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50 largest cities in the world

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

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The cities

  1. 1Guangzhou43 M
  2. 2Shanghai42.3 M
  3. 3Tokyo41.3 M
  4. 4Delhi36.9 M
  5. 5Jakarta29.8 M
  6. 6Mumbai28.1 M
  7. 7Manila27.1 M
  8. 8Mexico City25.6 M
  9. 9Seoul25.4 M
  10. 10Dhaka23.7 M
  11. 11Cairo23.2 M
  12. 12São Paulo22.7 M
  13. 13New York City22.6 M
  14. 14Bangkok22.4 M
  15. 15Lagos21.9 M
  16. 16Beijing21.8 M
  17. 17Karachi21.8 M
  18. 18Moscow19.1 M
  19. 19Chengdu18.3 M
  20. 20Kolkata18.1 M
  21. 21Osaka17.7 M
  22. 22Los Angeles17.4 M
  23. 23Tehran17.2 M
  24. 24Buenos Aires17 M
  25. 25Kinshasa16.9 M
  26. 26Istanbul16.2 M
  27. 27Xiamen15.8 M
  28. 28London15.4 M
  29. 29Bengaluru15.3 M
  30. 30Johannesburg15.1 M
  31. 31Lahore15 M
  32. 32Hangzhou14.7 M
  33. 33Ho Chi Minh City14.7 M
  34. 34Xi'an13.7 M
  35. 35Rio de Janeiro13.6 M
  36. 36Chennai13.3 M
  37. 37Chongqing13.2 M
  38. 38Wuhan12.9 M
  39. 39Lima12.2 M
  40. 40Hyderabad12.1 M
  41. 41Tianjin11.8 M
  42. 42Changsha11.6 M
  43. 43Paris11.6 M
  44. 44Suzhou11.5 M
  45. 45Bogotá10.8 M
  46. 46Nagoya10.5 M
  47. 47Zhengzhou10.5 M
  48. 48Luanda10.4 M
  49. 49Ahmedabad10.2 M
  50. 50Taipei10.2 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).

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