Name a City - Countries

For each country, name one of the five most populous cities that is NOT either the capital or the largest city.
Only including countries with a city with >500,000 that fits the qualifications
Source: citypopulation.de. By city proper population, unless listed in red, then it is by urban area
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Country
Cities
Afghanistan
Herat | Kandahar | Mazar-i-Sharif | Jalalabad | Kunduz
Algeria
Oran | Constantine | Annaba | Blida | Batna
Angola
Lubango | Huambo | Benguela | Cabinda | Malanje
Argentina
Cordoba | Rosario | Mendoza | San Miguel de Tucuman | La Plata
Australia
Melbourne | Brisbane | Perth | Adelaide | Gold Coast
Bangladesh
Chittagong | Narayanganj | Khulna | Sylhet | Tongi
Belarus
Homiel | Mahilou | Viciebsk | Hrodna | Brest
Belgium
Antwerp | Liege | Ghent | Charleroi | Kortrijk
Bolivia
El Alto | Cochabamba | Oruro | Tarija | Potosi
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro | Salvador | Fortaleza | Belo Horizonte | Manaus
Canada
Montreal | Vancouver | Calgary | Edmonton | Winnipeg
Chile
Valparaiso | Concepcion | La Serena | Antofagasta | Iquique
China
Shenzhen | Guangzhou | Tianjin | Chengdu | Wuhan
Colombia
Medellin | Cali | Barranquilla | Cartagena | Cucuta
D. R. Congo
Lubumbashi | Mbuji-Mayi | Kananga | Kisangani | Bukavu
Dominican Republic
Santiago | Los Alcarrizos | La Romana | San Pedro de Macoris | Higuey
Egypt
Alexandria | Giza | Shubra el Kheimah | Port Said | Suez
France
Marseille | Lyon | Toulouse | Nice | Nantes
Germany
Hamburg | Munich | Cologne | Frankfurt | Stuttgart
Ghana
Kumasi | Tamale | Takoradi | Sekondi | Ashaiman
Greece
Thessaloniki | Patras | Heraklion | Larissa | Volos
Honduras
San Pedro Sula | Choloma | La Ceiba | El Progreso | Comayagua
India
Kolkata | Chennai | Bangalore | Hyderabad | Ahmedabad
Indonesia
Surabaya | Bandung | Bekasi | Medan | Tangerang
Iran
Mashhad | Isfahan | Karaj | Shiraz | Tabriz
Iraq
Mosul | Basra | Kirkuk | Erbil | Najaf
Israel
Tel Aviv | Haifa | Rishon LeZion | Petah Tikvah | Ashdod
Italy
Milan | Naples | Turin | Palermo | Genoa
Ivory Coast
Bouake | Daloa | Korhogo | San Pedro | Gagnoa
Japan
Yokohama | Osaka | Nagoya | Sapporo | Fukuoka
Jordan
Zarqa | Irbid | Russeifa | Al Quwaysimah | Khilda
Kazakhstan
Shymkent | Qaragandy | Aqtobe | Taraz | Pavlodar
Kenya
Mombasa | Nakuru | Ruiru | Eldoret | Kisumu
Kuwait
Al Farwaniyah | Al-Fintas | Al-Jahra | Janub Al-Kuwayt | Al-Manqaf
Lebanon
Tripoli | Sidon | Zalhe | Tyre | Baalbek
Malawi
Blantyre | Mzuzu | Zomba | Karonga | Kasungu
Malaysia
Johor Bahru | Klang | Ipoh | Ampang | Subang Jaya
Mexico
Ecatepec | Puebla | Guadalajara | Ciudad Juarez | Tijuana
Morocco
Fez | Tangier | Marrakesh | Sale | Meknes
Mozambique
Matola | Nampula | Beira | Chimoio | Tete
Myanmar
Mandalay | Taunggyi | Bago | Mawlamyine | Myitkyina
Netherlands
Rotterdam | The Hague | Utrecht | Eindhoven | Leiden
New Zealand
Christchurch | Hamilton | Tauranga | Lower Hutt | Dunedin
Nigeria
Kano | Ibadan | Kaduna | Benin City | Port Harcourt
North Korea
Hamhung | Chongjin | Sinuiju | Wonsan | Nampo
Pakistan
Lahore | Faisalabad | Rawalpindi | Gujranwala | Peshawar
Peru
Arequipa | Trujillo | Chiclayo | Piura | Cusco
Philippines
Cebu | Davao | Angeles | Cagayan de Oro | Zamboanga
Poland
Krakow | Lodz | Wroclaw | Poznan | Gdansk
Portugal
Porto | Vila Nova de Gaia | Amadora | Braga | Funchal
Rep. of the Congo
Pointe-Noire | Dolisie | Nkayi | Impfondo | Ouesso
Russia
St. Petersburg | Novosibirsk | Yekaterinburg | Nizhny Novgorod | Kazan
Saudi Arabia
Jeddah | Mecca | Medina | Dammam | Hofuf
Senegal
Touba | Thies | Kaolack | Mbour | Rufisque
Somalia
Hargeisa | Burco | Baydhabo | Jawhar | Borama
South Africa
Durban | Port Elizabeth | Soshanguve | Evaton | Pietermaritzburg
South Korea
Busan | Incheon | Daegu | Daejeon | Gwangju
Spain
Barcelona | Valencia | Sevilla | Zaragoza | Malaga
Sudan
Khartoum North | Nyala | Port Sudan | El Obeid | Kassala
Sweden
Goteborg | Malmo | Uppsala | Vasteras | Orebro
Syria
Homs | Latakia | Hama | Ar-Rakka | Deir ez-Zor
Taiwan
Taichung | Kaohsiung | Taiyuan | Tainan | Hsinchu
Tanzania
Mwanza | Zanzibar | Arusha | Mbeya | Morogoro
Turkey
Izmir | Bursa | Adana | Gaziantep | Konya
Ukraine
Kharkiv | Odessa | Dnipro | Donetsk | Zaporizhia
United Arab Emirates
Sharjah | Al Ain | Ajman | Ras al-Khaimah | Fujairah
United Kingdom
Birmingham | Glasgow | Liverpool | Bristol | Manchester
United States
Los Angeles | Chicago | Houston | Phoenix | Philadelphia
Uzbekistan
Samarkand | Namangan | Andijan | Nukus | Bukhara
Venezuela
Valencia | Barquisimeto | Ciudad Guayana | Maturin | Maracay
Vietnam
Da Nang | Haiphong | Can Tho | Bien Hoa | Hue
Yemen
Aden | Taiz | Hudaydah | Ibb | Mukalla
Zambia
Kitwe | Ndola | Kabwe | Chingola | Mufulira
Zimbabwe
Bulawayo | Chitungwiza | Mutare | Epworth | Gweru
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Level 68
Mar 30, 2020
Isn't Sydney the largest city in Australia. I know it is not Canberra.
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Level 75
Mar 30, 2020
Yes, about to fix
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Level 77
Mar 6, 2021
Great quiz, nominated! However, Auckland is very much the biggest city/urban area in New Zealand. :-)
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Level 75
Mar 7, 2021
Fixed, and thanks for the nomination!
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Level 58
Mar 2, 2022
It still works to type it even though it doesn't appear in the column.
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Level 83
Mar 29, 2022
George Town, Malaysia?

Maracaibo, Venezuela?

Otherwise, great idea.

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Level 59
Aug 10, 2022
Agree, also Aleppo is missing
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Level 49
Jun 10, 2023
aleppo is sometimes counted as the largest city in syria