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The largest cities in the
world and their mayors July 2017: The table ranks cities country by country. The column ‘mayor’ names the men and women who are carry out political and executive functions. They include elected and appointed mayors, city governors and executive city council leaders. Capital letters denote national capital cities.
The research was carried out during May and June 2017. For the population data, the researchers consulted numerous national and international sources and in cases of large statistical inconsistencies elected to publish cautious averages. The figures for city populations comprise the number of residents within the unified administrative areas of cities, while the data for metro populations include residents of urban areas that are socially, culturally and economically dependent on the core city. (Please note, there is no internationally agreed definition of metro areas.) Readers and scholars are invited to inform of any discrepancies and/or provide missing facts and figures. Largest cities and their mayors in 2017 (Country by country)
| World rank | City (caps denote capital cities) | Country | City population | Metro population | Mayor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | KABUL | Afghanistan | 3,678,000 | 3,678,000 | Abdullah Habibzai (Mr) |
| 85 | ALGIERS | Algeria | 3,336,000 | 5,000,000 | Mohamed Kebir Addou (Mr) |
| 149 | LUANDA | Angola | 2,108,000 | 2,825,000 | Francisco Higino Lopes Carneiro (Mr) |
| 105 | BUENOS AIRES | Argentina | 2,900,000 | 12,740,000 | Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (Mr) |
| 199 | Cordoba | Argentina | 1,587,000 | 3,645,000 | Ramon Javier Mestre (Mr) |
| 249 | Rosario | Argentina | 1,194,000 | 1,276,000 | Monica Fein (Ms) |
| 271 | Yerevan | Armenia | 1,074,000 | 1,074,000 | Taron Margaryan (Mr) |
| 56 | Sydney | Australia | 5,005,000 | 5,005,000 | Clover Moore (Ms) |
| 58 | Melbourne | Australia | 4,641,000 | 4,641,000 | Robert Doyle (Mr) |
| 135 | Brisbane | Australia | 2,350,000 | 3,500,000 | Graham Quirk (Mr) |
| 159 | Perth | Australia | 1,980,000 | 1,980,000 | Lisa Scaffidi (Ms) |
| 232 | Adelaide | Australia | 1,326,000 | 1,326,000 | Martin Haese (Mr) |
| 166 | Vienna | Austria | 1,868,000 | 2,600,000 | Michael Haupl (Mr) |
| 147 | Baku | Azerbaijan | 2,122,000 | 2,724,000 | Hajibala Abutalybov (Mr) |
| 5 | DHAKA | Bangladesh | 14,543,000 | 18,898,000 | Annisul Huq (Mr) (Dhaka North); Sayeed Khokon (Mr) (Dhaka South) |
| 120 | Chittagong | Bangladesh | 2,581,000 | 4,009,000 | AJM Nasir Uddin (Mr) |
| 295 | Khulna | Bangladesh | 653,000 | 1,500,000 | Moniruzzaman Moni (Mr) |
| 163 | MINSK | Belarus | 1,922,000 | 2,101,000 | Andrei Shorets (Mr) |
| 192 | Santa Cruz | Bolivia | 1,640,000 | 3,078,000 | Percy Fernandez (Mr) |
| 292 | LA PAZ | Bolivia | 790,000 | 2,630,000 | Luis A Revilla Herrero (Mr) |
| 11 | Sao Paulo | Brazil | 12,038,000 | 21,243,000 | João Doria (Mr) |
