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Test your geographic knowledge with the World 50K+ Cities Farthest From Closest Larger City Quiz. Can you name the cities at least 500 km away from the closest larger city?

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World 50K+ Cities Farthest From Closest Larger City

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Name the World 50K+ population cities which are at least 500 miles away from the closest larger World 50K+ population city (so Shanghai is not included as it is the largest city). Distance from closest larger city shown.

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broccolidayo

2 years ago

Why is Seoul(almost 10M) only 539km? Cities over 10M(Tianjin or Shanghai) will be at least 800km away.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to broccolidayo

oops – i had miles instead of km – fixed now.

emlo73g

2 years ago

Where is Johannesburg? Or what is it called?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to emlo73g

it’s actually Soweto. the city proper population is a little higher than Johannesburg

lisa

2 years ago

I really like that you can see some that you missed at the end!! Wish the city coverage quiz had that too.

AtlasK

2 years ago

I’m sorry, I’m slowly getting used to the quirks of this website. But Nasinu over Suva? Really?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to AtlasK

Nasinu is now actually a larger municipality than Suva. Suva’s metro area may be larger, but my city quizzes use city populations.