List of urban areas by population

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This is a list of contiguous urban areas of the world ordered according to population (as of 2007). The figures here have been compiled by Demographia.^[1]^[2] Urban areas here refer to contiguous built-up areas containing a high population density (over 400 persons per square kilometer as a rule but with exceptions), without regard for administrative boundaries.

Rank	City	Country	Population	Area (km²)	Pop. Growth Rate (%/yr)	Sources of Pop. / Area ^[3]
1	Tokyo–Yokohama^[4]	Japan	34,450,000	7,835	0.29	C / B
2	New York City^[5]	United States	20,420,000	11,264	0.50	H / H
3	Seoul–Incheon^[6]	South Korea	20,090,000	1,943	0.60	C / B
4	Mumbai (Bombay)^[7]	India	19,380,000	648	2.20	C / B
5	Jakarta	Indonesia	19,300,000	3,108	2.98	E / B
6	Delhi^[8]	India	18,560,000	1,360	3.33	C / B
7	Mexico City^[9]	Mexico	18,410,000	2,525	0.85	C / B
8	São Paulo	Brazil	18,130,000	2,784	0.93	C / B
9	Manila^[10]	Philippines	17,320,000	1,334	1.68	C / B
10	Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto^[11]	Japan	17,280,000	3,497	0.08	C / B
11	Cairo^[12]	Egypt	16,000,000	1,554	1.61	D / B
12	Los Angeles^[13]	United States	15,350,000	5,812	1.50	H / H
13	Kolkata (Calcutta)	India	14,580,000	984	1.65	A / B
14	Shanghai	People's Republic of China	14,530,000	2,979	2.23	C / B
15	Moscow^[14]	Russia	14,100,000	3,885	0.36	C / B
16	Buenos Aires^[15]	Argentina	13,460,000	2,979	0.92	A / B
17	Beijing (Peking)	People's Republic of China	12,160,000	3,043	2.62	C / B
18	Shenzhen^[16]^[17]	People's Republic of China	11,820,000	1,295	3.65	F / B
19	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	11,080,000	1,580	0.82	C / B
20	Istanbul	Turkey	11,000,000	1,256	1.57	E / B
21	Paris	France	10,570,000	3,043	0.83	E / B
22	Lagos	Nigeria	9,660,000	790	4.45	D / B
23	Karachi^[18]	Pakistan	9,260,000	751	3.19	C / B
24	Nagoya	Japan	9,220,000	4,662	0.23	C / B
25	Chicago^[19]	United States	9,100,000	5,952	0.74	H / H
26	London^[20]	United Kingdom	8,280,000	1,623	−0.00	A / A
27	Bangkok	Thailand	8,190,000	1,554	1.18	C / B
28	Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)	Vietnam	8,040,000	699	3.19	E / B
29	Kinshasa^[21]	Democratic Republic of the Congo	7,930,000	389	4.24	E / B
30	Lima	Peru	7,730,000	596	1.43	F / B
31	Tehran^[22]	Iran	7,550,000	686	1.36	E / B
32	Dhaka^[18]	Bangladesh	7,470,000	311	3.71	C / B
33	Bogotá	Colombia	7,390,000	479	1.68	E / B
34	Essen–Dusseldorf (Ruhr Area)^[23]	Germany	7,360,000	2,642	0.01	C / B
35	Chennai (Madras)	India	7,070,000	414	1.60	A / B
36	Guangzhou (Canton)^[24]	People's Republic of China	7,050,000	1,684	0.12	E / B
37	Hong Kong^[16]	Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	6,840,000	220	0.92	E / B
38	Lahore	Pakistan	6,700,000	466	3.16	G / B
39	Bangalore	India	6,670,000	531	2.66	A / B
40	Taipei^[25]	Republic of China (Taiwan)	6,560,000	440	0.28	D / B
41	Johannesburg–East Rand	South Africa	6,540,000	2,396	1.45	C / B
42	Hyderabad	India	6,490,000	583	2.11	C / B
