Cities of the World

31,365 cities of 15,000+ listed across 211 countries, ranked by city-proper population. This is not a complete list of the world's settlements, and coverage varies by country.

Cities listed

31,365

15,000 or more people

Countries

211

With at least one city listed

Region pages

1,192

Regions with 5+ cities

Largest city

Shanghai

24.9M people

The 250 Largest Cities

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250 cities


1	Shanghai	China	24,874,500	1.8%
2	Beijing	China	18,960,744	1.3%
3	Shenzhen	China	17,494,398	1.2%
4	Guangzhou	China	16,096,724	1.1%
5	Kinshasa	DR Congo	16,000,000	14.2%
6	Istanbul	Turkey	15,701,602	18.3%
7	Lagos	Nigeria	15,388,000	6.5%
8	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	14,002,598	13.8%
9	Chengdu	China	13,568,357	1%
10	Lahore	Pakistan	13,004,135	5.1%
11	Mumbai	India	12,691,836	0.9%
12	São Paulo	Brazil	12,400,232	5.8%
13	Mexico City	Mexico	12,294,193	9.3%
14	Karachi	Pakistan	11,624,219	4.6%
15	Tianjin	China	11,090,314	0.8%
16	Delhi	India	11,034,555	0.8%
17	Wuhan	China	10,392,693	0.7%
18	Moscow	Russia	10,381,222	7.2%
19	Dhaka	Bangladesh	10,356,500	5.9%
20	Seoul	South Korea	10,349,312	20%
21	Tokyo	Japan	9,733,276	7.9%
22	Dongguan	China	9,644,871	0.7%
23	Cairo	Egypt	9,606,916	8.1%
24	Xi’an	China	9,600,000	0.7%
25	Johannesburg	South Africa	9,418,183	14.5%
26	Nanjing	China	9,314,685	0.7%
27	Hangzhou	China	9,236,032	0.7%
28	Foshan	China	9,042,509	0.6%
29	London	United Kingdom	8,961,989	12.9%
30	New York City	United States	8,804,190	2.6%
31	Jakarta	Indonesia	8,540,121	3%
32	Bengaluru	India	8,495,492	0.6%
33	Hanoi	Vietnam	8,053,663	7.9%
34	Taipei	Taiwan	7,871,900	32.9%
35	Lima	Peru	7,737,002	22.4%
36	Bogotá	Colombia	7,674,366	14.4%
37	Chongqing	China	7,457,599	0.5%
38	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	7,396,076	98.6%
39	Baghdad	Iraq	7,216,000	15.3%
40	Wuzhong	China	7,202,654	0.5%
41	Qingdao	China	7,172,451	0.5%
42	Tehran	Iran	7,153,309	7.7%
43	Shenyang	China	7,050,000	0.5%
44	Hyderabad	India	6,993,262	0.5%
45	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	6,747,815	3.2%
46	Suzhou	China	6,715,559	0.5%
47	Ahmedabad	India	6,357,693	0.4%
48	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	6,321,017	19.3%
49	Pudong	China	5,681,512	0.4%
50	Sydney	Australia	5,638,830	20.4%
51	Singapore	Singapore	5,638,700	92.3%
52	Melbourne	Australia	5,435,590	19.7%
53	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	5,383,728	7.6%
54	Saint Petersburg	Russia	5,351,935	3.7%
55	Alexandria	Egypt	5,263,542	4.4%
56	Harbin	China	5,242,897	0.4%
57	Bangkok	Thailand	5,104,476	7.1%
58	Hefei	China	5,050,000	0.4%
59	Dalian	China	4,913,879	0.3%
60	Kano	Nigeria	4,910,000	2.1%
61	Santiago	Chile	4,837,295	24.4%
62	Cape Town	South Africa	4,772,846	7.4%
63	Peshawar	Pakistan	4,758,762	1.9%
64	Changchun	China	4,714,996	0.3%
65	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	4,697,000	12.7%
66	Chennai	India	4,681,087	0.3%
67	Kolkata	India	4,631,392	0.3%
68	Xiamen	China	4,617,251	0.3%
69	Surat	India	4,591,246	0.3%
70	Yangon	Myanmar	4,477,638	8.2%
71	Bao'an	China	4,476,554	0.3%
72	Kabul	Afghanistan	4,434,550	10.1%
73	Nairobi	Kenya	4,397,073	7.6%
74	Wuxi	China	4,396,835	0.3%
75	Giza	Egypt	4,367,343	3.7%
76	Jinan	China	4,335,989	0.3%
