Demographia

World Urbanized Areas (Developed Areas)
1,000,000 & Over: 2000: Ranked

Rank Urban Area (Developed Area) Nation Population Notes
1 Tokyo-Yokohama Japan 27,500,000  
2 Mumbai India 18,900,000 Former Bombay. Includes Thane
3 Sao Paulo Brazil 17,500,000  
4 Mexico City Mexico 17,400,000  
5 New York United States 16,600,000  
6 Seoul-Inchon Korea-South 14,600,000  
7 Los Angeles United States 14,500,000 Includes Riverside-San Bernardino
7 Shanghai China 14,500,000  
9 Calcutta India 13,000,000  
10 Lagos Nigeria 12,900,000  
11 Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Japan 12,300,000  
11 Buenos Aires Argentina 12,300,000  
13 Beijing China 12,200,000 Former Peking
13 Cairo Egypt 12,200,000 Includes Shubra El-Khemia
15 Karachi Pakistan 11,600,000  
16 Delhi India 11,400,000  
17 Dhaka Bangladesh 10,600,000  
17 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 10,600,000  
19 Manila Philippines 10,500,000  
20 Tianjin China 10,300,000 Former Tientsin
21 Jakarta Indonesia 9,700,000  
22 Paris France 9,600,000  
23 Moscow Russia 9,300,000  
24 Istanbul Turkey 8,900,000  
25 London United Kingdom 7,600,000  
26 Teheran Iran 7,500,000  
27 Bangkok Thailand 7,300,000  
27 Lima Peru 7,300,000  
29 Chicago United States 7,000,000  
30 Chennai India 6,700,000 Former Madras
31 Bogota Colombia 6,600,000  
32 Hyderabad India 6,500,000  
32 Essen Germany 6,500,000  
34 Lahore Pakistan 6,000,000  
34 Hong Kong China 6,000,000  
36 Washington-Baltimore United States 5,900,000  
37 Hangzhou China 5,600,000  
37 Johannesburg South Africa 5,600,000 Includes East Rand & West Rand
37 San Francisco United States 5,600,000 Includes San Jose
37 Shenyang China 5,600,000 Former Mukden
41 Bangalore India 5,500,000  
42 Harbin China 5,300,000  
43 Santiago Chile 5,200,000  
43 Kinshasa Congo-Kinshasha 5,200,000  
45 Changchun China 5,100,000  
45 Chengdu China 5,100,000  
45 Guangzhou China 5,100,000 Former Canton
45 Saint Petersburg Russia 5,100,000 Former Leningrad
49 Baghdad Iraq 4,800,000  
50 Wuhan China 4,700,000 Former Hankow
51 Toronto Canada 4,600,000  
52 Yangon Myanmar 4,500,000 Former Rangoon
53 Philadelphia United States 4,400,000  
54 Jinan China 4,300,000  
55 Milan Italy 4,200,000  
55 Algiers Algeria 4,200,000  
55 Ahmedabad India 4,200,000  
55 Pusan Korea-South 4,200,000  
59 Belo Horizonte Brazil 4,100,000  
59 Madrid Spain 4,100,000  
61 Alexandria Egypt 4,000,000  
61 Shenzhen China 4,000,000  
61 Qingdao China 4,000,000 Former Tsingtao
64 Chongqing China 3,900,000 Former Chunking
65 Detroit United States 3,800,000  
65 Dallas-Fort Worth United States 3,800,000  
65 Ho Chi Minh Viet Nam 3,800,000 Former Saigon
68 Medellin Colombia 3,700,000  
68 Sydney Australia 3,700,000  
68 Guadalajara Mexico 3,700,000  
68 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale United States 3,700,000  
72 Santo Domingo Dominican Rep. 3,600,000  
72 Porto Alegre Brazil 3,600,000  
72 Frankfurt Germany 3,600,000  
75 Katowice Poland 3,500,000  
75 Casablanca Morocco 3,500,000  
75 Singapore Singapore 3,500,000  
78 Handan China 3,400,000  
78 Montreal Canada 3,400,000  
78 Bandung Indonesia 3,400,000  
78 Pune India 3,400,000 Former Poona
82 Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire 3,300,000  
82 Berlin Germany 3,300,000  
82 Monterrey Mexico 3,300,000  
82 Nanjing China 3,300,000 Former Nanking
82 Xian China 3,300,000  
82 Houston United States 3,300,000  
82 Recife Brazil 3,300,000  
82 Nagoya Japan 3,300,000  
90 Caracas Venezuela 3,200,000  
90 Dusseldorf Germany 3,200,000  
90 Melbourne Australia 3,200,000  
90 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 3,200,000  
90 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 3,200,000  
95 Ankara Turkey 3,100,000  
95 Athens Greece 3,100,000  
95 Salvador Brazil 3,100,000  
95 Cape Town South Africa 3,100,000  