43	Dongguan (Tungkuan)^[17]	People's Republic of China	6,450,000	1,101	3.65	F / B
44	Baghdad	Iraq	6,030,000	596	2.31	D / B
45	Toronto–Hamilton^[26]	Canada	5,870,000	2,152	1.97	H / H
46	Santiago	Chile	5,750,000	648	1.17	E / B
47	Miami	United States	5,500,000	2,891	1.60	A / A
48	San Francisco–San Jose^[27]	United States	5,400,000	2,497	0.21	H / H
49	Philadelphia	United States	5,330,000	4,661	0.48	A / A
50	Saint Petersburg (Leningrad)^[28]	Russia	5,290,000	1,191	−0.13	D / B
51	Dallas–Fort Worth^[29]	United States	5,250,000	3,959	2.40	H / H
52	Tianjin (Tientsin)^[18]^[30]	People's Republic of China	5,190,000	453	1.48	C / B
53	Ahmedabad	India	5,020,000	202	2.61	A / B
54	Kuala Lumpur^[31]	Malaysia	5,010,000	1,606	2.64	E / B
55	Madrid	Spain	4,980,000	945	0.27	C / B
56	Milan^[32]	Italy	4,950,000	3,043	−0.16	C / B
57	Wuhan	People's Republic of China	4,890,000	518	2.17	E / B
58	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	4,860,000	1,101	2.82	E / B
59	Boston^[33]	United States	4,760,000	5,501	0.31	H / H
60	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	4,640,000	1,166	1.83	C / B
61	Pune	India	4,570,000	220	3.32	A / B
62	Shenyang (Mukden)^[34]	People's Republic of China	4,420,000	777	1.06	E / B
63	Khartoum	Sudan	4,380,000	583	2.31	D / B
64	Houston^[35]	United States	4,330,000	3,463	1.47	H / H
65	Atlanta	United States	4,280,000	5,083	2.91	A / A
66	Singapore^[36]	Singapore	4,240,000	479	0.85	D / B
67	Washington, D.C.^[37]	United States	4,210,000	2,996	0.99	A / A
67	Yangon	Myanmar	4,210,000	350	2.57	D / B
69	Detroit^[38]	United States	4,060,000	3,267	0.58	A / A
70	Guadalajara	Mexico	4,030,000	712	1.00	E / B
71	Barcelona	Spain	3,930,000	803	0.12	C / B
72	Athens	Greece	3,750,000	684	0.29	C / B
72	Busan	South Korea	3,750,000	259	0.60	E / B
72	Chengdu	People's Republic of China	3,750,000	427	1.16	E / B
75	Surat	India	3,730,000	109	4.81	A / B
76	Sydney	Australia	3,720,000	1,687	1.02	C / B
77	Phoenix–Mesa	United States	3,700,000	2,069	3.51	A / A
78	Alexandria	Egypt	3,680,000	293	1.69	D / B
78	Berlin	Germany	3,680,000	984	0.00	C / B
80	Bandung	Indonesia	3,670,000	401	2.91	E / B
81	Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire	3,630,000	298	2.39	D / B
82	Monterrey	Mexico	3,610,000	712	1.20	C / B
83	Ankara	Turkey	3,510,000	583	1.81	E / B
84	Recife	Brazil	3,470,000	414	1.26	C / B
85	Algiers	Algeria	3,400,000	453	2.60	E / B
85	Porto Alegre	Brazil	3,400,000	777	1.14	C / B
87	Montreal	Canada	3,350,000	1,740	0.69	A / A
88	Melbourne	Australia	3,340,000	2,080	0.93	C / B
89	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	3,320,000	777	2.74	E / B
90	Chongqing (Chungking)	People's Republic of China	3,270,000	259	1.44	E / B
91	Qingdao (Tsingtao)	People's Republic of China	3,200,000	712	1.06	E / B
92	Fortaleza	Brazil	3,160,000	725	1.80	C / B
93	Kanpur	India	3,110,000	142	2.43	A / B
93	Nanjing (Nanking)	People's Republic of China	3,110,000	492	0.61	E / B
95	Medellín	Colombia	3,100,000	189	2.46	C / B
96	Kano	Nigeria	3,080,000	207	2.44	D / B
97	Salvador	Brazil	3,000,000	389	1.65	C / B
