1,000 World Cities furthest from Larger City by Relative Proximity

The list consists of the 1,000 world cities that are at least 220.9 km away from the closest larger city.
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City
17
Abakan
1
Abidjan
48
Abilene
92
Abu Sunbul
2
Abuja
10
Acapulco
1
Accra
6
Adamstown
25
Ad-Damazin
0
Addis Ababa
2
Adelaide
24
Agadez
5
Agadir
3
Ahmedabad
61
Aktau
21
Akureyri
63
Al Ghayzah
55
Al Jawf
20
Al Mukalla
3
Albany
21
Albuquerque
33
Aldan
7
Aleppo
53
Alesund
0
Algiers
15
Alice Springs
4
Almaty
12
Alofi
18
Alotau
34
Altamira
31
Altay
60
Am Timan
8
Ambon
18
Ambovombe
4
Anadyr
2
Anchorage
2
Ankara
1
Antananarivo
15
Antofagasta
17
Antsiranana
89
Aozou
0
Apia
39
Aqtobe
67
Araouane
47
'Ar'ar
3
Arawa
5
Arequipa
16
Arijejen
69
Aripuana
69
Arkalyk
18
Arkhangel'sk
16
Arusha
66
As Sulayyil
13
Asmara
28
Astrakhan'
3
Asunción
12
Atafu Village
42
Atar
39
Atbara
2
Athens
1
Atlanta
1
Atuona
57
Atyrau
0
Auckland
0
Avarua
64
Ayagoz
56
Ayan
33
Aykhal
1
Baghdad
10
Bahia Blanca
29
Bahir Dar
6
Baku
9
Balikpapan
75
Balkanabat
47
Balkhash
30
Balsas
1
Bamako
32
Banda Aceh
33
Bandar 'Abbas
26
Bandundu
1
Bangalore
0
Bangkok
6
Bangui
13
Banjarmasin
12
Baotou
2
Barcelona
15
Barcelona
71
Barcelos
45
Bari
48
Barra do Garcas
3
Barranquilla
23
Barreiras
5
Barrow
62
Baruun-Urt
31
Batagay
50
Battambang
65
Baykit
33
Bechar
0
Beijing
11
Beira
32
Belaya Gora
34
Beledweyne
1
Belém
13
Belgrade
2
Belo Horizonte
18
Benghazi
15
Bengkulu
36
Berberati
35
Bergen
2
Berlin
20
Bertoua
5
Bethel
12
Bhilai
15
Bhubaneswar
39
Biak
32
Bilbao
9
Bilibino
35
Billings
83
Bilma
52
Bilwi
87
Birao
47
Birjand
38
Birmingham
46
Bismarck
9
Bissau
29
Blagoveshchensk
13
Blantyre
7
Bloemfontein
21
Boa Vista
14
Bobo-Dioulasso
51
Bodaybo
50
Bodo
63
Boende
0
Bogotá
26
Boise
15
Bordeaux
33
Bosaso
1
Boston
12
Bouake
2
Brasília
18
Bratsk
20
Bridgetown
0
Brisbane
13
Broken Hill
20
Broome
36
Bryansk
7
Bucaramanga
7
Bucharest
6
Budapest
0
Buenos Aires
11
Bulawayo
30
Bumba
7
Bundaberg
25
Buraydah
6
Busan
52
Buta
22
Butembo
53
Cagliari
5
Cairns
0
Cairo
5
Calgary
2
Cali
35
Camaguey
11
Campo Grande
4
Canberra
23
Cancun
0
Cape Town
0
Caracas
54
Carauari
18
Cargados Carajos
16
Carnarvon
0
Casablanca
45
Casper
23
Cayenne
4
Cebu
26
Ceduna
46
Ceeldheer
13
Chandigarh
7
Changchun
8
Changsha
7
Charlotte
43
Chegdomyn
1
Chengdu
1
Chennai
15
Cherskiy
45
Chetumal
58
Chiang Mai
0
Chicago
14
Chihuahua
25
Chita
23
Chokurdakh
32
Chongjin
3
Chongqing
4
Christchurch
57
Chumikan
6
Cincinnati
18
Ciudad del Este
5
Ciudad Guayana
9
Ciudad Juárez
46
Cluj-Napoca
#
City
12
Clyde River
43
Coari
19
Cobar
7
Cochabamba
19
Coihaique
9
Coimbatore
3
Colombo
28
Colonia
8
Comodoro Rivadavia
1
Conakry
25
Concordia
