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100 Largest Communist Cities in 1980 on a Map

With the help of a map, name the hundred largest cities under communist rule in 1980.
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Pop.
Country
City
8.01 m
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Moscow
5.93 m
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Shanghai
5.37 m
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Beijing
4.59 m
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Leningrad
3.75 m
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Tianjin
3.42 m
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Shenyang
2.96 m
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Chongqing
2.72 m
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Ho Chi Minh City
2.52 m
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Wuhan
2.15 m
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Chengdu
2.14 m
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Kiev
2.06 m
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Budapest
1.99 m
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Harbin
1.93 m
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Havana
1.87 m
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Guangzhou
1.87 m
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Bucharest
1.84 m
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Pyongyang
1.78 m
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Tashkent
1.73 m
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Nanjing
1.66 m
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Changchun
1.60 m
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Warsaw
1.44 m
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Kharkov
1.42 m
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Dalian
1.34 m
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Gorky
1.31 m
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Novosibirsk
1.28 m
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Minsk
1.26 m
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Jinan
1.22 m
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Kuybyshev
1.21 m
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Sverdlovsk
1.18 m
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Prague
1.18 m
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Xi'an
1.18 m
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Addis Ababa
1.16 m
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East Berlin
1.14 m
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Hangzhou
Pop.
Country
City
1.11 m
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Taiyuan
1.10 m
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Qingdao
1.09 m
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Belgrade
1.08 m
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Dnipropetrovsk
1.07 m
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Sofia
1.07 m
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Tbilisi
1.05 m
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Odessa
1.03 m
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Lanzhou
1.03 m
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Chelyabinsk
1.02 m
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Baku
1.02 m
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Donetsk
1.02 m
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Yerevan
1.01 m
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Omsk
1.01 m
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Perm
993 k
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Kazan
991 k
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Shijiazhuang
991 k
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Fushun
969 k
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Ufa
967 k
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Anshan
949 k
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Wenzhou
934 k
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Rostov-on-Don
929 k
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Volgograd
913 k
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Kabul
910 k
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Alma-Ata
899 k
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Hanoi
883 k
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Guiyang
881 k
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Ürümqi
856 k
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Saratov
836 k
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Łódź
835 k
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Baotou
830 k
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Changsha
828 k
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Riga
824 k
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Voronezh
Pop.
Country
City
818 k
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Zhengzhou
812 k
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Qiqihar
796 k
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Krasnoyarsk
788 k
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Nanchang
781 k
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Zaporizhia
777 k
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Jilin
773 k
960px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China_%28alternate%29.svg.png
Wuxi
771 k
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Luanda
758 k
960px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China_%28alternate%29.svg.png
Tangshan
751 k
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Hefei
741 k
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Fuzhou
716 k
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Kraków
705 k
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Krivoy Rog
667 k
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Lvov
656 k
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Zagreb
621 k
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Nanning
621 k
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Xuzhou
619 k
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Benxi
618 k
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Wrocław
606 k
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Huainan
597 k
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Yaroslavl
594 k
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Hamhung
572 k
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Karaganda
570 k
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Foshan
565 k
960px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China_%28alternate%29.svg.png
Datong
563 k
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Leipzig
562 k
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Kunming
556 k
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Suzhou
553 k
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Poznań
551 k
960px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png
Mogadishu
550 k
960px-Flag_of_Mozambique_%281975%E2%80%931983%29.svg.png
Maputo
550 k
1280px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png
Vladivostok
550 k
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Irkutsk
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4 Comments
Kingsfisher
+1
Level 69
Apr 25, 2026
Great, as always, but you have a vexing typo in "Zhengzhou"
FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Apr 25, 2026
Fixed, thanks.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Apr 26, 2026
whole lotta red (in the flags) (carti)
Deuteronomius
+2
Level 69
May 4, 2026
Feels like if the states included stayed the same, 80% of the cities would be in China today anyway
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