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Biggest Cities Near a Border

Name world's most populous urban areas whose centre is within 50km of an international border.
Population according to citypopulation.de
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Last updated: September 28, 2017
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First submittedSeptember 18, 2017
Times taken14,493
Average score58.3%
Rating4.12
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Population
Nearest Country
City
24.8 mil
North Korea
Seoul
16.0 mil
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
10.9 mil
Republic of the Congo
Kinshasa
10.5 mil
India
Lahore
8.30 mil
Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh City
7.20 mil
United States
Toronto
6.95 mil
Malaysia
Singapore
5.70 mil
Canada
Detroit
5.15 mil
Switzerland
Milan
4.93 mil
Netherlands
Cologne / Düsseldorf
3.95 mil
India
Rawalpindi / Islamabad
3.60 mil
Vatican City
Rome
Population
Nearest Country
City
3.53 mil
Lebanon
Damascus
3.30 mil
Mexico
San Diego
3.18 mil
Belgium
Rotterdam
2.90 mil
Dominican Republic
Port-au-Prince
2.68 mil
Kazakhstan
Tashkent
2.60 mil
Slovakia
Budapest
2.53 mil
United States
Vancouver
2.45 mil
Bahrain
Dammam
2.38 mil
Czech Republic
Katowice
2.25 mil
Argentina
Asunción
2.20 mil
Bulgaria
Bucharest
2.20 mil
Slovakia
Vienna
Eutychus
+4
Level 90
Sep 18, 2017
Great quiz!
CardinalSin
+9
Level 77
Nov 3, 2018
It is, but the time limit is tough.
scambigol
+3
Level 76
Sep 18, 2017
very creative, good quiz!
WolfCam
+1
Level 66
Sep 27, 2017
This is cool! I made a similar quiz a while ago. I think I made my range to large however with 100 km instead of fifty. It's kinda cool to see how the answers are different!
TenThousand
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Level 76
Sep 28, 2017
Amman (5.20 mil) is 37 km from Jordan's border (a well fortified - and mined - border, where we had to show both the Jordanian, then the Israeli, border guards our passports to get across!).
PotatoBoy
+2
Level 66
Jan 8, 2018
That probably doesn't count because that border is on Palestinian Territories.
TenThousand
+1
Level 76
Sep 28, 2017
Dammam (2.45 mil) is 41 km from Bahrain at Passport Island on the King Fahd Causeway.
brandybuck96
+3
Level 83
Sep 28, 2017
I thought one of the Belgium ones was Lille... turns out it isn't that big, however large it may have seemed when I got lost in it.
Yamaneko
+1
Level 73
Jan 8, 2018
Well, you could consider OECD statistics that encompass the Belgian cities of Kortrijk and Tournai, for a total of 2.6 millions but it cannot be implemented in that quiz since it breaks an obvious rule, being a binational metro area.
PjotrL
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Level 74
Jan 8, 2018
Brussels centre (Ville de Bruxelles, Grand Place) is also 49 km from the Dutch border (Zeeuws Vlaanderen, near Koewacht). Just guessing the 2.025.000 population is below the cut off. :)
PoetsCorner
+2
Level 85
Jan 10, 2018
You're saying Lille is li'l?
DaleCooper
+1
Level 95
Sep 28, 2017
second Slovakia is Slovenia, right?
Arp2600
+3
Level 86
Sep 28, 2017
No, Vienna is close to Slovakia. By the way the distance Vienna-Bratislava is only 55km...
RJF
+1
Level 64
Dec 15, 2021
And by the way way, Bratislava is the current capital of Slovakia, but used to be the capital of Hungary, during Habsburg rule when it was called Pressburg.
Arp2600
+1
Level 86
Sep 28, 2017
I was sure to have tried Katowice, this is irritating. Maybe I typed Katovice...
idontkn1
+1
Level 90
Sep 28, 2017
Lahore definitely looks to be within 50 kms of the Indian frontier
relessness
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Level 47
Sep 28, 2017
Added Lahore and Dammam, waiting for it to be re-approved :)
Algernon
+3
Level 72
Sep 28, 2017
Great idea. Needs a touch more time though.
Zefyrinus
+2
Level 71
Aug 19, 2018
Agree, I never even got to the end of the list.
scambigol
+1
Level 76
Sep 29, 2017
Possibly Maputo and Kuwait City, depending on where the actual center is?
PjotrL
+1
Level 74
Jan 8, 2018
