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
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

  1. 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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