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Test your knowledge with our World 100K Cities Farthest From Their Country's Capital Quiz. Name the cities that are farthest from their capitals in this challenging quiz.

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World 100K Cities Farthest From Their Country’s Capital

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Name the 100K+ population city in each country that is farthest from that country’s capital (including cities in overseas territories). Countries without a 100K+ non-capital city are not included. Country, distance, and city population shown.

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MajorHurricane

2 years ago

5 minutes is absolutely insane for this, I was only able to around to even get to the 55th country on the list. That’s barely 2 seconds per city and even with premium that would only be 4.25 seconds/city. We should be able to take this quiz to show our knowledge, not be literally impossible because of the clock.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to MajorHurricane

i’ll bump it up – there are time bonuses along the way too.

balintikon

2 years ago

I think the one for Myanmar (Mergui) has since been renamed Myeik. atleast according to wikipedia and googlemaps. I love this quiz! fun way to learn new smaller cities.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to balintikon

yeah will change it and accept the old name too.

bsd987

3 years ago

This quiz was the perfect early Christmas present. Thank you 🙂