Cities Population By Country

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Cities With Highest Population – Global Cities By Population Ranking

World Most Populated Cities : Which Is The Largest City In The World By Population

Top 10 Most Populated Cities in the World

Tokyo⁰¹

37,036,200

Delhi⁰²

34,665,600

Shanghai⁰³

30,482,100

Dhaka⁰⁴

24,652,900

Cairo⁰⁵

23,074,200

Sao Paulo⁰⁶

22,990,000

Mexico City⁰⁷

22,752,400

Karachi ¹²

18,076,800

Kinshasa¹³

17,778,500

Lagos¹⁴

17,156,400

S.No	City	Country	Population 2025	Population 2024	Change
1	Tokyo	Japan	37,036,200	37,115,000	-0.21%
2	Delhi	India	34,665,600	33,807,400	2.54%
3	Shanghai	China	30,482,100	29,867,900	2.06%
4	Dhaka	Bangladesh	24,652,900	23,935,700	3%
5	Cairo	Egypt	23,074,200	22,623,900	1.99%
6	Sao Paulo	Brazil	22,990,000	22,806,700	0.80%
7	Mexico City	Mexico	22,752,400	22,505,300	1.10%
8	Beijing	China	22,596,500	22,189,100	1.84%
9	Mumbai	India	22,089,000	21,673,100	1.92%
10	Osaka	Japan	18,921,600	18,967,500	-0.24%
11	Chongqing	China	18,171,200	17,773,900	2.23%
12	Karachi	Pakistan	18,076,800	17,648,600	2.43%
13	Kinshasa	DR Congo	17,778,500	17,032,300	4.38%
14	Lagos	Nigeria	17,156,400	16,536,000	3.75%
15	Istanbul	Turkey	16,236,700	16,047,400	1.18%
16	Kolkata	India	15,845,200	15,570,800	1.76%
17	Buenos Aires	Argentina	15,752,300	15,618,300	0.86%
18	Manila	Philippines	15,230,600	14,942,000	1.93%
19	Guangzhou	China	14,878,700	14,590,100	1.98%
20	Lahore	Pakistan	14,825,800	14,407,100	2.91%
21	Tianjin	China	14,704,100	14,470,900	1.61%
22	Bangalore	India	14,395,400	14,008,300	2.76%
23	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	13,923,200	13,824,300	0.71%
24	Shenzhen	China	13,545,400	13,311,900	1.75%
25	Moscow	Russia	12,737,400	12,712,300	0.20%
26	Chennai	India	12,336,000	12,053,700	2.34%
27	Bogota	Colombia	11,795,800	11,658,200	1.18%
28	Jakarta	Indonesia	11,634,100	11,436,000	1.73%
29	Lima	Peru	11,517,300	11,361,900	1.37%
30	Bangkok	Thailand	11,391,700	11,233,900	1.41%
31	Paris	France	11,346,800	11,276,700	0.62%
32	Hyderabad	India	11,337,900	11,068,900	2.43%
33	Nanjing	China	10,174,900	9,947,550	2.28%
34	Luanda	Angola	10,027,900	9,651,030	3.91%
35	Seoul	South Korea	10,025,800	10,004,800	0.21%
36	Chengdu	China	9,998,870	9,828,110	1.74%
37	London	United Kingdom	9,840,740	9,748,030	0.95%
38	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	9,816,320	9,567,660	2.60%
39	Tehran	Iran	9,729,740	9,616,010	1.18%
40	Nagoya	Japan	9,534,790	9,556,880	-0.23%
41	Xi-an	China	9,222,080	9,013,840	2.31%
42	Ahmedabad	India	9,061,820	8,854,440	2.34%
43	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	9,000,280	8,815,630	2.10%
44	Wuhan	China	8,986,480	8,850,850	1.53%
45	Suzhou	China	8,592,820	8,350,620	2.90%
46	Hangzhou	China	8,591,040	8,419,840	2.03%
47	Surat	India	8,581,730	8,330,530	3.02%
48	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	8,561,520	8,161,230	4.91%
49	Baghdad	Iraq	8,141,120	7,921,130	2.78%
50	Shenyang	China	7,974,270	7,830,380	1.84%
51	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	7,952,860	7,820,550	1.69%
52	New York City	United States	7,936,530	8,097,282	-1.98%
53	Foshan	China	7,817,160	7,704,940	1.46%
54	Dongguan	China	7,772,860	7,675,150	1.27%
55	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	7,768,510	7,725,860	0.55%
56	Pune	India	7,525,720	7,345,850	2.45%
57	Haerbin	China	7,066,860	6,938,010	1.86%
58	Santiago	Chile	6,999,460	6,950,950	0.70%
59	Madrid	Spain	6,810,530	6,783,240	0.40%
60	Khartoum	Sudan	6,754,180	6,542,070	3.24%
61	Toronto	Canada	6,491,290	6,431,430	0.93%
62	Johannesburg	South Africa	6,444,580	6,324,350	1.90%
63	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	6,351,680	6,300,410	0.81%
64	Dalian	China	6,347,380	6,217,490	2.09%
65	Qingdao	China	6,217,970	6,104,600	1.86%
66	Singapore	Singapore	6,157,270	6,119,200	0.62%
67	Zhengzhou	China	6,156,140	6,014,890	2.35%
68	Ji nan Shandong	China	6,065,850	5,940,700	2.11%
69	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	6,056,880	5,866,700	3.24%
70	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	5,956,680	5,703,630	4.44%
71	Yangon	Myanmar	5,813,190	5,709,680	1.81%
72	Alexandria	Egypt	5,807,050	5,696,130	1.95%
73	Nairobi	Kenya	5,766,990	5,541,170	4.08%
74	Barcelona	Spain	5,733,250	5,711,920	0.37%
75	Chittagong	Bangladesh	5,653,490	5,513,610	2.54%
76	Hanoi	Vietnam	5,602,200	5,431,800	3.14%
77	Saint Petersburg	Russia	5,597,340	5,581,710	0.28%
78	Guadalajara	Mexico	5,578,580	5,499,680	1.44%
79	Ankara	Turkey	5,550,490	5,477,090	1.34%
80	Fukuoka	Japan	5,465,920	5,478,080	-0.22%
81	Melbourne	Australia	5,391,890	5,315,600	1.44%
82	Monterrey	Mexico	5,272,360	5,195,360	1.48%
83	Sydney	Australia	5,248,790	5,184,900	1.23%
84	Urumqi	China	5,132,170	5,005,960	2.52%
85	Changsha	China	5,128,270	5,027,980	1.99%
86	Cape Town	South Africa	5,063,580	4,977,830	1.72%
87	Jiddah	Saudi Arabia	5,021,600	4,943,210	1.59%
88	Brasilia	Brazil	4,990,930	4,935,270	1.13%
89	Kunming	China	4,955,680	4,861,080	1.95%
90	Changchun	China	4,891,020	4,802,450	1.84%
91	Kabul	Afghanistan	4,877,020	4,728,380	3.14%
92	Yaounde	Cameroon	4,854,260	4,681,770	3.68%
93	Hefei	China	4,830,170	4,727,290	2.18%
94	Ningbo	China	4,770,300	4,659,830	2.37%
95	Shantou	China	4,737,590	4,656,520	1.74%
96	Kano	Nigeria	4,645,320	4,490,730	3.44%
97	Tel Aviv	Israel	4,568,530	4,495,730	1.62%
98	New Taipei	Taiwan	4,563,850	4,534,880	0.64%
99	Shijiazhuang	China	4,534,990	4,454,130	1.81%
100	Jaipur	India	4,411,110	4,308,510	2.38%
101	Kozhikode	India	4,387,410	4,243,960	3.38%
102	Nanning	China	4,383,600	4,291,460	2.15%