| 41 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 6,454,000 | 12,281,000 | Marcelo Crivella (Mr) |
| 101 | BRASILIA | Brazil | 2,978,000 | 2,978,000 | Rodrigo Rollemberg (Mr) |
| 104 | Salvador | Brazil | 2,913,000 | 3,920,000 | Antonio Carlos Magalhaes (Mr) |
| 119 | Fortaleza | Brazil | 2,610,000 | 4,019,000 | Roberto Cláudio (Mr) |
| 127 | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | 2,502,000 | 5,156,000 | Alexandre Kalil (Mr) |
| 153 | Manaus | Brazil | 2,094,000 | 2,569,000 | Arthur Virgilio Neto (Mr) |
| 165 | Curitiba | Brazil | 1,880,000 | 1,434,000 | Rafael Greca (Mr) |
| 193 | Recife | Brazil | 1,626,000 | 3,996,000 | Geraldo Julio de Mello Filho (Mr) |
| 210 | Porto Alegre | Brazil | 1,510,000 | 4,405,000 | Nelson Marchezan Jr (Mr) |
| 222 | Goiania | Brazil | 1,449,000 | 2,459,000 | Paulo de Siqueira Garcia (Mr) |
| 223 | Belem | Brazil | 1,440,000 | 2,249,000 | Zenaldo Coutinho (Mr) |
| 233 | Guarulhos | Brazil | 1,325,000 | 1,325,000 | Gustavo Henric Costa (Mr) |
| 252 | Campinas | Brazil | 1,164,000 | 2,633,000 | Jonas Donizette (Mr) |
| 242 | SOFIA | Bulgaria | 1,260,000 | 1,680,000 | Yordanka Fandakova (Ms) |
| 212 | PHNOM PENH | Cambodia | 1,502,000 | 1,502,000 | Pa Socheatvong (Mr) |
| 124 | YAOUNDE | Cameroon | 2,535,000 | 2,765,000 | n.a. |
| 129 | Douala | Cameroon | 2,447,000 | 3,000,000 | Fritz Ntone Ntone (Mr) |
| 112 | Toronto | Canada | 2,731,000 | 5,928,000 | John Tory (Mr) |
| 183 | Montreal | Canada | 1,704,000 | 4,099,000 | Valérie Plante (Ms) |
| 45 | SANTIAGO | Chile | 6,158,000 | 6,582,000 | Claudio Orrego (Mr) |
| 1 | Shanghai | China | 24,153,000 | 34,000,000 | Ying Yong (Mr) |
| 2 | BEIJING | China | 18,590,000 | 24,900,000 | Chen Jining (Mr) |
| 9 | Tianjin | China | 12,784,000 | 15,469,000 | Wang Dongfeng (Mr) |
| 12 | Shenzhen | China | 11,908,000 | 11,980,000 | n/a |
| 13 | Guangzhou | China | 11,548,000 | 14,044,000 | Wen Guohui (Mr) |
| 15 | Wuhan | China | 10,608,000 | 10,608,000 | Wan Yong (Mr) |
| 18 | Chengdu | China | 10,152,000 | 14,427,000 | Luo Qiang (Mr) |
| 26 | Xian | China | 8,705,000 | 13,560,000 | Shangguan Jiqing (Mr) |
| 29 | Nanjing | China | 8,460,000 | 8,460,000 | Miao Ruilin (Mr) |
| 33 | Chongquin | China | 8,165,500 | 18,380,000 | Zhang Guoqing (Mr) |
| 37 | Hong Kong | China | 7,234,800 | Leung Chun-ying (Mr) | |
| 39 | Hangzhou | China | 7,082,000 | 9,188,000 | Xu Liyi (Mr) |
| 42 | Zhengzhou | China | 6,406,000 | 9,468,000 | Ma Yi (Mr) |
| 43 | Shenyang | China | 6,255,000 | 8,106,000 | Jiang Youwei (Mr) |
| 44 | Qingdao | China | 6,188,000 | 9,046,000 | Meng Fanli (Mr) |
| 46 | Dalian | China | 5,900,000 | 6,700,000 | Xiao Shengfeng (Mr) |
| 49 | Suzhou | China | 5,468,000 | 10,578,000 | Qu Futian (Mr) |
| 51 | Harbin | China | 5,282,000 | 6,704,000 | Song Xibin (Mr) |
| 57 | Jinan | China | 4,694,000 | 7,068,000 | Wang Zhonglin (Mr) |
| 59 | Changsha | China | 4,597,000 | 7,432,000 | Hu Henghua (Mr) |
| 61 | Fuzhou | China | 4,468,000 | 7,200,000 | You Mengjun (Mr) |
