Biggest World Cities within 1,000 Km

Name the cities that are more populous than any other within 1,000 kilometers.

Places with population smaller than 3,000 are given for free (dark green dots)

You are shown the first two letters of cities smaller than 50,000

Blue dots indicate capital cities (or agglomerations containing them)

By urban area population, mostly from citypopulation.de (reference date 1.1.19)

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City

Alice Springs

Anadyr

Anchorage

Antananarivo

Apia

Atuona

Auckland

Avarua

Bangkok

Belém

Bogotá

Buenos Aires

Cairo

Cape Town

Chengdu

Chicago

Dakar

Dallas

City

Dar es Salaam

Delhi

Dhaka

Edinburgh of the
Seven Seas

Faaa

Georgetown

Grytviken

Guangzhou

Guatemala City

Half Tree Hollow

Hanga Roa

Honiara

Honolulu

Istanbul

Jakarta

Jayapura

Johannesburg

Khartoum

City

Kinshasa

Kuala Lumpur

La Paz

Lagos

Lima

London

Los Angeles

Lusaka

Madrid

Manaus

Manila

McMurdo Station

Mexico City

Miami

Mogadishu

Moscow

Mumbai

New York

City

Noril'sk

Noumea

Novosibirsk

Nuuk

Perth

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Port Hedland

Port Moresby

Port-aux-Francais

Puerto Ayora

Recife

Reykjavik

Rikitea

Riyadh

Saint George's

Saipan

Santiago

City

Santo Domingo

São Paulo

Seattle

Shanghai

Suva

Sydney

Tabwakea

Tarawa

Tehran

Tokyo

Townsville

Ürümqi

Victoria

Weno

Windhoek

Yakutsk

Yekaterinburg

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78 Comments

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Level 47

Nov 4, 2016

Amazing... I smell a feature coming :)

Level 81

Nov 4, 2016

Great quiz!

Level 55

Nov 4, 2016

The One day quiz! (Starred and created in the same day)

Level 83

Nov 5, 2016

So many obscure Russian cities... Russia is way too big.

Level 76

Nov 6, 2016

Yeah, I just had to find more about Norilsk - how the hell does somewhere that far north sustain a city? Here's the answer.

Level 72

Dec 24, 2016

This city is one of the very few included on my bucket list of places where to NEVER go, because of the risks of kicking it (the bucket) due to the fantastic sum of hazardous things everywhere near it.

Level 89

Sep 24, 2018

Sounds like Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Wait, Sudbury was used to train astronauts for the surface of the moon. Never mind.

Level 45

Apr 13, 2020

I actually knew some of these beforehand...had to get them wrong once to remember I knew what they were though.

Level 66

Jun 9, 2022

There's also Longyearbyen.

Level 72

Dec 24, 2016

You definitely found a great concept with your quizzes by distance. This one is nowhere near as difficult as some other ones, but it's still a lot of fun to play, I never through I would have typed that city surrounded by volcanoes and submarines in Kamtchatka (to not name it) on a JetPunk Quiz.

Level 68

Dec 25, 2016

Missed Tehran but got Yakutsk. Go figure.

Level 58

Apr 2, 2021

I only remember Yakutsk because of Risk

Level 81

Jan 11, 2017

Wonderful quiz!

Level 86

Jan 11, 2017

You should definitely accept Papeete for Faa'a. And I highly suggest to put Papeete as the main answer, it's the capital of Tahiti, in the same "metro area" as Faa'a, and much more well-known.

Level 86

Jan 11, 2017

Here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papeete, it says the urban area is about 133k people, so you shouldn't even give the first two letters ^^.

Level 83

Jan 19, 2017

It looks like you're right:

https://goo.gl/maps/gEA1Z17SF4B2

Also Wikipedia says: "Faaa (also Fa'a'ā) is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete "

Level 77

Jan 11, 2017

Brilliant.

Level 70

Jun 8, 2017

Agreed.

Level 74

Jan 13, 2017

I was so proud to knew Edinburgh of the Seven Seas and Grytviken, and then they are already given :(

Level 77

Jan 13, 2017

you can still be proud! and you can take this quiz

Level 68

Jan 17, 2017

Kudos to those who got all the obscure Siberian cities... although those were easy compared to the Pacific island ones.

Level 81

Jan 17, 2017

Townsville? Isn't that where the Powerpuff Girls live?

Level 56

Jan 17, 2017

The city of Townsville which is kept safe from crime until...

Level 90

Apr 9, 2019

So does this mean the show is set in Australia, but they didn't bother to give them accents?

Level 58

Jan 17, 2017

Awesome!!!

Level 65

Jan 17, 2017

I want to go to FAAAAAAAA! (Wherever the heck that is)

Level 86

Jan 18, 2017

As I said above, it's a mere suburb of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia.

Level 75

Apr 10, 2019

Its not a mere suburb, its acutally larger- http://www.geonames.org/PF/largest-cities-in-french-polynesia.html

Level 51

Jan 17, 2017

Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is quite a lonely place.

Level 72

Feb 2, 2017

Lol I did not understand why in this version, Port aux Français, Hamilton and Edinburgh of the Seven Seas did not work, until I noticed they were already validated.

Level 76

Mar 5, 2017

Nobody in New Zealand considers that Avarua is in New Zealand.

Level 79

Mar 24, 2017

Interesting quiz.

Level 38

Mar 26, 2017

i knew urumqi, but forgot it:(

Level 74

Apr 10, 2019

i couldn't spell it (urumchi)

Level 55

Jul 14, 2017

Does Seattle really have the largest urban population in the northwest? I do know that Vancouver's urban population is not that high, but how about Edmonton or Calgary? Should Edmonton or Calgary be on the quiz?

