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50 World Cities Furthest from a Larger City

Can you list the 50 cities that are furthest from a city with a bigger population? Both very big and very remote cities will make the list!
City data from citypopulation for bigger ones, from geonames.org for smaller ones
Dot size represents distance to the closest larger city
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: November 25, 2016
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D (km)
City
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Guangzhou
11,319
Mexico City
7,423
São Paulo
6,366
Lagos
5,380
Sydney
4,483
Johannesburg
4,177
Moscow
3,852
Honolulu
3,654
Delhi
3,530
Hanga Roa
D (km)
City
3,482
McMurdo Station
3,360
New York
3,345
Port-aux-Francais
3,319
Jakarta
3,130
Lima
2,903
Tokyo
2,899
Cairo
2,729
Perth
2,508
London
2,479
Los Angeles
D (km)
City
2,453
Dar es Salaam
2,429
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
2,409
Faaa
2,161
Auckland
2,134
Anchorage
2,086
Port Moresby
2,039
Saipan
1,917
Jamestown
1,913
Tehran
1,895
Tabwakea Village
D (km)
City
1,871
Tarawa
1,869
Bogotá
1,800
Dakar
1,781
Kinshasa
1,692
Ürümqi
1,674
Buenos Aires
1,630
Recife
1,610
Antananarivo
1,606
Khartoum
1,536
Rikitea
D (km)
City
1,533
Bangkok
1,512
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
1,492
Anadyr
1,484
Miami
1,457
Noumea
1,455
Grytviken
1,437
Nuuk
1,425
Dhaka
1,402
Honiara
1,401
Atuona
Djilas
+2
Level 82
Jan 4, 2017
Nice, not sure I want to learn the data necessary for higher percentage though :)
nichster
+1
Level 55
Jan 17, 2017
When I looked at the map, I straight away looked at the big dots which engulfed 1/4 of Mexico and most of South East China!
Maladroit
+1
Level 51
Apr 26, 2017
It's amazing how New Delhi is the only place in India - and then you look at Guangzhou, which is far, far bigger and is the only place to be found in the most populous country in the world.
Gassu
+1
Level 70
Feb 25, 2019
I don't think your last statement is true (Ürümqi)
HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Apr 10, 2019
Great idea! But please accept Port-aux-France for Port-aux-Francais and King Edward Point for Grytviken. Thanks!
AntiMatter8192
+1
Level 68
Mar 21, 2020
How do you call Grytviken a city?
Eduardoleonl05
+1
Level 26
Aug 14, 2021
bruh what is this😭😭😭this is so funny. so many random villages in random little islands in the pacific like what????
Gumbledalf
+1
Level 71
Apr 15, 2022
Extremely interesting – this is exactly my kind of quiz. Surprising how only one city in Siberia and no cities in Canada or southern South America qualify. Also would've expected more in the Pacific. How did you compile this? Did you include all the Antarctic stations? I'm having a hard time believing only McMurdo makes it in.
scambigol
+2
Level 76
Apr 16, 2022
Thanks for your comment! I did the quiz a long time ago, basically with a list of cities from geonames.org which includes population, latitude, longitude... Then had Excel calculate the distance to the closest largest city. I think mcmurdo was the only place listed with population greater than 0 in Antarctica. Large areas can end up having no cities because for example Stanley in West Falkland will be smaller than Punta Arenas, then Punta Arenas will be smaller than Comodoro Rivadavia, this will be smaller than Bariloche, this will be smaller than Buenos Aires... I kind of made this up so there might be mistakes but I hope it explains the concept.
theblackwidow
+1
Level 70
Apr 21, 2022
I think Nuuk can also be spelled Nuuq?

Thanks to Michael Palin I got Petropavlovsk!

TheOrca
+1
Level 50
Apr 21, 2022
On the chart it says Guangzhou's distance from a larger city is 40000 km. What city is this? :)
Iswearimnotanerd
+1
Level 33
Jun 29, 2022
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