| 65 | Shiziahuang | China | 4,303,000 | 10,701,000 | Wang Liang (Mr) |
| 68 | Nanning | China | 4,037,000 | 6,914,000 | Zhou Hongbo (Mr) |
| 72 | Kunming | China | 3,891,000 | 6,626,000 | Li Wenrong (Mr) |
| 73 | Changchun | China | 3,815,000 | 7,674,000 | Liu Changlong (Mr) |
| 78 | Urumqi | China | 3,550,000 | 3,550,000 | Ilham Sabir (Mr) |
| 79 | Wuxi | China | 3,542,000 | 6,372,000 | Wang Quan (Mr) |
| 88 | Hefei | China | 3,310,000 | 5,484,000 | Ling Yun (Mr) |
| 89 | Changzhou | China | 3,290,000 | 4,592,000 | Fei Gaoyun (Mr) |
| 90 | Taiyuan | China | 3,212,000 | 4,202,000 | Geng Yanbo (Mr) |
| 92 | Tangshan | China | 3,187,000 | 7,577,000 | Ding Xiufeng (Mr) |
| 95 | Zibo | China | 3,129,000 | 4,131,000 | Zhou Qingli (Mr) |
| 99 | Guiyang | China | 3,037,000 | 4,024,000 | Liu Wenxin (Mr) |
| 118 | Xuzhou | China | 2,623,000 | 3,054,000 | Zhou Tiegen (Mr) |
| 134 | Nanchang | China | 2,357,000 | 5,043,000 | Guo An (Mr) |
| 145 | Kowloon | China | 2,204,000 | 2,204,000 | (absorbed into Hong Kong) |
| 146 | Lanzhou | China | 2,177,000 | 3,616,000 | Yuan Zhanting (Mr) |
| 154 | Baotou | China | 2,071,000 | 2,650,000 | Du Xuejun (Mr) |
| 160 | Jilin | China | 1,975,000 | 4,414,000 | Zhang Huanqiu (Mr) |
| 168 | Luoyang | China | 1,857,000 | 1,926,000 | Bao Changyong (Mr) |
| 171 | Datong | China | 1,787,000 | 3,318,000 | Zhang Jifu (Mr) |
| 209 | Anshan | China | 1,529,000 | 3,645,000 | Wu Zhongqiong (Mr) |
| 218 | Qiqihar | China | 1,482,000 | 5,367,000 | Li Yugang (Mr) |
| 228 | Foshan | China | 1,410,000 | 2,190,000 | Zhu Wei (Mr) |
| 289 | Handan | China | 941,000 | 2,846,000 | Gao Heping (Mr) |
| 34 | BOGOTA | Colombia | 8,081,000 | 9,800,000 | Enrique Peñalosa Londoño (Mr) |
| 130 | Medellin | Colombia | 2,441,000 | 3,731,000 | Federico Gutierrez (Mr) |
| 132 | Cali | Colombia | 2,401,000 | 3,400,000 | Maurice Armitage (Mr) |
| 257 | Barranquilla | Columbia | 1,148,000 | 2,371,000 | Alejandro Char (Mr) |
| 185 | BRAZZAVILLE | Congo B R | 1,700,000 | 1,840,000 | Hugues Ngouelondele (Mr) |
| 213 | Lubumbashi | Congo D R | 1,500,000 | 1,794,000 | Jean Oscar Sanguza Mutunda (Mr) |
| 19 | KINSHASA | Congo D.R. | 10,125,000 | 21,265,000 | André Kimbuta Yango |
| 151 | HAVANA | Cuba | 2,106,000 | 2,125,000 | Marta Hernandez (Ms) |
| 240 | PRAGUE | Czech Republic | 1,280,000 | 2,156,000 | Adriana Krnacova (Ms) |
| 239 | COPENHAGEN | Denmark | 1,296,000 | 2,037,000 | Frank Jensen (Mr) |
| 286 | SANTO DOMINGO | Dominican Republic | 965,000 | 3,776,000 | David Collado (Mr) |
| 81 | Guayaquil | Ecuador | 3,500,000 | 5,000,000 | Jaime Nebot (Mr) |
| 116 | QUITO | Ecuador | 2,671,000 | 4,700,000 | Mauricio Rodas Espinel (Mr) |
| 22 | CAIRO | Egypt | 9,500,000 | 20,440,000 | Atef Abd El Hamid (Mr) |
| 69 | Alexandria | Egypt | 4,028,000 | 4,984,000 | Reda Farahat (Mr) |
| 77 | Giza | Egypt | 3,628,000 | 3,628,000 | n/a |
| 269 | Shubra El Kheima | Egypt | 1,099,000 | 1,099,000 | n.a. |
| 84 | ADDIS ABABA | Ethiopia | 3,385,000 | 4,567,000 | Diriba Kuma (Mr) |