77	Taiyuan	China	4,303,673	0.3%
78	Zhengzhou	China	4,253,913	0.3%
79	Bamako	Mali	4,227,569	16.8%
80	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	4,205,961	11.4%
81	New Taipei City	Taiwan	4,004,367	16.7%
82	Shijiazhuang	China	3,938,513	0.3%
83	Chattogram	Bangladesh	3,920,222	2.2%
84	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	3,860,000	2.8%
85	Kunming	China	3,855,346	0.3%
86	Zhongshan	China	3,841,873	0.3%
87	Nanning	China	3,839,800	0.3%
88	Shantou	China	3,838,900	0.3%
89	Los Angeles	United States	3,820,914	1.1%
90	Faisalabad	Pakistan	3,800,193	1.5%
91	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	3,790,000	32.9%
92	Yokohama	Japan	3,777,491	3.1%
93	Fuzhou	China	3,740,000	0.3%
94	Ningbo	China	3,731,203	0.3%
95	Casablanca	Morocco	3,665,954	9.5%
96	Ibadan	Nigeria	3,649,000	1.5%
97	Puyang	China	3,590,000	0.3%
98	Ankara	Turkey	3,517,182	4.1%
99	Shiyan	China	3,460,000	0.2%
100	Berlin	Germany	3,426,354	4.1%
101	Tangshan	China	3,372,102	0.2%
102	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	3,357,612	1.3%
103	Lüliang	China	3,346,500	0.2%
104	Durban	South Africa	3,338,026	5.2%
105	Changzhou	China	3,290,918	0.2%
106	Busan	South Korea	3,285,147	6.4%
107	Madrid	Spain	3,255,944	6.6%
108	Pyongyang	North Korea	3,222,000	12.1%
109	Zibo	China	3,129,228	0.2%
110	Pune	India	3,124,458	0.2%
111	Bursa	Turkey	3,101,833	3.6%
112	Changsha	China	3,093,980	0.2%
113	Quezon City	Philippines	3,084,270	2.6%
114	Jaipur	India	3,046,163	0.2%
115	Guiyang	China	3,037,159	0.2%
116	Ürümqi	China	3,029,372	0.2%
117	Surabaya	Indonesia	3,018,022	1.1%
118	Incheon	South Korea	3,015,482	5.8%
119	Lanzhou	China	3,000,000	0.2%
120	Caracas	Venezuela	3,000,000	10.5%
121	Kyiv	Ukraine	2,952,301	7.6%
122	İzmir	Turkey	2,938,292	3.4%
123	Huizhou	China	2,900,113	0.2%
124	Buenos Aires	Argentina	2,891,082	6.3%
125	Haikou	China	2,873,358	0.2%
126	Taichung	Taiwan	2,850,285	11.9%
127	Kanpur	India	2,823,249	0.2%
128	Toronto	Canada	2,794,356	6.7%
129	Quito	Ecuador	2,781,641	15.2%
130	Brisbane	Australia	2,780,063	10.1%
131	Luanda	Angola	2,776,168	7.1%
132	Osaka	Japan	2,753,862	2.2%
133	Linyi	China	2,743,843	0.2%
134	Baoding	China	2,739,887	0.2%
135	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	2,737,660	11.4%
136	Brooklyn	United States	2,736,074	0.8%
137	Guayaquil	Ecuador	2,723,665	14.9%
138	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	2,721,564	1.3%
139	Minhang	China	2,716,600	0.2%
140	Bazhong	China	2,712,894	0.2%
141	Salvador	Brazil	2,711,840	1.3%
142	Abuja	Nigeria	2,690,000	1.1%
143	Gazipur	Bangladesh	2,674,697	1.5%
144	Chicago	United States	2,664,452	0.8%
145	Wenzhou	China	2,650,000	0.2%
146	Bekasi	Indonesia	2,648,272	0.9%
147	Dakar	Senegal	2,646,503	14%
148	Haiphong	Vietnam	2,625,200	2.6%
149	Yunfu	China	2,612,800	0.2%
150	Mogadishu	Somalia	2,587,183	13.2%
151	Kumasi	Ghana	2,544,530	7.3%
152	Bandung	Indonesia	2,528,163	0.9%
153	Gujranwala	Pakistan	2,511,118	1%
154	Huai'an	China	2,494,013	0.2%
155	Medan	Indonesia	2,486,283	0.9%
156	Lucknow	India	2,472,011	0.2%
157	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	2,415,266	10%
158	Nagpur	India	2,405,665	0.2%
159	Fortaleza	Brazil	2,400,000	1.1%
160	Cali	Colombia	2,392,877	4.5%
161	Perth	Australia	2,384,371	8.6%
162	Daegu	South Korea	2,365,523	4.6%
