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This list contains all cities with one million or more inhabitants. Cities are defined in the political-geographic sense (city proper). The population figures given therefore refer to the city or municipality in the political-administrative sense.
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- China
- India
- Brazil
Even though China is not the largest nation on earth by size, it is the most highly populated with a population of over 1.3 billlion. About 102 Cities in China have a community of over a million with about ten cities having over ten million residents. The urban population has grown by over half a billion in the last three decades, and this has resu...
India is the seventh largest nationon earth by land area and the second by population right behind China. India has a population of over 1.2 billion people and the most highly populated city is Mumbai. Over 67% of the population still lives in the rural area. About 46 Indian cities have a community of over a million with Mumbai leading by 12,442,37...
Brazilis the fifth biggest nation on earth by land area and population. Brazil has a population of about 258 million people with 87.86% of them living in the urban areas. Brazil has the highest urbanization level with about eighty-two out of every a hundred people living in the city. Brazil has about three hundred urban areas, and only seventeen of...
- Geoffrey Migiro
It is perhaps unsurprising that the majority of the most populous cities in the world are in the two most populated countries in the world, China and India. Among these are Shanghai and Beijing in China, with populations of 29.9M and 22.2M million respectively, along with Delhi ( 33.8M ), and Mumbai ( 21.7M ) in India.
There are 81 cities in the world with a population exceeding 5 million people, according to 2018 estimates by the United Nations. The UN figures include a mixture of city proper, metropolitan area, and urban area.
City [a]CountryUn 2018 Population Estimates [b]City Proper [c](definition)37,468,00028,514,00025,582,00021,650,000With more than 70 million inhabitants, Guangzhou, China, is far and away the world’s largest city. But, what defines a city?
- Mindy Johnston
2024 Metro Area Rankings. Rank. City Name. Population. 1. New York City. 19,034,000. 2. Los Angeles.
Jan 18, 2022 · Today, 23 percent of the population lives in cities exceeding one million in population, and 7 percent of the population specifically lives in megacities of more than ten million. There are 512 cities with at least 1 million people, but only 31 megacities.
