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All 1M Cities by Proximity

Each dot represents a city with an urban population of at least 1 million. To turn the dot green, guess any city on the map within 1000 kilometers.
Urban Area population according to citypopulation.de (ref. date 1.1.19)
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: March 20, 2024
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First submittedNovember 5, 2016
Times taken426,022
Average score90.3%
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City
Aba
Abidjan
Abu Dhabi
Abuja
Accra
Adana
Addis Ababa
Adelaide
Agadir
Agra
Aguascalientes
Ahmedabad
Ahvaz
Aleppo
Alexandria
Algiers
Aligarh
Allahabad
Almaty
Amman
Amritsar
Amsterdam
Angeles
Ankara
Anshan
Antalya
Antananarivo
Antwerp
Anyang
Arequipa
Asansol
Ashgabat
Asmara
Astana
Asunción
Athens
Atlanta
Auckland
Aurangabad
Austin
Baghdad
Baku
Bamako
Bandar Lampung
Bandung
Bangalore
Bangkok
Bangui
Banjul
Baoding
Baoji
Baotou
Barcelona
Bareilly
Barquisimeto
Barranquilla
Basra
Batam
Beihai
Beijing
Beirut
Belem
Belgrade
Belo Horizonte
Bengbu
Benguela
Benin City
Berlin
Bhilai
Bhopal
Bhubaneswar
Birmingham
Bishkek
Bobo-Dioulasso
Bogota
Bordeaux
Boston
Brasília
Brazzaville
Bremen
Brisbane
Brussels
Bucaramanga
Bucharest
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Buffalo
Bukavu
Bursa
Busan
Cairo
Calgary
Cali
Campinas
Cancun
Cangnan
Cape Coral
Cape Town
Caracas
Cartagena
Casablanca
Cebu
Chandigarh
Changchun
Changde
Changsha
Changwon
Changzhi
Charlotte
Chelyabinsk
Chengdu
Chennai
Cheongju
Chicago
Chifeng
Chihuahua
Chittagong
Chonburi
Chongqing
Chuzhou
Cincinnati
Cirebon
Cleveland
Cochabamba
Coimbatore
Cologne
City
Colombo
Columbus
Conakry
Copenhagen
Cordoba
Cotonou
Cucuta
Cuernavaca
Curitiba
Da Nang
Daegu
Daejeon
Dakar
Dalian
Dallas
Damascus
Dammam
Daqing
Dar es Salaam
Datong
Davao
Dazhou
Dehra Dun
Delhi
Denpasar
Denver
Detroit
Dezhou
Dhaka
Dhanbad
Diyarbakir
Dnipro
Doha
Donetsk
Dongying
Douala
Dubai
Dublin
Durban
Dushanbe
Edmonton
El Paso
Erbil
Ezhou
Faisalabad
Fes
Florianopolis
Fortaleza
Frankfurt
Freetown
Fresno
Fukuoka
Fuyang
Fuzhou
Ganzhou
Gaza
Gaziantep
George Town
Glasgow
Goiania
Greensboro
Guadalajara
Guangzhou
Guatemala City
Guayaquil
Guigang
Guilin
Guiyang
Gujranwala
Guwahati
Gwalior
Gwangju
Haikou
Haiphong
Hamamatsu
Hamburg
Handan
Hangzhou
Hanoi
Hanover
Harare
Harbin
Harrisburg
Hartford
Havana
Hefei
Helsinki
Hengshui
Hengyang
Heze
Hiroshima
Ho Chi Minh City
Hofuf
Hohhot
Hong Kong
Houston
Huai'an
Huaibei
Huainan
Hubli
Huludao
Huzhou
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
Ibadan
Ilorin
Indianapolis
Indore
Irbid
Isfahan
Istanbul
Izmir
Jabalpur
Jacksonville
Jaipur
Jakarta
Jalandhar
Jamshedpur
Jeddah
Jerusalem
Jiangyin
Jiaozuo
Jiaxing
Jilin
Jinan
City
Jinhua
Jining
Jinzhou
Jiujiang
João Pessoa
Jodhpur
Johannesburg
Jos
Juarez
Kabul
Kaduna
Kaifeng
Kampala
Kananga
Kano
Kanpur
Kansas City
Kaohsiung
Karachi
Karawang
Kathmandu
Katowice
Kayseri
Kazan
Kermanshah
Khamis Mushait
Kharkiv
Khartoum
Khulna
Kiev
Kigali
Kinshasa
Kirkuk
Kisangani
Kitakyushu
Kochi
Kolkata
Konya
Kota
Kozhikode
Krasnoyarsk
Kuala Lumpur
Kumamoto
Kumasi
Kunming
Kuwait City
La Paz
Lagos
Lahore
Langfang
Lanzhou
Las Vegas
Leeds
Leon
Lianyungang
Liaocheng
Lille
Lilongwe
Lima
Linfen
Linyi
Lisbon
Liuyang
