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Biggest cities in 20° rectangles, on an empty world map

Name the biggest city in each rectangle of 20° latitude and longitude. Populations are given.
Source: citypopulation.de and Wikipedia.
Not included cities with a population under 10,000.
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Pop
City
6.80 M
Abidjan
1.42 M
Adelaide
19.8 k
Akureyri
4.25 M
Algiers
13.2 k
Anadyr
249 k
Anchorage
3.05 M
Antananarivo
35.9 k
Apia
301 k
Arkhangelsk
1.48 M
Auckland
3.67 M
Baku
21.2 M
Bangkok
4.92 M
Belo Horizonte
272 k
Bergen
10.4 M
Bogotá
22.5 M
Cairo
4.97 M
Cape Town
4.77 M
Casablanca
12.6 M
Chennai
9.65 M
Chicago
377 k
Christchurch
215 k
Comodoro
Pop
City
7.65 M
Dallas
139 k
Dededo
34.6 M
Delhi
22.5 M
Dhaka
191 k
Fianarantsoa
70.1 M
Guangzhou
1.53 M
Helsinki
41.4 k
Hilo
13.7 k
Hithadhoo
197 k
Hobart
2.72 M
Hohhot
852 k
Honolulu
29.2 M
Jakarta
14.6 M
Johannesburg
7.05 M
Khartoum
15.6 M
Kinshasa
315 k
Kupang
20.7 M
Lagos
11.8 M
Lima
14.9 M
London
17.2 M
Los Angeles
458 k
Macapá
Pop
City
27.2 M
Manila
5.00 M
Melbourne
25.1 M
Mexico City
34.0 k
Mirny
1.04 M
Morelia
19.1 M
Moscow
27.1 M
Mumbai
6.70 M
Nairobi
22.0 M
New York
174 k
Norilsk
34.1 k
Nukuʻalofa
19.8 k
Nuuk
124 k
Papeete
11.5 M
Paris
2.25 M
Perth
547 k
Piura
33.9 k
Ponta Delgada
364 k
Port Moresby
137 k
Praia
3.67 M
Recife
239 k
Reykjavik
2.62 M
Salt Lake City
Pop
City
3.17 M
Sanaa
7,45 M
San Francisco
8.25 M
Santiago
22.1 M
São Paulo
2.50 M
Sapporo
4.47 M
Seattle
1.51 M
Sendai
8.70 M
Shenyang
63.4 k
South Tarawa
185 k
St. John's
396 k
Surgut
185 k
Suva
3.77 M
Tashkent
16.5 M
Tehran
11.8 k
Tiku Selatan
41.0 M
Tokyo
4.85 M
Ürümqi
8.55 M
Washington
24.5 k
Whitehorse
355 k
Yakutsk
19.6 k
Yellowknife
4 Comments
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Level 58
Feb 19, 2025
Can you accept 'dc' for Washington?
+1
Level 69
Feb 20, 2025
Accepted now.
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Level 67
Feb 26, 2025
Like it. Aren't Edmonton and Calgary both in the same square as Salt Lake City though? They're both much bigger.
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Level 84
Feb 26, 2025
The given population for SLC is 2.62 million, which implies it's metro area, not city proper. In that case, neither Calgary nor Edmonton is anywhere near that big.