Demographia

Largest World
Urban
Areas: 1950

DRAFT    
Rank Urban Area Population
1 New York 12,914,000
2 London 12,088,000
3 Tokyo-Yokohama 8,400,000
4 Moscow 7,000,000
5 Rhine-Ruhr-Wupper 6,900,000
6 Paris 6,650,000
7 Shanghai 5,800,000
8 Chicago 5,587,000
9 Buenos Aires 4,618,000
10 Calcutta 4,600,000
11 Osaka-Kobe 4,425,000
12 Los Angeles 4,368,000
13 Leningrad 4,200,000
14 Beijing 3,900,000
15 Philadelphia 3,671,000
16 Berlin 3,300,000
17 Mexico City 3,125,000
18 Detroit 3,016,000
19 Bombay 3,000,000
20 Rio de Janeiro 2,413,000
21 Boston 2,411,000
22 Cairo 2,370,000
23 Birmingham 2,242,000
24 San Francisco 2,241,000
25 Sao Paulo 2,228,000
26 Pittsburgh 2,213,000
27 Hong Kong 2,030,000
28 Kyoto 1,833,000
29 Vienna 1,796,000
30 Tianjin 1,772,000
31 St. Louis 1,719,000
32 Hamburg 1,687,000
33 Rome 1,658,000
34 Sydney 1,611,000
35 Budapest 1,595,000
36 Montreal 1,539,000
37 Madrid 1,527,000
38 Barcelona 1,500,000
38 Manchester 1,500,000
38 Milan 1,500,000
41 Manila 1,475,000
42 Cleveland 1,466,000
43 Washington 1,464,000
44 Santiago 1,450,000
45 Seoul 1,446,000
46 Wuhan 1,445,000
47 Madras 1,416,000
48 Guanghzou 1,413,000
49 Baltimore 1,405,000
50 Liverpool 1,388,000
51 Melbourne 1,360,000
52 Athens 1,271,000
53 Toronto 1,262,000
54 Nagoya 1,250,000
54 Naples 1,250,000
56 Copenhagen 1,200,000
57 Delhi 1,193,000
58 Minneapolis-St. Paul 1,151,000
59 Amsterdam 1,125,000
60 Buffalo 1,089,000
61 Glasgow 1,087,000
62 Hyderabad 1,086,000
63 Karachi 1,068,000
64 Alexandria 1,060,000
65 Brussels 1,050,000
66 Bucharest 1,042,000
67 Mukden 1,021,000
68 Cologne 1,010,000
69 Havana 1,000,000
69 Tsingtao 1,000,000
69 Warsaw 1,000,000
69 Turin 1,000,000
69 Istanbul 1,000,000
69 Kiev 1,000,000
69 Gorky 1,000,000
69 Chungking 1,000,000
69 Stockholm 1,000,000
69 Lisbon 1,000,000

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