List of metropolitan areas by population
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One concept which measures the world's largest cities is that of the metropolitan area, which is based on the concept of a labor market area and is typically defined as an employment core (an area with a high density of available jobs) and the surrounding areas that have strong commuting ties to the core. There is currently no generally accepted, globally consistent definition of exactly what constitutes a metropolitan area, thus making comparisons between cities in different countries especially difficult. However, for consistency, the sources on this article include figures from official governments only.
List
Note: Due to a lack of accurate governmental data, this list is incomplete.
Rank | Metropolitan | Country | Official population | Year |
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1 | Tokyo | Japan | 36,923,000[1] | 2010 |
2 | Seoul | South Korea | 25,620,000[2] | 2015 |
3 | Shanghai | China | 24,750,000[3] | 2015 |
4 | Guangzhou | China | 23,900,000[4] | 2014 |
5 | Delhi | India | 21,753,486[5] | 2011 |
6 | Mexico City | Mexico | 21,339,781[6] | 2015 |
7 | Beijing | China | 21,148,000[7] | 2013 |
8 | Lagos | Nigeria | 21,000,000[8] | 2014 |
9 | São Paulo | Brazil | 20,935,204[9] | 2014 |
10 | Mumbai | India | 20,748,395[5] | 2011 |
11 | New York | United States | 20,092,883[10] | 2014 |
12 | Osaka | Japan | 19,342,000[1] | 2010 |
13 | Dhaka | Bangladesh | 17,151,925[11][not in citation given] | 2011 |
14 | Kolkata | India | 14,617,882[5] | 2011 |
15 | Tehran | Iran | 14,595,904[12] | 2011 |
16 | Istanbul | Turkey | 14,377,018[13] | 2014 |
17 | London | United Kingdom | 14,031,830[14] | 2014 |
18 | Los Angeles Note 1 | United States | 13,262,220[10] | 2014 |
19 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 13,074,000[15] | 2010 |
20 | Paris | France | 12,005,077[14] | 2014 |
21 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 11,973,505[9] | 2014 |
22 | Manila | Philippines | 11,855,975[16] | 2010 |
23 | Rhine-Ruhr | Germany | 11,470,000[17] | 2012 |
24 | Shenzhen | China | 10,630,000[18] | 2013 |
25 | Jakarta | Indonesia | 10,075,310[19] | 2014 |
26 | Lima | Peru | 9,886,647[20] | 2015 |
27 | Chicago | United States | 9,554,598[10] | 2014 |
28 | Nagoya | Japan | 9,107,000[1] | 2010 |
29 | Chennai | India | 8,917,749[5] | 2011 |
30 | Bangalore (Bengaluru) | India | 8,728,906[5] | 2011 |
31 | Bangkok | Thailand | 8,305,218[21] | 2010 |
32 | Bogotá | Colombia | 7,878,783[22] | 2015 |
33 | Hyderabad | India | 7,749,334[5] | 2011 |
34 | Hong Kong | China | 7,298,600[23] | 2015 |
35 | Taipei | Taiwan | 7,045,488[24] | 2013 |
36 | Dallas–Fort Worth | United States | 6,954,330[10] | 2014 |
37 | Santiago | Chile | 6,683,852[25] | 2012 |
38 | Luanda | Angola | 6,542,944[26] | 2014 |
39 | Madrid | Spain | 6,378,297[14] | 2014 |
40 | Ahmedabad | India | 6,352,254[5] | 2011 |
41 | Houston | United States | 6,490,180[10] | 2014 |
42 | Philadelphia | United States | 6,051,170[10] | 2014 |
43 | Washington, D.C. | United States | 6,033,737[10] | 2014 |
44 | Toronto | Canada | 6,055,724[27] | 2014 |
45 | Miami | United States | 5,929,819[10] | 2014 |
46 | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | 5,767,414[9] | 2014 |
47 | Atlanta | United States | 5,614,323[10] | 2014 |
48 | Singapore | Singapore | 5,535,000[28] | 2015 |
49 | Barcelona | Spain | 5,445,616[14] | 2014 |
50 | Munich | Germany | 5,203,738[29] | 2014 |
51 | Stuttgart | Germany | 5,200,000[30] | 2013 |
52 | Ankara | Turkey | 5,150,072[13] | 2014 |
53 | Hamburg | Germany | 5,100,000[31] | 2012 |
54 | Pune | India | 5,049,968[5] | 2011 |
55 | Berlin | Germany | 5,005,216[14] | 2014 |
56 | Boston | United States | 4,732,161[10] | 2014 |
57 | Sydney | Australia | 4,667,283[32] | 2012 |
58 | San Francisco | United States | 4,594,060[10] | 2014 |
59 | Surat | India | 4,585,367[5] | 2011 |
60 | Phoenix | United States | 4,489,109[10] | 2014 |
61 | Inland Empire | United States | 4,441,890[10] | 2014 |
62 | Rome | Italy | 4,321,244[14] | 2014 |
63 | Detroit | United States | 4,296,611[10] | 2014 |
64 | Milan | Italy | 4,267,946[14] | 2014 |
65 | Melbourne | Australia | 4,246,345[32] | 2012 |
Notes
- Note 1 Los Angeles is sometimes combined with the Inland Empire in what is known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with a combined population of 17 million inhabitants.
See also
Lists of metropolitan areas by region
Lists of metropolitan areas by country or region
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External links
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- World's largest cities and their mayors
- Geopolis
- demographia.com
- citypopulation.de
- World Gazetteer
- OECD Territorial Reviews – Competitive Cities in the Global Economy – has some definitions for OECD countries
- Map of cities
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