City vs Country () is a Finnish primetime entertainment quiz show broadcast on MTV3. The show is hosted by two local hosts – one representing the city and the other one the countryside. The original Finnish format is hosted by two stand up talents Jaakko Saariluoma and .
Format Teams are family members, friends, co-workers or neighbours, always either from a big city or the countryside.
In the original Finnish version, in the first rounds, the teams answer to regular questions, either with multiple choice or not. From the first rounds, two teams from each side advance to semifinals, or "Duels". Here, the team with most correct answers will go to the final. In the final, the winning team choose on presenting them in the round. Then contestants haves to answer to questions fast as possible. If the contestant gets four or more correct in 90 seconds, the team wins the home country travel. If contestant can answer to eight correct, wins the team a Europe-travel, and if the contestant answers all 12 correct, they win a holiday trip to somewhere around the world.
List of Stadi vs. Lande episodes (series 1–5) Series 1 Episode Air Date Winning team Winnings 1 24 February 2017 City European Travel: Riga, Latvia 2 3 March 2017 City Home Country Travel: Koli 3 10 March 2017 Country European Travel: Zakynthos, Greece 4 17 March 2017 CityWorld Travel: Brazil–Argentina Tour 5 31 March 2017 Country Home Country Travel: Koli 6 7 April 2017Country European Travel: Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea 7 14 April 2017 City European Travel: Saaremaa, Estonia 8 21 April 2017 City Home Country Travel: Koli 9 28 April 2017 Country Home Country Travel: Turku 10 5 May 2017 City World Travel: Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Series 2 Episode Air Date Winning team Winnings 1 7 February 2018 Country European Travel: Split, Croatia 2 14 February 2018 Country European Travel: Chania, Greece 3 21 February 2018 CityWorld Travel: Sri Lanka 4 28 February 2018 City European Travel: Montenegro 5 7 March 2018 Country European Travel: Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea 6 21 March 2018City European Travel: Santorini, Greece 7 28 March 2018 Country World Travel: Jordan 8 4 April 2018 Country Home Country Travel: Relaxing and Spa 9 11 April 2018 City European Travel: Karpathos, Greece 10 18 April 2018 City European Travel: Split, Croatia 11 25 April 2018 Country World Travel: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 12 2 May 2018 City Home Country Travel: Turku 13 9 May 2018 Country European Travel: Split, Croatia
Series 3 Episode Air Date Winning team Winnings 1 25 January 2019 Country Home Country Travel: Kuusamo 2 1 February 2019 CountryWorld Travel: Oman, Arabian Peninsula 3 8 February 2019 City European Travel: Crete, Greece 4 15 February 2019 Country Home Country Travel: Salla 5 22 February 2019 City European Travel: Rhodes, Greece 6 28 February 2019 CityWorld Travel: Fuerteventura, Canary Islands 7 1 March 2019 Country European Travel: Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea 8 7 March 2019 City Home Country Travel: Tampere 9 8 March 2019 CityWorld Travel: Sri Lanka 10 14 March 2019 Country Home Country Travel: Kuusamo 11 21 March 2019 City European Travel: Alanya, Turkey 12 28 March 2019 CountryWorld Travel: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 13 4 April 2019 City European Travel: Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea 14 11 April 2019 Country European Travel: Parga, Greece
Series 4 Episode Air Date Winning team Winnings 1 26 February 2020 Country European Travel: Makarska, Croatia 2 4 March 2020 City European Travel: Durrës, Albania 3 18 March 2020 CountryWorld Travel: Fuerteventura, Canary Islands 4 1 April 2020 Country Home Country Travel: Saimaa 5 8 April 2020 Country European Travel: Platanias, Greece 6 15 April 2020 CityWorld Travel: Goa, India 7 22 April 2020 Country European Travel: Makarska, Croatia 8 29 April 2020 Country European Travel: Lefkas, Greece 9 6 May 2020 City European Travel: Rhodes, Greece 10 13 May 2020 CountryWorld Travel: Dubai, United Arab Emirates 11 20 May 2020 Country European Travel: Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea 12 27 May 2020 Country Home Country Travel: Saimaa 13 3 June 2020 City European Travel: Makarska, Croatia 14 10 June 2020 CountryWorld Travel: Doha, Qatar
Series 5 Episode Air Date Winning team Winnings 1 14 April 2021 City European Travel: Barcelona, Spain 2 21 April 2021 CountryWorld Travel: Dubai, United Arab Emirates 3 28 April 2021 City European Travel: Alanya, Turkey 4 5 May 2021 City Home Country Travel: Saimaa 5 12 May 2021 City No Prize 6 19 May 2021 Country European Travel: Mallorca, Mediterranean Sea 7 26 May 2021 City European Travel: Lisbon, Portugal 8 2 June 2021 CityWorld Travel: Tenerife, Spain 9 9 June 2021 Country Home Country Travel: Saimaa 10 16 June 2021 City European Travel: London, United Kingdom 11 23 June 2021 City European Travel: Alanya, Turkey 12 30 June 2021 City Home Country Travel: Turku
International versions Country Name Hosts Channel Premiere date (original version) Stadi vs. Lande Jaakko SaariluomaKalle Lamberg MTV3 Város vs Vidék Attila TillZsolt Gáspár TV2 Miestas ar kaimas Vitalijus CololoGabrielė Martirosianaitė TV3 2018 Місто і село Андрій Черепущак (Галицька Діва)Катерина Олос Новий Канал (Novyi Kanal) 2025
In November 2024, the owner of the format announced that more local versions of the show have been commissioned: for Poland, for Ukraine and for a new series in Lithuania.https://www.rabbitformats.com/news/city-vs-country-scores-a-triple-in-poland-lithuania-and-ukraine/
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