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10 Closest Megacities to London

Name the 10 cities with a urban population of at least 10 million which have the shortest distance to London.
As of January 2025 according to citypopulation.de
Urban area population, not city proper population
Not including the loosely-defined Rhine-Ruhr area
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First submittedSeptember 22, 2017
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km
city
miles
343
Paris
213
2,504
Istanbul
1,556
2,509
Moscow
1,559
3,513
Cairo
2,183
4,406
Tehran
2,738
km
city
miles
5,007
Lagos
3,111
5,586
New York City
3,471
6,299
Lahore
3,914
6,320
Karachi
3,927
6,359
Kinshasa
3,951
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7 Comments
+21
Level 70
Sep 23, 2017
Good little quiz, glad it wasn't megacities closest to Beijing.
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Level 79
Mar 6, 2023
54% get Karachi but only 39% get Lahore, strange.
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Level 33
Jun 6, 2023
Karachi is the biggest city of Pakistan, so it is more known internationally.
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Level 96
Aug 9, 2025
I've always pictured Pakistan and Iran as much farther away from the UK than they really are, as the globe turns.
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Level 72
Aug 9, 2025
not many megacities in between
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Level 96
Aug 11, 2025
I was just commenting on the distance, not the sparcity of megacities, but whatever.
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Level 82
Oct 18, 2025
I was surprised that the Pakistani cities are closer to London than Kinshasa is!