Liuzhou
Liverpool
Lome
London
Los Angeles
Louisville
Lu'an
Luanda
Lubumbashi
Lucknow
Ludhiana
Luoyang
Lusaka
Luzhou
Lyon
Maceio
Madrid
Madurai
Maiduguri
Makassar
Malaga
Malang
Managua
Manama
Manaus
Manchester
Mandalay
Manila
Mannheim
Maoming
Maputo
Maracaibo
Maracay
Marrakesh
Marseille
Mashhad
Mbuji-Mayi
McAllen
Mecca
Medan
Medellin
Medina
Meerut
Melbourne
Melbourne
Memphis
Mendoza
Merida
Mersin
Mexico City
Miami
Mianyang
Milan
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Minsk
Mogadishu
Mombasa
Monrovia
Monterrey
Montevideo
Montreal
City
Moradabad
Morelia
Moscow
Mosul
Multan
Mumbai
Munich
Muscat
Mwanza
Mysore
N'Djamena
Nagoya
Nagpur
Naha
Nairobi
Najaf
Nanchang
Nanchong
Nanjing
Nanning
Nantong
Nanyang
Naples
Nashik
Nashville
Natal
New York
Newcastle
Niamey
Ningbo
Nizhny Novgorod
Nottingham
Nouakchott
Novosibirsk
Nuremberg
Odessa
Okayama
Oklahoma City
Omsk
Onitsha
Oran
Orlando
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Ouagadougou
Palembang
Panama City
Panjin
Paris
Patna
Pekanbaru
Perm
Perth
Peshawar
Philadelphia
Phnom Penh
Phoenix
Pingdingshan
Pittsburgh
Pointe-Noire
Port Elizabeth
Port Harcourt
Port-au-Prince
Portland
Porto
Porto Alegre
Prague
Puebla
Pune
Puyang
Pyongyang
Qingdao
Qingyuan
Qinhuangdao
Qiqihar
Qom
Queretaro
Quetta
Quito
Qujing
Rabat
Rajkot
Raleigh
Ranchi
Rawalpindi
Recife
Richmond
Rio de Janeiro
Riyadh
Rizhao
Rome
Rosario
Rostov
Rotterdam
Sacramento
Saharanpur
Saint Petersburg
Salem
Salt Lake City
Saltillo
Salvador
Samara
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San José
San Juan
San Luis Potosi
San Miguel de
Tucuman
San Pedro Sula
San Salvador
Sana'a
Santa Cruz
Santiago
Santo Domingo
Santos
São Luis
São Paulo
Sapporo
Saratov
Seattle
Semarang
Sendai
Seoul
City
Serang
Seville
Shanghai
Shangqiu
Shangrao
Shantou
Shaoyang
Sheffield
Shenyang
Shijiazhuang
Shiraz
Shiyan
Shizuoka
Shuyang
Shymkent
Siliguri
Singapore
Sofia
Sokoto
Solapur
Sousse
Southampton
Srinagar
St. Louis
Stockholm
Stockton
Stuttgart
Suqian
Surabaya
Surakarta
Surat
Sydney
Tabriz
Tai'an
Taichung
Tainan
Taipei
Taiyuan
Taizhou
Taizhou
Tampa
Tangier
Tangshan
Tashkent
Tbilisi
Tegucigalpa
Tehran
Tel Aviv
Teresina
Tianjin
Tijuana
Tiruchirappalli
Tiruppur
Tokyo
Toluca
Toronto
Torreon
Touba
Toulouse
Tripoli
Tucson
Tunis
Turin
Ufa
Ulaanbaatar
Ulsan
Urumqi
Vadodara
Valencia
Valencia
Valparaiso
Vancouver
Varanasi
Vienna
Vijayawada
Virginia Beach
Visakhapatnam
Vitoria
Volgograd
Voronezh
Wanzhou
Warangal
Warsaw
Washington
Weifang
Weihai
Wenzhou
Wuhan
Wuhu
Xi'an
Xiamen
Xiangyang
Xingtai
Xining
Xinxiang
Xinyang
Xuchang
Xuzhou
Yancheng
Yangon
Yangzhou
Yantai
Yaounde
Yekaterinburg
Yerevan
Yibin
Yichang
Yinchuan
Yiwu
Yogyakarta
Yongkang
Yueyang
Yulin
Zaozhuang
Zaria
Zhangjiakou
Zhanjiang
Zhaoqing
Zhengzhou
Zhenjiang
Zhoukou
Zhuhai
Zibo
Zunyi
Zurich
+2
Level 81
Apr 12, 2019
Follow up question - which city gives you the largest number of answers on this quiz? I have Beijing at 66, anything else?
+1
Level 81
Apr 12, 2019
Nanyang at 85
+5
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
The maximum listed number of cities for an answer is 89. There are two cities that get you 89, Suqian and Yancheng. Perhaps unsurprisingly, you can't ever guess both of them, as they are just 200 km apart.
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Level 65
