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City Mayors ranks the world’s largest and richest cities and urban areas. It also ranks the cities in individual countries, and provides a list of the capital cities of some 200 sovereign countries
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The world's largest cities

Cities ranked 1 to 100

Capital letters denote country capital cities. Our tables provide population figures for cities with legally defined boundaries, with recognised urban status and with its own local government. The figures do not take into account suburban settlements or other heavily populated areas outside city boundaries. Greater urban areas are described and ranked on separate pages**.**

FASTEST GROWING URBAN AREAS:
Urban areas ranked 1 to 100 | Urban areas ranked 101 to 200 | Urban areas ranked 201 to 300 |

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF URBAN AREAS:
Urban areas A to D | Urban areas E to L | Urban areas M to R | Urban areas S to Z |

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Cities ranked 1 to 100

Rank	City	Country	Population
1	SEOUL	South Korea	10,231,000
2	São Paulo	Brazil	10,009,000
3	Bombay	India	9,925,000
4	JAKARTA	Indonesia	9,373,000
5	Karachi	Pakistan	9,339,000
6	MOSKVA (Moscow)	Russia	8,297,000
7	Istanbul	Turkey	8,260,000
8	MEXICO (Mexico City)	Mexico	8,235,000
9	Shanghai	China	8,214,000
10	TOKYO	Japan	8,130,000
11	New York (NY)	USA	8,008,000
12	BANGKOK	Thailand	7,506,700
13	BEIJING	China	7,362,000
14	Delhi	India	7,206,000
15	LONDON	UK	7,074,000
16	HongKong	China	6,843,000
17	CAIRO	Egypt	6,800,000
18	TEHRAN	Iran	6,758,000
19	BOGOTA	Colombia	6,422,000
20	Bandung	Indonesia	5,919,000
21	Tianjin	China	5,855,000
22	LIMA	Peru	5,681,000
23	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	5,613,000
24	Lahore	Pakistan	5,143,000
25	Bogor	Indonesia	5,000,000
26	SANTIAGO	Chile	4,788,000
27	St Petersburg	Russia	4,678,000
28	Shenyang	China	4,669,000
29	Calcutta	India	4,399,000
30	Wuhan	China	4,040,000
31	Sydney	Australia	4,031,000
32	Guangzhou	China	3,935,000
33	SINGAPORE	Singapore	3,894,000
34	Madras	India	3,841,000
35	BAGHDAD	Iraq	3,841,000
36	Pusan	South Korea	3,814,000
37	Los Angeles (CA)	USA	3,694,000
38	Yokohama	Japan	3,426,000
39	DHAKA	Bangladesh	3,397,000
40	BERLIN	Germany	3,386,000
41	Alexandria	Egypt	3,339,000
42	Bangalore	India	3,302,000
43	Malang	Indonesia	3,173,000
44	Hyderabad	India	3,145,000
45	Chongqing	China	3,127,000
46	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	3,015,000
47	Haerbin	China	2,990,000
48	ANKARA	Turkey	2,984,000
49	BUENOS AIRES	Argentina	2,965,000
50	Chengdu	China	2,954,000
51	Ahmedabad	India	2,954,000
52	Casablanca	Morocco	2,943,000
53	Chicago (IL)	USA	2,896,000
54	Xian	China	2,872,000
55	MADRID	Spain	2,823,000
56	Surabaya	Indonesia	2,801,000
57	PYONGYANG	NorthKorea	2,741,000
58	Nanjing	China	2,678,000
59	KINSHASA	Congo (Zaire)	2,664,000
60	ROMA	Italy	2,648,000
61	Taipei	China	2,640,000
62	Osaka	Japan	2,598,000
63	KIEV	Ukraine	2,589,000
64	YANGON	Myanmar	2,513,000
65	Toronto	Canada	2,500,000
66	Zibo	China	2,484,000
67	Dalian	China	2,483,000
68	Taegu	South Korea	2,449,000
69	ADDIS ABABA	Ethopia	2,424,000
70	Jinan	China	2,403,000
71	Salvador	Brazil	2,331,000
72	Inchon	South Korea	2,308,000
73	Semarang	Indonesia	2,221,000
74	Giza	Egypt	2,221,000
75	Changchun	China	2,192,000
76	Havanna	Cuba	2,192,000
77	Nagoya	Japan	2,171,000
78	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	2,154,000
79	PARIS	France	2,152,000
80	TASHKENT	Uzbekistan	2,142,000
81	Fortaleza	Brazil	2,139,000
82	Sukabumi	Indonesia	2,137,000
83	Cali	Colombia	2,128,000
84	Guayaquil	Ecuador	2,117,000
85	Qingdao	China	2,101,000
86	Izmir	Turkey	2,081,000
87	Cirebon	Indonesia	2,080,000
88	Taiyuan	China	2,051,000
89	BRASILIA	Brazil	2,016,000
90	BUCURESTI	Romania	2,016,000
91	Faisalabad	Pakistan	2,008,000
92	Quezon City	Philippines	1,989,000
93	Medan	Indonesia	1,988,000
94	Houston (TX)	USA	1,953,000
95	Abidjan	Côte d’Ivorie	1,929,000
96	Mashhad	Iran	1,887,000
97	Medellín	Colombia	1,885,000
98	Kanpur	India	1,879,000
99	BUDAPEST	Hungary	1,825,000
100	CARACAS	Venezuela	1,823,000