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world and their mayors Countries listed in alphabetical order S to Z
The tables list cities in alphabetical order of their countries. The tables provide city and metro population date. 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 in 2010 and 2011. For the population data City Mayors consulted numerous national and international sources and in cases of large statistical inconsistencies elected to publish cautious averages. Readers and scholars are invited to inform of any discrepancies and/or provide missing facts and figures. The data is updated monthly. Please insert ‘Largest cities 2011’ in the subject line of any email.
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TABLES:
By size of cities: 1 to 150 | 151 to 300 | 301 to 450 | 451 to 600 |
City by city: A to D | E to L | M to R | S to Z |
Country by country: A to D | E to L | M to R | S to Z |
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Largest cities and their mayors in 2011 (Countries S to Z)
NB Metro population figures for China are often those of their prefectures; n/r = not ranked
| World rank | City | Country | City population | Metro population | Mayor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | RIYADH | Saudi Arabia | 4,950,000 | 5,855,000 | Abdul Aziz ibn 'Ayyaf Al Migrin |
| 54 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 3,856,000 | 4,500,000 | Adil Faqeeh |
| 177 | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | 1,700,000 | 2,500,000 | Osama Al-Bar |
| 291 | Medina | Saudi Arabia | 1,300,000 | 1,300,000 | Abdulaziz Bin Majid |
| 484 | Ad-Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 813,000 | 2,051,000 | Dhaifallah al-'Utaybi |
| 485 | Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 812,000 | 2,000,000 | Dhaifallah al-'Utaybi |
| n/r | Al-Hufuf | Saudi Arabia | 286,000 | 784,000 | n/k |
| 325 | Pikine-Guediawaye | Senegal | 1,200,000 | n/k | |
| 397 | DAKAR | Senegal | 1,031,000 | 2,253,000 | Khalifa Sall |
| 395 | FREETOWN | Sierra Leone | 1,032,000 | 1,032,000 | Herbert-George Williams |
| 39 | SINGAPORE | Singapore | 4,988,000 | Lee Hsien Loong | |
| n/r | BRATISLAVA | Slovak Republic | 431,000 | 550,000 | Milan Ftácnik |
| 218 | MOGADISHU | Somalia | 1,500,000 | 2,500,000 | Mohamud Ahmed Tarzan |
| 53 | Johannesburg | South Africa | 3,888,000 | 10,268,000 | Amos Masondo |
| 66 | Cape Town | South Africa | 3,497,000 | 7,280,000 | Patricia de Lille |
| 209 | TSHWANE (PRETORIA) | South Africa | 1,530,000 | 2,346,000 | Gwen Ramokgopa |
| 436 | Soweto | South Africa | 923,000 | Amos Masondo (Johannesburg) | |
| 471 | Port Elizabeth | South Africa | 833,000 | 1,245,000 | Nondumiso Maphasi |
| 554 | Durban | South Africa | 670,000 | 3,468,000 | Obed Mlama |
| n/r | Vereeniging | South Africa | 385,000 | 774,000 | n/k |
| 8 | SEOUL | South Korea | 11,153,000 | 24,472,000 | Oh Se-hoon |
| 63 | Busan | South Korea | 3,600,000 | 4,292,000 | Hur Nam-sik |
