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Northernmost Major Cities

Name the northernmost urban areas with a population over 1,000,000.
According to citypopulation.de, January 2021
Russian cities are marked with a blue background
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Last updated: February 27, 2021
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First submittedNovember 29, 2010
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Latitude
City
60.17 °N
Helsinki
59.93 °N
St. Petersburg
59.91 °N
Oslo
59.33 °N
Stockholm
58.00 °N
Perm
56.86 °N
Yekaterinburg
56.32 °N
Nizhny Novgorod
Latitude
City
56.01 °N
Krasnoyarsk
55.86 °N
Glasgow
55.76 °N
Moscow
55.73 °N
Kazan
55.68 °N
Copenhagen
55.21 °N
Chelyabinsk
55.04 °N
Novosibirsk
Latitude
City
55.01 °N
Newcastle
54.99 °N
Omsk
54.75 °N
Ufa
53.90 °N
Minsk
53.79 °N
Leeds
53.55 °N
Hamburg
53.55 °N
Edmonton
49 Comments
+6
Level 54
Jun 16, 2013
I'm surprised that Sapporo isn't on here.
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Level 58
Nov 6, 2013
I thought that at first too, but then I saw that Sapporo is is only slightly north of Rome. Crazy.
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Level 72
Jul 26, 2016
Sometimes, weather can trick you. It's mind blowing to know that NYC with its dreadful winters is slightly south of Barcelona, or that Newfoundland is at the same latitude as Paris.
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Level 63
Jul 8, 2013
Awesome quiz!
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Level 76
May 18, 2014
Surprinsingly difficult. I knew there was more Russian cities, but UK and Germany took me by surprise.
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Level 22
Jul 9, 2014
would it not have been easier to show the latitude in degrees and minutes rather than fractions of degrees?
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Level ∞
May 31, 2016
Decimals look cleaner and make more sense, IMHO.
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Level 75
Jul 25, 2016
Indeed. I've always wondered why they're not written that way. Well done, QM.
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Level 89
Mar 11, 2021
As someone who's used them a lot for navigation it's always a mental conversion from decimals with degrees to more practical degrees and minutes, especially with latitude. Still beats the hell out of LORAN.
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Level 37
Jul 30, 2014
Excellent quiz. very difficult. Would never have guessed that Berlin is North of London.
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Level 92
Apr 11, 2015
I forgot about British Islands :(
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Level 63
May 19, 2016
There's a German rollercoaster about Novgorod.
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Level 22
Jul 25, 2016
Suprised that favourites such as Talinn, Riga and Vilnius didn't show!
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Level 47
Jul 25, 2016
Same here
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Level 72
Jul 26, 2016
Those may be capital cities, but are far less smaller than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
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Level 69
Jan 25, 2018
The answers don't even need to be capitals.
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Level 29
Jul 25, 2016
I forgot to read description before taking this quiz, so I tried smaller cities such as Anchorage, Juneau, Narvik, Tromso, Molde and others.
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Level 52
Aug 8, 2016
Helsinki doesn't have 1Mio, right?!
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Level 61
Oct 6, 2016
Depends how you look. Helsinki itself has only about 630 000 people, but the metropolitan area of Helsinki has about 1,4 million people.
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Level 83
Feb 15, 2019
Heeeeey, is this a re-do of that one quiz we all hated because half the answers were filled in? You did good, Quizmaster.
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Level 70
Feb 15, 2019
Manchester missed out by only 0.07°. Would it be next on the list?
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Level 70
Feb 15, 2019
In fact parts of northern Manchester are at a high enough latitude to count. Where in the city is this measured from?
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Level 83
Feb 27, 2021
Usually it's the city centre
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Level 28
Feb 15, 2019
Step 1: know a bunch of Russian cities and European capitals, along with Glasgow, Hamburg and Edmonton

Step 2: win

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Level 85
Mar 23, 2019
It was Edmonton that caught me, thought all the North American cities were too far south.
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Level 53
Aug 19, 2021
They are otherwise but Edmonton is waaaaaay further North than any other Canadian city of even remotely comparable size.
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Level 73
Feb 21, 2019
Eek, this is a hard one and taught me a lot. Great job Quizmaster! Would be nice to reveal the populations as well if you're ever up for that.
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Level 68
Mar 23, 2019
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Level 70
Mar 23, 2019
This is definitely a "name a bunch of Russian cities" quiz.
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Level 57
Mar 23, 2019
Oslo only has 634.293
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Level 53
Aug 19, 2021
Read the description: Urban Area. Metro Oslo has 1.588.457.
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Level 77
Mar 23, 2019
Shouldn't Newcastle be added?
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Level 45
Mar 23, 2019
Only has around 300,000
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Level 45
Mar 23, 2019
Leeds only has around 800,000
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Level 53
Aug 19, 2021
Boggles my mind how many people on this site don't understand the difference between city and urban area. Leeds has 2.6 million in its urban area.
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Level 70
Mar 24, 2019
According to your source either Glasgow shouldn't be here because it's population is too small (Urban Areas), or Newcastle should be here (Agglomerations).
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Level ∞
Feb 27, 2021
Newcastle has been added, thank you.
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Level 80
Mar 24, 2019
I'm not sure about the figures for Glasgow and Leeds, they seem a little large...
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Level 83
Jun 17, 2019
The Leeds urban area includes a lot of the smaller settlements around it, like Bradford. And the population of just the city is almost 800,000 - it doesn't take much to knock it up to a million.
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Level 75
Mar 25, 2019
too northern biased.
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Level 77
Sep 19, 2019
I've been to 10 of the 20. I missed four. One of the missed ones I had been to. So ashamed. I'm sooooo sorry I forgot you, Chelyabinsk!!!
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Level 83
Feb 27, 2021
I've been to 15 and drove past another 2 or 3 ☺
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Level 80
Mar 1, 2021
Completely forgot about the possibility of a Canadian city
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2021
Most are surprisingly south, Edmonton being the sole major exception
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Level 64
Aug 18, 2021
This was tricky because I couldn't tell if my incorrect answers were too small or too far south.
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Level 67
Aug 18, 2021
Another quiz nagging me to learn my Russian Cities...
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Level 49
Aug 21, 2021
I didnt know Russia was that northern tbh
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Level 70
Dec 31, 2021
Poor Riga was so close to a million but has been declining for years now.
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Level 62
Jun 7, 2022
I'm from Finland. It's freezing