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20 African cities furthest from a bigger, with a map.

Name the 20 African cities, with a population over 10,000, that are furthest from a bigger African city. Distance to nearest bigger city, and population, are given as hint. Nearest bigger city, that is not a remaining answer, is shown.
Urban area populations from citypopulation.de, March 2026.
Distances from timeanddate.com.
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Km
Pop
City
Nearest bigger
-
23.2 M
Cairo
-
3916
21.9 M
Lagos
Cairo
2776
15.1 M
Johannesburg
Kinshasa
2321
4.50 M
Casablanca
Bamako
1926
7.15 M
Nairobi
Khartoum
1786
16.9 M
Kinshasa
Lagos
1608
3.25 M
Antananarivo
Dar es Salaam
1605
7.40 M
Khartoum
Cairo
1261
5.20 M
Cape Town
Johannesburg
1195
3.10 M
Lusaka
Johannesburg
Km
Pop
City
Nearest bigger
1085
29.6 k
Victoria
Antsiranana
1045
4.37 M
Dakar
Bamako
1033
4.40 M
Algiers
Casablanca
1017
2.32 M
Mogadishu
Nairobi
994
4.95 M
Addis Ababa
Khartoum
930
486 k
Windhoek
Gaborone
920
5.95 M
Bamako
Abidjan
913
492 k
Nyala
Khartoum
836
5.55 M
Kano
Lagos
825
7.30 M
Abidjan
Lagos
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2 Comments
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Level 66
Apr 12, 2022
Nice quiz, liked this and the others of the serie a lot!

But what about Edinburgh of the seven seas? If you count Jamestown, which has 625 inhabitants (acc. to wikipedia) as a city, i think you could accept Edinburgh with 245 as well

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Level 70
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks! I try to use urban area population, instead of cities proper, in this series limited to urban population over 1000. According to wikipedia, the urban population of Jamestown also includes the population of Half Tree Hollow, and together the whole population is 1614.