May 14, 2019
Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan in March 2019. This should also be made acceptable.
+1
Level 50
May 25, 2019
Yep, I second that.
+1
Level 65
Jun 10, 2019
Great effort, thanks for making this
+1
Level 66
Jun 10, 2019
564/569 on my first try, damn I was close. I thought I typed Krasnoyarsk tho, seems I didn't
+1
Level 40
Jun 10, 2019
I got 37 for the most you could get with one city, but I don't know most of the Chinese cities. Also, if you type DC you get 25.
+1
Level 24
Jun 10, 2019
Great quiz but almost got a heart attack at the end there...554/569
+3
Level 24
Jun 10, 2019
Just DC, Brussels, Shanghai, Beijing, and Delhi can give you a score of 203
+1
Level 52
Jun 11, 2019
Bloody Antananarivo always gets me... Firefox's spell correct tries to turn my mangled attempt into Annapurna, so I can't get away with right clicking like I can with "Nocuhakott."
+1
Level 63
Jun 20, 2019
Can you please accept just Kansas for Kansas City, since people only need to type in Guatemala for Guatemala City and Mexico for Mexico City? That's really starting to irritate me.
+1
Level 66
Jul 3, 2019
I finally did it and I didn't use scambigol's trick. I just luckily guessed surabaya and got the one on sulawesi.
+2
Level 68
Aug 12, 2019
Took me months as to get 100%! I kept doing scambigol's more intense proximity quizzes till I became very familiar with the locations then I finally came back and did this one.
+2
Level 62
Sep 20, 2019
Got 543 when I needed 550😡
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Level 33
Dec 5, 2019
4 minutes are too short to reach the full 569 answers.
+1
Level 61
Dec 31, 2019
Great quiz but not enough time. Find myself head-down typing and residual text from previous answers is spoiling my new answers, leading to much time wasted deleting and re-typing.
+2
Level 78
Jan 4, 2020
I guess I'm just going to have to be satisfied with 566 out of 569, because I'm sure as hell not taking this monstrosity again, muhaha! :-)
+2
Level 46
Jan 31, 2020
Amazing!
+2
Level 32
Feb 9, 2020
Arequipa Peru ? 1,008,290 inhabitants in 2017.
+1
Level 64
Feb 18, 2020
Wow, I thought I was doing pretty well at this. And then the timer ended and I got 27%. I hadn't even gotten to Eurasia.
+1
Level 64
Feb 18, 2020
OK, 2nd try 97%. I feel better.
+1
Level 48
Mar 26, 2020
I think there should be another minute or two added to the timer, there wasn't quite enough time for me
+1
Level 78
Jun 28, 2021
I think there should be another hour or two added
+2
Level 55
Mar 31, 2020
Finally got all of them! Love this quiz
+1
Level 55
Mar 31, 2020
551
+2
Level 23
May 19, 2020
Wow. I really appreciate working on this quiz.
+1
Level 29
Jun 2, 2020
I can distinguish between the red and green text in the answers, but it's not easy. Can you switch to colors with stronger contrast?
+3
Level 60
Jun 9, 2020
568/569 only because of manaus
+1
Level 68
Aug 28, 2020
Same xD
+1
Level 59
Jul 10, 2020
Dihua for Urumqi?
+1
Level 33
Jul 10, 2020
my laptop was screaming for help the whole quizz
+2
Level 27
Aug 6, 2020
More time, maybe 10 minutes ?
+1
Level 66
Aug 23, 2020
0:36 left :)
+1
Level 68
Aug 28, 2020
Damn you Manaus! Tried Brasilia, Recife, Rio, Sao Paulo, Belem and Belo Horizonte but couldn't think of anymore!