| 142 | PARIS | France | 2,230,000 | 12,405,000 | Anne Hidalgo (Ms) |
| 263 | TBILISI | Georgia | 1,118,000 | 1,485,000 | David Narmania (Mr) |
| 76 | BERLIN | Germany | 3,671,000 | 6,004,000 | Michael Muller (Mr) |
| 170 | Hamburg | Germany | 1,787,000 | 5,046,000 | Olaf Scholz (Mr) |
| 221 | Munich | Germany | 1,450,000 | 2,606,000 | Dieter Reiter (Mr) |
| 143 | ACCRA | Ghana | 2,227,000 | 4,000,000 | Mohammed Adjei Sowah (Mr) |
| 148 | GUATAMALA CITY | Guatemala | 2,110,000 | 4,500,000 | Alvaro Arzu (Mr) |
| 191 | CONAKRY | Guinea | 1,661,000 | 2,000,000 | n.a. |
| 282 | PORT-AU-PRINCE | Haiti | 988,000 | 2,619,000 | Ralph Youri Chevry (Mr) |
| 275 | Tegucigalpa | Honduras | 1,055,000 | 1,157,000 | Nasry Asfura (Mr) |
| 174 | BUDAPEST | Hungary | 1,760,000 | 2,928,000 | Istvan Tarlos (Mr) |
| 10 | Mumbai (Bombay) | India | 12,400,000 | 27,750,000 | Vishwanath Mahadeshwar (Mr) |
| 14 | DELHI | India | 11,035,000 | 26,454,000 | Arvind Kejriwal (Mr) |
| 30 | Bangalore | India | 8,444,000 | 8,729,000 | Padmavathi G (Mr) |
| 38 | Chennai | India | 7,088,000 | 8,653,000 | Saidai Duraisamy (Mr) |
| 40 | Hyderabad | India | 6,809,000 | 7,749,000 | Bonthu Ram Mohan (Mr) |
| 48 | Ahmadabad | India | 5,577,000 | 6,357,000 | Gautam Shah (Mr) |
| 60 | Kolkata | India | 4,497,000 | 14,618,000 | Sovan Chatterjee (Mr) |
| 62 | Surat | India | 4,467,000 | 4,591,000 | Ashmita Shiroya (Ms) |
| 96 | Pune | India | 3,124,000 | 5,057,000 | Mukta Tilak (Mr) |
| 98 | Jaipur | India | 3,046,000 | 3,046,000 | Ashok Lahoty (Mr) |
| 103 | Kanpur | India | 2,920,000 | 4,152,000 | Shri Jagat Vir Singh Drona (Mr) |
| 110 | Lucknow | India | 2,817,000 | 2,902,000 | Dinesh Sharma (Mr) |
| 131 | Nagpur | India | 2,405,000 | 2,498,000 | Nanda Jichkar (Ms) |
| 176 | Bhopal | India | 1,745,000 | 1,864,000 | Alok Sharma (Mr) |
| 179 | Pimpri Chinchwad | India | 1,729,000 | 1,729,000 | Nitin Kalje (Mr) |
| 188 | Patna | India | 1,683,000 | 2,046,000 | Afzal Imam (Mr) |
| 190 | Vadodara | India | 1,671,000 | 2,065,000 | Bharat Dangar (Mr) |
| 195 | Ludhiana | India | 1,619,000 | 1,619,000 | Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria (Mr) |
| 200 | Agra | India | 1,585,000 | 1,760,000 | Sri Aditya Nath Yogi (Mr) |
| 217 | Nashik | India | 1,487,000 | 1,863,000 | Ranjana Bhansi (Mr) |
| 230 | Rajkot | India | 1,390,000 | 1,443,000 | Jaimin Upadhyay (Mr) |
| 236 | Meerut | India | 1,309,000 | 1,425,000 | Harikant Ahluwalia (Mr) |
| 246 | Varanasi | India | 1,201,000 | 1,435,000 | Ram Gopal Mohle (Mr) |
| 248 | Indore | India | 1,194,000 | 2,170,000 | Malin Laxmansingh Gaur (Mr) |
| 259 | Jodphur | India | 1,138,000 | 1,138,000 | Ghanshyam Ojha (Mr) |
| 260 | Amritsar | India | 1,132,000 | 1,183,000 | Kamildeep Singh Sangha (Mr) |
| 266 | Allahabad | India | 1,110,000 | 1,210,000 | Abhilasha Gupta (Mr) |
| 272 | Ranchi | India | 1,073,000 | 1,127,000 | Asha Lakra (Ms) |
| 273 | Haora | India | 1,072,000 | 1,072,000 | Rathin Chakraborty (Mr) |