103	Montreal	Canada	4,377,310	4,341,640	0.82%
104	Rome	Italy	4,347,100	4,331,970	0.35%
105	Douala	Cameroon	4,346,420	4,203,110	3.41%
106	Recife	Brazil	4,344,050	4,305,130	0.90%
107	Malappuram	India	4,343,910	4,184,920	3.80%
108	Taiyuan Shanxi	China	4,305,290	4,226,780	1.86%
109	Fortaleza	Brazil	4,284,450	4,246,400	0.90%
110	Porto Alegre	Brazil	4,268,960	4,239,870	0.69%
111	Kampala	Uganda	4,265,160	4,050,830	5.29%
112	Ekurhuleni	South Africa	4,262,130	4,190,830	1.70%
113	Antananarivo	Madagascar	4,228,980	4,048,670	4.45%
114	Abuja	Nigeria	4,209,940	4,025,740	4.58%
115	Changzhou	China	4,180,040	4,085,500	2.31%
116	Medellin	Colombia	4,172,810	4,137,390	0.86%
117	Ibadan	Nigeria	4,144,130	4,004,320	3.49%
118	Lucknow	India	4,132,670	4,038,210	2.34%
119	Nanchang	China	4,104,120	4,016,040	2.19%
120	Wenzhou	China	4,093,180	4,009,530	2.09%
121	Xiamen	China	4,077,760	4,007,470	1.75%
122	Fuzhou Fujian	China	4,072,430	3,998,750	1.84%
123	Kumasi	Ghana	4,036,230	3,903,480	3.40%
124	Salvador	Brazil	4,029,910	3,994,980	0.87%
125	Tangshan Hebei	China	4,024,170	3,925,210	2.52%
126	Casablanca	Morocco	4,012,310	3,950,410	1.57%
127	Bekasi	Indonesia	3,926,050	3,830,680	2.49%
128	Faisalabad	Pakistan	3,892,830	3,800,190	2.44%
129	Curitiba	Brazil	3,889,140	3,852,460	0.95%
130	Port Harcourt	Nigeria	3,793,780	3,636,550	4.32%
131	Los Angeles	United States	3,770,958	3,795,936	-0.66%
132	Guiyang	China	3,736,730	3,661,450	2.06%
133	Thrissur	India	3,719,980	3,605,240	3.18%
134	Dakar	Senegal	3,658,640	3,540,460	3.34%
135	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	3,648,110	3,587,400	1.69%
136	Asuncion	Paraguay	3,627,220	3,568,830	1.64%
137	Kochi	India	3,604,550	3,507,050	2.78%
138	Berlin	Germany	3,580,190	3,576,870	0.09%
139	Wuxi	China	3,559,030	3,498,740	1.72%
140	Sanaa	Yemen	3,527,430	3,407,810	3.51%
141	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	3,520,820	3,358,930	4.82%
142	Campinas	Brazil	3,491,580	3,458,440	0.96%
143	Busan	South Korea	3,484,430	3,477,420	0.20%
144	Indore	India	3,482,830	3,393,380	2.64%
145	Lusaka	Zambia	3,470,870	3,324,220	4.41%
146	Mashhad	Iran	3,460,660	3,415,530	1.32%
147	Puebla	Mexico	3,443,290	3,394,340	1.44%
148	Lanzhou	China	3,430,880	3,365,910	1.93%
149	Kuwait City	Kuwait	3,405,000	3,353,600	1.53%
150	Kanpur	India	3,345,370	3,286,140	1.80%
151	Durban	South Africa	3,301,090	3,262,130	1.19%
152	Guayaquil	Ecuador	3,244,750	3,193,270	1.61%
153	Guatemala City	Guatemala	3,229,740	3,159,630	2.22%
154	Depok	Indonesia	3,218,290	3,133,300	2.71%
155	Pyongyang	North Korea	3,209,300	3,183,140	0.82%
156	Bamako	Mali	3,180,340	3,050,570	4.25%
157	Nagpur	India	3,170,180	3,106,340	2.05%
158	Milan	Italy	3,167,450	3,160,630	0.22%
159	Handan	China	3,159,030	3,086,000	2.37%
160	Coimbatore	India	3,158,720	3,083,720	2.43%
161	Mbuji-Mayi	DR Congo	3,158,340	3,022,860	4.48%
162	Athens	Greece	3,155,320	3,154,590	0.02%
163	Izmir	Turkey	3,152,090	3,120,340	1.02%
164	Huaian	China	3,152,050	3,071,050	2.64%
165	Surabaya	Indonesia	3,137,620	3,088,750	1.58%
166	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	3,133,080	3,060,170	2.38%
167	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	3,094,640	3,051,020	1.43%
168	Zhongshan	China	3,093,870	3,051,060	1.40%
169	Thiruvananthapuram	India	3,072,530	2,984,150	2.96%
170	Weifang	China	3,064,290	2,994,540	2.33%
171	Lubumbashi	DR Congo	3,061,340	2,933,960	4.34%
172	Lisbon	Portugal	3,028,270	3,014,610	0.45%
173	Kiev	Ukraine	3,018,160	3,020,230	-0.07%
174	Caracas	Venezuela	3,015,110	2,991,730	0.78%
175	Algiers	Algeria	3,004,130	2,952,120	1.76%
176	Pretoria	South Africa	2,955,410	2,889,900	2.27%
177	Shaoxing	China	2,951,330	2,882,170	2.40%
178	Shizuoka	Japan	2,930,170	2,935,530	-0.18%
179	Goiania	Brazil	2,927,080	2,890,420	1.27%
180	Cali	Colombia	2,916,790	2,890,430	0.91%
181	Yantai	China	2,898,490	2,834,510	2.26%
182	Huizhou	China	2,890,880	2,827,610	2.24%
183	Zibo	China	2,876,180	2,828,440	1.69%
184	Incheon	South Korea	2,873,700	2,861,690	0.42%
185	Mogadishu	Somalia	2,846,420	2,726,820	4.39%
186	Manchester	United Kingdom	2,832,580	2,811,760	0.74%
187	Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo	2,813,480	2,724,570	3.26%
188	Damascus	Syria	2,799,960	2,685,360	4.27%
189	Accra	Ghana	2,788,380	2,721,160	2.47%
190	Taipei	Taiwan	2,779,200	2,766,330	0.46%
191	Bandung	Indonesia	2,758,100	2,714,220	1.62%
192	Luoyang	China	2,725,560	2,666,740	2.21%
193	Toluca de Lerdo	Mexico	2,719,520	2,674,340	1.69%
194	Vancouver	Canada	2,707,920	2,682,510	0.95%
195	Birmingham	United Kingdom	2,704,620	2,684,810	0.74%
196	Patna	India	2,689,540	2,633,240	2.14%
197	Bhopal	India	2,686,290	2,624,860	2.34%
198	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	2,665,080	2,633,660	1.19%
199	Sapporo	Japan	2,653,580	2,660,950	-0.28%
200	Tangerang	Indonesia	2,626,610	2,570,980	2.16%
201	Nantong	China	2,613,750	2,555,720	2.27%
202	Chicago	United States	2,611,867	2,638,159	-1%
203	Brisbane	Australia	2,568,170	2,536,450	1.25%
204	Peshawar	Pakistan	2,548,930	2,480,550	2.76%
205	Tunis	Tunisia	2,545,030	2,510,670	1.37%
206	Gujranwala	Pakistan	2,543,540	2,479,060	2.60%
207	Medan	Indonesia	2,521,590	2,479,070	1.71%
208	Hohhot	China	2,500,940	2,443,690	2.34%
209	Baku	Azerbaijan	2,496,500	2,464,160	1.31%
210	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	2,486,560	2,430,390	2.31%
211	Agra	India	2,478,340	2,422,340	2.31%
212	Kannur	India	2,465,140	2,405,660	2.47%
213	Belem	Brazil	2,453,800	2,432,180	0.89%
214	Liuzhou	China	2,447,620	2,397,410	2.09%
215	Visakhapatnam	India	2,440,420	2,385,110	2.32%
216	Aleppo	Syria	2,438,480	2,317,650	5.21%
