1,000 World Cities furthest from Larger City by Semi-Proximity

The list consists of the 1,000 world cities that are at least 220.9 km away from the closest larger city.
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City
23
Abakan
16
Abidjan
21
Abilene
29
Abu Sunbul
20
Abuja
15
Acapulco
17
Accra
1
Adamstown
29
Ad-Damazin
19
Addis Ababa
10
Adelaide
19
Agadez
24
Agadir
21
Ahmedabad
32
Aktau
14
Akureyri
21
Al Ghayzah
34
Al Jawf
20
Al Mukalla
8
Albany
21
Albuquerque
23
Aldan
26
Aleppo
16
Alesund
20
Algiers
14
Alice Springs
27
Almaty
3
Alofi
10
Alotau
22
Altamira
25
Altay
28
Am Timan
17
Ambon
12
Ambovombe
10
Anadyr
8
Anchorage
28
Ankara
11
Antananarivo
22
Antofagasta
18
Antsiranana
25
Aozou
1
Apia
34
Aqtobe
18
Araouane
36
'Ar'ar
11
Arawa
19
Arequipa
7
Arijejen
25
Aripuana
32
Arkalyk
24
Arkhangel'sk
25
Arusha
24
As Sulayyil
21
Asmara
32
Astrakhan'
21
Asunción
2
Atafu Village
15
Atar
24
Atbara
30
Athens
22
Atlanta
4
Atuona
31
Atyrau
3
Auckland
6
Avarua
29
Ayagoz
16
Ayan
25
Aykhal
25
Baghdad
10
Bahia Blanca
22
Bahir Dar
35
Baku
17
Balikpapan
35
Balkanabat
24
Balkhash
18
Balsas
12
Bamako
14
Banda Aceh
27
Bandar 'Abbas
26
Bandundu
14
Bangalore
18
Bangkok
26
Bangui
15
Banjarmasin
28
Baotou
23
Barcelona
20
Barcelona
23
Barcelos
25
Bari
21
Barra do Garcas
17
Barranquilla
15
Barreiras
10
Barrow
26
Baruun-Urt
16
Batagay
18
Battambang
24
Baykit
18
Bechar
24
Beijing
22
Beira
13
Belaya Gora
26
Beledweyne
21
Belém
28
Belgrade
15
Belo Horizonte
26
Benghazi
11
Bengkulu
24
Berberati
19
Bergen
25
Berlin
27
Bertoua
7
Bethel
18
Bhilai
17
Bhubaneswar
15
Biak
19
Bilbao
8
Bilibino
18
Billings
24
Bilma
13
Bilwi
29
Birao
29
Birjand
29
Birmingham
29
Bismarck
12
Bissau
27
Blagoveshchensk
22
Blantyre
9
Bloemfontein
18
Boa Vista
12
Bobo-Dioulasso
27
Bodaybo
24
Bodo
28
Boende
24
Bogotá
20
Boise
20
Bordeaux
20
Bosaso
11
Boston
13
Bouake
23
Brasília
21
Bratsk
15
Bridgetown
12
Brisbane
5
Broken Hill
16
Broome
31
Bryansk
19
Bucaramanga
30
Bucharest
37
Budapest
11
Buenos Aires
24
Bulawayo
32
Bumba
19
Bundaberg
29
Buraydah
17
Busan
30
Buta
27
Butembo
21
Cagliari
19
Cairns
32
Cairo
15
Calgary
23
Cali
23
Camaguey
28
Campo Grande
6
Canberra
16
Cancun
8
Cape Town
19
Caracas
16
Carauari
5
Cargados Carajos
7
Carnarvon
22
Casablanca
22
Casper
15
Cayenne
20
Cebu
17
Ceduna
18
Ceeldheer
21
Chandigarh
21
Changchun
17
Changsha
20
Charlotte
28
Chegdomyn
27
Chengdu
16
Chennai
13
Cherskiy
18
Chetumal
13
Chiang Mai
16
Chicago
20
Chihuahua
25
Chita
14
Chokurdakh
17
Chongjin
21
Chongqing
1
Christchurch
19
Chumikan
16
Cincinnati
21
Ciudad del Este
18
Ciudad Guayana
18
Ciudad Juárez
33
Cluj-Napoca
#
City
3
Clyde River