Should've got Manaus too, oh well I'll take 568/569 xD

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Level 51
Aug 28, 2020
100%
+3
Level 51
Aug 28, 2020
No cheating
+2
Level 44
Oct 15, 2020
-1 krasnoyarsk :(
+1
Level 51
Nov 30, 2020
557/569 SO CLOSE! Btw cool quiz yoooo
+3
Level 75
Jan 7, 2021
Awesome quiz, I love coming back to this.

BTW isn't the current capital of Sri Lanka 'Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte' (Sri Kotte type-in)?

+2
Level 62
Jan 21, 2021
LOVED THIS QUIZ!
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Level 62
Jan 21, 2021
GOT 550! Loved this quiz!!!
+1
Level 52
Jan 23, 2021
568/569... I can never remember how to spell "Antananarivo" close enough for Chrome's spellchecker to fix it!
+2
Level 79
Feb 18, 2021
This quiz is super fun, love it!
+1
Level 61
Mar 16, 2021
555/569, really fun quiz! I love it
+1
Level 47
Mar 26, 2021
Mannheim?
+1
Level 62
Apr 17, 2021
the population of Mannheim is about 300,000
+2
Level 75
Jun 7, 2021
Mannheim should be on here along with many other cities. This quiz is outdated by two years so it really needs to be updated.
+2
Level 24
Apr 2, 2021
how does anyone finish this in 5 minutes!
+1
Level 62
Apr 17, 2021
38 seconds to spare!
+1
Level 43
May 10, 2021
I got all but the one city in Madagascar and Manaus
+1
Level 21
May 17, 2021
got all of them and 1 minute to spare *puts shades on*

POGGERS

+1
Level 21
May 18, 2021
batam.

swich the second a and the m and add n on u get

BATMAN

+1
Level 65
Jun 4, 2021
Comments in a nutshell:

I DID IT WITH (time) REMAINING

Makassar, Manaus, and Krasnoyarsk.

Who is cheating?

+1
Level 28
Jul 23, 2021
Was really easy, took 3 tries to ket 569/569

At first, I lost 2 in Brazil, 3 in Russia and 2 in India, I really forgot about Sao Luis and Chennai!

+1
Level 26
Aug 11, 2021
Nice I did 559/569 only missed 10, most of them on Africa. But great either way, very good quiz
+1
Level 67
Aug 15, 2021
Easier than I thought
+1
Level 54
Sep 15, 2021
569/569 with 5 seconds left
+3
Level 58
Oct 8, 2021
I'm going for 550 for the cities badge... I got 549.
+2
Level 44
Oct 15, 2021
Best city quiz on jetpunk imo
+1
Level 49
Nov 10, 2021
565/569! I missed the one in Mongolia, one in Brazil one, one in Somalia, and one in Australia.
+1
Level 49
Nov 10, 2021
565/569! I missed the one in Mongolia, one in Brazil one, one in Somalia, and one in Australia.
+1
Level 49
Dec 22, 2021
thats quite a long list of possible answers.
+1
Level 49
Dec 22, 2021
this quiz is the only city quiz i dont find painul to try and complete
+3
Level 71
Dec 28, 2021
Not really enough time.
+1
Level 48
Jan 2, 2022
Way outdated
+4
Level 38
Jan 3, 2022
i was expecting Sri Jayawardenapura to be here, thankfully it's not💀
+1
Level 58
Mar 21, 2024
it accepts kotte for sri jayawardenpura kotte
+1
Level 47
Mar 19, 2022
Wow, came a long way to get to the comment section.
+1
Level 28
May 5, 2022
After reading the comments, I'm glad to be from Indonesia
+1
Level 68
Jun 3, 2022
Finally got 100%! So satisfying. Fun quiz!
+1
Level 40
Jun 7, 2022
Great quiz! Bit more leniency for Antananarivo?
+1
Level 33
Jun 28, 2022
100% THE FIRST TIME WOO
+1
Level 40
Jun 28, 2022
Woah! You posted literraly the same second as me!
+1
Level 40
Jun 28, 2022
Literally*
+1
Level 40
Jun 28, 2022
Joburg should be included.
+1
Level 40
Jun 29, 2022
*added
+1
Level 47
Jul 3, 2022
100%, 42 seconds left
+2
Level 46
Aug 3, 2022
I don't believe a normal human being could finish this quiz with only 4 minutes. this is impossible, only cheaters could have finish this
+6
Level 39
Aug 27, 2022
The best order I have done it in done