217	Manaus	Brazil	2,434,640	2,406,850	1.16%
218	San Juan	Puerto Rico	2,433,680	2,436,620	-0.12%
219	Maracaibo	Venezuela	2,432,440	2,400,830	1.32%
220	Phnom Penh	Cambodia	2,425,800	2,352,680	3.11%
221	Baotou	China	2,425,700	2,381,240	1.87%
222	Vadodara	India	2,424,920	2,373,360	2.17%
223	Barranquilla	Colombia	2,396,400	2,373,300	0.97%
224	Beirut	Lebanon	2,379,330	2,402,480	-0.96%
225	Xuzhou	China	2,376,040	2,332,530	1.86%
226	Taoyuan	Taiwan	2,356,610	2,338,720	0.77%
227	Nashik	India	2,351,140	2,294,300	2.48%
228	Vijayawada	India	2,350,700	2,290,780	2.62%
229	Sendai	Japan	2,337,590	2,341,430	-0.16%
230	Tijuana	Mexico	2,333,220	2,297,220	1.57%
231	Esfahan	Iran	2,327,990	2,294,590	1.46%
232	Houston	United States	2,324,082	2,319,119	0.21%
233	Putian	China	2,315,020	2,250,100	2.89%
234	Amman	Jordan	2,273,240	2,252,690	0.91%
235	Multan	Pakistan	2,258,380	2,205,410	2.40%
236	Wuhu Anhui	China	2,257,210	2,195,260	2.82%
237	Kollam	India	2,252,170	2,181,940	3.22%
238	Conakry	Guinea	2,251,590	2,178,600	3.35%
239	Grande Vitoria	Brazil	2,220,560	2,196,820	1.08%
240	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	2,218,580	2,184,560	1.56%
241	Yangzhou	China	2,216,800	2,175,100	1.92%
242	Taizhou Zhejiang	China	2,198,540	2,152,230	2.15%
243	Baoding	China	2,190,060	2,149,700	1.88%
244	Naples	Italy	2,182,170	2,180,030	0.10%
245	Daegu	South Korea	2,181,080	2,179,930	0.05%
246	Perth	Australia	2,169,190	2,143,490	1.20%
247	Linyi Shandong	China	2,161,430	2,120,050	1.95%
248	Havana	Cuba	2,156,350	2,152,520	0.18%
249	Rajkot	India	2,150,330	2,096,980	2.54%
250	Bursa	Turkey	2,142,600	2,115,510	1.28%
251	Brussels	Belgium	2,141,520	2,132,180	0.44%
252	Lome	Togo	2,108,740	2,042,730	3.23%
253	Haikou	China	2,095,420	2,056,650	1.88%
254	Daqing	China	2,085,470	2,044,370	2.01%
255	Lianyungang	China	2,080,810	2,035,630	2.22%
256	Yancheng Jiangsu	China	2,073,240	2,034,330	1.91%
257	Minsk	Belarus	2,070,930	2,064,730	0.30%
258	Hyderabad	Pakistan	2,058,730	2,011,960	2.33%
259	Hiroshima	Japan	2,058,190	2,062,880	-0.23%
260	Panama City	Panama	2,054,540	2,015,740	1.93%
261	Semarang	Indonesia	2,052,410	2,013,570	1.93%
262	Benin City	Nigeria	2,044,650	1,972,560	3.65%
263	Almaty	Kazakhstan	2,042,040	2,015,210	1.33%
264	Davao City	Philippines	2,033,990	1,991,460	2.14%
265	Valencia	Venezuela	2,030,790	2,007,260	1.17%
266	Ludhiana	India	2,028,680	1,988,440	2.02%
267	Rabat	Morocco	2,020,970	1,989,200	1.60%
268	Quito	Ecuador	2,017,260	1,986,670	1.54%
269	Can Tho	Vietnam	2,007,500	1,938,920	3.54%
270	Vienna	Austria	2,005,500	1,990,490	0.75%
271	La Paz	Bolivia	1,997,370	1,965,570	1.62%
272	Matola	Mozambique	1,984,660	1,915,040	3.64%
273	Baixada Santista	Brazil	1,981,790	1,965,110	0.85%
274	Zhuhai	China	1,968,620	1,930,370	1.98%
275	Quanzhou	China	1,966,630	1,920,730	2.39%
276	West Yorkshire	United Kingdom	1,956,470	1,942,470	0.72%
277	Datong	China	1,951,440	1,913,670	1.97%
278	Leon de los Aldamas	Mexico	1,950,390	1,924,440	1.35%
279	Raipur	India	1,923,440	1,871,110	2.80%
280	Madurai	India	1,911,650	1,871,910	2.12%
281	Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	1,909,930	1,872,200	2.02%
282	Mosul	Iraq	1,904,140	1,847,690	3.06%
283	Santa Cruz	Bolivia	1,891,230	1,855,730	1.91%
284	Palembang	Indonesia	1,887,700	1,852,670	1.89%
285	Cixi	China	1,885,950	1,840,040	2.50%
286	Adana	Turkey	1,876,820	1,856,640	1.09%
287	Meerut	India	1,874,890	1,835,400	2.15%
288	La Laguna	Mexico	1,866,580	1,826,140	2.21%
289	Batam	Indonesia	1,858,910	1,806,150	2.92%
290	Gaziantep	Turkey	1,858,710	1,833,010	1.40%
291	Jiangmen	China	1,826,520	1,797,470	1.62%
292	Varanasi	India	1,826,010	1,789,050	2.07%
293	Kananga	DR Congo	1,815,750	1,738,720	4.43%
294	Turin	Italy	1,809,850	1,805,730	0.23%
295	Xiangyang	China	1,801,750	1,772,320	1.66%
296	Yichang	China	1,800,420	1,758,100	2.41%
297	Warsaw	Poland	1,800,230	1,799,450	0.04%
298	Yinchuan	China	1,795,680	1,757,700	2.16%
299	Monrovia	Liberia	1,794,650	1,735,360	3.42%
300	Montevideo	Uruguay	1,788,170	1,781,360	0.38%
301	Hamburg	Germany	1,787,710	1,787,280	0.02%
302	Lyon	France	1,787,230	1,774,400	0.72%
303	Tiruppur	India	1,783,690	1,731,860	2.99%
304	Budapest	Hungary	1,782,240	1,780,390	0.10%
305	Suqian	China	1,779,600	1,726,330	3.09%
306	Srinagar	India	1,777,610	1,737,500	2.31%
307	Jamshedpur	India	1,767,760	1,730,520	2.15%
308	Aurangabad	India	1,767,330	1,725,280	2.44%
309	Onitsha	Nigeria	1,767,110	1,694,910	4.26%
310	Shiraz	Iran	1,763,900	1,742,750	1.21%
311	Qinhuangdao	China	1,762,820	1,723,730	2.27%
312	Bucharest	Romania	1,758,700	1,767,520	-0.50%
313	Xining	China	1,740,860	1,705,080	2.10%
314	Hengyang	China	1,739,050	1,702,010	2.18%
315	Anyang	China	1,738,620	1,693,380	2.67%
316	Anshan	China	1,738,430	1,713,450	1.46%
317	Stockholm	Sweden	1,737,760	1,719,600	1.06%
318	Makassar	Indonesia	1,737,390	1,704,930	1.90%
319	Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia	1,724,890	1,699,360	1.50%
320	N-Djamena	Chad	1,722,780	1,655,620	4.06%
321	Jilin	China	1,719,310	1,693,700	1.51%
322	Glasgow	United Kingdom	1,718,940	1,708,150	0.63%
323	Auckland	New Zealand	1,711,130	1,692,770	1.08%
324	Novosibirsk	Russia	1,706,660	1,701,510	0.30%
325	Muscat	Oman	1,702,510	1,676,170	1.57%
326	Tabriz	Iran	1,695,670	1,678,030	1.05%
327	Qiqihaer	China	1,689,400	1,662,410	1.62%
328	Calgary	Canada	1,687,900	1,665,020	1.37%
329	Phoenix	United States	1,675,144	1,662,607	0.75%
330	Kathmandu	Nepal	1,672,900	1,621,640	3.16%
331	Jodhpur	India	1,664,420	1,625,320	2.41%
332	Tegucigalpa	Honduras	1,650,280	1,609,260	2.55%
333	Marseille	France	1,644,610	1,635,710	0.54%
334	Cordoba	Argentina	1,640,600	1,625,940	0.90%
