An outstretched statue and a rounded sugarloaf mountain above the bay.
Rio de Janeiro is a city of mountains before it is a city of towers. Sugarloaf Mountain rises as a smooth rounded peak beside the bay, often with a thin cable-car line between the summit and the shore. Christ the Redeemer stands high on Corcovado with arms extended, creating one of the most unusual human-shaped marks in the skyline game. The buildings below are modest and scattered among palms, water, and layered hills. If the silhouette has an outstretched statue on one mountain and a second rounded rock beside it, choose Rio. Cape Town has a flat-topped mountain, but not Rio's statue-and-sugarloaf pairing.