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50 largest cities in the Americas

50 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, tell its flag from three others, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Mexico City25.6 M
  2. 2São Paulo22.7 M
  3. 3New York City22.6 M
  4. 4Los Angeles17.4 M
  5. 5Buenos Aires17 M
  6. 6Rio de Janeiro13.6 M
  7. 7Lima12.2 M
  8. 8Bogotá10.8 M
  9. 9Chicago9.8 M
  10. 10Washington, D.C.8.8 M
  11. 11Santiago8.6 M
  12. 12Toronto8.3 M
  13. 13Dallas8.1 M
  14. 14Boston7.9 M
  15. 15San Francisco7.7 M
  16. 16Philadelphia7.7 M
  17. 17Houston7.6 M
  18. 18Miami6.7 M
  19. 19Monterrey6.3 M
  20. 20Atlanta6.3 M
  21. 21Guadalajara6 M
  22. 22Detroit5.9 M
  23. 23Belo Horizonte5.4 M
  24. 24Tampa5.2 M
  25. 25Phoenix5.1 M
  26. 26Montreal4.7 M
  27. 27Seattle4.6 M
  28. 28Medellín4.4 M
  29. 29Puebla4.4 M
  30. 30Recife4.1 M
  31. 31Orlando4 M
  32. 32Denver4 M
  33. 33Porto Alegre4 M
  34. 34Santo Domingo4 M
  35. 35Brasília3.9 M
  36. 36Caracas3.9 M
  37. 37Fortaleza3.8 M
  38. 38Guayaquil3.4 M
  39. 39Guatemala City3.4 M
  40. 40Salvador3.4 M
  41. 41Curitiba3.4 M
  42. 42Vancouver3.3 M
  43. 43Minneapolis3.3 M
  44. 44Campinas3.3 M
  45. 45San Diego3.3 M
  46. 46Port-au-Prince3.2 M
  47. 47Cleveland3.1 M
  48. 48Cali3 M
  49. 49Quito2.9 M
  50. 50Maracaibo2.9 M

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: Major Agglomerations of the World, citypopulation.de, Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of 50 largest cities in the Americas, 50 cities: each one marked on the globe

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