335	Harare	Zimbabwe	1,633,020	1,603,200	1.86%
336	Rosario	Argentina	1,631,090	1,613,040	1.12%
337	Ciudad Juarez	Mexico	1,625,980	1,604,080	1.36%
338	Medina	Saudi Arabia	1,624,660	1,598,980	1.61%
339	Jining Shandong	China	1,622,270	1,595,960	1.65%
340	Ranchi	India	1,621,720	1,584,240	2.37%
341	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	1,618,740	1,593,280	1.60%
342	Karaj	Iran	1,614,660	1,603,010	0.73%
343	Nouakchott	Mauritania	1,612,940	1,552,150	3.92%
344	Kota	India	1,599,350	1,558,470	2.62%
345	Zhangjiakou	China	1,598,460	1,568,120	1.93%
346	Mandalay	Myanmar	1,594,300	1,563,020	2%
347	Munich	Germany	1,590,890	1,584,510	0.40%
348	Edmonton	Canada	1,588,600	1,567,620	1.34%
349	Daejon	South Korea	1,586,180	1,581,700	0.28%
350	Jabalpur	India	1,582,200	1,551,000	2.01%
351	Natal	Brazil	1,575,050	1,556,410	1.20%
352	Gaoxiong	Taiwan	1,565,860	1,559,080	0.43%
353	Asansol	India	1,565,300	1,534,080	2.04%
354	Huainan	China	1,564,320	1,538,600	1.67%
355	Yiwu	China	1,563,820	1,525,750	2.50%
356	Homs	Syria	1,563,600	1,499,600	4.27%
357	Niamey	Niger	1,561,490	1,496,260	4.36%
358	Mombasa	Kenya	1,553,460	1,495,220	3.90%
359	Ganzhou	China	1,550,560	1,508,040	2.82%
360	Grande Sao Luis	Brazil	1,548,210	1,536,020	0.79%
361	Kisangani	DR Congo	1,546,690	1,483,510	4.26%
362	Chaozhou	China	1,545,080	1,520,630	1.61%
363	Gwalior	India	1,543,500	1,508,850	2.30%
364	Yekaterinburg	Russia	1,537,000	1,532,970	0.26%
365	Gwangju	South Korea	1,536,730	1,532,900	0.25%
366	San Antonio	United States	1,532,653	1,513,974	1.23%
367	Basra	Iraq	1,524,650	1,485,160	2.66%
368	Allahabad	India	1,523,670	1,493,350	2.03%
369	Philadelphia	United States	1,517,114	1,533,828	-1.09%
370	Jiaxing	China	1,511,450	1,470,920	2.76%
371	Amritsar	India	1,511,110	1,480,470	2.07%
372	Taizhou Jiangsu	China	1,506,700	1,477,600	1.97%
373	Hai Phong	Vietnam	1,503,910	1,463,650	2.75%
374	San Jose	Costa Rica	1,502,640	1,482,460	1.36%
375	Weihai	China	1,499,360	1,465,930	2.28%
376	Chon Buri	Thailand	1,491,180	1,472,710	1.25%
377	Liuyang	China	1,476,370	1,428,800	3.33%
378	Liuan	China	1,471,240	1,427,890	3.04%
379	Kaifeng	China	1,467,460	1,434,460	2.30%
380	Taian Shandong	China	1,467,160	1,441,910	1.75%
381	Ottawa	Canada	1,465,780	1,451,570	0.98%
382	Cochabamba	Bolivia	1,460,280	1,430,690	2.07%
383	Queretaro	Mexico	1,459,290	1,436,820	1.56%
384	Rizhao	China	1,458,890	1,426,580	2.27%
385	Uyo	Nigeria	1,457,020	1,393,450	4.56%
386	Zurich	Switzerland	1,455,100	1,443,350	0.81%
387	Konya	Turkey	1,450,150	1,429,940	1.41%
388	Joao Pessoa	Brazil	1,447,780	1,435,120	0.88%
389	Mwanza	Tanzania	1,447,340	1,378,010	5.03%
390	Nanchong	China	1,444,820	1,412,710	2.27%
391	Dhanbad	India	1,441,800	1,414,530	1.93%
392	Dongying	China	1,440,090	1,410,790	2.08%
393	Zunyi	China	1,434,030	1,406,090	1.99%
394	Zhanjiang	China	1,425,480	1,399,310	1.87%
395	Pointe-Noire	Republic of the Congo	1,423,630	1,379,370	3.21%
396	Shiyan	China	1,418,040	1,387,380	2.21%
397	Kharkiv	Ukraine	1,415,820	1,418,980	-0.22%
398	Bareilly	India	1,413,250	1,380,720	2.36%
399	Belgrade	Serbia	1,412,950	1,410,700	0.16%
400	Bucaramanga	Colombia	1,411,010	1,396,630	1.03%
401	Mianyang Sichuan	China	1,400,850	1,376,450	1.77%
402	Copenhagen	Denmark	1,400,740	1,391,200	0.69%
403	Tengzhou	China	1,394,750	1,360,780	2.50%
404	Antalya	Turkey	1,394,590	1,372,400	1.62%
405	Samut Prakan	Thailand	1,393,410	1,376,150	1.25%
406	Taizhong	Taiwan	1,393,190	1,381,860	0.82%
407	Lilongwe	Malawi	1,393,010	1,333,100	4.49%
408	Adelaide	Australia	1,392,940	1,379,280	0.99%
409	Qom	Iran	1,392,280	1,373,800	1.34%
410	San Diego	United States	1,389,672	1,388,996	0.05%
411	Suweon	South Korea	1,388,800	1,378,230	0.77%
412	Maceio	Brazil	1,387,920	1,375,980	0.87%
413	Freetown	Sierra Leone	1,387,360	1,347,560	2.95%
414	Yingkou	China	1,385,370	1,355,560	2.20%
415	Suzhou	China	1,385,210	1,349,990	2.61%
416	Tanger	Morocco	1,381,230	1,348,850	2.40%
417	Aligarh	India	1,379,560	1,346,020	2.49%
418	Ad-Dammam	Saudi Arabia	1,375,600	1,352,910	1.68%
419	Abomey-Calavi	Benin	1,375,220	1,314,920	4.59%
420	Joinville	Brazil	1,374,630	1,361,990	0.93%
421	Moradabad	India	1,369,880	1,335,970	2.54%
422	Bukavu	DR Congo	1,369,430	1,308,470	4.66%
423	Pekan Baru	Indonesia	1,364,640	1,334,530	2.26%
424	Maoming	China	1,361,880	1,333,930	2.10%
425	Nnewi	Nigeria	1,361,840	1,300,990	4.68%
426	Jieyang	China	1,354,930	1,320,780	2.59%
427	Helsinki	Finland	1,354,890	1,346,810	0.60%
428	Astana	Kazakhstan	1,352,560	1,324,110	2.15%
429	Bujumbura	Burundi	1,350,150	1,277,050	5.72%
430	Mysore	India	1,345,720	1,316,460	2.22%
431	Ruian	China	1,344,890	1,314,780	2.29%
432	Fes	Morocco	1,336,960	1,313,310	1.80%
433	Porto	Portugal	1,334,200	1,329,300	0.37%
434	Fushun Liaoning	China	1,332,270	1,317,280	1.14%
435	Prague	Czech Republic	1,331,940	1,327,950	0.30%
436	Port Elizabeth	South Africa	1,330,500	1,312,630	1.36%
437	Jinhua	China	1,329,990	1,296,060	2.62%
438	Kigali	Rwanda	1,329,830	1,287,950	3.25%
439	Ahvaz	Iran	1,324,800	1,309,370	1.18%
440	Florianopolis	Brazil	1,323,850	1,309,900	1.06%
441	Bhubaneswar	India	1,320,910	1,289,250	2.46%
442	Baoji	China	1,317,340	1,290,230	2.10%
443	Durg-Bhilainagar	India	1,315,330	1,289,670	1.99%
444	Pingdingshan Henan	China	1,312,850	1,285,750	2.11%
445	San Luis Potosi	Mexico	1,310,720	1,292,130	1.44%
446	Liupanshui	China	1,309,840	1,272,870	2.90%
447	Puning	China	1,309,420	1,282,760	2.08%
448	Chifeng	China	1,305,090	1,279,540	2%
449	Dallas	United States	1,302,638	1,302,753	-0.01%
450	Islamabad	Pakistan	1,301,130	1,266,790	2.71%
451	Kazan	Russia	1,299,580	1,296,230	0.26%
452	Zhuzhou	China	1,299,480	1,277,240	1.74%
