100 Most Populated Cities in the World

What are the most populated cities in the world.

  • Tokyo is the most populated city inn the world with 37 million people.
  • Delhi is the second largest with 34 million people.
  • 29 out of 100 cities are from China.
  • 9 out of 100 cities are from India.
  • Istanbul is the most populous, with 16M residents in Europe.
  • New York is the most populous in USA.
List Of 100 most populated cities (2024)
RankCityCountryPopulation
1TokyoJapan37,115,035
2DelhiIndia33,807,403
3ShanghaiChina29,867,918
4DhakaBangladesh23,935,652
5Sao PauloBrazil22,806,704
6CairoEgypt22,623,874
7Mexico CityMexico22,505,315
8BeijingChina22,189,082
9MumbaiIndia21,673,149
10OsakaJapan18,967,459
11ChongqingChina17,773,923
12KarachiPakistan17,648,555
13KinshasaDR Congo17,032,322
14LagosNigeria16,536,018
15IstanbulTurkey16,047,350
16Buenos AiresArgentina15,618,288
17KolkataIndia15,570,786
18ManilaPhilippines14,941,953
19GuangzhouChina14,590,096
20TianjinChina14,470,873
21LahorePakistan14,407,074
22BangaloreIndia14,008,262
23Rio De JaneiroBrazil13,824,347
24ShenzhenChina13,311,855
25MoscowRussia12,712,305
26ChennaiIndia12,053,697
27BogotaColombia11,658,211
28JakartaIndonesia11,436,004
29LimaPeru11,361,938
30ParisFrance11,276,701
31BangkokThailand11,233,869
32HyderabadIndia11,068,877
33SeoulSouth Korea10,004,840
34NanjingChina9,947,548
35ChengduChina9,828,110
36LondonUnited Kingdom9,748,033
37LuandaAngola9,651,032
38TehranIran9,616,007
39Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam9,567,656
40NagoyaJapan9,556,879
41Xi An ShaanxiChina9,013,837
42AhmedabadIndia8,854,444
43WuhanChina8,850,850
44Kuala LumpurMalaysia8,815,630
45HangzhouChina8,419,842
46SuzhouChina8,350,625
47SuratIndia8,330,528
48Dar Es SalaamTanzania8,161,231
49New York CityUnited States8,097,282
50BaghdadIraq7,921,134
51ShenyangChina7,830,377
52RiyadhSaudi Arabia7,820,551
53Hong KongHong Kong7,725,859
54FoshanChina7,704,935
55DongguanChina7,675,146
56PuneIndia7,345,848
57SantiagoChile6,950,952
58HaerbinChina6,938,008
59MadridSpain6,783,241
60KhartoumSudan6,542,070
61TorontoCanada6,431,430
62JohannesburgSouth Africa6,324,351
63Belo HorizonteBrazil6,300,409
64DalianChina6,217,487
65SingaporeSingapore6,119,203
66QingdaoChina6,104,597
67ZhengzhouChina6,014,887
68Ji Nan ShandongChina5,940,698
69AbidjanIvory Coast5,866,704
70BarcelonaSpain5,711,917
71YangonMyanmar5,709,678
72Addis AbabaEthiopia5,703,628
73AlexandriaEgypt5,696,131
74Saint PetersburgRussia5,581,707
75NairobiKenya5,541,172
76ChittagongBangladesh5,513,609
77GuadalajaraMexico5,499,678
78FukuokaJapan5,478,076
79AnkaraTurkey5,477,087
80HanoiVietnam5,431,801
81MelbourneAustralia5,315,600
82MonterreyMexico5,195,355
83SydneyAustralia5,184,896
84ChangshaChina5,027,975
85UrumqiChina5,005,964
86Cape TownSouth Africa4,977,833
87JiddahSaudi Arabia4,943,210
88BrasiliaBrazil4,935,274
89KunmingChina4,861,079
90ChangchunChina4,802,447
91KabulAfghanistan4,728,384
92HefeiChina4,727,290
93YaoundeCameroon4,681,768
94NingboChina4,659,830
95ShantouChina4,656,525
96New TaipeiTaiwan4,534,877
97Tel AvivIsrael4,495,727
98KanoNigeria4,490,734
99ShijiazhuangChina4,454,132
100MontrealCanada4,341,638
  • Top 4 cities are in Asia.
  • Sao Paulo, Cairo and Mexico cities are only non Asian Cities in the top 10.
  • Tokyo is the most populated in Asia.
  • Sao Paulo is the most populated in South America.
  • Cairo is the most populated in Africa.
  • Mexico city is the most populated in North America.
  • Istanbul is the most populated in Europe.
  • Melbourne is the most populated in Australia.

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