28
Coober Pedy
9
Copenhagen
19
Copiapo
14
Coquimbo
4
Córdoba
15
Corner Brook
32
Corumba
31
Cruzeiro do Sul
16
Cuiaba
14
Culiacan
3
Curitiba
13
Cusco
28
Da Nang
0
Dakar
23
Dakhla
8
Dalian
0
Dallas
3
Damascus
8
Dammam
0
Dar es Salaam
18
Daru
7
Darwin
6
Davao
33
David
24
Dawson City
43
Deir ez-Zor
0
Delhi
3
Denpasar
2
Denver
25
Deputatsky
29
Dese
3
Detroit
1
Dhaka
54
Dikson
13
Dili
11
Dillingham
18
Dire Dawa
23
Diyarbakir
14
Djibouti
19
Djougou
22
Dodoma
8
Donetsk
2
Douala
67
Dryden
4
Dubai
6
Dublin
5
Dunedin
1
Durban
17
Dushanbe
5
Dutch Harbor
6
East London
1
Ebaye
0
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
5
Edmonton
12
Egvekinot
56
Eirunepe
20
El Aaiún
19
El Daein
19
El Fasher
13
El Obeid
40
Erdenet
35
Erzurum
8
Esperance
0
Faaa
65
Fada
4
Fairbanks
38
Fais
41
Fargo
72
Faya-Largeau
43
Fenghuang
30
Fernando de Noronha (Distrito Estadual)
76
Filadelfia
34
Flying Fish Cove
16
Fort McMurray
32
Fort Nelson
40
Fort Smith
1
Fortaleza
21
Fort-de-France
41
Franceville
8
Funafuti
21
Funchal
12
Fuvahmulah
30
Gaalkacyo
15
Gaborone
52
Gambela
31
Gao
37
Garissa
15
Garoua
20
Gashua
32
Gdansk
23
Geneina
9
George
12
George Town
57
George Town
66
George Town
17
George Town
17
George Town
7
Geraldton
73
Ghadamis
54
Ghanzi
62
Ghat
31
Gijon
18
Gizo
26
Gjoa Haven
3
Glasgow
36
Gomel
24
Gorontalo
27
Gothenburg
19
Governador Valadares
40
Grand Junction
21
Grande Prairie
28
Greater Sudbury
46
Grootfontein
7
Grytviken
1
Guadalajara
34
Guanambi
0
Guangzhou
1
Guatemala City
3
Guayaquil
14
Guiyang
24
Gulu
22
Guwahati
57
Hadibu
15
Haikou
33
Hailar
14
Halifax
49
Halls Creek
6
Hamburg
43
Hami
0
Hanga Roa
9
Hanoi
21
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1
Harare
4
Harbin
12
Hargeisa
4
Havana
30
Hayil
80
Hayma'
19
Hegang
8
Helsinki
60
Heraklion
40
Herat
15
Hermosillo
37
High Level
12
Hihifo
1
Hilo
2
Ho Chi Minh City
5
Hobart
2
Honiara
0
Honolulu
21
Hooper Bay
45
Hotan
2
Houston
64
Hovd
15
Huambo
22
Huanuco
16
Hubli
57
Hukuntsi
1
Hyderabad
16
Ica
38
Idaho Falls
80
Illizi
5
Ilulissat
16
Imperatriz
45
In Salah
12
Indore
71
Ingeniero Guillermo N. Juarez
14
Inuvik
16
Iqaluit
21
Iquique
13
Iquitos
52
Iranshahr
30
Irece
16
Irkutsk
19
Isangel
6
Isfahan
55
Ishigaki
29
Isiro
0
Istanbul
44
Itaituba
12
Izhevsk
5
Izmir
17
Jabalpur
11
Jabor
95
Jacareacanga
42
Jackson
34
Jagdaqi
7
Jaipur
0
Jakarta
#
City
15
Jamestown
18
Jamshedpur
37
Jatai
3
Jayapura
1
Jeddah
35
Ji Parana
52
Jiayuguan
10
Jinan
67
Jinghong
17
Jodhpur
0
Johannesburg
15
Juazeiro do Norte
15
Juba
9
Juneau
5
Kabul
38
Kadugli
25
Kaedi
40
Kaga Bandoro
21
Kahriz
4
Kalgoorlie
33
Kamina
1
Kampala
20
Kankan
1
Kano
11
Kansas City
12
Kaohsiung
0
Karachi
14
Karagandy
31
Kasama
36
Kashi
65
Kasongo-Lunda
