NB Metro population figures for China are often those of their prefectures
World rank | City | Country | City population | Metro population | Mayor |
1 | Karachi | Pakistan | 15,500,000 | 18,000,000 | Syed Mustafa Kamal |
2 | Shanghai | China | 14,900,000 | 19,200,000 | Han Zheng |
3 | Mumbai (Bombay) | India | 13,900,000 | 21,200,000 | Shubha Raul |
4 | BEIJING | China | 12,460,000 | 17,550,000 | Guo Jinlong |
5 | DELHI | India | 12,100,000 | 16,713,000 | Kanwar Sain |
6 | BUENOS AIRES | Argentina | 11,655,000 | 12,924,000 | Mauricio Macri |
7 | MANILA METRO | Philippines | 11,550,000 | 13,503,000 | Alfredo S Lim |
8 | SEOUL | South Korea | 11,153,000 | 24,472,000 | Oh Se-hoon |
9 | Sao Paulo | Brazil | 11,038,000 | 19,890,000 | Gilberto Kassab |
10 | MOSCOW | Russia | 10,524,000 | 14,800,000 | Yury Luzhkov |
11 | JAKARTA | Indonesia | 10,100,000 | 24,100,000 | Fauzi Bowo |
12 | Istanbul | Turkey | 9,560,000 | 12,600,000 | Kadir Topbas |
13 | BANGKOK | Thailand | 9,100,000 | 11,970,000 | Sukhumbhand Paribatra |
14 | MEXICO CITY | Mexico | 8,841,000 | 21,163,000 | Marcelo Ebrard |
15 | TOKYO | Japan | 8,653,000 | 31,036,000 | Shintaro Ishihara |
16 | TEHRAN | Iran | 8,430,000 | 13,450,000 | Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf |
17 | New York City | USA | 8,364,000 | 20,090,000 | Michael Bloomberg |
18 | KINSHASA | Congo D.R. | 8,200,000 | 10,100,000 | André Kimbuta Yango |
| 19 | DHAKA | Bangladesh | 7,940,000 | 12,797,000 | Sadeque Hossain Khosa |
20 | Lagos | Nigeria | 7,938,000 | 9,123,000 | |
21 | CAIRO | Egypt | 7,764,000 | 15,546,000 | Abdul Azim Wazir |
22 | LIMA | Peru | 7,606,000 | 8,473,000 | Luis Castañeda Lossio |
| 23 | LONDON | UK | 7,557,000 | 12,200,000 | Boris Johnson |
24 | Tianjin | China | 7,500,000 | 11,750,000 | Huang Xingguo |
25 | BOGOTA | Colombia | 7,320,000 | 8,361,000 | Samuel Moreno Rojas |
26 | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | 7,100,000 | Pham Phuong Thao | |
27 | Hong Kong | China | 7,055,000 | Donald Tsang | |
28 | Guangzhou | China | 6,458,000 | 10,182,000 | Zhan Guangning |
29 | Dongguan | China | 6,446,000 | 7,650,000 | Li Yuquan |
30 | Lahore | Pakistan | 6,100,000 | 8,600,000 | Mian Amir Mahmood |
31 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 6,093,000 | 14,387,000 | Eduardo Paes |
32 | Baghdad | Iraq | 6,050,000 | 6,500,000 | |
33 | Bangalore | India | 5,840,000 | 6,562,000 | S Subramanya |
34 | Surat | India | 5,390,000 | 6,347,000 | |
| 35 | SANTIAGO | Chile | 5,278,000 | 6,677,000 | Pablo Zalaquett Said |
36 | Kolkata | India | 5,100,000 | 15,420,000 | Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya |
37 | Shenyang | China | 5,090,000 | 7,760,000 | Li Yingjie |
38 | Chongqing | China | 5,087,000 | 9,700,000 | Wang Hongju |
39 | SINGAPORE | Singapore | 4,988,000 | Lee Hsien Loong | |
40 | RIYADH | Saudi Arabia | 4,950,000 | 5,855,000 | Abdul Aziz ibn 'Ayyaf Al Migrin |
41 | LUANDA | Angola | 4,799,000 | 5,500,000 | |
42 | Harbin | China | 4,755,000 | 9,874,000 | Zhang Xiaolian |
43 | St Petersburg | Russia | 4,661,000 | 4,900,000 | Valentina Matviyenko |
| 44 | Chennai | India | 4,600,000 | 7,330,000 | M Subramaniam |
45 | Ahmadabad | India | 4,525,000 | 6,168,000 | Kanaji Thakor |
46 | Wuhan | China | 4,500,000 | 6,200,000 | Ruan Chengfa |