28
Coari
2
Cobar
22
Cochabamba
5
Coihaique
9
Coimbatore
11
Colombo
15
Colonia
4
Comodoro Rivadavia
11
Conakry
18
Concordia
20
Coober Pedy
24
Copenhagen
19
Copiapo
17
Coquimbo
16
Córdoba
13
Corner Brook
25
Corumba
12
Cruzeiro do Sul
28
Cuiaba
11
Culiacan
17
Curitiba
18
Cusco
20
Da Nang
12
Dakar
15
Dakhla
28
Dalian
25
Dallas
26
Damascus
27
Dammam
27
Dar es Salaam
12
Daru
18
Darwin
13
Davao
18
David
8
Dawson City
27
Deir ez-Zor
16
Delhi
18
Denpasar
23
Denver
11
Deputatsky
22
Dese
19
Detroit
25
Dhaka
16
Dikson
15
Dili
6
Dillingham
19
Dire Dawa
29
Diyarbakir
19
Djibouti
22
Djougou
28
Dodoma
28
Donetsk
24
Douala
30
Dryden
25
Dubai
16
Dublin
2
Dunedin
13
Durban
31
Dushanbe
6
Dutch Harbor
13
East London
1
Ebaye
0
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
16
Edmonton
13
Egvekinot
17
Eirunepe
20
El Aaiún
25
El Daein
26
El Fasher
28
El Obeid
27
Erdenet
35
Erzurum
8
Esperance
1
Faaa
29
Fada
9
Fairbanks
15
Fais
30
Fargo
30
Faya-Largeau
21
Fenghuang
9
Fernando de Noronha (Distrito Estadual)
18
Filadelfia
14
Flying Fish Cove
13
Fort McMurray
11
Fort Nelson
12
Fort Smith
11
Fortaleza
13
Fort-de-France
19
Franceville
9
Funafuti
16
Funchal
3
Fuvahmulah
19
Gaalkacyo
14
Gaborone
21
Gambela
21
Gao
26
Garissa
25
Garoua
26
Gashua
29
Gdansk
28
Geneina
9
George
14
George Town
19
George Town
21
George Town
15
George Town
4
George Town
3
Geraldton
32
Ghadamis
12
Ghanzi
26
Ghat
19
Gijon
16
Gizo
14
Gjoa Haven
19
Glasgow
32
Gomel
8
Gorontalo
23
Gothenburg
17
Governador Valadares
21
Grand Junction
17
Grande Prairie
18
Greater Sudbury
19
Grootfontein
0
Grytviken
10
Guadalajara
14
Guanambi
24
Guangzhou
20
Guatemala City
14
Guayaquil
18
Guiyang
27
Gulu
30
Guwahati
23
Hadibu
22
Haikou
22
Hailar
7
Halifax
18
Halls Creek
23
Hamburg
29
Hami
0
Hanga Roa
22
Hanoi
9
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
29
Harare
22
Harbin
20
Hargeisa
21
Havana
34
Hayil
21
Hayma'
23
Hegang
25
Helsinki
28
Heraklion
26
Herat
16
Hermosillo
12
High Level
3
Hihifo
2
Hilo
21
Ho Chi Minh City
6
Hobart
14
Honiara
1
Honolulu
9
Hooper Bay
29
Hotan
24
Houston
27
Hovd
25
Huambo
16
Huanuco
15
Hubli
10
Hukuntsi
14
Hyderabad
16
Ica
19
Idaho Falls
31
Illizi
5
Ilulissat
19
Imperatriz
33
In Salah
14
Indore
16
Ingeniero Guillermo N. Juarez
13
Inuvik
6
Iqaluit
22
Iquique
21
Iquitos
25
Iranshahr
11
Irece
23
Irkutsk
11
Isangel
21
Isfahan
20
Ishigaki
32
Isiro
28
Istanbul
26
Itaituba
27
Izhevsk
29
Izmir
19
Jabalpur
3
Jabor
25
Jacareacanga
30
Jackson
22
Jagdaqi
19
Jaipur
9
Jakarta
#
City
0
Jamestown
15
Jamshedpur
28
Jatai
13
Jayapura
32
Jeddah
23
Ji Parana
36
Jiayuguan
22
Jinan
17
Jinghong
21
Jodhpur
16
Johannesburg