| 96 | Incheon | South Korea | 2,630,000 | 2,630,000 | Song Young-gil |
| 105 | Daegu | South Korea | 2,512,000 | Kim Bum-il | |
| 239 | Daejeon | South Korea | 1,443,000 | Yum Hong-chul | |
| 250 | Gwangju | South Korea | 1,415,000 | 1,500,000 | Kang Un-tae |
| 356 | Ulsan | South Korea | 1,127,000 | Bak Maeng-woo | |
| 375 | Suwon | South Korea | 1,087,000 | n/k | |
| 378 | Goyang | South Korea | 1,073,000 | n/k | |
| 379 | Seongnam | South Korea | 1,073,000 | n/k | |
| 465 | Bucheon | South Korea | 850,000 | 850,000 | n/k |
| n/r | Changweon | South Korea | 486,000 | 1,254,000 | n/k |
| 73 | MADRID | Spain | 3,213,000 | 5,300,000 | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón |
| 182 | Barcelona | Spain | 1,673,000 | 3,890,000 | Jordi Hereu |
| 489 | Valencia | Spain | 810,000 | 1,720,000 | Rita Barberá Nolla |
| 537 | Sevilla | Spain | 704,000 | 1,135,000 | lfredo Sánchez Monteseirín |
| n/r | Bilbao | Spain | 351,000 | 879,000 | Iñzki Azkuna |
| 561 | COLOMBO | Sri Lanka | 650,000 | 2,400,000 | Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas |
| 118 | Omdurman | Sudan | 2,400,000 | Al-Fatih Az-ddin | |
| 129 | KHARTOUM | Sudan | 2,208,000 | 7,500,000 | Abdul Rahman Alkheder |
| 475 | STOCKHOLM | Sweden | 826,000 | 1,252,000 | Sten Nordin |
| n/r | Gothenburg | Sweden | 506,000 | 916,000 | Anneli Hulthén |
| n/r | Malmo | Sweden | 244,000 | 1,340,000 | Ilmar Reepalu |
| n/r | Zurich | Switzerland | 333,000 | 965,000 | Corine Mauch |
| 120 | Aleppo | Syria | 2,360,000 | 3,000,000 | Ma'an Al-Shibli |
| 183 | DAMASCUS | Syria | 1,670,000 | 4,350,000 | Bishr Al Sabban |
| 476 | Hims | Syria | 823,000 | Nadia Kseibi | |
| n/r | Hama | Syria | 325,000 | 1,500,000 | Abdul Razzaq al-Qutainy |
| 98 | TAIPEI | Taiwan | 2,620,000 | 6,753,000 | Hau Lung-pin |
| 208 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 1,530,000 | 2,960,000 | Chen Chu |
| 384 | Taichung | Taiwan | 1,065,000 | 2,700,000 | Jason Hu |
| 512 | Tainan | Taiwan | 769,000 | 785,000 | Hsu Tain-tsair |
| 550 | DUSHANBE | Tajikistan | 680,000 | 810,000 | Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev |
| 110 | DAR ES SALAAM | Tanzania | 2,498,000 | 2,700,000 | Adam Kimbisa |
| 13 | BANGKOK | Thailand | 9,100,000 | 11,970,000 | Sukhumbhand Paribatra |
| 327 | TUNIS | Tunisia | 1,200,000 | 3,980,000 | Abbès Mohsen |
| 12 | Istanbul | Turkey | 9,560,000 | 12,600,000 | Kadir Topbas |
| 57 | ANKARA | Turkey | 3,764,000 | 4,000,000 | Melih Gökçek |
| 122 | Izmir | Turkey | 2,330,000 | 3,200,000 | Aziz Kocaoglu |
| 253 | Bursa | Turkey | 1,400,000 | 3,190,000 | Recep Altepe |
| 340 | Adana | Turkey | 1,162,000 | 1,556,000 | Aytaç Durak |
| 434 | Gaziantep | Turkey | 927,000 | 1,912,000 | n/k |
| 374 | Dubai | UAE | 1,089,000 | 2,100,000 | n/k |
| 451 | ABU DHABI | UAE | 897,000 | Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | |
| 247 | KAMPALA | Uganda | 1,420,000 | 1,600,000 | Nasser Sebaggala |
| 23 | LONDON | UK | 7,557,000 | 12,200,000 | Boris Johnson |
