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Closest City Pairs #2

For each city, name the nearest city that has an urban-area population greater than 1 million.
Populations decided by citypopulation.de
Quiz by relessness
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Last updated: September 14, 2023
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First submittedJune 24, 2014
Times taken24,257
Average score75.0%
Rating4.54
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City 1
City 2
Cairo
Alexandria
Havana
Miami
Rome
Naples
Vancouver
Seattle
Berlin
Hamburg
Minneapolis / St. Paul
Milwaukee
Damascus
Beirut
Brisbane
Sydney
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Detroit
Cleveland
City 1
City 2
Oslo
Stockholm
Guatemala City
San Salvador
Philadelphia
New York City
Helsinki
St. Petersburg
Guayaquil
Quito
Pyongyang
Seoul
Hong Kong
Guangzhou / Shenzhen
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Brazzaville
Kinshasa
Honolulu
San Francisco
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Level 44
Feb 17, 2015
Victoria is definitely closer to Vancouver than Seattle. Or am I thinking of the wrong Vancouver?
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Level 44
Feb 17, 2015
nevermind, I didn't read the fine print at the top of the page :P
+2
Level 82
Feb 17, 2015
I typed in Beirut! :P Must have misspelled it. Man that one was bugging me.
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Level 25
Feb 17, 2015
Wow! Tough quiz. Enjoyed it though.
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Level 82
Jan 21, 2022
It would be pretty cool to see the distances with the answers. I have to imagine it would be vastly different between, say Hong Kong and its answer compared to Minneapolis and its answer
+9
Level 76
Sep 14, 2023
Haha, Honolulu to San Francisco was a cute one. Great quiz
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Level 88
Sep 15, 2023
3 of the last 4 are so close they actually touch.
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Level 84
Jan 8, 2024
Then the fourth one makes up for that.
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Level 64
Nov 11, 2023
i typed Hannover and i got Hamburg?
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Level 69
Jan 8, 2024
Really good quiz! Best feature is that even more similar quizzes can be made up.
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Level 52
Jan 8, 2024
I don't think I've ever heard of Guayaquil, but it sounded South American to me so I got it correct anyway and got 100%. Maybe I do remember hearing it in the back of my head.