17
Kassala
32
Katherine
8
Kathmandu
9
Katowice
39
Kavaratti
12
Kavieng
22
Kayes
6
Kazan
33
Keetmanshoop
18
Kendari
24
Kerman
17
Khabarovsk
18
Khamis Mushait
71
Kharan
8
Kharkiv
0
Khartoum
38
Khatanga
54
Khovd
64
Kidal
2
Kiev
33
Kiffa
6
Kigali
21
Kikwit
12
Kimbe
24
Kindu
13
Kingston
20
Kingston
0
Kinshasa
30
Kirakira
18
Kirov
11
Kisangani
16
Kismayo
26
Kiunga
12
Klyuchi
36
Knoxville
10
Kodiak
6
Kokopo
1
Kolkata
12
Kolonia
50
Kolpashevo
19
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
11
Konya
30
Koror State
35
Kostanay
15
Kosti
12
Kota Bharu
23
Kota Kinabalu
61
Kotlas
9
Kotzebue
24
Krasnodar
1
Krasnoyarsk
1
Kuala Lumpur
12
Kuching
25
Kugluktuk
31
Kulhudhuffushi
9
Kunming
34
Kununurra
54
Kuopio
7
Kupang
71
Kuraymah
4
Kuwait City
46
Kuybyshev
29
Kyzyl
31
Kyzylorda
3
La Paz
25
La Paz
26
Labrador City
14
Labuhanbajo
2
Lae
0
Lagos
1
Lahore
9
Lanzhou
10
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
4
Las Vegas
33
Lata
25
Legaspi
66
Leh
55
Lerwick
27
Lesosibirsk
45
Leticia
60
Lhasa
9
Libreville
23
Lijiang
7
Lilongwe
0
Lima
4
Lisbon
24
Livingstone
16
Lobito
38
Lodja
0
London
14
Londrina
32
Longyearbyen
23
Lorengau
0
Los Angeles
1
Luanda
63
Luau
22
Lubango
39
Lubbock
2
Lubumbashi
6
Lucknow
32
Luderitz
64
Luena
11
Luganville
2
Lusaka
21
Luxor
26
Lviv
8
Lyon
10
Macapa
9
Mackay
0
Madrid
8
Magadan
23
Magnitogorsk
17
Mahajanga
0
Majuro
3
Makassar
29
Makhachkala
27
Malakal
19
Male
30
Mamoudzou
9
Manado
5
Managua
25
Mananara
1
Manaus
18
Mandalay
69
Mandalgovi
72
Manicore
0
Manila
19
Manokwari
64
Mao
2
Maputo
10
Mar del Plata
1
Maracaibo
53
Marquette
10
Marseille
63
Mary
4
Mashhad
10
Mata-Utu
33
Maun
33
Mazar-e Sharif
24
Mbandaka
19
Mbeya
3
Mbuji-Mayi
0
McMurdo Station
4
Medan
1
Medellín
8
Medina
0
Melbourne
16
Memphis
45
Menongue
13
Mérida
75
Mersa Matruh
0
Mexico City
0
Miami
2
Milan
9
Mildura
10
Mindelo
2
Minneapolis
6
Minsk
30
Miri
24
Mirny
31
Missoula
65
Mitu
5
Moerai
2
Mogadishu
56
Mogocha
3
Mombasa
37
Mongu
5
Monrovia
1
Monterrey
#
City
18
Montes Claros
4
Montréal
23
Mopti
53
Mörön
32
Morondava
34
Moroni
0
Moscow
10
Mosul
55
Mouila
25
Moundou
8
Mount Hagen
14
Mount Isa
50
Moyale
27
Mtwara
25
Mudanjiang
0
Mumbai
92
Murghob
14
Murmansk
12
Muscat
14
Mwanza
44
Myeik
66
Myitkyina
23
Mzuzu
19
Nabire
11
Nagpur
20
Naha
0
Nairobi
12
Nampula
12
Nanchang
5
Nanjing
10
Nanning
35
Nantes
5
Napari Village
1
Naples
61
Nar'yan-Mar
15
Nashville
43
Nassau
5
Natal
22
Naypyidaw
46
Naze
4
N'Djamena
6
Neiafu
30
Nema
31
Neryungri
9
Neuquen
14
New Orleans
0
New York
23
Newman
38
Nha Trang
38
Nhulunbuy
7
Niamey
29
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
4
Nizhny Novgorod
9
Nome
7
Noril'sk
29
Norman Wells
21
Nouadhibou
3
Nouakchott
3
Noumea
4