98	Casablanca	Morocco	2,980,000	220	2.08	E / B
98	Naples	Italy	2,980,000	777	−0.13	C / B
100	Durban (eThekwini)	South Africa	2,960,000	829	0.50	C / B
101	Luanda	Angola	2,940,000	363	4.15	D / B
102	Seattle	United States	2,930,000	2,470	1.10	A / A
103	Caracas	Venezuela	2,920,000	233	0.98	E / B
104	Nairobi	Kenya	2,910,000	389	3.77	E / B
105	Kabul	Afghanistan	2,890,000	259	5.09	E / B
106	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	2,870,000	228	3.55	D / B
107	Curitiba	Brazil	2,860,000	842	2.01	C / B
107	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2,860,000	246	4.47	C / B
109	Surabaya	Indonesia	2,850,000	376	2.34	D / B
110	San Diego^[39]	United States	2,840,000	2,026	0.84	A / A
111	Cape Town	Saudi Arabia	2,820,000	686	0.73	C / B
111	Chittagong	Bangladesh	2,820,000	168	4.21	C / B
111	Jaipur	India	2,820,000	168	3.46	A / B
114	Rome	Italy	2,720,000	855	−0.16	C / B
115	Taichung	Republic of China (Taiwan)	2,680,000	492	2.32	E / B
116	Lucknow	India	2,650,000	130	2.61	A / B
117	Amman^[40]	Jordan	2,620,000	344	1.90	E / B
118	Harbin	People's Republic of China	2,610,000	492	0.04	E / B
119	Minneapolis–Saint Paul	United States	2,590,000	2,316	1.16	A / A
120	Dakar	Senegal	2,580,000	181	3.14	E / B
120	Tel Aviv	Israel	2,580,000	453	1.63	D / B
122	Pyongyang	North Korea	2,570,000	207	0.68	F / B
123	Faisalabad	Pakistan	2,550,000	168	3.35	C / B
123	Kaohsiung	Republic of China (Taiwan)	2,550,000	363	0.70	E / B
125	Changsha	People's Republic of China	2,520,000	337	2.33	E / B
125	Ibadan	Nigeria	2,520,000	311	2.30	D / B
127	Guayaquil	Ecuador	2,510,000	220	2.25	D / B
128	İzmir	Turkey	2,490,000	272	1.79	E / B
128	Kiev	Ukraine	2,490,000	479	−0.09	D / B
128	Rawalpindi–Islamabad	Pakistan	2,490,000	233	3.35	C / B
131	Nanchang	People's Republic of China	2,440,000	155	2.53	E / B
132	Katowice–Gliwice–Tychy	Poland	2,430,000	725	−0.14	C / B
133	Nagpur	India	2,410,000	114	2.17	A / B
134	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2,390,000	712	3.89	C / B
135	Daegu	South Korea	2,380,000	181	−0.13	E / B
136	Medan	Indonesia	2,370,000	246	2.46	E / B
136	Tampa–St. Petersburg	United States	2,370,000	2,078	2.03	A / A
138	Hangzhou	People's Republic of China	2,350,000	414	1.90	E / B
139	Frankfurt	Germany	2,330,000	673	0.50	C / B
140	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	2,310,000	531	0.61	E / B
141	Aleppo	Syria	2,300,000	210	2.33	D / B
141	Lisbon	Portugal	2,300,000	881	0.39	C / B
143	Changchun	People's Republic of China	2,290,000	285	1.46	E / B
143	Guatemala City	Guatemala	2,290,000	298	4.32	C / B
143	Birmingham^[41]	United Kingdom	2,280,000	600	−0.03	A / A
146	Indore	India	2,250,000	85	3.22	A / B
146	San Juan	Puerto Rico	2,250,000	2,309	0.23	A / A
148	Fukuoka^[42]	Japan	2,240,000	583	0.43	C / B
148	Manchester^[43]	United Kingdom	2,240,000	558	−0.03	A / A
150	Tunis	Tunisia	2,220,000	363	1.41	D / B
151	Havana	Cuba	2,200,000	285	0.04	D / B
152	Baltimore^[37]	United States	2,190,000	1,768	0.79	A / A
152	Cali	Colombia	2,190,000	155	2.07	C / B
