Biggest Coastal City by Country

For each country, name the biggest city that lies on its coast.
Coastal = borders an ocean or an oceanic sea
Quiz by ruudsje
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First submittedMay 29, 2014
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Country
City
Canada
Vancouver
France
Marseille
Spain
Barcelona
United Kingdom
Liverpool
Saudi Arabia
Jeddah
Egypt
Alexandria
Russia
Saint Petersburg
Israel
Tel Aviv
Poland
Gdansk
Ukraine
Odessa
Kenya
Mombasa
Bangladesh
Chittagong
South Korea
Busan
Colombia
Barranquilla
South Africa
Cape Town
Mexico
Tijuana
Bulgaria
Varna
Syria
Latakia
Germany
Kiel
India
Mumbai
Sudan
Port Sudan
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Level 69
May 29, 2014
Mombasa's spelled wrong.
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Level 69
Jun 1, 2014
Changed that. We're I'm from both spellings are accepted btw.
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Level 58
Jun 1, 2014
Did know Jeddah, just not how to spell it...
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Level 69
Jun 2, 2014
I'll add one or two type-ins.
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Level 74
Jun 30, 2014
Jiddah should be one of those accepted spellings.
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Level 22
Jun 2, 2014
Just a problem with Canada.It would be montreal or toronto because lake ontario connects to a ocean.Check that.
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Level 77
Jun 3, 2014
That's pretty ridiculous. Toronto connects to a lake which connects to a river which connects to an ocean, therefore Toronto connects to an ocean? What kind of logic is that? That's like saying that St. Louis is a costal town because it sits on the Mississippi which attaches to the Gulf of Mexico which attaches to the Atlantic.
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Level 92
Jul 16, 2015
May want to choose another reference lake, as the Aral Sea is not exactly large anymore...
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Level 82
Oct 12, 2016
It's not the size that matters, but connection. Take a boat from Venice and you may arrive to London. Now try this over Niagara Falls
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Level 75
Oct 24, 2023
No, it's the word coast/coastal that matters. That's the only criterion in play here.
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Level 20
Jun 20, 2014
Many cities are on rivers that are connected to oceans
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Level 89
Aug 12, 2018
Most that aren't already on the ocean.
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Level 77
Oct 26, 2018
Surely the point should be whether the city is on a tidal section of the river? If so, it could be said to be coastal, n'est-ce pas? In which case London would be the answer for the UK.
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Level 83
Oct 27, 2023
My home town in the UK is a mile or so up from the tidal limits of its river. It's also almost 50 miles from the coast. I wouldn't call that 'coastal' by any means, we're almost as far as you can get from the sea in the whole region
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Level 64
Oct 20, 2022
Glasgow's even closer, which left me wondering for ages why it wouldn't accept it.
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Level 82
Jun 20, 2014
Cool quiz! I was doing great up until half way through the 2nd column then started to struggle.
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Level 47
Jun 20, 2014
Yeah, me too! After Odessa it kind of went downhill. Still, happy with 16 though.
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Level 45
Jun 20, 2014
Great quiz, thank you!!
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Level 62
Jun 20, 2014
Isn't Hamburg the largest German coastal city? I'm pretty sure it's bigger than Kiel.
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Level 63
Jun 20, 2014
I thought that too
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Level 66
Jun 20, 2014
Hamburg is on the River Elbe and not right on the coast, but including the suburbs and considering that it's one of the biggest harbors in Europe, I thought it should be included too.
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Level 82
Aug 1, 2016
I thought Hamburg too, but looking at a map it's about 25 miles (40km) inland...
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Level 89
Aug 12, 2018
It's a river port like Philadelphia or New Orleans.
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Level 75
Nov 9, 2023
It's on the Elbe estuary, where the rives is already getting much broader, but the water is not saline there yet.
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Level 77
Jun 27, 2014
And here I was thinking that Sudan was landlocked.. :)
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Level 78
May 22, 2017
I was about to make the case that Maracaibo is actually a coastal city, but then I realized that it's in Venezuela and not Colombia.
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Level 61
Apr 11, 2018
And it's also not even the biggest coastal city in Venezuela either.
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Level 67
Jun 8, 2017
Apart from Cape Town, because it is joint in some way with Pretoria and Bloemfontein, it's weird that none of these are capitals.
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Level 75
Oct 24, 2023
I think that's by design. Those cities were excluded because they already get enough play on this site.
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Level 34
Apr 15, 2018
i only got 3 correct. i'm surprised that i got chittagong correct
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Level 86
Nov 17, 2018
First column: easy

Second column: starting to get challenging

Third column: yikes!

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Level 66
Apr 18, 2019
Why isn't Mongolia on here?
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Level 59
Sep 1, 2021
I know right? Mongolia's on the coast!
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Level 74
May 18, 2019
Please accept Lattakia. It's a very common transliteration, and on signs in town!
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Level 74
Apr 30, 2020
Great quiz!
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Level 68
Mar 12, 2021
Lmao, I got all of them besides Tijuana. For some reason, I refused to believe that was on the coast
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Level 71
Mar 26, 2021
Finally, a quiz where knowing about Bangladeshi geography beyond Dhaka is useful! :)
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Level 68
Dec 23, 2021
Got 18/21 first try :) Pretty proud of coming up with some of the cities. Missed Mumbai though..
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Level 38
Jan 26, 2022
Latakia was brutal
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Level 45
Mar 6, 2022
Got all them except Barranquilla, since I still think Cartagena de India was larger
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Level 66
Apr 12, 2022
Got all in my first try, I wonder why do I know about Latakia and Port Sudan
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Level 64
Oct 20, 2022
Never would have known that Tijuana is larger than Veracruz if not for this quiz...
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Level 47
Dec 7, 2022
Port Sudan