| 21 | JAKARTA | Indonesia | 9,608,000 | 30,214,000 | Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Mr) |
| 108 | Surabaya | Indonesia | 2,865,000 | 6,485,000 | Tri Rismaharini (Ms) |
| 122 | Bandung | Indonesia | 2,575,000 | 8,465,000 | Ridwan Kamil (Mr) |
| 156 | Medan | Indonesia | 2,047,000 | 4,103,000 | Dzulmin Eldin (Mr) |
| 181 | Palembang | Indonesia | 1,708,000 | 1,708,000 | H Harnojoyo (Mr) |
| 198 | Makassar | Indonesia | 1,600,000 | 1,980,000 | Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto (Mr) |
| 205 | Semarang | Indonesia | 1,555,000 | 3,184,000 | Hendrar Prihadi (Mr) |
| 24 | TEHRAN | Iran | 8,847,000 | 15,233,000 | Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (Mr) |
| 87 | Mashhad | Iran | 3,312,000 | 3,372,000 | Sowlat Mortazavi (Mr) |
| 141 | Isfahen | Iran | 2,243,000 | 3,793,000 | Mehdi Jamalinejad (Mr) |
| 172 | Tabriz | Iran | 1,773,000 | 1,773,000 | Sadegh Najafi-Khazarlou (Mr) |
| 220 | Shiraz | Iran | 1,461,000 | 2,353,000 | Alireza Pakfetrat (Mr) |
| 25 | BAGHDAD | Iraq | 8,765,000 | Zekra Alwach (Mr) | |
| 111 | Basrah | Iraq | 2,750,000 | 2,750,000 | Khelaf Abdul Samad (Dr) |
| 196 | Irbil | Iraq | 1,610,000 | 1,750,000 | Nihad Qoja (Mr) |
| 294 | Mosul | Iraq | 670,000 | 1,350,000 | Hussein Ali Khajem (Mr) |
| 107 | ROME | Italy | 2,877,000 | 4,353,000 | Virginia Raggi (Ms) |
| 231 | Milan | Italy | 1,369,000 | 3,206,000 | Giuseppe Sala (Mr) |
| 285 | Napoli | Italy | 974,000 | 4,400,000 | Luigi de Magistris (Mr) |
| 63 | Abidjan | Ivory Coast | 4,396,000 | 4,707,000 | Robert Beugre Mambe (Mr) |
| 6 | TOKYO | Japan | 13,617,000 | 37,800,000 | Yuriko Koike (Ms) |
| 74 | Yokohama | Japan | 3,733,000 | 3,733,000 | Fumiko Hayashi (Ms) |
| 117 | Osaka | Japan | 2,668,000 | 19,342,000 | Hirofumi Yoshimura (Mr) |
| 139 | Nagoya | Japan | 2,283,000 | 9,107,000 | Takashi Kawamura (Mr) |
| 161 | Sapporo | Japan | 1,947,000 | 5,377,435 | Katsuhiro Akimoto (Mr) |
| 206 | Fukuoka | Japan | 1,551,000 | 5,590,000 | Soichiro Takashima (Mr) |
| 208 | Kobe | Japan | 1,537,000 | 1,537,000 | Kizo Hisamoto (Mr) |
| 219 | Kyoto | Japan | 1,475,000 | 1,475,000 | Daisaku Kadokawa (Mr) |
| 225 | Kawasaki | Japan | 1,437,000 | 1,437,000 | Norihiko Fukuda (Mr) |
| 247 | Hiroshima | Japan | 1,196,000 | 2,040,000 | Kazumi Matsui (Mr) |
| 274 | Sendai | Japan | 1,063,000 | 1,063,000 | Emiko Okuyama (Mr) |
| 287 | Kitakyushu | Japan | 963,000 | 963,000 | Kenji Kitahashi (Mr) |
| 70 | AMMAN | Jordan | 4,008,000 | 4,008,000 | Yousef Shawarbeh (Mr) |
| 184 | ALMATY | Kazakhstan | 1,704,000 | 1,948,000 | Bauyrzhan Baybek (Mr) |
| 94 | NAIROBI | Kenya | 3,138,000 | 6,547,000 | Evans Kidero (Mr) |
| 300 | BEIRUT | Lebanon | 361,000 | 2,200,000 | Jamal Itani (Mr) |
| 262 | TRIPOLI | Libya | 1,126,000 | 1,126,000 | Abdulrauf Beitelmal (Mr) |
| 296 | Benghazi | Libya | 632,000 | 1,110,000 | Ahmed Laraibi (Mr) |
| 173 | KUALA LUMPUR | Malaysia | 1,768,000 | 7,200,000 | Mohammed Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz (Mr) |
| 23 | MEXICO CITY | Mexico | 8,919,000 | 20,400,000 | Miguel Ángel Mancera (Mr) |