99 Chittagong Bangladesh 3,000,000  
99 Naples Italy 3,000,000  
99 Dalian China 3,000,000  
99 Cologne Germany 3,000,000  
99 Boston United States 3,000,000  
104 San Diego United States 2,900,000  
104 Fortaleza Brazil 2,900,000  
104 Taipei Taiwan 2,900,000  
104 Kitakyushu Japan 2,900,000  
108 Kiev Ukraine 2,800,000  
108 Barcelona Spain 2,800,000  
108 Maputo Mozambique 2,800,000  
111 Rome Italy 2,700,000  
111 Khartoum Sudan 2,700,000  
111 Pyongyang Korea-North 2,700,000  
114 Guatemala City Guatemala 2,600,000  
114 Taegu Korea-South 2,600,000  
114 Hamburg Germany 2,600,000  
114 Stuttgart Germany 2,600,000  
114 Atlanta United States 2,600,000  
114 Kabul Afghanistan 2,600,000  
114 Luanda Angola 2,600,000  
121 Phoenix United States 2,500,000  
121 Lucknow India 2,500,000  
121 Esfahan Iran 2,500,000  
121 Tashkent Uzbekistan 2,500,000  
121 Surabaja Indonesia 2,500,000  
121 Kanpur India 2,500,000  
127 Curitiba Brazil 2,400,000  
127 Minneapolis-St. Paul United States 2,400,000  
127 Mashhad Iran 2,400,000  
130 Izmir Turkey 2,300,000  
130 Surat India 2,300,000  
130 Birmingham United Kingdom 2,300,000  
130 Munich Germany 2,300,000  
130 Taiyuan China 2,300,000  
130 Damascus Syria 2,300,000  
136 Guiyang China 2,200,000  
136 Nairobi Kenya 2,200,000  
136 Zhengzhou China 2,200,000  
136 Warsaw Poland 2,200,000  
136 Manchester United Kingdom 2,200,000  
136 Havana Cuba 2,200,000  
136 Arbil Iraq 2,200,000  
136 Faisalabad Pakistan 2,200,000  
144 Saint Louis United States 2,100,000  
144 Jaipur India 2,100,000  
144 Dakar Senegal 2,100,000  
144 Tel-Aviv-Haifa Israel 2,100,000  
144 Vienna Austria 2,100,000  
144 Seattle United States 2,100,000  
144 Bucharest Romania 2,100,000  
144 Aleppo Syria 2,100,000  
144 Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 2,100,000  
144 Guayaquil Ecuador 2,100,000  
144 Nagpur India 2,100,000  
155 Lisbon Portugal 2,000,000  
155 Lanzhou China 2,000,000  
155 Gujranwala Pakistan 2,000,000  
155 Cali Colombia 2,000,000  
155 Tripoli Libya 2,000,000  
155 Peshawar Pakistan 2,000,000  
155 Budapest Hungary 2,000,000  
155 Baku Azerbaijan 2,000,000  
155 Accra Ghana 2,000,000  
155 Tampa United States 2,000,000  
155 Beirut Lebanon 2,000,000  
155 Vancouver Canada 2,000,000  
167 Brasilia Brazil 1,900,000  
167 Conakry Guinea 1,900,000  
167 Medan Indonesia 1,900,000  
167 Tunis Tunisia 1,900,000  
167 Shijiazhuang China 1,900,000  
167 Kunming China 1,900,000  
167 Puebla Mexico 1,900,000  
174 Maracaibo Venezuela 1,800,000  
174 Fuzhou China 1,800,000  
174 Changsha China 1,800,000  
174 Campinas Brazil 1,800,000  
174 Minsk Belarus 1,800,000  
174 Norfolk United States 1,800,000  
174 Datong China 1,800,000  
174 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 1,800,000  
174 Harare Zimbabwe 1,800,000 Former Salisbury
183 Kochi India 1,700,000 Former Cochin
183 Qiqihar China 1,700,000  
183 Fushun China 1,700,000  
183 Kharkov Ukraine 1,700,000  
183 Sapporo Japan 1,700,000  
183 Xuzhou China 1,700,000  
183 Pittsburgh United States 1,700,000  
183 Ibadan Nigeria 1,700,000  
183 Denver United States 1,700,000  
183 Port-au-Prince Haiti 1,700,000  
183 Tabriz Iran 1,700,000  
183 Cleveland United States 1,700,000  
183 Valencia Venezuela 1,700,000  
196 Brisbane Australia 1,600,000  
196 Lusaka Zambia 1,600,000  
196 Nanning China 1,600,000  
196 Visakhapatnam India 1,600,000  
196 Belem Brazil 1,600,000  
196 Ludhiana India 1,600,000  
196 Hefei China 1,600,000  
196 Douala Cameroon 1,600,000  
196 Ulhasnagar India 1,600,000  
196 Bhopal India 1,600,000  
196 Stockholm Sweden 1,600,000  
196 Tangshan China 1,600,000  
196 Kwangju Korea-South 1,600,000  
196 Anshan China 1,600,000  
196 Pretoria South Africa 1,600,000  
196 Vadodara India 1,600,000  
196 Mannheim Germany 1,600,000  
213 Baotou China 1,500,000  
213 Novosibirsk Russia 1,500,000  
