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About City Distance
City Distance is a geography-focused web application for city triangulation, distance lookup, and map-based exploration.
What is City Distance?
City Distance is a free online tool that helps you find cities based on their distances from known locations. Using the principle of triangulation, you can pinpoint cities by entering the distances from two or three reference cities.
How to Use
Our triangulation calculator works by drawing distance circles around your reference cities. Where these circles intersect, you'll find cities that match your distance criteria. The more reference cities you use, the more accurate your results will be.
- 2 Cities: Creates two intersecting circles, typically giving two possible intersection areas
- 3 Cities: More precise triangulation with a single intersection point
Use Cases
- Solving geography games and puzzles (like SatZoom, Satle)
- Educational purposes - learning about geography and distances
- Travel planning - finding cities at specific distances
- Curiosity - exploring what cities are equidistant from multiple locations
What You Can Do on CityDistance
Beyond the triangulation solver, CityDistance offers a suite of geography tools and content pages:
- Use the city-to-city distance calculator for any two cities worldwide, or the radius search to find every city within a given distance.
- Browse our world cities directory for in-depth city pages such as New York, London, and Tokyo, each with distances to major destinations, nearby cities, and time-zone data.
- Explore dedicated city-pair pages like New York to Hong Kong, London to Singapore, London to Shanghai, or London to Johannesburg — with flight times, great-circle route maps, and midpoint details.
- Train your geography intuition with three free quiz modes: the Daily Challenge, Distance Guess sprint, and the City Distance Quiz.
Data Sources
Our city database contains over 30,000 cities worldwide, sourced from GeoNames. Map data is provided by OpenStreetMap contributors.
Contact
Have questions or suggestions? We'd love to hear from you. Reach out at info@citydistance.io
Who Runs This Website
City Distance is independently operated as an online geography tool and reference website. We focus on making distance-based city search, map exploration, and geography game helpers simple, fast, and accessible.
If you need help, want to report an issue, or have a business inquiry, contact info@citydistance.io. You can also review our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.