Kuwait might be a stretch, but within reason Maputo to the Swaziland border would be 49 km :). The population also seems to make the 2.2 million cut off.
alphonds
+2
Level 63
Oct 1, 2017
Great quiz! Could you mention that the population figures are for the urban agglomeration?
Leesoo
+3
Level 74
Jan 8, 2018
Katowice is wrong - it's part of the Upper Silesia conurbation and only has about 300 thousand ppl
tourwoorden
+1
Level 70
Jan 8, 2018
Probably the same story as Rotterdam. Citypopulation regards it as one big agglomeration.
SWATkun
+1
Level 60
Jan 8, 2018
Kolkata is only 242 km away from Bangladesh.
ponnuki
+3
Level 58
Jan 8, 2018
which is still significantly more than 50 miles
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jul 7, 2018
Porto Alegre is only 1,600 kilometers from a border (guessing).
Stursi
+2
Level 40
Jan 8, 2018
More time!!
Islandcarver
+1
Level 79
Jan 8, 2018
Cologne and Dusseldorf are two distinct cities that can hardly be called a common urban area. You might as well include Bonn, Duisburg, Leverkusen, Moenchengladbach, and Neuss as well.
PjotrL
+1
Level 74
Jan 8, 2018
Citypopulation.de takes "the Ruhr" and Cologne/Düsseldorf as it's two Urban / Metro Areas. Lots to argue about. Adding Ruhr in this one would be just as weird as any arbitrary other choice.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jul 7, 2018
Lots of people do. On a satellite image it's one blob.
blackholexsun
+2
Level 64
Jan 8, 2018
I thought it was capital cities... I was starting to have a panic attack when Havana, Nassau, nor Ottowa were working for USA.
ander217
+7
Level 75
Jan 8, 2018
I enjoy the geography quizzes, but it seems it is getting difficult to find a topic that hasn't yet been covered. I worry that someday we will find ourselves being quizzed on such things as "major cities whose names were changed within the past century which are are situated within 100 miles of a capital city in another country whose name ends in ia and whose flag has no red on it."
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Oct 2, 2019
That actually sounds like fun ! (And like the elimination quizzes)
FreeStater
+1
Level 66
Dec 12, 2023
Interestingly, there is one city that meets this description... can you name it?
idontlikeit2
+1
Level 74
Jan 8, 2018
What about Santiago?
lidiaa268
+3
Level 42
Jan 9, 2018
Since when HAS DETROIT 5 MILLION POPULATION????
kogatora
+1
Level 93
Nov 12, 2018
it's probably the combined statistical area of nine counties around it (as used by US statistics sources), as even the urban area in 2010 was only 3.7m. That covers an area of about 75 miles across that is linked with the city.
RedLightning
+2
Level 47
Sep 2, 2019
Yeah, Detroit's population is only 673,000. It's plummeted since 1 million in 1990.
caesaria
+2
Level 78
Jan 10, 2018
Cologne/Dusseldorf should not count, because those are two distinctly separate cities. And even combined they don't have more than 2 million people.
markthoma
+1
Level 73
Mar 21, 2018
Great quiz, I only got 18, nice challenge.
promastermage
+1
Level 64
Jun 15, 2018
21/24, that was hard.
GeographyMajor
+2
Level 41
Jan 29, 2019
Oh, come on! I spelled Buenas Aires wrong. :(
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Jul 21, 2020
Buenos*
RedLightning
+1
Level 47
Sep 2, 2019
It's so hard when the cities aren't just capitals
HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Oct 29, 2019
Please accept "Ruhr" for Cologne/Dusseldorf as a type in
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Jul 21, 2020
But Ruhr isn't a city?
buck1017
+1
Level 77
Oct 14, 2020
Tough one. Nice quiz.
TheGeographyMan
+1
Level 35
Nov 28, 2020
But surely Tashkent is Closer to Tajikistan.
g4ndalf
+2
Level 69
May 11, 2023
Rotterdam has 3 million people? Seems quite generous..

I'm guessing all of South Holland is included in that statistic

Pandryf
+1
Level 60
Oct 22, 2023
I am Polish but apparently didn't even think of anything in Poland but Wrocław which is too far away from the CzR
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