Calgary

Vegas

Denver

St Louis

Nyc

Mexico City

Guatemala

Cali

Brasilia

Teresina

Buenos Aires

la paz

Benin city

Kano

Bamako

Kananga

Kampala

Lusaka

Durban

Sanaa

Tunis

Lisbon

Paris

Berlin

Kiev

Moscow

Chelyabinsk

Istanbul

Riyadh

Qom

Delhi

Calicut

Jodhpur

Santo Domingo

Khulna

Yangon

Saigon

Bangkok

Singapore

Bandung

Denpasar

Manila

Sydney

Perth

lima

Tokyo

Hiroshima

Zibo

Chengdu

Xian

Port elizibeth

Shantou

Auckland

Omsk

Almaty

Addis ababa

Beirut

Mombassa

Abu Dhabi

Ulaanbaatar

krasnoyarsk

Antananarivo

Manaus

Honolulu

Havana

Dallas

Curitiba

Cordoba

Dakar

Bangui

Brazzaville

Melbourne

Jilin

Taipei

+2
Level 95
Jan 15, 2023
You're a hero, thank you!
+1
Level 43
Sep 18, 2022
13 cities left :(
+1
Level 47
Oct 9, 2022
503 correct i need get better
+1
Level 41
Oct 31, 2022
just got 551, that was really hard
+1
Level 49
Feb 1, 2023
100% with 11 seconds left and 10 Attempts!
+1
Level 49
Feb 1, 2023
Seattle

Las Vegas

Boston

Houston

Indianapolis

Mexico (City)

Tegucigalpa

Caracas

Port-au-Prince

Tampa

Bogota

La Paz

Lima

Manaus

Sao Luis

Manaus

Natal

Rio de Janeiro

Santiago

Montevideo

Asuncion

Sydney

Adelaide

Perth

Auckland

Hanoi

Jakarta

Singapore

Phnom Penh

Makassar

Jakarta

Dubai

Kabul

Hyderabad

Colombo

Dhaka

Kathmandu

Harbin

Beijing

Tokyo

Shanghai

Hong Kong (might not be needed)

Chengdu

Astana

Ufa

Krasnoyarsk

Ruhr

Rabat

Tunis

Athens

Tel Aviv

Yerevan

Kyiv

St. Peterburg

Bishkek (might not be needed)

Ulaanbataar

Honolulu

Manila

Dakar

Lagos

Bamako

N' Djamena

Kinshasa

Kingasani

Capetown

Antananarivo

Maputo

Sana'a

Mogadishu

Khartoum

Nairobi

Ürümqi

Lusaka (might not be needed)

Volgograd (might not be needed)

Ashgabat (might not be needed)

lmk if i missed any

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Level 51
Feb 26, 2023
add 1 more minute
+2
Level 60
Mar 1, 2023
569/569 lots of fun.
+1
Level 63
Mar 23, 2023
Shymkent has 1M people.
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2023
Finally did it! Excellent quiz!
+1
Level 61
Sep 13, 2023
4 minutes is not even close to enough time
+1
Level 33
Mar 2, 2024
Very interesting test! Completed with only 4 seconds left.
+3
Level 45
Mar 3, 2024
I shouldn't be able to see the names of cities if I hover my cursor over them, right?
+1
Level 74
Mar 20, 2024
Yeah, disabling this might be a good idea so that you can't just successively guess cities, leaving only the isolated groups of cities someone doesn't know.
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
There are a few cities that don't light up, and I almost didn't complete the quiz because of that.

Looks like Melbourne (Florida) and Hyderabad (Pakistan).

+1
Level ∞
Mar 20, 2024
Should be fixed now
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2024
DC for Washington please
+1
Level 37
Mar 21, 2024
Very annoying that you get kicked out of the entry field every time an add changes. I have lost loads of time.
+1
Level ∞
Mar 21, 2024
This shouldn't happen. I have written code to detect it and put the cursor back. The only way it would happen is if you have used the mouse in the last 100 milliseconds.
+1
Level 60
Mar 21, 2024
can't believe I missed Krasnoyarsk
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Level 65
Mar 22, 2024
Rostov is a 1M city, indeed. But it's actually called Rostov-on-Don. And it's located about 1000 kilometers south from Moscow. Rostov near Moscow is a small rural town with less than 50K of population.
+1
Level 58
Mar 22, 2024
Dangit, missed 2 ;-;