47 | Yangon | Myanmar (Burma) | 4,468,000 | 5.500,000 | Aung Thein Lynn |
48 | Sydney | Australia | 4,400,000 | Clover Moore | |
49 | Chengdu | China | 4,334,000 | 11,000,000 | Ge Honglin |
50 | Shenzhen | China | 4,320,000 | 8,616,000 | |
51 | Nanjing | China | 4,150,000 | 7,600,000 | Ji Jianye |
52 | Alexandria | Egypt | 4,110,000 | 4,350,000 | Adel Labib |
53 | Johannesburg | South Africa | 3,888,000 | 10,268,000 | Amos Masondo |
54 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 3,856,000 | 4,500,000 | Adil Faqeeh |
55 | Los Angeles | USA | 3,834,000 | 12,890,000 | Antonio Villaraigosa |
56 | Abidjan | Ivory Coast | 3,800,000 | 4,000,000 | Pierre Djédji Amondji |
| 57 | ANKARA | Turkey | 3,764,000 | 4,000,000 | Melih Gökçek |
58 | Casablanca | Morocco | 3,673,000 | 3,850,000 | Mohammed Sajid |
59 | Yokohama | Japan | 3,655,000 | Fumiko Hayashi | |
60 | Hyderabad | India | 3,637,000 | 6,290,000 | Banda Karthika Reddy |
| 61 | Melbourne | Australia | 3,635,000 | Robert Doyle | |
62 | Kano | Nigeria | 3,626,000 | 3,900,000 | Ibrahim Shekarau |
63 | Busan | South Korea | 3,600,000 | 4,292,000 | Hur Nam-sik |
64 | KABUL | Afghanistan | 3,586,000 | 4,000,000 | Mohammad Yunus Noandesh |
| 65 | Changchun | China | 3,581,000 | 7,460,000 | |
| 66 | Cape Town | South Africa | 3,497,000 | 7,280,000 | Dan Plato |
67 | Guiyang | China | 3,450,000 | ||
68 | BERLIN | Germany | 3,432,000 | 3,943,000 | Klaus Wowereit |
69 | Hangzhou | China | 3,408,000 | 6,776,000 | Cai Qi |
70 | ADDIS ABABA | Ethiopia | 3,385,000 | 4,568,000 | Kuma Demeksa |
71 | Pune | India | 3,337,000 | 4,470,000 | Mohansingh Rajpa |
72 | PYONGYANG | North Korea | 3,255,000 | 3,400,000 | |
73 | MADRID | Spain | 3,213,000 | 5,300,000 | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón |
74 | NAIROBI | Kenya | 3,130,000 | 3,300,000 | Geoffrey Majiwa |
75 | Kanpur | India | 3,100,000 | 4,865,000 | Ravindra Patani |
76 | Kunming | China | 3,100,000 | 6,800,000 | Zhang Zulin |
77 | Surabaya | Indonesia | 3,100,000 | 3,700,000 | Bambang D H |
78 | Jaipur | India | 3,050,000 | 5,690,000 | Jyoti Khandelwal |
79 | Salvador da Bahia | Brazil | 2,998,000 | 3,173,000 | João Henrique Carneiro |
80 | SANTO DOMINGO | Dominican Republic | 2,989,000 | 3,813,000 | Roberto Salcedo |
81 | Mashhad | Iran | 2,910,000 | 3,000,000 | Mohammad Pejman |
82 | Chicago | USA | 2,853,000 | 8,770,000 | Richard Daley |
83 | Zibo | China | 2,850,000 | 4,200,000 | Liu Huiyan |
84 | KIEV | Ukraine | 2,820,000 | 3,300,000 | Leonid Chernovetskyi |
85 | Durg | India | 2,810,000 | ||
86 | Huludao | China | 2,787,000 | Sun Zhaolin | |
87 | CARACAS | Venezuela | 2,762,000 | 3,478,000 | Antonio Ledezma |
88 | Qingdao | China | 2,755,000 | 7,580,000 | Xia Geng |
89 | Changsha | China | 2,744,000 | 6,140,000 | Zhang Jiangfei |
90 | ROME | Italy | 2,732,000 | 3,555,000 | Gianni Alemanno |
91 | Fuzhou (Fujian) | China | 2,710,000 | 6,630,000 | Yuan Rongxiang |
92 | Quezon City | Philippines | 2,680,000 | Feliciano Belmonte | |
93 | Xian | China | 2,670,000 | 4,480,000 | Chen Baogen |
94 | Port Harcourt | Nigeria | 2,667,000 | 3,761,000 | Azubuike Nmerukini |
95 | Osaka | Japan | 2,647,000 | 17,590,000 | Kunio Hiramatsu |
96 | Incheon | South Korea | 2,630,000 | 2,630,000 | Ahn Sang-soo |
97 | Shijiazhuang | China | 2,630,000 | 9,600,000 | Ai Wenli |
