Largest World
Urban
Areas: 1950
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DRAFT |
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Rank |
Urban Area |
Population |
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1 |
New York |
12,914,000 |
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2 |
London |
12,088,000 |
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3 |
Tokyo-Yokohama |
8,400,000 |
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4 |
Moscow |
7,000,000 |
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5 |
Rhine-Ruhr-Wupper |
6,900,000 |
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6 |
Paris |
6,650,000 |
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7 |
Shanghai |
5,800,000 |
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8 |
Chicago |
5,587,000 |
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9 |
Buenos Aires |
4,618,000 |
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10 |
Calcutta |
4,600,000 |
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11 |
Osaka-Kobe |
4,425,000 |
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12 |
Los Angeles |
4,368,000 |
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13 |
Leningrad |
4,200,000 |
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14 |
Beijing |
3,900,000 |
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15 |
Philadelphia |
3,671,000 |
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16 |
Berlin |
3,300,000 |
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17 |
Mexico City |
3,125,000 |
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18 |
Detroit |
3,016,000 |
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19 |
Bombay |
3,000,000 |
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20 |
Rio de Janeiro |
2,413,000 |
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21 |
Boston |
2,411,000 |
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22 |
Cairo |
2,370,000 |
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23 |
Birmingham |
2,242,000 |
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24 |
San Francisco |
2,241,000 |
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25 |
Sao Paulo |
2,228,000 |
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26 |
Pittsburgh |
2,213,000 |
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27 |
Hong Kong |
2,030,000 |
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28 |
Kyoto |
1,833,000 |
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29 |
Vienna |
1,796,000 |
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30 |
Tianjin |
1,772,000 |
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31 |
St. Louis |
1,719,000 |
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32 |
Hamburg |
1,687,000 |
|
33 |
Rome |
1,658,000 |
|
34 |
Sydney |
1,611,000 |
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35 |
Budapest |
1,595,000 |
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36 |
Montreal |
1,539,000 |
|
37 |
Madrid |
1,527,000 |
|
38 |
Barcelona |
1,500,000 |
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38 |
Manchester |
1,500,000 |
|
38 |
Milan |
1,500,000 |
|
41 |
Manila |
1,475,000 |
|
42 |
Cleveland |
1,466,000 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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