| 128 | Puebla | Mexico | 2,500,000 | 2,929,000 | Luis Barick Serrato (Mr) |
| 186 | Tijuana | Mexico | 1,697,000 | 1,896,000 | Juan Manuel Gastelum (Mr) |
| 187 | Ecatepec | Mexico | 1,687,000 | 1,689,000 | Indalecio Rios Velazquez (Mr) |
| 201 | Leon | Mexico | 1,578,000 | 1,630,000 | Hector Lopez Santillana (Mr) |
| 215 | Guadalajara | Mexico | 1,495,000 | 4,424,000 | Enrique Alfaro Ramirez (Mr) |
| 234 | Ciudad Juarez | Mexico | 1,321,000 | 2,539,000 | Armando Cabada (Mr) |
| 254 | Zapopan | Mexico | 1,156,000 | 1,280,000 | Pablo Lemus (Mr) |
| 261 | Monterrey | Mexico | 1,131,000 | 4,560,000 | Adrian de la Garza (Mr) |
| 267 | Nezahualcoyotl | Mexico | 1,110,000 | 1,110,000 | Juan Hugo de la Rosa Garcia (Mr) |
| 280 | Mexicali | Mexico | 996,000 | 1,102,000 | Gustavo Sanchez Vasquez (Mr) |
| 55 | Casablanca | Morocco | 5,118,000 | 6,861,000 | Abdelaziz El Oman (Mr) |
| 298 | RABAT | Morocco | 578,000 | 2,120,000 | Fathallah Oualalou (Mr) |
| 243 | MAPUTO | Mozambique | 1,258,000 | 1,782,000 | David Simango (Mr) |
| 54 | Yangon | Myanmar (Burma) | 5,160,000 | 7,360,000 | Maung Maung Soe (Mr) |
| 144 | MANAGUA | Nicaragua | 2,206,000 | 2,561,000 | Daisy Torres (Ms) |
| 35 | Lagos | Nigeria | 8,048,000 | 16,060,000 | Rilwan Akiolu (Mr) (Oba of Lagos) |
| 86 | Kano | Nigeria | 3,333,000 | 3,333,000 | Ishaq Yakasai (Mr) |
| 97 | Ibadan | Nigeria | 3,050,000 | 3,520,000 | n/a |
| 164 | Maiduguri | Nigeria | 1,900,000 | 1,900,000 | n.a. |
| 167 | Port Harcourt | Nigeria | 1,865,000 | 1,865,000 | Soni Sam Ejekwu (Mr) |
| 214 | Benin | Nigeria | 1,496,000 | 1,496,000 | n.a. |
| 238 | Kaduna | Nigeria | 1,300,000 | 1,300,000 | Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai (Mr) |
| 121 | PYONGYANG | North Korea | 2,581,000 | 2,581,000 | n/a |
| 3 | Karachi | Pakistan | 18,000,000 | 27,506,000 | Waseem Akhtat (Mr) |
| 16 | Lahore | Pakistan | 10,355,000 | Mubashir Javed (Mr) | |
| 67 | Faisalabad | Pakistan | 4,075,000 | 4,075,000 | Razzak Malik (Mr) |
| 83 | Hyderabad | Pakistan | 3,429,000 | 3,429,000 | Tayyab Hussein (Mr) |
| 91 | Rawalpindi | Pakistan | 3,189,000 | 3,189,000 | Sardar Naseem (Mr) |
| 113 | Gujranwala | Pakistan | 2,723,000 | 2,723,000 | Sarwat Ikram (Mr) |
| 155 | Multan | Pakistan | 2,050,000 | 3,117,000 | Chaudry Naveed ul Haq Arain (Mr) |
| 283 | Peshawar | Pakistan | 982,000 | 1,755,000 | Arbab Asim (Mr) |
| 20 | LIMA | Peru | 9,752,000 | 10,852,000 | Luis Castañeda Lossio (Mr) |
| 8 | MANILA | Philippines | 12,877,000 | 22,710,000 | Joseph Estrada (Mr) |
| 175 | WARSAW | Poland | 1,749,000 | 3,101,000 | Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (Ms) |
| 150 | BUCHAREST | Romania | 2,106,000 | 2,281,000 | Gabriela Firea (Ms) |
| 7 | MOSCOW | Russia | 13,197,596 | 17,900,000 | Sergey Sobyanin (Mr) |
| 50 | St Petersburg | Russia | 5,323,000 | 7,500,000 | Georgy Poltavchenko (Mr) |
| 203 | Novosibirsk | Russia | 1,567,000 | 1,567,000 | Anatoly Lokot (Mr) |