10
Juazeiro do Norte
27
Juba
12
Juneau
21
Kabul
30
Kadugli
8
Kaedi
25
Kaga Bandoro
26
Kahriz
6
Kalgoorlie
23
Kamina
29
Kampala
9
Kankan
25
Kano
21
Kansas City
21
Kaohsiung
23
Karachi
28
Karagandy
28
Kasama
30
Kashi
26
Kasongo-Lunda
28
Kassala
23
Katherine
27
Kathmandu
31
Katowice
9
Kavaratti
12
Kavieng
7
Kayes
29
Kazan
9
Keetmanshoop
13
Kendari
32
Kerman
21
Khabarovsk
23
Khamis Mushait
24
Kharan
34
Kharkiv
29
Khartoum
20
Khatanga
23
Khovd
30
Kidal
33
Kiev
11
Kiffa
34
Kigali
29
Kikwit
12
Kimbe
41
Kindu
15
Kingston
10
Kingston
25
Kinshasa
14
Kirakira
24
Kirov
29
Kisangani
22
Kismayo
17
Kiunga
15
Klyuchi
22
Knoxville
7
Kodiak
9
Kokopo
22
Kolkata
10
Kolonia
32
Kolpashevo
23
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
30
Konya
11
Koror State
28
Kostanay
33
Kosti
15
Kota Bharu
27
Kota Kinabalu
23
Kotlas
8
Kotzebue
33
Krasnodar
26
Krasnoyarsk
13
Kuala Lumpur
15
Kuching
11
Kugluktuk
6
Kulhudhuffushi
21
Kunming
21
Kununurra
24
Kuopio
18
Kupang
21
Kuraymah
28
Kuwait City
32
Kuybyshev
25
Kyzyl
31
Kyzylorda
20
La Paz
10
La Paz
13
Labrador City
18
Labuhanbajo
13
Lae
18
Lagos
25
Lahore
27
Lanzhou
18
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
16
Las Vegas
10
Lata
19
Legaspi
30
Leh
18
Lerwick
29
Lesosibirsk
20
Leticia
25
Lhasa
23
Libreville
19
Lijiang
25
Lilongwe
16
Lima
14
Lisbon
22
Livingstone
20
Lobito
33
Lodja
20
London
18
Londrina
16
Longyearbyen
15
Lorengau
12
Los Angeles
18
Luanda
24
Luau
16
Lubango
23
Lubbock
24
Lubumbashi
20
Lucknow
12
Luderitz
27
Luena
12
Luganville
30
Lusaka
30
Luxor
34
Lviv
20
Lyon
23
Macapa
22
Mackay
16
Madrid
16
Magadan
28
Magnitogorsk
16
Mahajanga
1
Majuro
16
Makassar
35
Makhachkala
31
Malakal
6
Male
17
Mamoudzou
11
Manado
14
Managua
9
Mananara
24
Manaus
19
Mandalay
29
Mandalgovi
26
Manicore
24
Manila
16
Manokwari
32
Mao
20
Maputo
12
Mar del Plata
17
Maracaibo
18
Marquette
23
Marseille
29
Mary
30
Mashhad
5
Mata-Utu
16
Maun
28
Mazar-e Sharif
27
Mbandaka
29
Mbeya
29
Mbuji-Mayi
0
McMurdo Station
12
Medan
23
Medellín
30
Medina
5
Melbourne
27
Memphis
23
Menongue
17
Mérida
30
Mersa Matruh
17
Mexico City
25
Miami
25
Milan
7
Mildura
7
Mindelo
23
Minneapolis
30
Minsk
17
Miri
30
Mirny
13
Missoula
23
Mitu
3
Moerai
22
Mogadishu
26
Mogocha
26
Mombasa
21
Mongu
14
Monrovia
18
Monterrey
#
City
17
Montes Claros
16
Montréal
17
Mopti
24
Mörön
14
Morondava
18
Moroni
33
Moscow
31
Mosul
20
Mouila
27
Moundou
15
Mount Hagen
15
Mount Isa
23
Moyale
17
Mtwara
18
Mudanjiang
17
Mumbai
27
Murghob
24
Murmansk
25
Muscat
33
Mwanza
18
Myeik
21
Myitkyina
30
Mzuzu
17
Nabire
17
Nagpur
17
Naha
23
Nairobi
19
Nampula
16
Nanchang
16
Nanjing
19
Nanning
21
Nantes
2
