Biggest Coastal City of Every Coastal Country

Name the biggest coastal city of every coastal country in the world.

If its urban area reaches the sea, a city is considered to be a coastal city in this quiz

Populations are for the most part urban area populations

City proper populations are indicated in red

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Country	Population	Biggest coastal city
Albania	201 000	Durrës
Algeria	3 975 000	Algiers
Angola	8 150 000	Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda	22 000	Saint John's
Argentina	16 400 000	Buenos Aires
Australia	5 300 000	Sydney
Bahamas	274 000	Nassau
Bahrain	1 530 000	Manama
Bangladesh	4 925 000	Chittagong
Barbados	110 000	Bridgetown
Belgium	256 000	Bruges
Belize	64 000	Belize
Benin	1 830 000	Cotonou
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3 000	Neum
Brazil	13 200 000	Rio de Janeiro
Brunei	280 000	Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria	420 000	Varna
Cambodia	90 000	Sihanoukville
Cameroon	3 375 000	Douala
Canada	2 875 000	Vancouver
Cape Verde	160 000	Praia
Chile	1 020 000	Valparaiso
China	46 700 000	Guangzhou
Colombia	2 100 000	Barranquilla
Comoros	54 000	Moroni
Costa Rica	122 000	Puntarenas
Côte d'Ivoire	5 600 000	Abidjan
Croatia	345 000	Split
Cuba	2 225 000	Havana
Cyprus	187 000	Limassol
D. R. of the Congo	90 000	Moanda
Denmark	1 680 000	Copenhagen
Djibouti	570 000	Djibouti
Dominica	15 000	Roseau
Dominican Republic	4 000 000	Santo Domingo
East Timor	245 000	Dili
Ecuador	246 000	Machala
Egypt	5 800 000	Alexandria
El Salvador	52 000	Acajutla
Equatorial Guinea	290 000	Bata
Eritrea	53 000	Massawa
Estonia	435 000	Tallinn
Fiji	186 000	Suva
Finland	1 300 000	Helsinki
France	1 660 000	Marseille
Gabon	704 000	Libreville
Gambia	1 000 000	Banjul
Georgia	166 000	Batumi
Germany	325 000	Kiel
Ghana	5 100 000	Accra
Greece	3 350 000	Athens
Grenada	34 000	Saint George's
Guatemala	101 000	Puerto Barrios
Guinea	2 525 000	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	492 000	Bissau
Guyana	201 000	Georgetown
Haiti	3 225 000	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	196 000	La Ceiba
Iceland	223 000	Reykjavik
India	25 100 000	Mumbai
Indonesia	31 300 000	Jakarta
Iran	527 000	Bandar Abbas
Iraq	36 000	Fao
Ireland	1 390 000	Dublin
Israel	2 700 000	Tel Aviv
Italy	4 225 000	Naples
Jamaica	585 000	Kingston
Japan	40 400 000	Tokyo
Jordan	148 000	Aqaba
Kenya	1 220 000	Mombasa
Kiribati	50 000	South Tarawa
Kuwait	4 750 000	Kuwait
Latvia	632 000	Riga
Lebanon	1 750 000	Beirut
Liberia	1 590 000	Monrovia
Libya	1 250 000	Tripoli

