Closest City Pairs #2

For each city, name the nearest city that has an urban-area population greater than 1 million.
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First submittedJune 24, 2014
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Average score75.0%
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City 1
City 2
Cairo
Alexandria
Havana
Miami
Rome
Naples
Vancouver
Seattle
Berlin
Hamburg
Minneapolis / St. Paul
Milwaukee
Damascus
Beirut
Brisbane
Sydney
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Detroit
Cleveland
Oslo
Stockholm
Guatemala City
San Salvador
Philadelphia
New York City
Helsinki
St. Petersburg
Guayaquil
Quito
Pyongyang
Seoul
Hong Kong
Guangzhou / Shenzhen
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Brazzaville
Kinshasa
Honolulu
San Francisco
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12 Comments
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Level 44
Feb 17, 2015
Victoria is definitely closer to Vancouver than Seattle. Or am I thinking of the wrong Vancouver?
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Level 44
Feb 17, 2015
nevermind, I didn't read the fine print at the top of the page :P
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Level 79
Feb 17, 2015
I typed in Beirut! :P Must have misspelled it. Man that one was bugging me.
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Level 24
Feb 17, 2015
Wow! Tough quiz. Enjoyed it though.
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Level 83
Jan 21, 2022
It would be pretty cool to see the distances with the answers. I have to imagine it would be vastly different between, say Hong Kong and its answer compared to Minneapolis and its answer
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Level 81
Sep 14, 2023
Haha, Honolulu to San Francisco was a cute one. Great quiz
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Level 92
Sep 15, 2023
3 of the last 4 are so close they actually touch.
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Level 86
Jan 8, 2024
Then the fourth one makes up for that.
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Level 67
Nov 11, 2023
i typed Hannover and i got Hamburg?
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Level 69
Jan 8, 2024
Really good quiz! Best feature is that even more similar quizzes can be made up.
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Level 53
Jan 8, 2024
I don't think I've ever heard of Guayaquil, but it sounded South American to me so I got it correct anyway and got 100%. Maybe I do remember hearing it in the back of my head.
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Level 79
May 30, 2025
Guayaquil is actually the biggest city in Ecuador so it’s definitely worth committing to memory