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🌆 Largest Cities in the World

The 50 biggest urban areas by population.

📅 2025📏 people50 entries
Vietnam: 1 entry — Ho Chi Minh CityUnited Kingdom: 1 entry — LondonTürkiye: 1 entry — IstanbulThailand: 1 entry — BangkokTanzania: 1 entry — Dar es SalaamTaiwan: 1 entry — TaipeiSouth Korea: 1 entry — SeoulSouth Africa: 1 entry — JohannesburgRussia: 1 entry — MoscowPhilippines: 1 entry — ManilaPeru: 1 entry — LimaNigeria: 1 entry — LagosMexico: 1 entry — Mexico CityMalaysia: 1 entry — Kuala LumpurIran: 1 entry — TehranFrance: 1 entry — ParisDR Congo: 1 entry — KinshasaColombia: 1 entry — BogotáBangladesh: 1 entry — DhakaArgentina: 1 entry — Buenos AiresAngola: 1 entry — LuandaUnited States: 2 entries — New York City, Los AngelesPakistan: 2 entries — Karachi, LahoreIndonesia: 2 entries — Jakarta, BandungEgypt: 2 entries — Cairo, AlexandriaBrazil: 2 entries — São Paulo, Rio de JaneiroJapan: 3 entries — Tokyo, Osaka, NagoyaIndia: 7 entries — Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad…China: 9 entries — Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Hangzhou…
🇨🇳 China · 9🇮🇳 India · 7🇯🇵 Japan · 3🇧🇷 Brazil · 2🇪🇬 Egypt · 2🇮🇩 Indonesia · 2Bubble area = number of entries in the list
1
🇮🇩JakartaIndonesia
41,913,860
2
🇧🇩DhakaBangladesh
36,585,479
3
🇯🇵TokyoJapan
33,412,512
4
🇮🇳DelhiIndia
30,222,405
5
🇨🇳ShanghaiChina
29,558,908
6
🇨🇳GuangzhouChina
27,563,372
7
🇪🇬CairoEgypt
25,566,102
8
🇵🇭ManilaPhilippines
24,735,305
9
🇮🇳KolkataIndia
22,549,738
10
🇰🇷SeoulSouth Korea
22,490,482
11
🇵🇰KarachiPakistan
21,422,590
12
🇮🇳MumbaiIndia
20,203,056
13
🇧🇷São PauloBrazil
18,949,790
14
🇹🇭BangkokThailand
18,180,280
15
🇲🇽Mexico CityMexico
17,734,212
16
🇨🇳BeijingChina
17,013,303
17
🇵🇰LahorePakistan
15,156,430
18
🇹🇷IstanbulTürkiye
15,014,763
19
🇷🇺MoscowRussia
14,524,753
20
🇻🇳Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam
14,052,713
21
🇦🇷Buenos AiresArgentina
14,017,736
22
🇺🇸New York CityUnited States
13,920,148
23
🇨🇳ShenzhenChina
13,878,396
24
🇮🇳BengaluruIndia
13,187,098
25
🇯🇵OsakaJapan
12,964,145
26
🇳🇬LagosNigeria
12,791,699
27
🇺🇸Los AngelesUnited States
12,740,420
28
🇮🇳ChennaiIndia
11,153,205
29
🇨🇩KinshasaDR Congo
10,943,641
30
🇨🇴BogotáColombia
10,624,315
31
🇵🇪LimaPeru
10,580,241
32
🇬🇧LondonUnited Kingdom
10,416,420
33
🇧🇷Rio de JaneiroBrazil
9,500,336
34
🇫🇷ParisFrance
9,381,921
35
🇮🇳HyderabadIndia
9,190,795
36
🇮🇷TehranIran
9,174,964
37
🇹🇼TaipeiTaiwan
9,137,000
38
🇦🇴LuandaAngola
9,051,000
39
🇮🇩BandungIndonesia
8,909,104
40
🇲🇾Kuala LumpurMalaysia
8,443,731
41
🇹🇿Dar es SalaamTanzania
7,795,114
42
🇨🇳SuzhouChina
7,731,101
43
🇮🇳AhmedabadIndia
7,632,408
44
🇨🇳HangzhouChina
7,500,208
45
🇨🇳WuhanChina
7,363,548
46
🇨🇳TianjinChina
7,285,342
47
🇪🇬AlexandriaEgypt
7,266,957
48
🇯🇵NagoyaJapan
7,146,160
49
🇿🇦JohannesburgSouth Africa
7,077,175
50
🇨🇳ChongqingChina
7,071,073

Highlights

As of 2025, Jakarta ranks first with 41,913,860, followed by Dhaka (36,585,479) and Tokyo (33,412,512).

Across 50 entries, values run from 41,913,860 (Jakarta) to 7,071,073 (Chongqing), with a median of 12,877,922.

China leads with 9 of the 50 entries, followed by India (7) and Japan (3).

Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (via Wikipedia), 2025. Unit: people.

Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026 — Population of the whole urban agglomeration, which is why Jakarta tops the list.