Closest Larger 1M Non-Capital City to each World Capital - Yellow Box Option

For each world capital, what is the closest non-capital city that is larger than it? Note that the following cities are not considered:
- cities with less than 1 million people
- cities whose agglomeration includes a capital
- any capital of multi-capital counties (South Africa, Benin, Bolivia according to JetPunk's World Capitals quiz)
Population used is the urban agglomeration one, taken from citypopulation.de
You are shown distance in km as a hint: the highest and lowest 20 values are highlighted
Capitals are sorted by continent and alphabetically
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Capital City
D (km)
Closest Larger Non-Capital
Abuja
340
Kano
Accra
411
Lagos
Addis Ababa
1382
Jeddah
Algiers
518
Barcelona
Antananarivo
1610
Dar es Salaam
Asmara
680
Mecca
Bamako
920
Abidjan
Bangui
982
Douala
Banjul
1643
Abidjan
Bissau
1463
Abidjan
Brazzaville
1109
Douala
Bujumbura
708
Mbuji-Mayi
Cairo
3564
Karachi
Conakry
1161
Abidjan
Dakar
1800
Abidjan
Djibouti
1145
Mecca
Dodoma
396
Dar es Salaam
Freetown
1074
Abidjan
Gaborone
764
Durban
Harare
1334
Durban
Juba
1334
Mombasa
Kampala
1081
Dar es Salaam
Khartoum
2848
Istanbul
Kigali
854
Mbuji-Mayi
Kinshasa
1781
Lagos
Libreville
406
Douala
Lilongwe
730
Lubumbashi
Lomé
242
Lagos
Luanda
2012
Lagos
Lusaka
1531
Dar es Salaam
Malabo
108
Douala
Maputo
461
Durban
Maseru
344
Durban
Mbabane
393
Durban
Mogadishu
1191
Dar es Salaam
Monrovia
757
Abidjan
Moroni
696
Dar es Salaam
Nairobi
667
Dar es Salaam
N'Djamena
710
Kano
Niamey
667
Kaduna
Nouakchott
1512
Agadir
Ouagadougou
628
Kumasi
Port Louis
2461
Dar es Salaam
Porto-Novo
87
Lagos
Praia
2228
Agadir
Pretoria (Johannesburg)
4483
Lagos
Rabat
86
Casablanca
São Tomé
495
Port Harcourt
Tripoli
887
Naples
Tunis
570
Naples
Victoria
1750
Mombasa
Windhoek
1514
Port Elizabeth
Yamoussoukro
215
Abidjan
Yaoundé
201
Douala
 
 
 
Abu Dhabi
125
Dubai
Amman
573
Alexandria
Ankara
351
Istanbul
Ashgabat
214
Meshed
Astana
443
Omsk
Baghdad
1610
Istanbul
Baku
869
Isfahan
Bandar Seri Begawan
1115
Ho Chi Minh City
Bangkok
1704
Guangzhou
Beijing
1069
Shanghai
Beirut
210
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Bishkek
195
Alma-Ata
Capital City
D (km)
Closest Larger Non-Capital
Colombo
682
Chennai
Damascus
649
Alexandria
Delhi
3654
Guangzhou
Dhaka
1891
Mumbai
Dili
776
Makassar
Doha
191
Dammam
Dushanbe
560
Peshawar
Hanoi
322
Nanning
Islamabad (Rawalpindi)
143
Peshawar
Jakarta
3319
Guangzhou
Jerusalem
54
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Kabul
503
Faisalabad
Kathmandu
446
Lucknow
Kuala Lumpur
1006
Ho Chi Minh City
Kuwait City
1237
Jeddah
Male
712
Cochin
Manama
52
Dammam
Manila
1242
Guangzhou
Muscat
380
Dubai
Naypyidaw
246
Mandalay
Nicosia
268
Adana
Phnom Penh
212
Ho Chi Minh City
Pyongyang
357
Dalian
Riyadh
2043
Karachi
Sana'a
861
Jeddah
Seoul
870
Shanghai
Singapore
1095
Ho Chi Minh City
Taipei
358
Xiamen
Tashkent
1012
Meshed
Tbilisi
424
Tabriz
Tehran
1913
Karachi
Thimphu
256
Gauhati
Tokyo
2903
Guangzhou
Ulaanbaatar
839
Baotou
Vientiane
533
Chonburi
Yerevan
279
Tabriz
 