Napari Village
26
Naples
22
Nar'yan-Mar
27
Nashville
19
Nassau
10
Natal
19
Naypyidaw
16
Naze
31
N'Djamena
3
Neiafu
14
Nema
27
Neryungri
14
Neuquen
28
New Orleans
20
New York
11
Newman
26
Nha Trang
13
Nhulunbuy
25
Niamey
17
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
30
Nizhny Novgorod
8
Nome
23
Noril'sk
13
Norman Wells
11
Nouadhibou
10
Nouakchott
9
Noumea
22
Novokuznetsk
27
Novosibirsk
26
Novyy Urengoy
26
Noyabrsk
8
Nuiqsut
8
Nuku'alofa
39
Nukus
8
Nuuk
25
Nyagan
24
Nyurba
20
Oaxaca
36
Odessa
17
Okhotsk
25
Oklahoma City
20
Olenyok
14
Olonkinbyen
26
Olyokminsk
19
Omaha
27
Omsk
14
Omsukchan
33
Oral
16
Oran
33
Orenburg
17
Osaka
15
Oshakati
22
Oslo
22
Ouagadougou
22
Oulu
5
Paamiut
12
Palana
21
Pale
11
Palembang
28
Palermo
18
Palmas
18
Palu
17
Panama City
2
Pangnirtung
15
Paramaribo
16
Paris
21
Patna
27
Pavlodar
22
Pechora
12
Pekanbaru
23
Perm
6
Perth
11
Petrolina
23
Petropavlov
14
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
27
Petrozavodsk
10
Pevek
15
Phoenix
11
Picos
22
Pointe-Noire
9
Ponta Delgada
31
Pontes e Lacerda
24
Port Blair
10
Port Elizabeth
20
Port Harcourt
15
Port Hedland
9
Port Lincoln
3
Port Louis
6
Port Mathurin
11
Port Moresby
29
Port Sudan
11
Port Vila
15
Port-au-Prince
0
Port-aux-Francais
13
Portland
14
Porto
18
Porto Alegre
23
Porto Velho
20
Posadas
30
Prague
6
Praia
14
Prince George
12
Provideniya
15
Pucallpa
23
Puerto Ayacucho
13
Puerto Ayora
7
Puerto Montt
20
Puerto Princesa
6
Punta Arenas
31
Qamdo
5
Qaqortoq
30
Qarazhal
18
Qingdao
12
Quebec
19
Quelimane
22
Quetta
14
Quito
22
Rankin Inlet
28
Rapid City
29
Rawalpindi
7
Recife
14
Redding
19
Regina
19
Resistencia
8
Reykjavik
18
Riberalta
31
Riga
4
Rikitea
20
Rio Branco
17
Rio de Janeiro
27
Riyadh
22
Rockhampton
10
Roma
14
Rosario
20
Roswell
12
Roxby Downs
21
Rundu
25
Sabha
26
Sagh
21
Saint George's
8
Saint John's
22
Saint Louis
22
Saint Petersburg
10
Saint-Augustin
4
Saint-Denis
11
Saint-Pierre
4
Saipan
25
Salalah
20
Salt Lake City
21
Salta
11
Salvador
30
Samara
32
Samsun
10
San Andres
22
San Antonio
13
San Francisco
12
San José
15
San Juan
9
San Luis
17
San Miguel de Tucuman
21
San Pedro Sula
19
Sana'a
9
Sand Point
24
Sandakan
14
San-Pedro
18
Santa Clara
27
Santa Cruz
20
Santa Maria
#
City
9
Santa Rosa
27
Santarem
11
Santiago
18
Santiago de Cuba
14
Santo Domingo
21
Sao Felix do Xingu
20
Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira
16
São Luís
18
São Paulo
21
Sao Tome
12
Sapporo
35
Saratov
18
Saskatoon
17
Saskylakh
18
Sault Ste. Marie
24
Saurimo
32
Sayibage
31
Saynshand
14
Seattle
11
Semarang
11
Sendai
18
Seoul
34
Sevastopol
25
Severobaikalsk
15
Seville
17
Shakawe
18
Shanghai
