Biggest cities in cardinal directions by continent, with a map

Name all cities with a population over 100,000, without any bigger further north, south, east or west, in the same continent. Population is given.

Urban area populations from citypopulation.de, March 2024.

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Africa
Northernmost		Southernmost		Easternmost		Westernmost
22.5 M	Cairo	22.5 M	Cairo	22.5 M	Cairo	22.5 M	Cairo
6.20 M	Alexandria	20.7 M	Lagos	7.05 M	Khartoum	20.7 M	Lagos
4.77 M	Casablanca	15.6 M	Kinshasa	6.70 M	Nairobi	6.82 M	Abidjan
4.25 M	Algiers	14.6 M	Johannesburg	6.25 M	Dar es Salaam	5.45 M	Bamako
2.70 M	Tunis	4.97 M	Cape Town	3.05 M	Antananarivo	3.92 M	Dakar
342 k	Annaba	1.19 M	Port Elizabeth	325 k	Toamasina	137 k	Praia
154 k	Bizerte	188 k	Somerset West	189 k	Saint-Denis
				173 k	Saint-Pierre
				145 k	Port Louis

Asia
Northernmost		Southernmost		Easternmost		Westernmost
70.1 M	Guangzhou	70.1 M	Guangzhou	70.1 M	Guangzhou	70.1 M	Guangzhou
41.0 M	Tokyo	29.2 M	Jakarta	41.0 M	Tokyo	34.6 M	Delhi
25.1 M	Seoul	6.95 M	Bandung	2.50 M	Sapporo	27.1 M	Mumbai
21.2 M	Beijing	5.90 M	Surabaya	329 k	Asahikawa	20.9 M	Karachi
8.70 M	Shenyang	1.78 M	Yogyakarta	181 k	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	16.5 M	Tehran
5.45 M	Harbin	1.75 M	Malang	166 k	Obihiro	7.65 M	Baghdad
1.86 M	Novosibirsk	1.19 M	Denpasar	165 k	Kushiro	6.00 M	Amman
1.86 M	Yekaterinburg	315 k	Kupang	164 k	Petropavlovsk	5.15 M	Ankara
847 k	Tyumen					3.00 M	Izmir
396 k	Surgut					185 k	Menemen
355 k	Yakutsk					143 k	Çanakkale
174 k	Norilsk

Europe
Northernmost		Southernmost		Easternmost		Westernmost
19.1 M	Moscow	19.1 M	Moscow	19.1 M	Moscow	19.1 M	Moscow
6.50 M	Saint Petersburg	15.9 M	Istanbul	1.66 M	Nizhny Novgorod	15.9 M	Istanbul
1.53 M	Helsinki	6.65 M	Madrid	1.59 M	Kazan	14.9 M	London
359 k	Tampere	3.57 M	Athens	1.37 M	Samara	6.65 M	Madrid
301 k	Arkhangelsk	1.30 M	Seville	1.23 M	Ufa	2.50 M	Lisbon
270 k	Murmansk	1.09 M	Malaga	1.09 M	Perm	242 k	Reykjavik
		480 k	Valletta	410 k	Magnitogorsk
		162 k	Heraklion	161 k	Zlatoust
				114 k	Pervouralsk

North-America
Northernmost		Southernmost		Easternmost		Westernmost
25.1 M	Mexico City	25.1 M	Mexico City	25.1 M	Mexico City	25.1 M	Mexico City
22.0 M	New York	4.22 M	Puebla	22.0 M	New York	17.6 M	Los Angeles
9.65 M	Chicago	3.85 M	Santo Domingo	7.70 M	Boston	7.45 M	San Francisco
7.70 M	Boston	3.35 M	Guatemala City	3.85 M	Santo Domingo	3.07 M	Vancouver
7.70 M	Toronto	2.45 M	San José	1.91 M	San Juan	363 k	Victoria
4.47 M	Seattle	1.14 M	Panama City	348 k	Halifax	249 k	Anchorage
3.07 M	Vancouver	205 k	La Chorrera	251 k	Les Abymes
1.46 M	Calgary	103 k	David	185 k	St. John's
1.43 M	Edmonton
249 k	Anchorage

Oceania
Northernmost		Southernmost		Easternmost		Westernmost
5.00 M	Melbourne	5.00 M	Melbourne	5.00 M	Melbourne	5.00 M	Melbourne
4.97 M	Sydney	377 k	Christchurch	4.97 M	Sydney	2.25 M	Perth
3.35 M	Brisbane	102 k	Dunedin	3.35 M	Brisbane
853 k	Honolulu			1.48 M	Auckland
118 k	Kailua			853 k	Honolulu
				137 k	Papeete

South-America
Northernmost		Southernmost		Easternmost		Westernmost
22.1 M	São Paulo	22.1 M	São Paulo	22.1 M	São Paulo	22.1 M	São Paulo
12.5 M	Rio de Janeiro	16.7 M	Buenos Aires	12.5 M	Rio de Janeiro	16.7 M	Buenos Aires
11.8 M	Lima	1.89 M	Montevideo	3.67 M	Recife	11.8 M	Lima
10.4 M	Bogotá	852 k	La Plata	1.19 M	João Pessoa	3.30 M	Guayaquil
4.27 M	Medellín	722 k	Concepción			547 k	Piura
3.82 M	Caracas	626 k	Mar del Plata			258 k	Manta
2.80 M	Maracaibo	395 k	Neuquén			112 k	La Libertad
2.32 M	Barranquilla	215 k	Comodoro Rivadavia
496 k	Santa Marta	125 k	Punta Arenas
231 k	Coro
163 k	Riohacha
154 k	Punto Fijo

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