 
 
Amsterdam
56
Rotterdam
Andorra la Vella
136
Barcelona
Athens
570
Istanbul
Belgrade
614
Katowice (673 Naples)
Berlin
450
The Ruhr (479 Cologne/Dusseldorf)
Bern
96
Zurich
Bratislava
273
Katowice (411 Munich)
Brussels
121
Rotterdam
Bucharest
439
Istanbul
Budapest
790
Milan
Chișinău
152
Odessa
Copenhagen
289
Hamburg
Dublin
221
Liverpool
Helsinki
300
Saint Petersburg
Kiev
1043
Istanbul
Lisbon
584
Casablanca
Ljubljana
320
Munich
London
5005
Lagos
Luxembourg
157
Cologne / Dusseldorf
Madrid
2745
Istanbul
Minsk
692
Saint Petersburg
Monaco
149
Turin
Moscow
4177
Karachi
Oslo
710
Hamburg
Paris
2258
Istanbul
Podgorica
454
Naples
Prague
302
Munich
Pristina
610
Naples
Reykjavík
1339
Glasgow
Capital City
D (km)
Closest Larger Non-Capital
Riga
492
Saint Petersburg
Rome
188
Naples
San Marino
308
Milan
Sarajevo
475
Naples
Skopje
614
Naples
Sofia
503
Istanbul
Stockholm
691
Saint Petersburg
Tallinn
318
Saint Petersburg
Tirana
471
Naples
Vaduz
78
Zurich
Valletta
351
Sousse
Vatican City
190
Naples
Vienna
299
Katowice (356 Munich)
Vilnius
650
Katowice (658 Saint Petersburg)
Warsaw
260
Katowice (753 Hamburg)
Zagreb
422
Munich
 
 
 
Basseterre
382
San Juan
Belmopan
209
San Pedro Sula
Bridgetown
914
San Juan
Castries
736
San Juan
Guatemala City
1513
Guadalajara
Havana
365
Miami
Kingston
807
Barranquilla
Kingstown
765
Maracay
Managua
1257
Barranquilla
Mexico City
12,929
Shanghai
Nassau
300
Miami
Ottawa
165
Montreal
Panama City
528
Medellín
Port-au-Prince
1142
Miami
Port-of-Spain
666
Maracay
Roseau
613
San Juan
Saint George's
669
Maracay
Saint John's
477
San Juan
San José
1021
Medellín
San Salvador
1127
Puebla
Santo Domingo
1337
Miami
Tegucigalpa
177
San Pedro Sula
Washington
330
New York
 
 
 
Asunción
825
Porto Alegre
Bogotá
4004
New York
Brasília
623
Belo Horizonte
Buenos Aires
1674
São Paulo
Caracas
1061
Medellín
Georgetown
1106
Maracay
La Paz
1729
Manaus
Lima
3458
São Paulo
Montevideo
708
Porto Alegre
Paramaribo
1098
Belém
Quito
272
Guayaquil
Santiago
2587
São Paulo
 
 
 
Apia
2880
Auckland
Canberra
241
Sydney
Funafuti
3169
Auckland
Honiara
2123
Brisbane
Majuro
3662
Honolulu
Melekeok
994
Davao
Nukuʻalofa
1994
Auckland
Palikir
3593
Davao
Port Moresby
2086
Brisbane
Port Vila
1902
Brisbane
Suva
2104
Auckland
Tarawa
3834
Brisbane
Wellington
492
Auckland
Yaren
3326
Brisbane
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Level 75
Sep 18, 2016
which one is closer to cairo? karachi or mecca. some answers are obviously wrong.
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Level 76
Sep 18, 2016
it has to be larger, too: Mecca isn't larger than Cairo