453	Zhenjiang Jiangsu	China	1,299,130	1,275,400	1.86%
454	Dublin	Ireland	1,299,110	1,284,550	1.13%
455	Tasikmalaya	Indonesia	1,297,900	1,258,120	3.16%
456	Huaibei	China	1,291,440	1,264,860	2.10%
457	Xiongan	China	1,288,560	1,240,160	3.90%
458	Sofia	Bulgaria	1,286,460	1,287,540	-0.08%
459	Da Nang	Vietnam	1,286,000	1,253,230	2.61%
460	Pizhou	China	1,282,270	1,247,180	2.81%
461	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	1,281,730	1,267,870	1.09%
462	Bogor	Indonesia	1,281,010	1,256,160	1.98%
463	Luohe	China	1,278,770	1,241,150	3.03%
464	Aba	Nigeria	1,274,780	1,230,410	3.61%
465	Nanyang Henan	China	1,274,630	1,250,300	1.95%
466	Xiangtan Hunan	China	1,273,560	1,249,380	1.93%
467	Maracay	Venezuela	1,270,320	1,256,550	1.10%
468	Tiruchirappalli	India	1,269,900	1,244,980	2%
469	Bazhong	China	1,268,080	1,225,590	3.47%
470	Chandigarh	India	1,266,010	1,239,700	2.12%
471	Binzhou	China	1,263,650	1,233,580	2.44%
472	Jinzhou	China	1,260,660	1,238,380	1.80%
473	Kaduna	Nigeria	1,259,940	1,221,450	3.15%
474	Merida	Mexico	1,258,230	1,239,650	1.50%
475	Benxi	China	1,258,120	1,237,550	1.66%
476	Mendoza	Argentina	1,257,180	1,242,320	1.20%
477	Quetta	Pakistan	1,253,110	1,221,500	2.59%
478	Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	1,249,760	1,250,300	-0.04%
479	Chelyabinsk	Russia	1,246,210	1,243,880	0.19%
480	Chiang Mai	Thailand	1,244,190	1,228,770	1.26%
481	Bobo-Dioulasso	Burkina Faso	1,243,530	1,185,050	4.93%
482	Saharanpur	India	1,242,490	1,207,860	2.87%
483	Guilin	China	1,238,950	1,218,070	1.71%
484	Hubli-Dharwad	India	1,231,020	1,205,430	2.12%
485	Maputo	Mozambique	1,230,070	1,193,250	3.09%
486	Yueqing	China	1,229,960	1,201,400	2.38%
487	Hargeysa	Somalia	1,227,620	1,176,620	4.33%
488	Guwahati	India	1,224,170	1,199,460	2.06%
489	Salem	India	1,220,710	1,194,760	2.17%
490	Mexicali	Mexico	1,215,000	1,196,980	1.50%
491	Bandar Lampung	Indonesia	1,210,200	1,186,230	2.02%
492	Shimkent	Kazakhstan	1,203,890	1,181,020	1.94%
493	Tripoli	Libya	1,203,390	1,192,440	0.92%
494	Haifa	Israel	1,199,980	1,186,480	1.14%
495	Ikorodu	Nigeria	1,196,820	1,145,220	4.51%
496	Aguascalientes	Mexico	1,196,770	1,179,300	1.48%
497	Siliguri	India	1,191,400	1,159,370	2.76%
498	Amsterdam	Netherlands	1,189,200	1,181,820	0.62%
499	Tshikapa	DR Congo	1,185,920	1,131,230	4.83%
500	Wenling	China	1,184,900	1,159,260	2.21%
501	Omsk	Russia	1,180,820	1,180,680	0.01%
502	Xinxiang	China	1,180,750	1,160,840	1.71%
503	Krasnoyarsk	Russia	1,177,840	1,173,100	0.40%
504	Bien Hoa	Vietnam	1,174,750	1,143,000	2.78%
505	Fuyang	China	1,170,240	1,146,340	2.08%
506	Zaozhuang	China	1,168,490	1,150,860	1.53%
507	Jalandhar	India	1,167,600	1,142,680	2.18%
508	Ma'anshan	China	1,165,590	1,140,260	2.22%
509	Panjin	China	1,163,590	1,142,540	1.84%
510	Fuzhou Jiangxi	China	1,159,940	1,131,720	2.49%
511	Sekondi Takoradi	Ghana	1,159,780	1,119,530	3.60%
512	Yichun Jiangxi	China	1,159,390	1,122,040	3.33%
513	Yongin	South Korea	1,157,920	1,147,970	0.87%
514	Cuernavaca	Mexico	1,156,360	1,140,170	1.42%
515	Samarinda	Indonesia	1,154,760	1,128,180	2.36%
516	Aden	Yemen	1,154,410	1,116,190	3.42%
517	Samara	Russia	1,153,710	1,154,450	-0.06%
518	Shangrao	China	1,153,600	1,130,890	2.01%
519	Chihuahua	Mexico	1,153,540	1,135,340	1.60%
520	Cologne	Germany	1,153,230	1,149,010	0.37%
521	Asmara	Eritrea	1,152,180	1,111,750	3.64%
522	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	1,151,220	1,127,720	2.08%
523	Chenzhou	China	1,150,530	1,119,790	2.74%
524	Zhaoqing	China	1,150,480	1,127,600	2.03%
525	Ufa	Russia	1,148,400	1,146,790	0.14%
526	Nyala	Sudan	1,145,590	1,101,310	4.02%
527	Leshan	China	1,142,870	1,116,500	2.36%
528	Rostov-on-Don	Russia	1,140,390	1,139,640	0.07%
529	Dezhou	China	1,133,630	1,108,360	2.28%
530	San Salvador	El Salvador	1,132,420	1,123,380	0.80%
531	Diyarbakir	Turkey	1,128,360	1,113,330	1.35%
532	Kirkuk	Iraq	1,128,190	1,100,390	2.53%
533	Johor Bahru	Malaysia	1,127,520	1,107,000	1.85%
534	Jingzhou Hubei	China	1,126,220	1,108,070	1.64%
535	Changshu	China	1,123,540	1,093,690	2.73%
536	Goyang	South Korea	1,121,440	1,114,080	0.66%
537	Managua	Nicaragua	1,120,900	1,107,120	1.24%
538	Kermanshah	Iran	1,117,360	1,101,610	1.43%
539	Xuchang	China	1,117,100	1,091,740	2.32%
540	Oslo	Norway	1,115,580	1,100,870	1.34%
541	Huzhou	China	1,114,370	1,091,810	2.07%
542	Blantyre-Limbe	Malawi	1,114,090	1,070,620	4.06%
543	Solapur	India	1,108,180	1,088,130	1.84%
544	Cartagena	Colombia	1,105,540	1,096,460	0.83%
545	Yerevan	Armenia	1,100,240	1,097,540	0.25%
546	Ilorin	Nigeria	1,099,960	1,063,710	3.41%
547	Mersin	Turkey	1,099,040	1,084,820	1.31%
548	Denpasar	Indonesia	1,097,310	1,075,240	2.05%
549	Qujing	China	1,092,200	1,066,900	2.37%
550	Lille	France	1,091,590	1,085,200	0.59%
551	Tbilisi	Georgia	1,087,020	1,084,470	0.24%
552	Guiping	China	1,086,960	1,055,920	2.94%
553	Voronezh	Russia	1,086,000	1,083,720	0.21%
554	Perm	Russia	1,085,990	1,084,120	0.17%
555	Marrakech	Morocco	1,085,330	1,067,170	1.70%
556	Aracaju	Brazil	1,081,930	1,070,120	1.10%
557	Warangal	India	1,080,490	1,055,600	2.36%
558	Toulouse	France	1,080,180	1,070,750	0.88%
559	Yueyang	China	1,079,980	1,064,170	1.49%
560	Hamah	Syria	1,078,650	1,034,500	4.27%
561	Tampico	Mexico	1,077,740	1,062,570	1.43%
562	Warri	Nigeria	1,076,120	1,031,420	4.33%
563	Xintai	China	1,073,060	1,049,490	2.25%
564	Padang	Indonesia	1,072,560	1,052,850	1.87%
565	Teresina	Brazil	1,068,550	1,059,660	0.84%
566	Saltillo	Mexico	1,066,100	1,050,320	1.50%
567	Cancun	Mexico	1,065,400	1,045,000	1.95%
568	Antwerp	Belgium	1,064,870	1,061,090	0.36%
569	Owerri	Nigeria	1,063,680	1,022,920	3.98%
