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Biggest Coastal City of Every Coastal Country

Name the biggest coastal city of every coastal country in the world.
If its urban area reaches the sea, a city is considered to be a coastal city in this quiz
Populations are for the most part urban area populations
City proper populations are indicated in red
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Country
Population
Biggest coastal city
Albania
201 000
Durrës
Algeria
3 975 000
Algiers
Angola
8 150 000
Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda
22 000
Saint John's
Argentina
16 400 000
Buenos Aires
Australia
5 300 000
Sydney
Bahamas
274 000
Nassau
Bahrain
1 530 000
Manama
Bangladesh
4 925 000
Chittagong
Barbados
110 000
Bridgetown
Belgium
256 000
Bruges
Belize
64 000
Belize
Benin
1 830 000
Cotonou
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3 000
Neum
Brazil
13 200 000
Rio de Janeiro
Brunei
280 000
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria
420 000
Varna
Cambodia
90 000
Sihanoukville
Cameroon
3 375 000
Douala
Canada
2 875 000
Vancouver
Cape Verde
160 000
Praia
Chile
1 020 000
Valparaiso
China
46 700 000
Guangzhou
Colombia
2 100 000
Barranquilla
Comoros
54 000
Moroni
Costa Rica
122 000
Puntarenas
Côte d'Ivoire
5 600 000
Abidjan
Croatia
345 000
Split
Cuba
2 225 000
Havana
Cyprus
187 000
Limassol
D. R. of the Congo
90 000
Moanda
Denmark
1 680 000
Copenhagen
Djibouti
570 000
Djibouti
Dominica
15 000
Roseau
Dominican Republic
4 000 000
Santo Domingo
East Timor
245 000
Dili
Ecuador
246 000
Machala
Egypt
5 800 000
Alexandria
El Salvador
52 000
Acajutla
Equatorial Guinea
290 000
Bata
Eritrea
53 000
Massawa
Estonia
435 000
Tallinn
Fiji
186 000
Suva
Finland
1 300 000
Helsinki
France
1 660 000
Marseille
Gabon
704 000
Libreville
Gambia
1 000 000
Banjul
Georgia
166 000
Batumi
Germany
325 000
Kiel
Ghana
5 100 000
Accra
Greece
3 350 000
Athens
Grenada
34 000
Saint George's
Guatemala
101 000
Puerto Barrios
Guinea
2 525 000
Conakry
Guinea-Bissau
492 000
Bissau
Guyana
201 000
Georgetown
Haiti
3 225 000
Port-au-Prince
Honduras
196 000
La Ceiba
Iceland
223 000
Reykjavik
India
25 100 000
Mumbai
Indonesia
31 300 000
Jakarta
Iran
527 000
Bandar Abbas
Iraq
36 000
Fao
Ireland
1 390 000
Dublin
Israel
2 700 000
Tel Aviv
Italy
4 225 000
Naples
Jamaica
585 000
Kingston
Japan
40 400 000
Tokyo
Jordan
148 000
Aqaba
Kenya
1 220 000
Mombasa
Kiribati
50 000
South Tarawa
Kuwait
4 750 000
Kuwait
Latvia
632 000
Riga
Lebanon
1 750 000
Beirut
Liberia
1 590 000
Monrovia
Libya
1 250 000
Tripoli
Country
Population
Biggest coastal city
Lithuania
205 000
Klaipeda
Madagascar
327 000
Toamasina
Malaysia
8 900 000
Kuala Lumpur
Maldives
127 000
Malé
Malta
355 000
Valletta
Marshall Islands
28 000
Majuro
Mauritania
1 270 000
Nouakchott
Mauritius
147 000
Port Louis
Mexico
1 970 000
Tijuana
Micronesia
14 000
Weno
Monaco
38 000
Monaco
Montenegro
20 000
Herceg Novi
Morocco
4 475 000
Casablanca
Mozambique
2 275 000
Maputo
Myanmar
115 000
Myeik
Namibia
62 000
Walvis Bay
Nauru
11 000
Yaren
Netherlands
3 250 000
Rotterdam
New Zealand
1 410 000
Auckland
Nicaragua
39 000
Puerto Cabezas
Nigeria
19 400 000
Lagos
North Korea
704 000
Hamhung
Norway
1 190 000
Oslo
Oman
1 430 000
Muscat
Pakistan
17 800 000
Karachi
Palau
10 000
Koror
Panama
1 540 000
Panama
Papua New Guinea
364 000
Port Moresby
Peru
10 100 000
Lima
Philippines
25 700 000
Manila
Poland
1 098 000
Gdansk
Portugal
2 475 000
Lisbon
Qatar
2 425 000
Doha
R. of the Congo
1 180 000
Pointe-Noire
Romania
426 000
Constanta
Russia
5 650 000
Saint Petersburg
Saint Kitts and Nevis
11 000
Basseterre
Saint Lucia
22 000
Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
27 000
Kingstown
Samoa
69 000
Apia
São Tomé and Principe
67 000
São Tomé
Saudi Arabia
4 950 000
Jeddah
Senegal
3 725 000
Dakar
Seychelles
26 000
Victoria
Sierra Leone
1 790 000
Freetown
Singapore
7 900 000
Singapore
Slovenia
26 000
Koper
Solomon Islands
85 000
Honiara
Somalia
1 940 000
Mogadishu
South Africa
4 225 000
Cape Town
South Korea
24 800 000
Seoul
Spain
4 775 000
Barcelona
Sri Lanka
4 750 000
Colombo
Sudan
395 000
Port Sudan
Suriname
241 000
Paramaribo
Sweden
2 225 000
Stockholm
Syria
424 000
Latakia
Taiwan
9 150 000
Taipei
Tanzania
6 450 000
Dar es Salaam
Thailand
18 800 000
Bangkok
Togo
2 100 000
Lomé
Tonga
35 000
Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago
83 000
San Fernando
Tunisia
2 675 000
Tunis
Turkey
16 000 000
Istanbul
Tuvalu
6 000
Funafuti
Ukraine
1 100 000
Odessa
United Arab Emirates
5 350 000
Dubai
United Kingdom
1 880 000
Liverpool
United States
22 100 000
New York
Uruguay
1 860 000
Montevideo
Vanuatu
51 000
Port Vila
Venezuela
781 000
Barcelona
Vietnam
1 010 000
Da Nang
Yemen
800 000
Aden
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Level 59
May 1, 2020
Great quiz.
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Level 77
May 1, 2020
Thanks. That was educational.
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Level 71
Sep 14, 2021
Pretty sure that largest coastal city in Croatia is Split, not Rijeka. Great quiz anyway.
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Level 65
Sep 14, 2021
Indeed, thank you for spotting this error
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Level 78
Jun 8, 2023
I wonder if Saigon/HCMC shouldn't be considered as the correct answer for Vietnam. The city maps I'm finding seem to extend the city limits to the sea.
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Level 65
Sep 21, 2023
It's one of these tricky examples that depends on which definition of a "coastal city" you chose.

