Free the World Map by 5 Relatively Largest Cities per Square

The World Map has been covered with 30x30 blocks! To free a block, type any of the 5 cities inside it that are furthest from a larger city.
Data for 1M cities from citypopulation.de, data for smaller cities from geonames.org
Cities with no more than 10,000 inhabitants are only considered if they have no larger city within 100 km
Covering squares are white if there are 5 possible answers, the colour changes towards red as the number of answers decreases towards 1
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Last updated: March 24, 2017
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5 Comments
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Level 43
Apr 12, 2017
this looks like a video game or something! How did you get the squares on the map?
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Level 57
Feb 17, 2018
Happy Valley and Goose Bay are the same city
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Level 92
Jan 2, 2023
In a way, it's neat that the answer key is the the type-in alternatives. I've never seen that before.
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Level 92
Jan 2, 2023
In a way, it's neat that the answer key is the the type-in alternatives. I've never seen that before.
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Level 92
Jan 2, 2023
In a way, it's neat that the answer key is the the type-in alternatives. I've never seen that before.

It's also interesting that one of the largest megacities on Earth, Jakarta, in one of the most densely populated areas, Java, shares the answer key with an barely known miniature place called Flying Fish Cove.