24
Shar'ya
28
Shenyang
26
Shiliguri
24
Shiraz
14
Sholapur
34
Shreveport
4
Sigave
11
Singapore
31
Sinop
20
Sioux Falls
7
Sisimiut
36
Siwa Oasis
34
Sofia
23
Sokoto
15
Sonsorol Village
17
Sorong
17
Sovetskaya Gavan'
15
Spokane
11
Springbok
23
Springfield
17
Srednekolymsk
6
Stanley
36
Stavropol'
27
Stockholm
23
Sukkur
24
Sumbawanga
18
Surabaya
13
Surat Thani
24
Surgut
16
Susuman
3
Suva
7
Sydney
10
Sydney
25
Syktyvkar
29
Tabas
29
Tabora
34
Tabriz
25
Tabuk
1
Tabwakea Village
20
Tacna
15
Taipei
30
Taiyuan
10
Talcahuano
25
Tallahassee
18
Tamale
28
Tamanrasset
7
Tambacounda
16
Tambopata
23
Tampa
18
Tampico
23
Taoudenni
7
Tarawa
21
Tarija
36
Tashkent
4
Tasiilaq
26
Tebessa
29
Tehran
9
Temuco
24
Tennant Creek
13
Teresina
14
Ternate
14
Terrace
20
The Pas
20
The Ruhr
22
Thompson
22
Thunder Bay
14
Tiksi
17
Timbuktu
27
Timimoun
17
Timmins
21
Tindouf
17
Tobi Village
29
Tobruk
9
Tofol
15
Tokyo
12
Toliara
35
Torghay
19
Toronto
19
Torreón
16
Torshavn
23
Townsville
7
Trelew
19
Trinidad
22
Tripoli
20
Tromso
19
Trondheim
17
Trujillo
16
Tual
25
Tunis
19
Tura
24
Turbat
20
Tuxtla Gutierrez
19
Tyumen
22
Uberlandia
19
Ubon Ratchathani
23
Udon Thani
24
Ufa
25
Ukhta
29
Ulaanbaatar
26
Ulan-Ude
23
Uliastay
24
Umea
6
Upernavik
12
Upington
23
Uray
31
Ürümqi
5
Ushuaia
27
Ust-Kamenogorsk
25
Ust'-Kut
15
Ust-Nera
23
Ust-Tsilma
3
Vaitape
16
Val-d'Or
18
Valencia
21
Vanavara
16
Victoria
10
Viedma
14
Vijayawada
27
Vilhena
20
Virginia Beach
15
Vishakhapatnam
14
Vitória
12
Vitória da Conquista
16
Vladivostok
37
Volgograd
30
Vorkuta
34
Voronezh
26
Waddan
0
Waitangi
25
Wajir
12
Walvis Bay
31
Warsaw
21
Washington
16
Watson Lake
31
Wau
10
Weipa
0
Wellington
15
Weno
21
Wenshan City
17
Wenzhou
7
West Island
15
Wewak
12
Whitehorse
12
Windhoek
25
Winnipeg
0
Wotje
15
Wuhan
20
Xiamen
22
Xi'an
17
Xiangyang
24
Xilin Hot
21
Xuzhou
18
Yakutsk
20
Yangon
31
Yaroslavl
22
Yazd
24
Yekaterinburg
11
Yellowknife
24
Yerbogachen
36
Yerevan
28
Yinchuan
31
Yingbazha
15
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
29
Zagreb
25
Zahedan
17
Zamboanga
16
Zaragoza
24
Zeya
25
Zhengzhou
33
Zhezqazghan
18
Zhigansk
12
Zouerat
14
Zyryanka
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Level 90
Dec 17, 2016
Definitely notched up the difficulty level on this one. It's counterintuitive to try and think of cities that are further away in an effort to fill up all the black holes. Immensely enjoyable of course though.
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Level 65
Dec 17, 2016
Very fun! Though I thought 850 would beat more than just half
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Level 71
Apr 2, 2018
Got 922 :D