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Southernmost Major Cities

Name the southernmost urban areas with a population of at least 1.2 million.
Urban area population, not city proper population
Source: citypopulation.de, January 2023
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: March 16, 2023
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First submittedDecember 6, 2010
Times taken43,049
Average score63.6%
Rating4.36
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Latitude
Population
City
37.81 °S
4.95 m
Melbourne
36.84 °S
1.45 m
Auckland
34.93 °S
1.41 m
Adelaide
34.88 °S
1.88 m
Montevideo
34.60 °S
16.7 m
Buenos Aires
33.96 °S
1.44 m
Port Elizabeth
33.93 °S
4.45 m
Cape Town
33.87 °S
4.93 m
Sydney
33.45 °S
8.05 m
Santiago
32.97 °S
1.42 m
Rosario
31.96 °S
2.23 m
Perth
Latitude
Population
City
31.42 °S
1.77 m
Cordoba
30.03 °S
4.20 m
Porto Alegre
29.88 °S
3.58 m
Durban
27.47 °S
3.28 m
Brisbane
26.2 °S
14.8 m
Johannesburg / Pretoria
25.97 °S
2.45 m
Maputo
25.43 °S
3.55 m
Curitiba
25.3 °S
2.45 m
Asuncion
23.94 °S
1.79 m
Santos
23.55 °S
23.0 m
São Paulo
22.91 °S
13.4 m
Rio de Janeiro
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Level 82
Jul 9, 2013
I think most of the ones I missed were cities in Argentina/Chile/Uruguay/Brazil that I hadn't heard but rarely before. and two in Australia that I wasn't aware had more than a million people.
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Level ∞
Mar 7, 2020
There were a lot of obscure cities in the 1 million - 1.2 million range. With the latest update, I changed the criteria for inclusion to eliminate them.
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Level 69
Mar 14, 2015
Tried Puerto Montt, Concepcion, Antofagasta, Iquique, Valdivia, Tacna, but not Valparaiso! The tragedy!
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Level 31
Jul 18, 2015
really difficult
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Level 62
Jul 18, 2015
yay south america
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Level 71
Jan 18, 2016
The earth is really top-heavy. There are no more of these large cities farther South than 38.00o degrees. ........ Athens is 38.00o degrees North, yet look at all the cities of over a 1,000,000 North of Athens.
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Level 22
Jun 6, 2016
That's because to the south of 38.00S is predominantly ocean, whereas to the north of 38.00N is mainly land.
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Level 81
May 5, 2020
That and that pesky continent known as Antarctica
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Level 79
Jul 22, 2016
The fact that the last two World Cups were held in Brazil and South Africa helped me a lot here.
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Level 24
Sep 7, 2016
I got all of them except Santos. I've been to Santos! I didn't realize it had more than a million people... So pissed, lol
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Level 73
Feb 5, 2018
It doesn't, actually. The quiz uses urban area population, not city proper population. If we don't count the surrounding cities, Santos has circa 420,000 people only.
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Level 70
Oct 20, 2016
Got Córdoba and Mendoza--but forgot Buenos Aires.
+2
Level 84
Feb 23, 2017
How do you miss Auckland??? (smacks self in forehead)
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Level 68
May 28, 2017
Fly to Wellington or Christchurch instead.
+4
Level 90
Sep 6, 2017
Or just skip hobbit-based tourism altogether and go somewhere with more interesting things to do.
+8
Level 76
Sep 6, 2017
Yeah, cruise Hauraki Gulf, walk Waitakere Ranges, climb Rangitoto, kayak out to Rangitoto, climb Sky Tower, jump off Sky Tower (wearing the harness so you're good for...), Harbour Bridge climb, walk around Waiheke Islands walkways and vineyards... tschutzer, it's time you popped over here for a weekend :)
+3
Level 75
Sep 7, 2017
Unless you're from Australia or East Asia, there's no real reason to travel to New Zealand.
+10
Level 66
Sep 8, 2017
Well, isn't that the point of traveling? Going for no real reason?
+5
Level 68
Feb 4, 2018
How come lots of German, UK and USA tourists come here?
+2
Level 64
Feb 6, 2018
Webfoot, have you come to NZ
+7
Level 82
Apr 16, 2018
There are plenty of reasons to visit NZ, regardless of where you're from. Having travelled to every inhabited continent but Africa, I think I have a fair if not exhaustive idea of what the world has to offer, and I can honestly say New Zealand is one of my favourite countries. There really aren’t many places as consistently beautiful anywhere. Plus all its varied beauty is wonderfully concentrated – pristine temperate rainforest, explosive geysers, alpine lakes fed by glaciers and epic expanses of sandy beach are often right next to each other. And that’s to say nothing of its vineyards, cheeses and other delicious produce, charming towns and fascinating Maori history and culture.
+1
Level 66
Mar 8, 2020
@webfoot of all the places with reasons to vist to New zealand is on top of my list.

