| NAGASAKI | A port in South West Japan, on West Kyushu, almost completely destroyed in 1945 by an atomic bomb (8) |
| INLAND | The ___ Sea in south west Japan lies between the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu (6) |
| DRESDEN | Industrial city in S.E. Germany almost destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombing (7) |
| CADIZ | A port in south-west Spain, founded about 1100BC as a Phoenician trading colony (5) |
| HIROSHIMA | City destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945 (9) |
| NAGOYA | A castle in which Japanese city was built in 1612, destroyed in 1945, and rebuilt in 1959? (6) |
| SORRENTO | Port in south west Italy on a mountainous peninsula between the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Salerno (8) |
| BERGEN | A port in South West Norway, the second-largest city in the country (6) |
| MANAGUA | Which city in Nicaragua was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1972? (7) |
| OKAYAMA | A city in Southwest Japan, on West Honshu on the Inland Sea (7) |
| SWANSEA | A port in South Wales, on an inlet of the Bristol Channel (7) |
| YPRES | Belgian town in West Flanders province that was completely destroyed in World War I (5) |
| JODRELLBANK | ? Observatory, University of Manchester site in Cheshire established in 1945 by Dr Bernard Lovell (7,4) |
| MALMO | A port in South Sweden, in Scania province (5) |
| BASRA | A port in South East Iraq, on the Shatt-al-Arab river (5) |
| EILAT | A port in South Israel, on the Gulf of Aqaba (5) |
| BIWA | Largest freshwater lake in Japan, on west central Honshu Island north-east of Kyoto (4) |
| GREENOCK | Port in south west Scotland (8) |
| BRISTOL | Port in south west England on the River Avon (7) |
| LENS | Industrial town in North France that was completely destroyed in the First World War (4) |
