Can you name the countries with the greatest distances between their most populous and second most populous cities*? by Onno

Can you name the countries with the greatest distances between their most populous and second most populous cities*?

created by Onno

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
* When available, metro area populations are used. The two cities are never in the same metro area, for example: Tokyo - Osaka is used instead of Tokyo - Yokohama. Distances are straight line.
Source: City Population
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Distance (km)	Country	Between
3936		New York - Los Angeles
1566		Kinshasa - Lubumbashi
1391		Maputo - Nampula
1264		Johannesburg - Cape Town
1212		Guangzhou - Shanghai
1166		Delhi - Mumbai
1147		Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi
1030		Karachi - Lahore
975		Almaty - Astana
915		Khartoum - Nyala
871		Muscat - Salalah
847		Riyadh - Jiddah

Distance (km)	Country	Between
846		Mogadishu - Hargeysa
834		Lagos - Kano
766		Lima - Arequipa
759		Havana - Santiago de Cuba
730		Tehran - Mashhad
713		Sydney - Melbourne
697		Weno - Palikir
678		La Paz - Santa Cruz
662		Paris - Marseille
651		Tripoli - Benghazi
644		Buenos Aires - Cordoba
642		Kabul - Herat
633	Kabul - Herat
578	Kabul - Herat
572	Kabul - Herat
572	Kabul - Herat

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Farthest apart 1st and 2nd cities Quiz

by Onno

Created Jan 29, 2011 in Geography
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	Michelle100:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 21:13 GMT		2 points
	You've got Kazakhstan as the answer twice when one should be Pakistan

	Onno:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 21:25 GMT		2 points
	Odd, don't know how that came to be. Fixed.

	adamnvillani:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT		1 point
	When you type in China, it comes up with Mumabi and Delhi as its cities.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 23:47 GMT		3 points
	Nice quiz, but there's something I don't understand. Your source gives the two largest cities in Nigeria as Lagos and Kano which are 833 km apart. You have this as a bonus answer, not as a regular answer. You claim that Kano is tied for second largest city with Ibadan, yet Kano is listed by your source as having a population of 2,166,554, while Ibadan has 1,835,300, a difference of 331,254. It seems that there is no tie and Lagos-Kano with a distance of 833 should be a regular answer. Am I missing something?

	phildm:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 00:05 GMT		2 points
	Good idea for a quiz. I too am puzzled by your Nigeria answer...

	FranckNicole:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 06:05 GMT		-2 points
	Shanghai and Guangzhou are not the largest city in China. ChongQin is!

	Onno:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 08:36 GMT		1 point
	On the Nigeria issue: I use metro area populations (the Agglomerations page on my source) for most of the countries on this quiz. When I downloaded the data in 2010, Ibadan and Kano were still tied on that list. But I see that Kano has a little bit more now, so it's an answer.

	cocomika:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 10:41 GMT		-1 points
	Onno, why no answer to the China issue?

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 11:57 GMT		1 point
	@Onno: thanks for the response. My mistake: I was looking at the city page, not the agglomerations page as you stated. However, even if Kano and Ibadan were truly tied, I would have been inclined to pick the city (Kano) that would qualify for inclusion in the quiz and have treated it as regular answer (maybe with a bonus indicating the tie with Ibadan). But I can appreciate that others may disagree with that. Anyway, 5 globes.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 12:04 GMT		1 point
	@cocomika: if I may, I think you may have fallen into the same trap I did. You are thinking of (looking at) city population data while the quiz is considering metro area populations (agglomerations). I think if you check out the agglomerations for China given in the source (http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html) you will see that indeed the two largest metro areas (agglomerations) in China are Guangzhou and Shanghai. Perhaps it would have been clearer if Onno had linked directly to the agglomerations page of the source, but the quiz does state that metro area populations are being used.

	Onno:	Jan 30th, 2011 at 19:09 GMT		2 points
	^ That's all true. I linked to the main site because I used their city population figures as well for less populous cities (like the ones in Micronesia)

	idpsych:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 03:04 GMT		1 point
	Please accept "Dem Rep Congo"

	smarty:	Jan 31st, 2011 at 09:08 GMT		2 points
	sydney-melbourne 713km, 12 hours in a train. paris-marseille 662km, 3 hours in a train. wtf australia?

	pator:	Jun 1st, 2011 at 06:33 GMT		3 points
	Cuba was a surprise...good quiz.

	mouthforhire:	Apr 15th, 2012 at 08:31 GMT		1 point
	@smarty: if you're lucky. i reckon that is the most unreliable train between 2 cities of similar size in the developed world.

	Razorblade:	Aug 17th, 2012 at 16:08 GMT		1 point
	Enough time to guess every country in the world.

	citkeane:	Feb 20th, 2013 at 16:23 GMT		1 point
	Onno, definitely think about a significant reduction in the time limit. With 24 answers 5/6 minutes sounds good. Also, from what I can see Matola is the 2nd largest Mozambican city, which might remove Mozambique from the list if I'm right. I'd definitely consider giving this a CP but I think it might be a good idea to doublecheck your answers first, whenever you have time.