| 227 | Ekaterinburg | Russia | 1,428,000 | 1,428,000 | Yevgeny Roizman (Mr) |
| 244 | Nizhny Novgorod | Russia | 1,251,000 | 3,310,000 | Ivan Kamilin (Mr) |
| 245 | Kazan | Russia | 1,217,000 | 1,217,000 | Ilsur Metshin (Mr) |
| 250 | Samara | Russia | 1,172,000 | 1,172,000 | Oleg Fursov (Mr) |
| 255 | Chelyabinsk | Russia | 1,156,000 | 1,156,000 | Stanislav Mosharov (Mr) |
| 256 | Omsk | Russia | 1,154,000 | 1,154,000 | Viacheslav Dvorakovsky (Mr) |
| 264 | Rostov on Don | Russia | 1,115,000 | 1,115,000 | Zinaida Neyarokhina (Ms) |
| 265 | Ufa | Russia | 1,111,000 | 1,111,000 | Irek Yalalov (Mr) |
| 277 | Perm | Russia | 1,041,000 | 1,041,000 | Dmitry Samoylov (Mr) |
| 278 | Volgograd | Russia | 1,021,000 | 1,021,000 | Alexander Chunakov (Mr) |
| 36 | RIYADH | Saudi Arabia | 7,506,000 | 7,506,000 | Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Sultan (Mr) |
| 66 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 4,276,000 | 4,276,000 | Hani Abu Ras (Mr) |
| 189 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | 1,675,000 | 1,675,000 | Osama al-Bar (Mr) |
| 293 | Medina | Saudi Arabia | 785,000 | 1,183,000 | Khalid Taher (Mr) |
| 258 | DAKAR | Senegal | 1,147,000 | 2,452,000 | Khalifa Sall (Mr) |
| 251 | BELGRADE | Serbia | 1,166,000 | 1,659,000 | Sinisa Mali (Mr) |
| 276 | FREETOWN | Sierra Leone | 1,050,000 | 1,050,000 | Franklin Bode Gibson (Mr) |
| 47 | SINGAPORE | Singapore | 5,607,000 | 5,607,000 | n/a |
| 140 | MOGADISHU | Somalia | 2,265,000 | 2,265,000 | Thabit Abdi Mohammed (Mr) |
| 102 | TSHWANE (PRETORIA) | South Africa | 2,922,000 | 2,922,000 | Solly Tshepiso Msimanga (Mr) |
| 241 | Soweto | South Africa | 1,271,000 | 1,271,000 | (absorbed into Johannesburg) |
| 288 | Johannesburg | South Africa | 957,000 | 4,435,000 | Amos Masondo (Mr) |
| 297 | Durban | South Africa | 595,000 | 3,842,000 | Zandile Gumede (Ms) |
| 299 | Capetown | South Africa | 433,000 | 3,740,000 | Patricia de Lille (Ms) |
| 17 | Seoul | South Korea | 10,290,000 | 25,600,000 | Park Won-soon (Mr) |
| 80 | Busan | South Korea | 3,526,000 | 8,202,000 | Suh Byung-soo (Mr) |
| 100 | Incheon | South Korea | 3,002,000 | 3,002,000 | Yoo Jeung-bok (Mr) |
| 125 | Daegu | South Korea | 2,522,000 | 5,020,000 | Kwon Young-jin (Mr) |
| 211 | Daejon | South Korea | 1,507,000 | 1,548,000 | Kwon Seon-taek (Mr) |
| 216 | Gwangju | South Korea | 1,494,000 | 1,494,000 | Yoon Jang-hyeon (Mr) |
| 253 | Ulsan | South Korea | 1,163,000 | 1,163,000 | Kim Gi-hyeon (Mr) |
| 281 | Seongnam | South Korea | 994,000 | 994,000 | Lee Jae-myung (Mr) |
| 93 | MADRID | Spain | 3,141,000 | 6,240,000 | Manuela Carmena (Ms) |
| 197 | Barcelona | Spain | 1,605,000 | 4,740,000 | Ada Colau Ballano (Ms) |
| 53 | KHARTOUM | Sudan | 5,185,000 | 5,185,000 | Abdel Mohammed Hussein (Mr) |
| 133 | Omdurman | Sudan | 2,396,000 | 2,396,000 | |
| 290 | STOCKHOLM | Sweden | 936,000 | 2,226,000 | Karin Wanngard (Ms) |
| 169 | Aleppo(Halab) | Syria | 1,800,000 | 1,800,000 | n.a. |
| 180 | DAMASCUS | Syria | 1,711,000 | 5,000,000 | Bishr Al Sabban (Mr) |