The definition I decided to take (indicated in the first caveat) is to look at the urban areas. While the administrative limits of Ho Chi Minh City does reach the sea, its urban area doesn't when you look from the sky so I decided not to count it as a valid answer

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Level 76
Jun 8, 2023
How the hell are Guayaquil, Sao Paulo, and Yangon not considered coastal when SEOUL is??
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Level 70
Jun 8, 2023
The poulation is by urban area. If you look on the map, Guayaquil and Yangon are separated from the ocean, as they lie on rivers. São Paulo itself is located on a plateau and doesn't come near the ocean. The one which surprise me was Kuala Lumpur but it turns out it is connected to the ocean via Port Klang.
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Level 73
Jun 8, 2023
could you accept basrah for fao?
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Level 65
Sep 21, 2023
By looking from the sky Fao doesn't seem to be connected to Basrah by its urban area so I'll still consider Basrah as an invalid answer (even if I totally admit that it makes the Iraqi answer pretty difficult haha)
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Level 62
Jun 8, 2023
Pretty sure that Manta is bigger than Machala by a few ten thousand for Ecuador
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Level 65
Sep 21, 2023
I took Wikipedia as a source when citypopulation.de was not enough, Machala is indicated to have a 246 000 inhabitants metro population and 226 000 for Manta.

Always hard to know if the source information is perfect for inhabitants statistics but I'll keep following this