Novokuznetsk
0
Novosibirsk
22
Novyy Urengoy
27
Noyabrsk
9
Nuiqsut
3
Nuku'alofa
44
Nukus
6
Nuuk
51
Nyagan
38
Nyurba
24
Oaxaca
18
Odessa
30
Okhotsk
20
Oklahoma City
49
Olenyok
41
Olonkinbyen
45
Olyokminsk
31
Omaha
1
Omsk
19
Omsukchan
53
Oral
8
Oran
20
Orenburg
1
Osaka
35
Oshakati
11
Oslo
3
Ouagadougou
46
Oulu
18
Paamiut
18
Palana
63
Pale
6
Palembang
21
Palermo
21
Palmas
15
Palu
5
Panama City
22
Pangnirtung
16
Paramaribo
1
Paris
11
Patna
14
Pavlodar
51
Pechora
6
Pekanbaru
4
Perm
0
Perth
15
Petrolina
29
Petropavlov
4
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
37
Petrozavodsk
7
Pevek
1
Phoenix
27
Picos
9
Pointe-Noire
20
Ponta Delgada
67
Pontes e Lacerda
48
Port Blair
3
Port Elizabeth
4
Port Harcourt
17
Port Hedland
12
Port Lincoln
3
Port Louis
11
Port Mathurin
1
Port Moresby
19
Port Sudan
5
Port Vila
2
Port-au-Prince
0
Port-aux-Francais
3
Portland
9
Porto
3
Porto Alegre
19
Porto Velho
19
Posadas
12
Prague
9
Praia
15
Prince George
9
Provideniya
16
Pucallpa
37
Puerto Ayacucho
30
Puerto Ayora
10
Puerto Montt
35
Puerto Princesa
4
Punta Arenas
64
Qamdo
12
Qaqortoq
88
Qarazhal
5
Qingdao
14
Quebec
20
Quelimane
18
Quetta
3
Quito
35
Rankin Inlet
47
Rapid City
4
Rawalpindi
1
Recife
23
Redding
28
Regina
14
Resistencia
11
Reykjavik
40
Riberalta
20
Riga
1
Rikitea
18
Rio Branco
1
Rio de Janeiro
0
Riyadh
10
Rockhampton
23
Roma
6
Rosario
53
Roswell
21
Roxby Downs
32
Rundu
37
Sabha
27
Sagh
46
Saint George's
9
Saint John's
8
Saint Louis
1
Saint Petersburg
22
Saint-Augustin
5
Saint-Denis
19
Saint-Pierre
5
Saipan
30
Salalah
2
Salt Lake City
15
Salta
2
Salvador
5
Samara
42
Samsun
42
San Andres
6
San Antonio
1
San Francisco
2
San José
1
San Juan
14
San Luis
10
San Miguel de Tucuman
6
San Pedro Sula
1
Sana'a
15
Sand Point
21
Sandakan
15
San-Pedro
43
Santa Clara
4
Santa Cruz
21
Santa Maria
#
City
22
Santa Rosa
19
Santarem
0
Santiago
19
Santiago de Cuba
1
Santo Domingo
65
Sao Felix do Xingu
59
Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira
4
São Luís
0
São Paulo
28
Sao Tome
5
Sapporo
10
Saratov
23
Saskatoon
41
Saskylakh
34
Sault Ste. Marie
46
Saurimo
41
Sayibage
65
Saynshand
1
Seattle
3
Semarang
8
Sendai
0
Seoul
42
Sevastopol
50
Severobaikalsk
7
Seville
70
Shakawe
0
Shanghai
80
Shar'ya
5
Shenyang
39
Shiliguri
13
Shiraz
19
Sholapur
39
Shreveport
13
Sigave
2
Singapore
30
Sinop
40
Sioux Falls
6
Sisimiut
87
Siwa Oasis
14
Sofia
11
Sokoto
54
Sonsorol Village
11
Sorong
28
Sovetskaya Gavan'
16
Spokane
31
Springbok
42
Springfield
18
Srednekolymsk
21
Stanley
43
Stavropol'
5
Stockholm
35
Sukkur
32
Sumbawanga
1
Surabaya
43
Surat Thani
14
Surgut
20
Susuman
1
Suva
0
Sydney
14
Sydney
28
Syktyvkar
79
Tabas
26
Tabora
10
Tabriz
24
Tabuk
4
Tabwakea Village
17
Tacna
