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Closest City Pairs #1

For each city, name the nearest city that has an urban-area population greater than 1 million.
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Last updated: September 14, 2023
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First submittedJune 24, 2014
Times taken21,180
Average score70.0%
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City 1
City 2
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Auckland
Sydney
Bogotá
Medellín
Ottawa
Montreal
Turin
Milan
Edmonton
Calgary
Liverpool
Manchester
Denver
Salt Lake City
Oklahoma City
Dallas
City 1
City 2
Port-au-Prince
Santo Domingo
Vienna
Budapest
Rabat
Casablanca
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Phnom Penh
Ho Chi Minh City
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
Mecca
Jeddah
Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha)
Cape Town
Memphis
Nashville
Tianjin
Beijing
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Level 25
Oct 3, 2015
Vienna is definitely nearer Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia
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Level 43
Feb 29, 2016
Bratislava does not even have 500k inhabitants.
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Level 82
Apr 15, 2018
Took me a while to get past Bratislava for Vienna. Whilst it is much closer than Budapest, it only has about 650,000 people. I thought for sure it'd have a million plus.
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Level 83
Oct 1, 2018
Huh, I guessed Cairo, Luxor and Alexandria for Memphis, before realising my mistake.
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Level 77
Oct 1, 2018
Yes I wasn't sure which one was meant either at first.
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Level 76
Oct 1, 2018
I think, today, Memphis in Egypt is not a city anymore
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Level 83
Oct 2, 2018
Yes. That was my mistake.
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Level 89
Oct 23, 2019
Sun Records would be more appropriate in Egypt however.
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Level 60
Oct 10, 2023
I unfortunately did not realize my mistake. I was puzzled when Giza, N'Djamena, Khartoum, Tripoli, Jerusalem, Istanbul all failed.
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Level 59
May 12, 2019
Port Elizabeth is closer to Bloemfontein.
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Level 71
Aug 4, 2019
But Bloemfontein is smaller than 1.000.000
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Level 52
May 15, 2020
What about Copenhagen and Malmo?
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2023
Malmö doesn't exceed 1 million inhabitants
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Level 52
May 15, 2020
Also what’s the population of Tallinn (Helsinki), Belgrade and Skopje (Sofia)?
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Level 45
May 15, 2020
Ive never heard of Port Elizabeth...
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2023
Quite the big city in South Africa. Many people heard of it when it hosted a stadium at the 2010 WC
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Level 66
Apr 30, 2021
Port Elizabeth is now called Gqeberha. Please update.
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Level 82
Jan 22, 2024
Really rolls off the tongue. Huge upgrade, there
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Level 65
Feb 12, 2024
G[palatal click]eberha what's the difficulty? At least it's phonetic and is definitely the upgrade from another boring port named after a random foreign person (looking at you Port Harcourt, Port Louis, Port Moresby, etc)
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Level 76
Feb 14, 2024
The PC police strike again.
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Level 67
Oct 10, 2023
Super fun quiz, Port Elizabeth was the only one I was stuck on and then I guessed randomly until I got Capetown