Blogger Stacey Cavanagh asked one thousand Americans to name a British city other than London, with surprising results.

Liverpool topped the chart, followed by Manchester. Bristol was in fifth position, one place above Wales.

Here are the full results:

Liverpool (15% of respondents answered ‘Liverpool’)
Manchester (12%)
Leeds (4.7%)
Cambridge (3.7%)
Bristol (3.6%)
Wales (3.6%)
Oxford (3.0%)
Birmingham (2.4%)
Bath (2.3%)
Paris (1.9%)

Cavanagh used a promotional code from Google Consumer Surveys to carry out the test.

On her blog, she wrote: “Perhaps the biggest surprise of the top-10 (apart from the fact that 19 people thought Paris is in a British city and 36 people thought Wales is) is how few people answered ‘Birmingham.’

“Could it be the football influence of Liverpool and Manchester? 1% of respondents also said Chelsea.”