Level 72

Sep 22, 2017

What do the distances refer to in the second column?

Level 75

Oct 17, 2017

Possibly the distance to the closest city bigger than itself?

Level 93

Dec 17, 2018

seems like there are some big gaps in the map unless there is some projection distortion. no cities in the middle of canada, kazakhstan or around niger/mali/algeria/libya? pretty sure all of those are more than 1000km from anywhere else unless this is not a complete grid (but then why include tiny places?)

Level 77

Dec 17, 2018

The limit is 1000 km but you can have a much longer 'chain'. I am guessing these so I might be wrong but for example I suppose Seattle is larger than Calgary which is larger than some smaller city which will be larger than Iqaluit etc, so none of those are the largest city within 1000 km

Level 77

Feb 24, 2019

Thank you for the explanation. I was also wondering why there were no cities given for northern Scandinavia, but now it makes sense.

Level 45

Apr 13, 2020

What about Alert, Canada? Its like as far north you can be in Canada, found it on Google maps.

Level 61

Feb 2, 2024

Nunatame, 300 km away in Greenland, has 120 people. Alert has 62.

Level 78

Feb 12, 2019

Excellent quiz. Thank you. Really taxes those grey cells.

Level 76

Feb 25, 2019

Ulaan Baatar?

Level 77

Feb 25, 2019

839 km away from Baotou, 874 km from Hohhot (and 1009 km from Datong)

Level 81

Apr 9, 2019

I got "Weno" by typing in "no" on my way to Novosibirsk. And I don't know which Georgetown that is that was given to us as a freebie but I tried guessing Georgetown.

Level 79

Apr 9, 2019

Georgetown, Ascension Island

Level 92

Feb 12, 2020

Ah, that makes sense. I finished typing and saw that the answer box just read vosibirsk. Had 'no' idea how that happened.

Level 57

Jul 30, 2020

Haha, I just red your comment, and I too got Weno by typing 'no'- but I was trying to type in Nuku'alofa. (Instead of Apia) Mayby I misspelt it so I tried Noku.. and I was surprised to see that a city in Micronesia turned green :)

Level 70

Apr 9, 2019

Spelling really, really tripped me up on this one

Level 51

Apr 9, 2019

I was trying to spell Auckland, but I messed up and accidentally wrote Faaa, and therefore I got a city. A city that I didn't even know existed.

Level 30

Apr 9, 2019

I tried writing Iakutsk and I got Apia! I didn't get Yakutsk though :-D

Level 75

Apr 10, 2019

You didn't know about Fa'aa? Its kind of basic if you studied geography 15 hours a week. (cough cough me)

Level 68

Apr 9, 2019

What about Whitehorse or Iqaluit? Nuuk might obstruct Iqaluit, but I don't know about Whitehorse

Level 77

Apr 9, 2019

according to the data I used Whitehorse (23k people) is 271 km away from Juneau (32k people); Juneau is 873 km away from Prince George (65k people); Prince George is 398 km away from Kamloops (68k people); Kamloops is 105 km away from Kelowna (125k people); Kelowna is 220 km away from Abbotsford (151k people); Abbotsford is 42 km away from Surrey (395k people); Surrey is 28 km away from Vancouver which is 198 km away from Seattle

Level 92

Feb 12, 2020

Surely you could have just jumped from Prince George to Seattle, it's only about 850 km to drive...

Level 52

Apr 9, 2019

I'm fairly sure Karratha is bigger than Port Hedland

Level 75

Apr 10, 2019

74/78 But isn't Exmouth larger than Port Hedland?

Level 68

Oct 27, 2021

No. Exmouth: 3,000, Port Hedland: 15,000. Although it may be different on the source (which I'm not going to argue with) but I think Karratha has about 20,000 people and is therefore more populated than Port Hedland.

Level 35

Mar 12, 2020

Isn't Houston bigger than Dallas?

Level 59

Apr 13, 2020

How is Perth on here but not Kolkata?

Level 70

Apr 13, 2020

Karatha is bigger that Port Hedland and Darwin is bigger than both.

Level 55

Jul 24, 2023

Karratha is only just smaller than Hedland

Level 45

Apr 13, 2020

Kolkata is smaller than Dhaka.

Level 70

Apr 28, 2020

Great quiz!

Level 87

May 8, 2020

I didn't realize the Powerpuff Girls lived in Australia....

Level 68

May 31, 2020

Surprised to not see Longyearbyen here. Had to ask google, who say only 858 km to Honningsvåg.

Level 71

Jul 20, 2020

Chennai should be here. It's more populous than Bangalore and Hyderabad and sure seems to be more than 1000 kms away from Mumbai.

Level 65

Mar 22, 2021

I got Fa'aa by accident

Level 54

May 6, 2021

69, but should have got 72

Level 54

Aug 21, 2021

What a great quiz

Level 80

Aug 24, 2021

Saipan is an island

Level 85

Feb 14, 2023

Yes

Level 61

Jun 26, 2023

65/78, not great

Level 61

Feb 2, 2024

I thought Tarawa was now South Tarawa.

Level 57

Mar 21, 2024

FAAA???

Level 62

Mar 28, 2024

Can't believe I missed Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Level 69

Apr 26, 2024

Great quiz, but what's up with the type-ins? I can't see why "no" would be accepted for Weno or "ice Springs" for "Alice Springs". Maybe they're slangy local names I'm unaware of.

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