152	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	2,190,000	171	2.90	C / B
155	Guiyang	People's Republic of China	2,180,000	130	5.29	E / B
156	Damascus	Syria	2,170,000	207	2.07	D / B
156	Kunming	People's Republic of China	2,170,000	324	3.74	E / B
156	St. Louis	United States	2,170,000	2,147	0.62	A / A
159	Colombo	Sri Lanka	2,150,000	223	1.22	E / B
159	Sapporo	Japan	2,150,000	648	0.49	C / B
161	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	2,140,000	246	1.33	C / B
162	Goiânia	Brazil	2,120,000	673	2.24	C / B
163	Asunción	Paraguay	2,110,000	596	2.83	E / B
164	Budapest	Hungary	2,090,000	894	−0.19	D / B
164	Dalian	People's Republic of China	2,090,000	389	0.72	E / B
164	Jinan	People's Republic of China	2,090,000	466	0.77	E / B
164	Rotterdam–The Hague^[44]	Netherlands	2,090,000	842	0.39	C / B
164	Shijiazhuang	People's Republic of China	2,090,000	401	1.61	E / B
169	Patna	India	2,080,000	83	3.32	A / B
170	Denver	United States	2,060,000	1,292	0.50	A / A
170	Lanzhou	People's Republic of China	2,060,000	168	3.95	E / B
172	Campinas	Brazil	2,040,000	492	2.21	C / B
173	Las Vegas	United States	2,030,000	741	4.46	A / A
174	Cologne–Bonn^[23]	Germany	2,020,000	932	0.50	C / B
175	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	2,010,000	673	2.82	E / B
175	Vancouver	Canada	2,010,000	1,120	1.55	A / A
175	Warsaw	Poland	2,010,000	544	0.07	D / B
178	Mashhad	Iran	2,000,000	207	1.69	E / B

[edit] References

^ Demographia World Urban Areas: Projections 2007 & 2020
^ Demographia World Urban Areas: World Urban Areas (500,000+): Population, Density
^ Sources for population estimates are coded by "A," "C," "D," "E," "F," "G," and "H." Sources for land area definitions are coded by "A", "B," and "H." "A": National census authority data. "B": Demographia land area estimate based upon map or satellite photograph analysis. "C": Demographia population "build up" from third, fourth or fifth order jurisdictions (NUTS-3, NUTS-4, NUTS-5 or equivalent). "D": Population estimate based upon United Nations agglomeration estimate. "E": Demographia population estimate from national census authority agglomeration data. "F": Other Demographia population estimate. "G": Estimate based upon projected growth rate from last census. "H": Combination of adjacent national census authority agglomerations. The most reliable population estimates are "A" and "H." Population estimates "C" are generally reliable. Population estimates "D" and "E" are less reliable. Population estimates coded "F" and "G" are the least reliable.
^ Includes large portions of the prefectures of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama; and small portions of Gumma, Tochigi, and Ibaraki.
^ Combined urbanized area of New York–Newark, Bridgeport–Stamford, New Haven, Trenton, Danbury, and Hightstown.
^ Includes Suwon and Ansan.
^ Includes Kalyan, Bhiwandi, and Panvel.
^ Includes Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Noida, and Gurgaon.
^ Excludes urban areas of Toluca (1,250,000; 220 km²) and Cuernavaca (675,000; 171km²).