570	Cebu City	Philippines	1,061,620	1,042,610	1.82%
571	Nampula	Mozambique	1,057,290	1,012,580	4.42%
572	Changwon	South Korea	1,056,980	1,055,370	0.15%
573	Chengde	China	1,052,320	1,024,520	2.71%
574	San Miguel de Tucuman	Argentina	1,051,040	1,039,230	1.14%
575	Lubango	Angola	1,047,810	1,003,020	4.47%
576	Acapulco de Juarez	Mexico	1,046,710	1,032,770	1.35%
577	Zhucheng	China	1,045,070	1,019,600	2.50%
578	Leiyang	China	1,043,580	1,013,190	3%
579	Pingxiang Jiangxi	China	1,042,120	1,021,580	2.01%
580	Dehradun	India	1,041,060	1,016,400	2.43%
581	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	1,039,900	1,012,790	2.68%
582	Kayseri	Turkey	1,037,250	1,025,510	1.15%
583	Jos	Nigeria	1,035,090	1,001,160	3.39%
584	Misratah	Libya	1,034,680	1,011,120	2.33%
585	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	1,034,200	1,008,220	2.58%
586	Sylhet	Bangladesh	1,032,980	999,374	3.36%
587	Laiwu	China	1,031,440	1,009,730	2.15%
588	Songkhla	Thailand	1,030,550	1,017,780	1.26%
589	Nonthaburi	Thailand	1,026,390	1,013,670	1.26%
590	Rotterdam	Netherlands	1,026,250	1,021,920	0.42%
591	Jixi Heilongjiang	China	1,024,970	1,008,990	1.58%
592	Valparaiso	Chile	1,024,430	1,016,580	0.77%
593	Jiujiang	China	1,024,430	1,004,250	2.01%
594	Bordeaux	France	1,018,070	1,009,590	0.84%
595	Najaf	Iraq	1,017,660	987,814	3.02%
596	Krasnodar	Russia	1,017,530	1,010,550	0.69%
597	Agadir	Morocco	1,017,030	998,146	1.89%
598	Morelia	Mexico	1,016,230	1,002,460	1.37%
599	Bangui	Central African Republic	1,016,150	985,965	3.06%
600	Fort Worth	United States	1,015,045	996,756	1.84%
601	Guigang	China	1,011,500	990,310	2.14%
602	Taiz	Yemen	1,009,450	974,518	3.58%
603	Mudanjiang	China	1,009,260	992,414	1.70%
604	Hengshui	China	1,008,750	983,694	2.55%
605	Jacksonville	United States	1,008,485	997,164	1.14%
606	Rajshahi	Bangladesh	1,007,020	983,707	2.37%
607	Odesa	Ukraine	1,006,700	1,007,600	-0.09%
608	Xinyu	China	1,003,580	979,303	2.48%
609	Linfen	China	1,002,710	978,614	2.46%
610	Zhangzhou	China	1,002,450	980,054	2.28%
611	Tianmen	China	1,000,720	978,317	2.29%
612	Liling	China	1,000,410	970,907	3.04%
613	Jerusalem	Israel	996,732	983,097	1.39%
614	Yangjiang	China	995,970	976,606	1.98%
615	Zamboanga City	Philippines	995,027	977,081	1.84%
616	Volgograd	Russia	992,268	993,352	-0.11%
617	Ciudad Guayana	Venezuela	991,388	978,202	1.35%
618	Cabinda	Angola	990,695	947,634	4.54%
619	Umuahia	Nigeria	990,439	947,460	4.54%
620	Antipolo	Philippines	989,859	968,288	2.23%
621	Austin	United States	989,252	984,567	0.48%
622	Deyang	China	985,078	963,160	2.28%
623	Arequipa	Peru	983,715	971,296	1.28%
624	Reynosa	Mexico	983,121	967,627	1.60%
625	Baishan	China	983,008	956,976	2.72%
626	Jiangyin	China	982,563	959,250	2.43%
627	Cucuta	Colombia	981,688	972,485	0.95%
628	Bogra	Bangladesh	981,223	944,877	3.85%
629	Veracruz	Mexico	981,069	968,070	1.34%
630	Khulna	Bangladesh	980,200	965,483	1.52%
631	Bengbu	China	975,189	959,784	1.60%
632	Pathum Thani	Thailand	974,195	962,126	1.25%
633	Villahermosa	Mexico	972,373	958,118	1.49%
634	Bahawalpur	Pakistan	970,074	944,812	2.67%
635	Southampton	United Kingdom	966,741	959,202	0.79%
636	Oran	Algeria	966,494	950,768	1.65%
637	Guntur	India	962,403	940,205	2.36%
638	West Rand	South Africa	961,625	947,734	1.47%
639	Nice	France	956,195	951,808	0.46%
640	Changzhi	China	949,309	930,620	2.01%
641	Malang	Indonesia	948,572	933,392	1.63%
642	Dandong	China	947,488	932,648	1.59%
643	Hermosillo	Mexico	944,348	929,961	1.55%
644	Bhiwandi	India	943,921	924,670	2.08%
645	Seongnam	South Korea	943,458	942,159	0.14%
646	Campo Grande	Brazil	943,313	934,936	0.90%
647	San Jose	United States	943,212	956,433	-1.38%
648	Londrina	Brazil	942,459	932,892	1.03%
649	Firozabad	India	941,758	918,218	2.56%
650	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	941,130	921,601	2.12%
651	Puducherry	India	940,911	919,280	2.35%
652	Erbil	Iraq	940,560	917,639	2.50%
653	Changde	China	938,279	919,026	2.10%
654	Shangqiu	China	935,079	915,823	2.10%
655	Charlotte	United States	935,017	923,164	1.28%
656	Kuerle	China	934,011	906,765	3%
657	La Plata	Argentina	933,193	923,715	1.03%
658	Liaoyang	China	931,630	916,238	1.68%
659	Dnipro	Ukraine	931,255	936,766	-0.59%
660	Lokoja	Nigeria	931,092	885,882	5.10%
661	Cherthala	India	931,015	901,820	3.24%
662	Quzhou	China	929,772	902,621	3.01%
663	Concepcion	Chile	929,357	920,916	0.92%
664	Trujillo	Peru	929,188	916,632	1.37%
665	Liverpool	United Kingdom	928,997	922,871	0.66%
666	Tuxtla Gutierrez	Mexico	927,758	913,075	1.61%
667	Tyumen	Russia	926,519	916,862	1.05%
668	Bergamo	Italy	923,221	918,675	0.50%
669	Xingtai	China	921,011	904,070	1.87%
670	Soshanguve	South Africa	919,748	905,868	1.53%
671	Culiacan	Mexico	918,494	903,910	1.61%
672	Columbus	United States	917,679	915,427	0.25%
673	Ulsan	South Korea	916,236	914,300	0.21%
674	Huangshi	China	908,873	893,107	1.76%
675	Enugu	Nigeria	906,658	875,552	3.55%
676	Yongzhou	China	904,031	883,326	2.34%
677	Fuxin	China	903,628	889,767	1.56%
678	Xinghua	China	902,334	882,986	2.19%
679	Bunia	DR Congo	900,351	856,339	5.14%
680	Libreville	Gabon	899,225	883,920	1.73%
681	Maiduguri	Nigeria	898,535	870,201	3.26%
682	Yibin	China	897,493	881,480	1.82%
683	Hufuf-Mubarraz	Saudi Arabia	897,262	884,753	1.41%
684	Huaihua	China	892,519	869,575	2.64%
685	Xinyang	China	890,375	873,268	1.96%
686	Xiaogan	China	887,939	869,479	2.12%
687	Ipoh	Malaysia	887,711	872,424	1.75%
688	Yangquan	China	886,584	869,585	1.96%
689	Kottayam	India	885,396	853,635	3.72%
690	Luzhou	China	884,046	870,714	1.53%
691	Banghazi	Libya	881,897	870,502	1.31%
692	Tainan	Taiwan	880,865	875,392	0.63%