what do you consider a reason to travel to? only work? or if you have family somewhere?

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Level 69
Feb 4, 2018
Florianopolis? The quiz rules do say urban area population...
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Level 66
Feb 4, 2018
The source jetpunk tends to use (citypopulation.de) usually goes by urban aglomeration populations. So even though FLORIPA has more than 1 million people on its metropolitan area, the source caps only the population inside the island, because it's separated from the rest by oceanic water.
+1
Level 56
Feb 4, 2018
can you accept spellings like asunsion, acuncion, etc
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Level 47
Feb 5, 2018
I was sure Gaborone would creep in
+2
Level 61
Feb 23, 2023
botswana as a whole has like 1/3 population of johannesburg lol
+1
Level 66
Mar 8, 2020
I was seriously doubting the average at 16, but I see the quiz is recently reset ( only taken 375 times since reset) I guess that explains it. The bottom 7 arent ones you often comes across here, so would have estimated the average a bit lower.

Not literally doubting the results or claiming everybody cheated like you see in some comments. I am hardly ever surprise at averages, actually, often it is lower than I expected. This one really surprised me.

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Level 72
Apr 3, 2020
Good quiz! Only missed Santos and Rosario which I'd never heard of and definitely didn't know were over 1.2 million, but got lucky guessing some of the other South American cities where I only had a vague idea of their location
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Level 88
Apr 6, 2020
Those are the same two I missed. Good job, us!
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Level 73
May 5, 2020
Well, lucky me I'm from Santos then. :) Anyway, missed two as well. Forgot Rosario and Adelaide...
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Level 67
May 5, 2020
Hey, I think you should include Antananarivo in this ! Having lived there for a couple years, i can attest it's populated by at least 3 million people (but id oubt there is an accurate counting...)
+4
Level 62
May 5, 2020
Antananarivo is too far North.
+1
Level 73
May 5, 2020
I think Rosario is missing. Other than that: great quiz!
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Level 66
May 5, 2020
No elbarto. Rosario is there.
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Level 57
May 5, 2020
How come Santos made the list, but not Campinas witch is twice as big?
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Level 52
May 5, 2020
Campinas is slightly more north than Rio (check Google Maps), hence doesn't make the list
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Level 44
May 6, 2020
It is very interesting fact that there is another major city in Africa farther south than Cape Town, only by 0.03 degree.
+1
Level 28
May 21, 2020
nice quiz! i almost got 100%, but i forgot about brisbane
+1
Level 77
Feb 2, 2021
1.2 is quite the arbitrary cut-off, I would have preferred 1 million.
+1
Level ∞
Mar 16, 2023
Here are the cities you are missing:

Valparaiso, Mendoza, San Miguel de Tucuman

+3
Level 75
Apr 21, 2023
You said above that the ones excluded by moving the threshold to 1.2 were obscure. That was a while ago and maybe the excluded cities were different, but Valparaiso and Mendoza are probably at least as well known as Rosario and Cordoba. (And just because I don't know anything about San Miguel de Tucuman doesn't make that obscure either.)
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Level 70
Apr 21, 2023
San Miguel de Tucuman (which is usually called simply Tucuman) is well-known in rugby circles.
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Level 73
Mar 15, 2022
Can you add the new name for P.E. in South Africa? Thank you.
+2
Level 88
Jul 2, 2022
Accept gqeberha
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Level ∞
Mar 16, 2023
That will work now
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Level 53
May 9, 2023
I think that miss Campinas and Florinopolis, both have more that 1 million in metropolitan zone, and Campinas have more that 1 million only the city, and Mendoza in Argentina too.
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Level 82
Jul 23, 2023
how the heck did I miss Sydney??