Biggest Asian cities in each cardinal direction, with a map

Name all Asian cities, with a population over 10,000, without any bigger further north, south, east or west. Population is given.
Urban area populations from citypopulation.de, March 2025.
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Northernmost
Pop
City
72.7 M
Guangzhou
41.6 M
Shanghai
41.2 M
Tokyo
25.2 M
Seoul
21.5 M
Beijing
8.80 M
Shenyang
5.55 M
Harbin
1.86 M
Daqing
1.82 M
Novosibirsk
1.81 M
Yekaterinburg
861 k
Tyumen
420 k
Surgut
367 k
Yakutsk
176 k
Norilsk
19.3 k
Dudinka
Southernmost
Pop
City
72.7 M
Guangzhou
29.5 M
Jakarta
7.00 M
Bandung
5.95 M
Surabaya
1.79 M
Yogyakarta
1.76 M
Malang
1.24 M
Denpasar
315 k
Kupang
Easternmost
Pop
City
72.7 M
Guangzhou
41.6 M
Shanghai
41.2 M
Tokyo
2.50 M
Sapporo
329 k
Asahikawa
180 k
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
166 k
Obihiro
165 k
Kushiro
163 k
Petropavlovsk
13.0 k
Anadyr
Westernmost
Pop
City
72.7 M
Guangzhou
35.7 M
Delhi
27.6 M
Mumbai
21.0 M
Karachi
16.8 M
Tehran
7.80 M
Baghdad
6.15 M
Amman
5.20 M
Ankara
3.02 M
Izmir
185 k
Menemen
143 k
Çanakkale
35.3 k
Kepez
33.2 k
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2 Comments
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Level 78
Jan 24, 2022
Yogakarta is spelled Yogyakarta. This is a great idea for a quiz but you may want to try to fix the blurriness of the map.
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Level 70
Jan 25, 2022
Spelling fixed now. Will se what I can do with the map.