693	Tianshui	China	878,063	858,672	2.26%
694	Benguela	Angola	878,004	843,207	4.13%
695	Bozhou	China	877,072	854,946	2.59%
696	Donetsk	Ukraine	876,063	882,209	-0.70%
697	Indianapolis	United States	874,037	876,665	-0.30%
698	Zanzibar	Tanzania	873,982	835,850	4.56%
699	Kunshan	China	873,638	851,399	2.61%
700	Zhuji	China	869,441	852,608	1.97%
701	Jincheng	China	863,282	841,928	2.54%
702	Malanje	Angola	861,380	822,471	4.73%
703	Eskisehir	Turkey	860,518	848,002	1.48%
704	Orumiyeh	Iran	860,169	848,443	1.38%
705	Nellore	India	858,853	837,660	2.53%
706	Quebec City	Canada	858,207	851,061	0.84%
707	Winnipeg	Canada	857,367	849,251	0.96%
708	Bikaner	India	853,869	835,802	2.16%
709	Heze	China	851,474	838,928	1.49%
710	Zhumadian	China	851,392	829,361	2.66%
711	Palermo	Italy	851,282	850,233	0.12%
712	Huludao	China	851,156	836,344	1.77%
713	Taixing	China	848,379	830,623	2.14%
714	Haicheng	China	848,129	834,639	1.62%
715	Anqiu	China	847,608	821,765	3.15%
716	Ibb	Yemen	847,350	810,149	4.59%
717	Gebze	Turkey	846,841	831,360	1.86%
718	Sulaimaniya	Iraq	846,517	823,199	2.83%
719	Langfang	China	846,438	827,967	2.23%
720	Liaocheng	China	845,854	830,004	1.91%
721	Barcelona Puerto La Cruz	Venezuela	845,827	835,805	1.20%
722	Gaomi	China	841,911	821,154	2.53%
723	Valencia	Spain	841,354	839,770	0.19%
724	Hanchuan	China	839,309	818,761	2.51%
725	Dasmarinas	Philippines	839,131	820,886	2.22%
726	Kayamkulam	India	838,870	813,379	3.13%
727	Cagayan de Oro City	Philippines	837,650	820,297	2.11%
728	Meishan	China	837,335	818,037	2.36%
729	Saratov	Russia	837,323	837,687	-0.04%
730	Muzaffarnagar	India	836,997	814,491	2.76%
731	Xalapa	Mexico	834,581	822,863	1.42%
732	Newcastle upon Tyne	United Kingdom	834,242	828,712	0.67%
733	Ar-Rayyan	Qatar	831,689	815,869	1.94%
734	Danyang	China	829,276	810,450	2.32%
735	Sorocaba	Brazil	829,049	821,435	0.93%
736	Merca	Somalia	828,008	793,545	4.34%
737	Bucheon	South Korea	827,603	826,919	0.08%
738	Amravati	India	824,965	808,263	2.07%
739	Kitwe	Zambia	823,625	792,350	3.95%
740	Gaza	Palestine	823,407	800,636	2.84%
741	Oshogbo	Nigeria	822,497	795,808	3.35%
742	Nakhon Ratchasima	Thailand	821,187	811,446	1.20%
743	Jiaozuo	China	820,064	808,079	1.48%
744	Goma	DR Congo	819,854	781,875	4.86%
745	Nottingham	United Kingdom	819,334	813,078	0.77%
746	Bologna	Italy	819,297	816,848	0.30%
747	Gorakhpur	India	816,586	801,634	1.86%
748	Thessaloniki	Greece	815,472	814,980	0.06%
749	Linhai	China	813,794	795,777	2.26%
750	Yan'an	China	813,599	791,839	2.75%
751	Vereeniging	South Africa	812,913	802,900	1.25%
752	Erduosi-Ordoss	China	812,244	794,143	2.28%
753	Anqing	China	811,560	795,987	1.96%
754	Zaria	Nigeria	809,652	786,197	2.98%
755	Bur Sa'id	Egypt	808,111	792,925	1.92%
756	Shaoguan	China	805,079	794,279	1.36%
757	Cuttack	India	804,914	789,558	1.94%
758	Dengzhou	China	804,189	783,041	2.70%
759	Frankfurt	Germany	803,758	800,529	0.40%
760	Akure	Nigeria	803,062	773,141	3.87%
761	Belgaum	India	799,729	783,020	2.13%
762	Malegaon	India	799,708	781,925	2.27%
763	Banjarmasin	Indonesia	799,706	785,125	1.86%
764	Tirupati	India	797,302	775,455	2.82%
765	Yuncheng	China	797,246	777,193	2.58%
766	Yuxi	China	795,748	774,356	2.76%
767	Niigata	Japan	793,974	795,916	-0.24%
768	Hamilton	Canada	793,083	786,843	0.79%
769	Yanji	China	792,664	775,672	2.19%
770	Zigong	China	791,579	779,684	1.53%
771	Shaoyang	China	790,986	776,404	1.88%
772	Qingyuan	China	790,694	778,628	1.55%
773	Maturin	Venezuela	789,918	775,097	1.91%
774	Sialkot	Pakistan	789,386	770,962	2.39%
775	Tongliao	China	788,345	772,756	2.02%
776	Nay Pyi Taw	Myanmar	788,238	757,823	4.01%
777	Tongling	China	786,000	770,032	2.07%
778	Dazhou	China	785,116	767,532	2.29%
779	Al-Hudaydah	Yemen	784,856	759,157	3.38%
780	Tamale	Ghana	784,420	757,506	3.55%
781	Wuzhou	China	784,261	768,512	2.05%
782	Suining Sichuan	China	780,842	765,887	1.95%
783	Mangalore	India	778,685	763,312	2.01%
784	Amara	Iraq	778,052	753,708	3.23%
785	Huambo	Angola	777,336	751,297	3.47%
786	Zhangjiagang	China	775,312	755,752	2.59%
787	Sargodha	Pakistan	775,091	757,915	2.27%
788	Bacoor	Philippines	774,229	757,035	2.27%
789	Jiamusi	China	774,118	761,903	1.60%
790	Dongtai	China	773,030	756,344	2.21%
791	Nanded Waghala	India	772,996	755,577	2.31%
792	Ansan	South Korea	771,029	768,822	0.29%
793	Krakow	Poland	769,375	769,396	0%
794	San Francisco	United States	767,968	788,478	-2.60%
795	Lattakia	Syria	767,534	736,119	4.27%
796	Bhavnagar	India	766,887	751,493	2.05%
797	Ankang	China	766,403	745,530	2.80%
798	Xianyang Shaanxi	China	765,748	754,446	1.50%
799	Kurnool	India	765,324	745,946	2.60%
800	Taicang	China	764,938	746,533	2.46%
801	Seattle	United States	764,753	759,915	0.64%
802	Sao Jose dos Campos	Brazil	764,500	757,137	0.97%
803	Panzhihua	China	761,755	750,036	1.56%
804	Sokoto	Nigeria	761,331	734,255	3.69%
805	Uvira	DR Congo	760,857	725,768	4.83%
806	Zarqa	Jordan	758,893	753,392	0.73%
807	Yuyao	China	758,680	744,034	1.97%
808	Cotonou	Benin	757,989	738,444	2.65%
809	Rasht	Iran	757,765	749,054	1.16%
810	Ribeirao Preto	Brazil	757,604	750,174	0.99%
811	Oaxaca de Juarez	Mexico	757,292	746,747	1.41%
812	Sheffield	United Kingdom	756,783	751,303	0.73%
813	Buffalo City	South Africa	756,507	745,855	1.43%
814	Vientiane	Laos	755,941	737,750	2.47%
815	Yulin Shaanxi	China	754,296	742,162	1.64%
816	Bali	Indonesia	753,877	739,198	1.99%
817	Herat	Afghanistan	752,910	724,172	3.97%
818	Longyan	China	752,672	740,316	1.67%
819	Gold Coast	Australia	752,570	742,600	1.34%
820	Gulbarga	India	751,802	735,118	2.27%
821	Jammu	India	751,521	738,250	1.80%
822	Miluo	China	751,457	728,448	3.16%
Source	worldpopulationreview.com

