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World Large Urban Centres With The Highest Average Temperature

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Name the 50 urban centres of at least 1 million population with the highest average temperature. Urban centres are defined by the European Commission at the link below. Occasionally an urban centre name isn’t a city name, but rather a country/district/area. Average temp (Celsius) and continent shown.

https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ghs_stat_ucdb2015mt_r2019a.php

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victor_pavao

3 years ago

Massawa has an urban center of 1 million… interesting

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