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Closest Capital Cities at different Sides of the Prime Meridian

Can you find capital city pairs that are closest together, with the condition that exactly one of them is west of the prime meridian?
Try Closest Capitals across: Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Prime Meridian
Try Closest Capitals across any: Parallel, Meridian
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: December 19, 2015
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First submittedOctober 22, 2015
Times taken48
Average score82.5%
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D (km)
'West' Capital
'East' Capital
168
Accra
Lome
321
London
Brussels
327
Accra
Porto-Novo
344
London
Paris
358
London
Amsterdam
415
Ouagadougou
Niamey
490
London
Luxembourg
494
Madrid
Andorra la Vella
714
Madrid
Algiers
721
Yamoussoukro
Lome
D (km)
'West' Capital
'East' Capital
744
Nuku'alofa
Suva
748
London
Bern
751
Ouagadougou
Lome
757
Dublin
Amsterdam
776
Dublin
Brussels
780
Dublin
Paris
792
Ouagadougou
Porto-Novo
851
London
Vaduz
872
Yamoussoukro
Porto-Novo
915
Accra
Niamey
Jerry928
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Level 75
Oct 22, 2015
Since London straddles the 0 longitude meridian and is therefore also an "east" city, wouldn't Dublin/London also work?
scambigol
+1
Level 75
Oct 22, 2015
Yes you're certainly right but I considered London to be a 'point' and in the data I have this point happens to be to the West of the 0 longitude
Mengoku
+1
Level 49
Oct 25, 2015
How is it possible that Tonga and Fiji are on this list?
Mengoku
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Level 49
Oct 25, 2015
nevermind...

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