the world continues its rapid shift toward urbanization. For the first time in history, nearly 45% of the global population—approximately 3.7 billion people—resides in cities. This demographic shift has led to the emergence of “megacities,” urban areas with populations exceeding 10 million residents. Understanding cities population by country is essential for grasping the economic, social, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.

The World’s Top Most Populated Cities

The landscape of the world’s largest cities is dominated by Asia, which houses nine of the top ten most populous urban areas. Below is the definitive ranking estimates for urban agglomerations.

Asia remains the most rapidly urbanizing region. India and China alone are home to nearly half of the world’s megacities. By 2026, India’s urban growth is primarily fueled by natural increase and rural-to-urban migration, with cities like Karachi (21.8M) and Mumbai (20.3M) following closely behind the top ten.

Africa: The Next Frontier

Cairo, Egypt, stands as the most populous city in Africa and the only non-Asian city in the global top ten. However, Western Africa is seeing explosive growth; Lagos, Nigeria, has surpassed 12.9 million people, driven by a young population and expanding tech sectors.

The Americas: Stabilization and Shifts

In North America, New York City remains the largest hub with approximately 13.9 million residents in its urban core, though growth has slowed compared to previous decades. In South America, São Paulo, Brazil (18.9M), and Buenos Aires, Argentina (14.0M), continue to be the dominant economic engines of the continent.

Key Factors Driving City Populations

Economic Opportunity: Cities contribute over 80% of global GDP, attracting those seeking better-paying jobs.
Infrastructure and Services: Access to specialized healthcare, higher education, and advanced transport systems remains a major “pull” factor.
Climate Migration: In several regions, environmental changes are pushing rural populations toward more resilient urban centers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between “City Proper” and “Urban Agglomeration”? “City Proper” refers to the administrative boundary of a city, while “Urban Agglomeration” (used in the rankings above) includes the city center plus the surrounding contiguous suburban areas.

Which city is growing the fastest in 2026? Dhaka, Bangladesh, currently has one of the highest growth rates among megacities, increasing by over 2.3% annually.

Are any major cities shrinking? Yes. Tokyo, Japan, while still a top-three megacity, is experiencing a slight population decline (approx. -0.22% annually) due to Japan’s aging demographic and low birth rates.