3
Taipei
7
Taiyuan
9
Talcahuano
42
Tallahassee
15
Tamale
37
Tamanrasset
22
Tambacounda
46
Tambopata
3
Tampa
29
Tampico
73
Taoudenni
0
Tarawa
24
Tarija
5
Tashkent
19
Tasiilaq
22
Tebessa
0
Tehran
9
Temuco
36
Tennant Creek
9
Teresina
18
Ternate
21
Terrace
58
The Pas
2
The Ruhr
45
Thompson
32
Thunder Bay
20
Tiksi
40
Timbuktu
45
Timimoun
34
Timmins
37
Tindouf
53
Tobi Village
53
Tobruk
6
Tofol
0
Tokyo
15
Toliara
108
Torghay
1
Toronto
9
Torreón
46
Torshavn
5
Townsville
15
Trelew
38
Trinidad
11
Tripoli
44
Tromso
39
Trondheim
6
Trujillo
25
Tual
5
Tunis
53
Tura
60
Turbat
20
Tuxtla Gutierrez
10
Tyumen
12
Uberlandia
53
Ubon Ratchathani
53
Udon Thani
4
Ufa
38
Ukhta
9
Ulaanbaatar
24
Ulan-Ude
69
Uliastay
57
Umea
9
Upernavik
19
Upington
60
Uray
1
Ürümqi
5
Ushuaia
17
Ust-Kamenogorsk
35
Ust'-Kut
20
Ust-Nera
80
Ust-Tsilma
3
Vaitape
39
Val-d'Or
6
Valencia
72
Vanavara
22
Victoria
27
Viedma
13
Vijayawada
47
Vilhena
10
Virginia Beach
13
Vishakhapatnam
4
Vitória
18
Vitória da Conquista
27
Vladivostok
5
Volgograd
31
Vorkuta
11
Voronezh
67
Waddan
4
Waitangi
47
Wajir
22
Walvis Bay
6
Warsaw
1
Washington
30
Watson Lake
32
Wau
36
Weipa
2
Wellington
5
Weno
41
Wenshan City
8
Wenzhou
19
West Island
16
Wewak
11
Whitehorse
11
Windhoek
18
Winnipeg
10
Wotje
2
Wuhan
2
Xiamen
3
Xi'an
24
Xiangyang
48
Xilin Hot
20
Xuzhou
5
Yakutsk
4
Yangon
14
Yaroslavl
28
Yazd
2
Yekaterinburg
19
Yellowknife
71
Yerbogachen
9
Yerevan
20
Yinchuan
24
Yingbazha
18
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
26
Zagreb
28
Zahedan
18
Zamboanga
21
Zaragoza
39
Zeya
7
Zhengzhou
54
Zhezqazghan
47
Zhigansk
35
Zouerat
19
Zyryanka
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Level 77
Dec 20, 2016
983 :)
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2016
951 :) I'm happy with that!
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Level 71
Apr 2, 2018
986 :D My highscore
+1
Level 75
Nov 15, 2018
Please accept Fort-aux-France
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Level 75
Nov 15, 2018
997/1000 Only missed Apia, Tarawa, and Fort-aux-Francais. We are only 15 and 13 years old.
+2
Level 55
Sep 21, 2022
nobody cares
+4
Level 75
Nov 15, 2018
How did you get more than 500 answers in your quiz? I am working on a quiz where I need more than 500, but it says 500 limit.
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Level 60
Oct 5, 2020
985! Wow, I'm not sure I could get the last few. At least half are French Polynesia, but I know nothing about that area.
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Level 79
Nov 15, 2021
990. Very nice quiz.
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Level 47
May 9, 2023
Amazing quiz, very fun and well-made. Nominated!