the wheel gets an exactly equal slice. The wheel doesn't weight results by population, size or how often a city appears in the news, and no spin is influenced by the one before it. Nothing is sent to a server, so your spins stay on your device.
One honest caveat: "random city" means a uniformly random pick from the list, not a random point on the map. If it were by population, Tokyo would win far more often than Suva — instead they have the same chance. For most games and classrooms, equal-per-city is exactly what you want. Need names rather than places? The random name generator handles that side.