| 115 | TAIPEI | Taiwan | 2,705,000 | 8,500,000 | Ko Wen-je (Mr) |
| 123 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2,540,000 | 2,779,000 | Chen Chu (Mr) |
| 126 | Taichung | Taiwan | 2,520,000 | 2,752,000 | Lin Chia-lung (Mr) |
| 64 | DAR ES SALAAM | Tanzania | 4,364,000 | 4,364,000 | Paul Makonda (Mr) |
| 32 | BANGKOK | Thailand | 8,281,000 | 14,566,000 | Aswin Kwanmuang (Mr) |
| 270 | TUNIS | Tunisia | 1,096,000 | 2,643,000 | Seifallah Lasram (Mr) |
| 4 | Istanbul | Turkey | 14,657,000 | 14,804,000 | Kadir Topbas (Mr) |
| 52 | ANKARA | Turkey | 5,271,000 | 6,280,000 | Melih Gokcek (Mr) |
| 109 | Izmir | Turkey | 2,848,000 | 4,113,000 | Aziz Kocaoglu (Mr) |
| 136 | Bursa | Turkey | 2,340,000 | 2,842,000 | Recep Altepe (Mr) |
| 178 | Adana | Turkey | 1,730,000 | 1,730,000 | Huseyin Sozlu (Mr) |
| 27 | LONDON | UK | 8,674,000 | 13,880,000 | Sadiq Khan (Mr) |
| 268 | Birmingham | UK | 1,102,000 | 2,441,000 | Andy Street (Mr) |
| 106 | KIEV | Ukraine | 2,900,000 | 3,375,000 | Vitali Klitschko (Mr) |
| 226 | Kharkiv | Ukraine | 1,431,000 | 1,732,000 | Hennadiy Kernes (Mr) |
| 279 | Odessa | Ukraine | 1,016,000 | 1,016,000 | Gennady Trukhanov (Mr) |
| 284 | Dnipropetrovsk | Ukraine | 979,000 | 1,460,000 | Borys Filatov (Mr) |
| 291 | Donetsk | Ukraine | 929,000 | 2,010,000 | Oleksandr Lukyanchenko (Mr) |
| 235 | MONTEVIDEO | Uruguay | 1,319,000 | 1,947,000 | Daniel Martinez (Mr) |
| 28 | New York City | USA | 8,550,000 | 23,724,000 | Bill de Blasio (Mr) |
| 71 | Los Angeles | USA | 3,976,000 | 13,131,000 | Eric Garcetti (Mr) |
| 114 | Chicago | USA | 2,720,000 | 9.513.000 | Rahm Emanuel (Mr) |
| 138 | Houston | USA | 2,296,000 | 6,313,000 | Sylvester Turner (Mr) |
| 202 | Philadelphia | USA | 1,567,000 | 6,069,000 | Jim Kenney (Mr) |
| 204 | Phoenix | USA | 1,563,000 | 4,574,000 | Greg Stanton (Mr) |
| 224 | San Antonio | USA | 1,437,000 | 2,329,000 | Ivy Taylor (Ms) |
| 229 | San Diego | USA | 1,395,000 | 4,923,000 | Kevin Faulconer (Mr) |
| 237 | Dallas | USA | 1,300,000 | 7,246,000 | Mike Rawlings (Mr) |
| 137 | TASHKENT | Uzbekistan | 2,310,000 | 2,310,000 | Rakhmonbek Usmonov (Mr) |
| 157 | Maracaibo | Venezuela | 2,002,000 | 2,451,000 | Evelyn Trejo de Rosales (Ms) |
| 158 | Barquisimeto | Venezuela | 1,996,000 | 1,996,000 | Alfredo Ramos (Mr) |
| 162 | CARACAS | Venezuela | 1,944,000 | 2,924,000 | Antonio Ledezma (Mr) |
| 207 | Valencia | Venezuela | 1,541,000 | 1,827,000 | Edgardo Parra (Mr) |
| 31 | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | 8,426,000 | 10,050,000 | Nguyen Thanh Phong (Mr) |
| 82 | HANOI | Vietnam | 3,435,000 | 7.588,000 | Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc (Mr) |
| 152 | Haiphong | Vietnam | 2,103,000 | 2,103,000 | n.a. |
| 182 | SANAA | Yemen | 1,708,000 | 1,708,000 | n.a. |
| 177 | LUSAKA | Zambia | 1,743,000 | 2,467,000 | Mulenga Sata (Mr) |
| 194 | HARARE | Zimbabwe | 1,619,000 | 2,800,000 | Bernard Manyenyeni (Mr) |
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