213 Palembang Indonesia 1,500,000  
213 Nanchang China 1,500,000  
213 Nizhni Novgorod Russia 1,500,000 Former Gorki
213 Luoyang China 1,500,000  
213 Jilin China 1,500,000 Former Tsinan
213 Kaohsiung Taiwan 1,500,000  
213 Rawalpindi Pakistan 1,500,000  
213 Multan Pakistan 1,500,000  
223 Indore India 1,400,000  
223 Yaounde Cameroon 1,400,000  
223 Ekaterinburg Russia 1,400,000 Former Sverdlovsk
223 Rabat Morocco 1,400,000  
223 Los Caballeros Dominican Rep. 1,400,000  
223 Leeds United Kingdom 1,400,000  
223 La Paz Bolivia 1,400,000  
223 Wenzhou China 1,400,000 Former Wenchow
223 Durban South Africa 1,400,000  
223 Hanoi Viet Nam 1,400,000  
223 Taejon Korea-South 1,400,000  
223 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 1,400,000  
223 Quito Ecuador 1,400,000  
223 Changde China 1,400,000  
223 San Juan Puerto Rico 1,400,000  
223 Amman Jordan 1,400,000  
223 Sacramento United States 1,400,000  
223 Kansas City United States 1,400,000  
223 Cordoba Argentina 1,400,000  
223 Tbilisi Georgia 1,400,000  
223 Neijiang China 1,400,000  
223 San Salvador El Salvador 1,400,000  
223 Urumqi China 1,400,000  
246 Manaus Brazil 1,300,000  
246 Montevideo Uruguay 1,300,000  
246 Perth Australia 1,300,000  
246 San Antonio United States 1,300,000  
246 Yerevan Armenia 1,300,000  
246 Cincinnati United States 1,300,000  
246 Hanover Germany 1,300,000  
246 Santos Brazil 1,300,000  
246 Milwaukee United States 1,300,000  
246 Lyon France 1,300,000  
246 Coimbatore India 1,300,000  
246 Portland United States 1,300,000  
246 Yueyang China 1,300,000  
246 Bielefeld Germany 1,300,000  
246 Varanasi India 1,300,000 Former Benares
246 Daqing China 1,300,000  
246 Turin Italy 1,300,000  
246 Patna India 1,300,000  
246 Managua Nicaragua 1,300,000  
246 Asansol India 1,300,000  
246 Madurai India 1,300,000  
246 Hyderabad Pakistan 1,300,000  
246 Samara Russia 1,300,000  
246 Copenhagen Denmark 1,300,000  
246 Barranquilla Colombia 1,300,000  
246 Alma-Ata Kazakstan 1,300,000  
272 Orlando United States 1,200,000  
272 Belgrade Yugoslavia 1,200,000  
272 Brazzaville Congo-Brazzaville 1,200,000  
272 Asuncion Paraguay 1,200,000  
272 Sofia Bulgaria 1,200,000  
272 Benxi China 1,200,000  
272 Marseilles France 1,200,000  
272 Hohhot China 1,200,000  
272 Suzhou China 1,200,000  
272 Rosario Argentina 1,200,000  
272 Kuwait City Kuwait 1,200,000  
272 Nuremberg Germany 1,200,000  
272 Khulna Bangladesh 1,200,000  
272 Sasolburg South Africa 1,200,000  
272 Port Elizabeth South Africa 1,200,000  
272 Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine 1,200,000  
272 Thiruvananthapur India 1,200,000  
272 Meerut India 1,200,000  
272 Chelyabinsk Russia 1,200,000  
272 Prague Czech Republic 1,200,000  
272 Agra India 1,200,000  
272 Donetsk Ukraine 1,200,000  
272 Bursa Turkey 1,200,000  
272 Omsk Russia 1,200,000  
272 Vijayawada India 1,200,000  
272 Adana Turkey 1,200,000  
298 Shantou China 1,100,000  
298 Odessa Ukraine 1,100,000  
298 Perm Russia 1,100,000  
298 Goiania Brazil 1,100,000  
298 Rotterdam Netherlands 1,100,000  
298 Amsterdam Netherlands 1,100,000  
298 Volgograd Russia 1,100,000  
298 New Orleans United States 1,100,000  
298 Rostov-on-Don Russia 1,100,000  
298 Helsinki Finland 1,100,000  
298 Brussels Belgium 1,100,000  
298 Ufa Russia 1,100,000  
298 Davao Philippines 1,100,000  
298 Shiraz Iran 1,100,000  
298 Kazan Russia 1,100,000  
313 Ottawa Canada 1,000,000  
313 Adelaide Australia 1,000,000  
313 Columbus United States 1,000,000  
313 Lodz Poland 1,000,000  
313 Aachen Germany 1,000,000  
  Total   1,022,400,000  
  Estimated outside Urban Areas 1,000,000 and over 5,000,000,000  
Based upon UN 1996 estimates. 2000 population estimated using growth rate projected to 2015. Information for Shenzhen obtained separately.

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