Metroji clue #19

Dallas in five emoji

United States

A city with no river worth using, no port and no obvious reason to exist where it does. It grew as a place where deals were made rather than where things were dug up.

What each emoji refers to

Cotton and cattle money came first, and the ranching identity outlasted both.
The Cowboys have not played inside the city limits since 1971, but nobody has adjusted.
The oil is mostly elsewhere in Texas. Dallas held the banks that financed it.
Texas barbecue means beef brisket, smoked slowly over post oak, and sauce is treated as optional.
Reunion Tower and the outlined skyline came out of the building boom of the early 1980s.

Dallas at a glance

Country
United States
Coordinates
32.78° N, 96.80° W
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Dallas.

City Distance Direction
HoustonUnited States 360 km
New OrleansUnited States 710 km
MonterreyMexico 860 km
DenverUnited States 1,070 km
AtlantaUnited States 1,160 km
ChicagoUnited States 1,290 km

Nearest cities we have written up

Today's city is a different one

Metroji picks a new city every day at midnight, wherever you are. Everyone gets the same one, so scores are comparable.

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