^ Includes continuous urbanization outside the National Capital Region. The Demographia population estimate is a “build-up” of municipality population within the continuously developed area (urban area or agglomeration).
^ Includes Nara and Himeji. United Nations estimates separate Osaka–Kobe and Kyoto and exclude both Nara and Himeji. Excludes urban area of Ōtsu (700,000; 389 km²).
^ Includes the Governorate of Al-Qahirah (Cairo) and the cities of Al-Jizah (Giza) and Shubra al-Khaymah (Shubra El-Kheima)
^ Combined urbanized area of Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana, Riverside–San Bernardino, and Mission Viejo.
^ The population estimate is suspect, due to the lack of readily available data for areas outside the city jurisdiction.
^ Includes La Plata.
^ ^a ^b Shenzhen and Hong Kong are treated as separate urban areas because of the lack of freedom of labor movement without trade, immigration or customs barriers.
^ ^a ^b Population estimates for Shenzhen and Dongguan are based upon press reports, since the national census excludes millions of residents who do not have permanent resident status.
^ ^a ^b ^c The population is lower than other estimates (such as the United Nations), which include metropolitan area population not within the continuously developed urban area. The Demographia population estimate is a “build-up” of sub-municipality population within the continuously developed area (urban area or agglomeration).
^ Combined urbanized area of Chicago, Kenosha, and Round Lake Beach–McHenry–Grayslake.
^ Excludes urban areas of Reading (370,000; 93 km²) and Southend-on-Sea (269,000; 67 km²).
^ Excludes urban area of Brazzaville (1,200,000; 142 km²) in the Republic of the Congo.
^ Excludes urban area of Karaj (1,025,000; 145 km²).
^ ^a ^b Essen–Dusseldorf and Cologne–Bonn are treated as separate urban areas.
^ Includes Foshan.
^ The population is higher than other estimates (such as the United Nations), which do not includes all population within the continuously developed urban area (especially in Taipei County). Excludes urban area of Chungli (1,600,000; 414 km²).
^ Combined urban area of Toronto, Hamilton, and Oshawa.
^ Combined urbanized area of San Francisco–Oakland, San Jose, and Concord
^ Include communities under the authority of the Town Council.
^ Combined urbanized area of Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington and Denton–Lewisville.
^ Excludes urban areas of Tanggu (450,000; 168 km²) within the municipality of Tianjin and Tangshan (875,000; 168 km²).
^ The population is higher than other agglomeration estimates (such as the United Nations), which does not include all of the continuously developed urban area. The Demographia population estimate is a “build-up” of municipality population within the continuously developed area (urban area or agglomeration).
^ Includes Bergamo.
^ Combined urbanized area of Boston, Worcester, and Nashua.
^ Excludes urban area of Fushun (625,000; 117 km²).
^ Combined urbanized area of Houston and The Woodlands.
^ Excludes urban area of Johor Bahru (650,000; 363 km²) in Malaysia.
^ ^a ^b The US Census Bureau combines Baltimore and Washington into a single metropolitan area (consolidated area) but Demographia considers the two as separate urban areas.
^ Excludes urban area of Windsor (263,000; 167 km²) in Canada.
^ Excludes urban area of Tijuana (1,400,000; 324 km²) in Mexico.
^ Includes Az-Zarqa.
^ Excludes urban area of Coventry (336,000; 76 km²).
^ Excludes urban area of Kitakyūshū (1,800,000; 1,166 km²). Some sources combine Fukuoka with Kitakyūshū (such as the United Nations), which is not a part of the continuous urbanization of Fukuoka. The Demographia population estimate is a “build-up” of municipality population within the continuously developed area (urban area or agglomeration).
^ Excludes urban areas of Liverpool (816,000; 186 km²) and Birkenhead (320,000; 89 km²).
^ Excludes urban areas of Amsterdam (1,100,000; 414 km²), Haarlem (450,000; 142 km²), and Utrecht (400,000; 109 km²).

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