URBAN AREAS OVER 3,000,000 POPULATION
High-Income World Urban Areas:
Growth and Population Density

Rank	Urban Area	10 Year Metropolitan Growth Rate (1990s)	Core Urban Area: Population per Square Mile	Rank	Core Urban Area: Population (Millions)	Core Urban Area: Square Miles
1	Atlanta	37.1%	1,783	29	3.5	1,963
2	Singapore	31.8%	21,622	2	4.0	185
3	Dallas-Fort Worth	29.2%	2,947	26	4.1	1,407
4	Houston	24.9%	2,951	25	3.8	1,295
5	Miami	23.5%	4,407	20	4.9	1,116
6	Toronto	20.3%	6,845	14	4.4	638
7	Hong Kong	18.2%	76,176	1	6.1	53
8	Washington-Baltimore	13.1%	3,401	23	3.9	1,157
9	San Francisco-San Jose	12.8%	6,127	16	3.0	428
10	Los Angeles	12.7%	7,068	13	11.8	1,668
11	Sydney	11.7%	5,379	17	3.5	651
12	Chicago	11.1%	3,914	22	8.3	2,123
13	Madrid	9.6%	13,425	5	4.9	365
14	Montreal	9.6%	4,793	19	3.2	671
15	Melbourne	9.5%	3,938	21	3.2	803
16	New York	8.4%	5,309	18	17.8	3,353
17	Boston	6.9%	2,322	28	4.0	1,736
18	Athens	6.8%	13,958	4	3.7	264
19	London	6.1%	13,210	6	8.3	627
20	Nagoya	5.3%	8,108	11	9.0	1,110
21	Detroit	5.1%	3,094	24	3.9	1,261
22	Tokyo-Yokohama	5.1%	12,296	8	33.2	2,700
23	Philadelphia	4.7%	2,861	27	5.1	1,799
24	Berlin	3.3%	9,671	9	3.7	380
25	Barcelona	3.0%	12,581	7	3.9	310
26	Paris	2.7%	9,181	10	9.6	1,051
27	Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto	1.5%	16,591	3	16.4	990
28	Milan	1.3%	6,237	15	4.3	600
29	Essen-Dusseldorf	-3.0%	7,206	12	7.4	1,020
Sources:
Population growth rates: National census organizations
Urbanized area data from http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf