Capital Cities Farthest From Their Country's Largest City

Which capital cities lie furthest from their country's largest city?
Excluding South Africa where their three capitals vary between zero and 1263 km from Johannesburg!
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km
capital
miles
1149
Islamabad (Karachi)
714
1149
New Delhi (Mumbai)
714
1135
Hanoi (Ho Chi Minh City)
705
1067
Beijing (Shanghai)
663
970
Astana (Almaty)
603
880
Brasilia (São Paulo)
547
570
La Paz (Santa Cruz)
354
535
Abuja (Lagos)
332
492
Wellington (Auckland)
305
480
Rome (Milan)
298
399
Dodoma (Dar-es-Salaam)
248
352
Ottawa (Toronto)
219
349
Ankara (Istanbul)
217
332
Naypyidaw (Yangon)
206
327
Washington (New York)
203
309
Damascus (Aleppo)
192
275
Quito (Guayaquil)
171
262
Warsaw (Katowice)
163
246
Canberra (Sydney)
153
215
Yamoussoukro (Abidjan)
134
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15 Comments
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Level 46
Oct 10, 2014
I think you have swapped roles of Astana and Almaty.
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Level 81
Oct 10, 2014
Hi, I guessed Astana but it looks like you have Almaty as the capital--that changed a while back.
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Level 90
Nov 25, 2014
You've updated the results to show Astana, but the only answer accepted is "Almaty".
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Level 76
Nov 25, 2014
Thanks - fixed.
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Level 76
Oct 2, 2015
Can you accept Delhi for New Delhi? Most other quizzes do...
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Level 76
Oct 2, 2015
OK, added.
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Level 50
Jan 22, 2017
Shanghai is no longer the largest city in China
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Level 76
Jan 22, 2017
Shanghai's Urban Area is still the largest in China. If you take Metropolitan Areas, then Guangzhou, whose Metropolitan Area swallows up nearby Shenzhen (pop 12 million), would be considered the largest.
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Level 86
Nov 19, 2017
Cape Town should be on here. It's a capital city (one of them) and it's about 1400 km from Johannesburg.
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Level 76
Nov 19, 2017
An interesting one with South Africa's 3 capitals, which are zero, 367 and 1263 km from Johannesburg. (The "zero" is if you accept citypopulation.de's view that Pretoria is a part of Johannesburg, but from city centre to city centre, you're looking at around 50 km). Will put that as a note into the instructions.
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Level 74
May 13, 2018
In that case, do you also have to exclude Bolivia because it has two capital cities?
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Level 76
May 13, 2018
No, because Bolivia makes the list either way. Santa Cruz to Sucre is 259 km / 161 miles.
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Level 39
Jul 1, 2024
Katowice is not the largest city, there is only a conurbation of more cities in that region, but each of them is governed separately. That one is definitely wrong.
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Level 76
Jul 8, 2024
OK fair enough. We'll replace it with the world's newest capital when it is inaugurated later in 2024!
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Level 68
Feb 15, 2026
The description needs to clarify if you are referring to city proper versus metro area and you need to be consistent. Sometimes you are referring to urban areas (Katowice) and sometimes city proper (Mumbai versus Delhi).