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Can you name the 50 World Agglomerations of 1 Million+ Farthest from the Closest 1M+ Agglo?
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Citypopulation, Geonames for Coordinates
Of the 479 world agglos of 1M+ population (per citypopulation as of 7-1-11), name the 50 farthest from their closest 1M+ agglo neighbor. #51-64 are bonus answers (those above 400km).
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Dist (km)
Agglo
Closest
2153.99
Sydney
2134.05
Adelaide
1614.32
Dar es Salaam
1292.99
Belem
1077.17
La Paz
1017.38
Nairobi
967.92
Jiddah
920.43
Sanaa
858.62
Almaty
843.84
Tokyo
839.84
Baotou
821.21
Porto Alegre
818.06
Mecca
773.49
Surabaya
743.13
Lubumbashi
732.59
Sydney
713.36
Melbourne
Dist (km)
Agglo
Closest
709.78
Guatemala City
704.44
Conakry
702.15
Ouagadougou
673.40
Nairobi
673.36
Tashkent
673.36
Almaty
659.94
Port Elizabeth
659.94
Cape Town
653.36
Melbourne
653.36
Adelaide
629.87
Taipei
629.14
Novosibirsk
608.93
Salt Lake City
607.33
Omsk
607.33
Novosibirsk
583.08
Las Vegas
576.56
Mandalay
Dist (km)
Agglo
Closest
571.80
Cebu
547.63
Kinshasa
535.67
Phnom Penh
517.94
Tunis
517.94
Tripoli
503.30
Nairobi
503.30
Kampala
485.45
Birmingham, US
481.94
Sao Luis
481.94
Belem
476.06
Maceio
473.46
Milwaukee
467.96
Cartagena
459.16
Maputo
441.08
Pretoria
439.20
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Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
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Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong
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50 Loneliest World Agglomerations Quiz
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Created Sep 19, 2011 in
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Dralcoffin
:
Sep 20th, 2011 at 03:47 GMT
9 points
Wow, Australia is big.
quizzle
:
Sep 20th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT
-4 points
New Orleans is approx. 348 miles from Houston, much closer than Birmingham.
darinh
:
Sep 20th, 2011 at 18:34 GMT
3 points
@quizzle: New Orleans to Birmingham is approx 312 miles, you can verify on distancefromto.net.
newenglander
:
Sep 20th, 2011 at 20:19 GMT
8 points
@quizzle-the measurements are in kilometers not miles. even in miles, houston is still further away than birmingham
darinh
:
Sep 20th, 2011 at 20:40 GMT
7 points
@newenglander: as opposed to when converting units changes relative distances :)
DonEscamillo
:
Sep 21st, 2011 at 00:22 GMT
1 point
Great quiz!
save_ferris15
:
Sep 21st, 2011 at 00:45 GMT
7 points
New Orleans is that isolated? I would have never knew. And someday, I vow to be able to spell Mongolia's capital.
the_luggage
:
Sep 21st, 2011 at 04:50 GMT
5 points
Not one European city.
ryan_hm
:
Sep 21st, 2011 at 14:19 GMT
5 points
Guess Urumqi and Antananarivo, forget Brisbane, Salt Lake City and Denver. Damn you, Sporcleitis!
phantom4ptplay
:
Sep 21st, 2011 at 19:32 GMT
1 point
I live in Minneapolis and did not guess it, wow! You need to allow alternate spelling for the capital of Mongolia.
Kiss
:
Sep 22nd, 2011 at 00:20 GMT
0 points
what
jefrunner
:
Sep 22nd, 2011 at 17:49 GMT
5 points
I knew when Arkhangelsk and Kathmandu turned up nothing that I was not going to do well on this quiz.
Pyrophorus
:
Sep 23rd, 2011 at 01:04 GMT
1 point
I was surprised that Reykjavik is so small. Only ~200k people.
cocky
:
Sep 25th, 2011 at 03:07 GMT
-4 points
Birmingham's population is not over 1,000,000.
cuendillar
:
Oct 3rd, 2011 at 08:03 GMT
3 points
I'm really surprised Rwanda, with a population of over 11 million on an area smaller than Massachusetts/Belgium, haven't a single metro over a million.
hanseliezer
:
Dec 12th, 2012 at 13:07 GMT
1 point
shouldn't Honolulu be in this? Hawaii is far from anywhere, you know
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