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Cities Closest to Bern

Which cities with a population of one million or more are closest to Bern?
Source: citypopulation.de
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Last updated: June 20, 2019
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First submittedMay 27, 2015
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km
city
miles
95
Zürich
59
210
Turin
130
213
Milan
132
240
Lyon
149
241
Stuttgart
150
283
Mannheim
182
338
Munich
210
364
Frankfurt
226
388
Nuremberg
241
435
Paris
270
km
city
miles
438
Marseille
272
446
Cologne
277
479
Düsseldorf
298
490
Brussels
304
503
Essen
312
508
Dortmund
316
521
Lille
324
525
Antwerp
326
594
Rotterdam
369
622
Prague
386
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Level 76
May 27, 2015
Nearest misses: Vienna, Rome, Barcelona, London.
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Level 85
May 27, 2015
Okay, I give up. Which list on citypopulation.de lists Dortmund and Essen as separate cities with populations over 1 million each?
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Level 76
May 27, 2015
Good question! Citypopulation.de describes the area in question as Ruhrgebeit (literally, Ruhr Region) which includes several cities, including the two largest and well-known of Dortmund and Essen, and which has an aggregate population of 5.2 million. Ruhrgebeit is a region larger than Luxembourg that contains a swathe of cities and rural areas, and it doesn't exist as a city, so that name would be a nonsensical answer - but we still have a giant population centre to deal with that has to appear as an answer somehow. The best solution we've been able to come up with (in a situation with no perfect solution) with is to identify Dortmund and Essen as answers, which are both conurbations of well over a million each, and to also include cities close to them within the Ruhrgebeit as type-ins, and Ruhr as a type-in for them both. If you have any better solutions, please let us know!
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Level 85
May 28, 2015
My solution would be to choose a data source and stick with it. If you want to use citypopulation.de's "agglomerations", then use them for the whole quiz without alteration. Or if you want to alter it by partitioning the Ruhrgebiet, then say so in the instructions. And if you do choose to partition the Ruhrgebiet, check and see if whatever source says Dortmund and Essen are million+ conurbations doesn't say that Duisburg is one, too.
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Level 70
Jun 20, 2019
Shouldn't Antwerp be closer than Rotterdam and Amsterdam?
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Level 76
Jun 20, 2019
Added. Antwerp has passed 1,000,000 citizens since this quiz was originally written.