163	Algiers	Algeria	2,364,230	5%
164	Nanchang	China	2,357,839	0.2%
165	Baku	Azerbaijan	2,351,300	22.9%
166	Hohhot	China	2,350,000	0.2%
167	Nagoya	Japan	2,332,176	1.9%
168	Rome	Italy	2,318,895	3.9%
169	Queens	United States	2,316,841	0.7%
170	Houston	United States	2,314,157	0.7%
171	Mashhad	Iran	2,307,177	2.5%
172	Shaoxing	China	2,300,000	0.2%
173	Nantong	China	2,273,326	0.2%
174	Baoshan	China	2,265,900	0.2%
175	Yantai	China	2,227,733	0.2%
176	Gaziantep	Turkey	2,222,415	2.6%
177	Lubumbashi	DR Congo	2,221,925	2%
178	Manaus	Brazil	2,219,580	1%
179	Lusaka	Zambia	2,212,301	10.1%
180	Brasília	Brazil	2,207,718	1%
181	Zhuhai	China	2,207,090	0.2%
182	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	2,201,941	19.1%
183	Lomé	Togo	2,188,376	25.5%
184	Multan	Pakistan	2,169,915	0.9%
185	Havana	Cuba	2,163,824	19.8%
186	Depok	Indonesia	2,163,635	0.8%
187	Baotou	China	2,150,000	0.2%
188	Paris	France	2,138,551	3.1%
189	Coimbatore	India	2,136,916	0.1%
190	Qingyang	China	2,125,400	0.2%
191	Port Harcourt	Nigeria	2,120,000	0.9%
192	Pretoria	South Africa	2,112,693	3.3%
193	Córdoba	Argentina	2,106,734	4.6%
194	Mbuji-Mayi	DR Congo	2,101,332	1.9%
195	Aleppo	Syria	2,098,210	8.2%
196	Kunshan	China	2,092,496	0.1%
197	Weifang	China	2,044,028	0.1%
198	Zunyi	China	2,037,775	0.1%
199	La Paz	Bolivia	2,004,652	15.9%
200	Lianyungang	China	2,001,009	0.1%
201	Medellín	Colombia	1,999,979	3.7%
202	Indore	India	1,994,397	0.1%
203	Brazzaville	Congo	1,982,000	30.6%
204	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1,978,028	5.3%
205	Ganzhou	China	1,977,253	0.1%
206	Almaty	Kazakhstan	1,977,011	9.5%
207	Khartoum	Sudan	1,974,647	3.8%
208	Hamburg	Germany	1,973,896	2.4%
209	Sapporo	Japan	1,973,832	1.6%
210	Songjiang	China	1,973,500	0.1%
211	Accra	Ghana	1,963,264	5.6%
212	Curitiba	Brazil	1,948,626	0.9%
213	Ordos	China	1,940,653	0.1%
214	Sanaa	Yemen	1,937,451	4.6%
215	Conakry	Guinea	1,928,389	12.8%
216	Tangerang	Indonesia	1,927,815	0.7%
217	Tijuana	Mexico	1,922,523	1.5%
218	Hyderabad	Pakistan	1,921,275	0.8%
219	Beirut	Lebanon	1,916,100	32.8%
220	Jieyang	China	1,899,394	0.1%
221	Jilin	China	1,895,865	0.1%
222	Jiading	China	1,886,100	0.1%
223	Bucharest	Romania	1,877,155	9.9%
224	Camayenne	Guinea	1,871,242	12.4%
225	Kakamega	Kenya	1,867,579	3.2%
226	Shangqiu	China	1,859,723	0.1%
227	Nanchong	China	1,858,875	0.1%
228	Tainan	Taiwan	1,856,642	7.8%
229	Datong	China	1,850,000	0.1%
230	Kaduna	Nigeria	1,850,000	0.8%
231	Omdurman	Sudan	1,849,659	3.6%
232	Davao	Philippines	1,848,947	1.6%
233	Thāne	India	1,841,488	0.1%
234	Iztapalapa	Mexico	1,835,486	1.4%
235	Diyarbakır	Turkey	1,833,684	2.1%
236	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Bolivia	1,831,434	14.6%
237	Vadodara	India	1,822,221	0.1%
238	Adana	Turkey	1,816,750	2.1%
239	Nanyang	China	1,811,812	0.1%
240	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	1,807,000	15.7%
241	Palembang	Indonesia	1,801,367	0.6%
242	Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	1,800,000	15.6%
243	Bhopal	India	1,798,218	0.1%
244	Jiangmen	China	1,795,459	0.1%
245	Benin City	Nigeria	1,782,000	0.8%
246	Jiangyin	China	1,779,515	0.1%
247	Fuyang	China	1,768,947	0.1%
248	Montréal	Canada	1,762,949	4.2%
249	Bayan Nur	China	1,760,000	0.1%
250	Maracaibo	Venezuela	1,752,602	6.1%