Country	Population	Biggest coastal city
Lithuania	205 000	Klaipeda
Madagascar	327 000	Toamasina
Malaysia	8 900 000	Kuala Lumpur
Maldives	127 000	Malé
Malta	355 000	Valletta
Marshall Islands	28 000	Majuro
Mauritania	1 270 000	Nouakchott
Mauritius	147 000	Port Louis
Mexico	1 970 000	Tijuana
Micronesia	14 000	Weno
Monaco	38 000	Monaco
Montenegro	20 000	Herceg Novi
Morocco	4 475 000	Casablanca
Mozambique	2 275 000	Maputo
Myanmar	115 000	Myeik
Namibia	62 000	Walvis Bay
Nauru	11 000	Yaren
Netherlands	3 250 000	Rotterdam
New Zealand	1 410 000	Auckland
Nicaragua	39 000	Puerto Cabezas
Nigeria	19 400 000	Lagos
North Korea	704 000	Hamhung
Norway	1 190 000	Oslo
Oman	1 430 000	Muscat
Pakistan	17 800 000	Karachi
Palau	10 000	Koror
Panama	1 540 000	Panama
Papua New Guinea	364 000	Port Moresby
Peru	10 100 000	Lima
Philippines	25 700 000	Manila
Poland	1 098 000	Gdansk
Portugal	2 475 000	Lisbon
Qatar	2 425 000	Doha
R. of the Congo	1 180 000	Pointe-Noire
Romania	426 000	Constanta
Russia	5 650 000	Saint Petersburg
Saint Kitts and Nevis	11 000	Basseterre
Saint Lucia	22 000	Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27 000	Kingstown
Samoa	69 000	Apia
São Tomé and Principe	67 000	São Tomé
Saudi Arabia	4 950 000	Jeddah
Senegal	3 725 000	Dakar
Seychelles	26 000	Victoria
Sierra Leone	1 790 000	Freetown
Singapore	7 900 000	Singapore
Slovenia	26 000	Koper
Solomon Islands	85 000	Honiara
Somalia	1 940 000	Mogadishu
South Africa	4 225 000	Cape Town
South Korea	24 800 000	Seoul
Spain	4 775 000	Barcelona
Sri Lanka	4 750 000	Colombo
Sudan	395 000	Port Sudan
Suriname	241 000	Paramaribo
Sweden	2 225 000	Stockholm
Syria	424 000	Latakia
Taiwan	9 150 000	Taipei
Tanzania	6 450 000	Dar es Salaam
Thailand	18 800 000	Bangkok
Togo	2 100 000	Lomé
Tonga	35 000	Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago	83 000	San Fernando
Tunisia	2 675 000	Tunis
Turkey	16 000 000	Istanbul
Tuvalu	6 000	Funafuti
Ukraine	1 100 000	Odessa
United Arab Emirates	5 350 000	Dubai
United Kingdom	1 880 000	Liverpool
United States	22 100 000	New York
Uruguay	1 860 000	Montevideo
Vanuatu	51 000	Port Vila
Venezuela	781 000	Barcelona
Vietnam	1 010 000	Da Nang
Yemen	800 000	Aden

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12 Comments

Level 59

May 1, 2020

Great quiz.

Level 78

May 1, 2020

Thanks. That was educational.

Level 72

Sep 14, 2021

Pretty sure that largest coastal city in Croatia is Split, not Rijeka. Great quiz anyway.

Level 65

Sep 14, 2021

Indeed, thank you for spotting this error

Level 78

Jun 8, 2023

I wonder if Saigon/HCMC shouldn't be considered as the correct answer for Vietnam. The city maps I'm finding seem to extend the city limits to the sea.

Level 65

Sep 21, 2023

It's one of these tricky examples that depends on which definition of a "coastal city" you chose.

The definition I decided to take (indicated in the first caveat) is to look at the urban areas. While the administrative limits of Ho Chi Minh City does reach the sea, its urban area doesn't when you look from the sky so I decided not to count it as a valid answer

Level 77

Jun 8, 2023

How the hell are Guayaquil, Sao Paulo, and Yangon not considered coastal when SEOUL is??

Level 70

Jun 8, 2023

The poulation is by urban area. If you look on the map, Guayaquil and Yangon are separated from the ocean, as they lie on rivers. São Paulo itself is located on a plateau and doesn't come near the ocean. The one which surprise me was Kuala Lumpur but it turns out it is connected to the ocean via Port Klang.

Level 76

Jun 8, 2023

could you accept basrah for fao?

Level 65

Sep 21, 2023

By looking from the sky Fao doesn't seem to be connected to Basrah by its urban area so I'll still consider Basrah as an invalid answer (even if I totally admit that it makes the Iraqi answer pretty difficult haha)

Level 62

Jun 8, 2023

Pretty sure that Manta is bigger than Machala by a few ten thousand for Ecuador

Level 65

Sep 21, 2023

I took Wikipedia as a source when citypopulation.de was not enough, Machala is indicated to have a 246 000 inhabitants metro population and 226 000 for Manta.

Always hard to know if the source information is perfect for inhabitants statistics but I'll keep following this

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