| 401 | Birmingham | UK | 1,017,000 | 2,284,000 | Mike Whitby |
| 510 | Leeds | UK | 778,000 | 1,500,000 | Paul Rogerson |
| 578 | Glasgow | UK | 581,000 | 1,200,000 | n/k |
| 599 | Sheffield | UK | 535,000 | 640,000 | Paul Scriven |
| n/r | Manchester | UK | 464,000 | 2,240,230 | Mavis Smitheman |
| n/r | Liverpool | UK | 435,000 | 817,000 | n/k |
| n/r | Newcastle upon Tyne | UK | 234,000 | 800,000 | n/k |
| 84 | KIEV | Ukraine | 2,820,000 | 3,300,000 | Alexander Popov |
| 228 | Kharkiv | Ukraine | 1,461,000 | 1,674,000 | Mykhailo Dobkin |
| 366 | Donetsk | Ukraine | 1,100,000 | 1,570,000 | Oleksandr Lukianchenko |
| 377 | Odessa | Ukraine | 1,080,000 | 1,200,000 | Eduard Gurwits |
| 394 | Dnipropetrovsk | Ukraine | 1,040,000 | 1,480,000 | Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko |
| 508 | Zaporizhzhya | Ukraine | 782,000 | Yevgeni Kartashov | |
| 524 | Lviv | Ukraine | 740,000 | 1,040,000 | Andriy Sadovyi |
| 285 | MONTEVIDEO | Uruguay | 1,326,000 | 1,723,000 | Ana Olivera |
| 17 | New York City | USA | 8,364,000 | 20,090,000 | Michael Bloomberg |
| 55 | Los Angeles | USA | 3,834,000 | 12,890,000 | Antonio Villaraigosa |
| 82 | Chicago | USA | 2,853,000 | 8,770,000 | Rahm Emanuel |
| 126 | Houston | USA | 2,242,000 | 5,728,000 | Annise Parker |
| 199 | Phoenix | USA | 1,568,000 | 4,282,000 | Phil Gordon |
| 205 | Philadelphia | USA | 1,540,000 | 5,345,000 | Michael Nutter |
| 276 | San Antonio | USA | 1,351,000 | 2,031,000 | Julian Castro |
| 302 | Dallas | USA | 1,280,000 | 6,300,000 | Tom Leppert |
| 305 | San Diego | USA | 1,280,000 | 3,001,000 | Jerry Sanders |
| 409 | San Jose | USA | 1,007,000 | 1,819,000 | Chuck Reed |
| 441 | Detroit | USA | 912,000 | 3,903,000 | Dave Bing |
| 466 | Norfolk | USA | 850,000 | 1,616,000 | Paul D Fraim |
| 491 | San Francisco | USA | 809,000 | 3,229,000 | n/k |
| 493 | Jacksonville | USA | 808,000 | 1,300,000 | John Peyton |
| 502 | Indianapolis | USA | 798,000 | 1,715,000 | Gregory A. Ballard |
| 531 | Columbus | USA | 714,000 | 1,540,000 | Michael B Coleman |
| 548 | Austin | USA | 681,000 | 1,185,000 | Lee Leffingwell |
| 555 | Memphis | USA | 670,000 | 1,281,000 | AC Wharton |
| 556 | Baltimore | USA | 667,000 | 2,670,000 | Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake |
| 565 | Nashville | USA | 626,000 | 1,633,000 | Karl Dean |
| 566 | Boston | USA | 621,000 | 4,033,000 | Thomas Menino |
| 569 | Milwaukee | USA | 604,000 | 1,740,000 | Tom Barrett |
| 571 | WASHINGTON DC | USA | 600,000 | 5,300,000 | Vincent Gray |
| 576 | Denver | USA | 583,000 | 2,746,000 | John W Hickenlooper |
| 581 | Seattle | USA | 578,000 | 3,584,000 | Mike McGinn |
| 585 | Charlotte | USA | 559,000 | 1,466,000 | Anthony Foxx |
| 586 | Las Vegas | USA | 558,000 | 1,866,000 | Oscar B Goodman |
| 588 | Oklahoma City | USA | 551,000 | 1,276,000 | Mick Cornett |
| 596 | Portland | USA | 542,000 | 2,255,000 | Sam Adams |
| 597 | Tucson | USA | 542,000 | 720,000 | Bob Walkup |
| 598 | Atlanta | USA | 538,000 | 3,500,000 | Kasim Reed |