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211 countries. Each page lists every city we hold for that country.

Asia (50)

Afghanistan 53
Armenia 19
Azerbaijan 65
Bahrain 8
Bangladesh 133
Bhutan 4
Brunei 8
Cambodia 46
China 2,091
Georgia 17
Hong Kong 1
India 3,732
Indonesia 446
Iran 422
Iraq 95
Israel 102
Japan 1,216
Jordan 31
Kazakhstan 83
Kuwait 13
Kyrgyzstan 31
Laos 18
Lebanon 17
Macao 1
Malaysia 350
Maldives 1
Mongolia 23
Myanmar 160
Nepal 45
North Korea 96
Oman 26
Pakistan 361
Philippines 519
Qatar 10
Saudi Arabia 96
Singapore 1
South Korea 144
Sri Lanka 60
State of Palestine 43
Syria 88
Taiwan 52
Tajikistan 31
Thailand 295
Timor-Leste 10
Turkey 416
Turkmenistan 35
United Arab Emirates 30
Uzbekistan 109
Vietnam 301
Yemen 25

South America (13)

Argentina 314
Bolivia 39
Brazil 2,250
Chile 139
Colombia 317
Ecuador 71
French Guiana 5
Guyana 3
Paraguay 30
Peru 135
Suriname 2
Uruguay 31
Venezuela 214

About This Data

Populations are city-proper figures — the population inside a city's own administrative boundary, not its metropolitan area. Boundaries are defined differently from country to country, so two cities of the same “size” are not always measuring the same thing.

City population comes from GeoNames, which publishes no year alongside its figures. Each city page shows when its record was last edited, which is not the same as when the population was measured, and no year is printed beside the number itself.

Coverage is uneven. A country with few listed cities has thin GeoNames coverage, not few settlements — every count on this site is “cities of 15,000+ that we list”, never a claim of completeness.

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