98 | TAIPEI | Taiwan | 2,620,000 | 6,753,000 | Hau Lung-pin |
99 | Zhengzhou | China | 2,600,000 | 4,510,000 | Zhou Jiancai |
100 | Chittagong | Bangladesh | 2,580,000 | 3,858,000 | Mohiuddin Ahmed Chowdhury |
101 | Toronto | Canada | 2,571,000 | 5,100,000 | David Miller |
102 | Ibadan | Nigeria | 2,550,000 | 3,000,000 | Adebayo Alao-Akala |
103 | Taiyuan | China | 2,550,000 | 3,400,000 | Zhang Bingsheng |
104 | Cali | Colombia | 2,525,000 | 2,801,000 | Jorge Ivan Ospina |
105 | Daegu | South Korea | 2,512,000 | Kim Bum-il | |
106 | Bandung | Indonesia | 2,510,000 | 3,829,000 | Dada Rosada |
107 | Faisalabad | Pakistan | 2,510,000 | 5,081,000 | Rana Zahid Tauseef |
108 | Fortaleza | Brazil | 2,506,000 | 3,415,000 | Luizianne Lins |
109 | Baoshan | China | 2,500,000 | ||
110 | DAR ES SALAAM | Tanzania | 2,498,000 | 2,700,000 | Adam Kimbisa |
111 | Zhongshan | China | 2,495,000 | Li Qihong | |
112 | Xiamen | China | 2,490,000 | ||
113 | Chaoyang | China | 2,471,000 | ||
114 | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | 2,453,000 | 5,397,000 | Marcio Lacerda |
115 | Nanning | China | 2,450,000 | 6,480,000 | |
116 | HAVANA | Cuba | 2,430,000 | 3,700,000 | Juan Contino Aslán |
117 | Nagpur | India | 2,420,000 | Archana Dehankar | |
118 | Omdurman | Sudan | 2,400,000 | ||
| 119 | Suzhou | China | 2,383,000 | 6,298,000 | Yan Li |
120 | Aleppo | Syria | 2,360,000 | 3,000,000 | Ma'an Al-Shibli |
121 | Lucknow | India | 2,342,000 | 2,686,000 | Dinesh Sharma |
122 | Izmir | Turkey | 2,330,000 | 3,796,000 | Aziz Kocaoglu |
123 | Linyi | China | 2,300,000 | 10,080,000 | Lian Chengmin |
124 | Dalian | China | 2,270,000 | 3,478,000 | Li Wancai |
125 | Nagoya | Japan | 2,260,000 | 9,250,000 | Takashi Kawamura |
126 | Houston | USA | 2,242,000 | 5,728,000 | Annise Parker |
127 | Giza | Egypt | 2,225,000 | 2,600,000 | Kuma Demekissa |
128 | Medellin | Colombia | 2,223,000 | 3,312,000 | Alonso Salazar Jaramillo |
129 | KHARTOUM | Sudan | 2,208,000 | 7,500,000 | Abdul Rahman Alkheder |
130 | Ningbo | China | 2,201,000 | 5,600,000 | Mao Guanglie |
131 | Guayaquil | Ecuador | 2,196,000 | 2,686,000 | Jaime Nebot |
132 | TASHKENT | Uzbekistan | 2,180,000 | 3,400,000 | Abdukahar Tuhtayev |
133 | PARIS | France | 2,113,000 | 11,769,000 | Bertrand Delanoë |
134 | BRASILIA | Brazil | 2,089,000 | 2,090,000 | José Roberto Arruda |
135 | Lanzhou | China | 2,088,000 | 3,300,000 | Zhang Jinliang |
136 | Changzhou | China | 2,086,000 | 3,570,000 | Wang Weicheng |
137 | Monterrey | Mexico | 2,057,000 | 3,650,000 | Fernando Larrazabal |
138 | BAKU | Azerbaijan | 2,040,000 | 2,072,000 | Hajibala Abutalybov |
139 | Kowloon | China | 2,020,000 | 2,200,000 | |
| 140 | BUCHAREST | Romania | 1,994,000 | 2,151,000 | Sorin Oprescu |
141 | Medan | Indonesia | 1,990,000 | 2,390,000 | |
142 | Tangshan | China | 1,980,000 | 7,100,000 | Zhang Guodong |
143 | Jilin | China | 1,953,000 | 4,523,000 | |
144 | Nanchong | China | 1,950,000 | 7,300,000 | Liu Hongjian |
145 | CONAKRY | Guinea | 1,931,000 | ||
146 | AMMAN | Jordan | 1,919,000 | 2,524,000 | Omar Maani |
147 | Indore | India | 1,912,000 | 1,920,000 | |
| 148 | Sapporo | Japan | 1,906,000 | 2,130,000 | Fumio Ueda |
149 | Jinan | China | 1,900,000 | 2,444,000 | |
150 | Puebla | Mexico | 1,888,000 | 2,500,000 | Blanca Alcala Ruiz |
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