| n/r | Fresno | USA | 500,000 | 1,000,000 | Ashley Swearengin |
| n/r | New Orleans | USA | 488,000 | 1,350,000 | Mitch Landrieu |
| n/r | Kansas City | USA | 480,000 | 2,050,000 | Mark Funkhouser |
| n/r | Oakland | USA | 446,900 | Jean Quan | |
| n/r | Cleveland | USA | 434,000 | 2,250,000 | Frank G. Jackson |
| n/r | Sacramento | USA | 419,000 | 1,000,000 | Kevin Johnson |
| n/r | Tulsa | USA | 399,000 | 813,000 | Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr |
| n/r | Raleigh | USA | 393,000 | 1,691,000 | Charles Meeker |
| n/r | Minneapolis | USA | 392,000 | 3,503,000 | R T Rybak |
| n/r | Miami | USA | 386,000 | 5,413,000 | Tomás Regalado |
| n/r | Cincinnati | USA | 380,000 | 2,155,000 | Mark L. Mallory |
| n/r | St. Louis | USA | 372,000 | 2,850,000 | Francis G Slay |
| n/r | Saint Louis | USA | 371,000 | 2,850,000 | Francis G. Slay |
| n/r | Honolulu | USA | 370,000 | 894,000 | Peter Carlisle |
| n/r | Tampa | USA | 341,000 | 2,700,000 | Pam Iorio |
| n/r | Pittsburgh | USA | 335,000 | 2,411,000 | Luke Ravenstahl |
| n/r | Buffalo | USA | 296,000 | 1,572,000 | Byron Brown |
| n/r | Louisville | USA | 260,000 | 1,040,000 | Jerry Abramson |
| n/r | Greensboro | USA | 256,000 | 710,000 | Bill Knight |
| n/r | Birmingham | USA | 245,000 | 1,200,000 | William A. Bell |
| n/r | Orlando | USA | 231,000 | 2,055,000 | Buddy Dyer |
| n/r | Rochester | USA | 220,000 | 1,100,000 | n/k |
| n/r | Richmond | USA | 200,000 | 1,213,000 | Dwight Clinton Jones |
| n/r | Grand Rapids | USA | 193,000 | 777,000 | George Heartwell |
| n/r | Salt Lake City | USA | 188,000 | 1,677,000 | Ralph Becker |
| n/r | Dayton | USA | 167,000 | 848,000 | n/k |
| n/r | MacAllen | USA | 110,000 | 1,058,000 | n/k |
| n/r | Albany | USA | 96,000 | 1,100,000 | Gerald Jennings |
| 132 | TASHKENT | Uzbekistan | 2,180,000 | 3,400,000 | Abdukahar Tuhtayev |
| 87 | CARACAS | Venezuela | 2,762,000 | 3,478,000 | Antonio Ledezma |
| 164 | Maracaibo | Venezuela | 1,799,000 | 1,868,000 | Eveling Trejo |
| 214 | Barquisimeto | Venezuela | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | Amalia Saez |
| 328 | Valencia | Venezuela | 1,200,000 | 1,750,000 | Edgardo Parra |
| 431 | Ciudad Guayana | Venezuela | 940,000 | 1,000,000 | José Ramón Lopéz |
| n/r | Maracay | Venezuela | 479,000 | 1,125,000 | Humberto Prieto |
| 26 | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | 7,100,000 | Pham Phuong Thao | |
| 151 | Haiphong | Vietnam | 1,885,000 | 1,885,000 | Trinh Quang Su |
| 270 | HANOI | Vietnam | 1,372,000 | 6,500,000 | Nguyen The Thao |
| 172 | SANAA | Yemen | 1,747,000 | 2,168,000 | Abdulrahman al-Akwaa |
| 335 | BELGRADE | Yugoslavia | 1,182,000 | 1,630,000 | Dragan Dillas |
| 363 | LUSAKA | Zambia | 1,110,000 | 3,120,000 | Robert Chikwelete |
| 589 | Kitwe | Zambia | 548,000 | 786,000 | n/k |
| 194 | HARARE | Zimbabwe | 1,600,000 | 2,800,000 | Muchadeyi Masunda |
| 553 | Bulawayo | Zimbabwe | 676,000 | 676,000 | Thaba Moyo |
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