Top 100 Largest Cities in the World by Population

Rank	City	Country	Population	Type
1	Tokyo	Japan	37,785,000	Primary
2	Jakarta	Indonesia	33,756,000	Primary
3	Delhi	India	32,226,000	Admin
4	Guangzhou	China	26,940,000	Admin
5	Mumbai	India	24,973,000	Admin
6	Manila	Philippines	24,922,000	Primary
7	Shanghai	China	24,073,000	Admin
8	São Paulo	Brazil	23,086,000	Admin
9	Seoul	Korea, South	23,016,000	Primary
10	Mexico City	Mexico	21,804,000	Primary
11	Kolkāta	India	21,747,000	Admin
12	Cairo	Egypt	20,296,000	Primary
13	Karachi	Pakistan	20,249,000	Admin
14	Dhaka	Bangladesh	19,134,000	Primary
15	New York	United States	18,832,416
16	Beijing	China	18,522,000	Primary
17	Bangkok	Thailand	18,007,000	Primary
18	Shenzhen	China	17,619,000	Minor
19	Moscow	Russia	17,332,000	Primary
20	Buenos Aires	Argentina	16,710,000	Primary
21	Lagos	Nigeria	16,637,000	Minor
22	Bangalore	India	15,386,000	Admin
23	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	15,136,000	Admin
24	Ōsaka	Japan	15,126,000	Admin
25	Chengdu	China	14,645,000	Admin
26	Istanbul	Turkey	14,441,000	Admin
27	Tehran	Iran	14,148,000	Primary
28	Kinshasa	Congo (Kinshasa)	12,836,000	Primary
29	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	12,592,000	Admin
30	Chennai	India	12,395,000	Admin
31	Xi’an	China	12,328,000	Admin
32	Lahore	Pakistan	12,306,000	Admin
33	Chongqing	China	12,135,000	Admin
34	Los Angeles	United States	11,885,717
35	London	United Kingdom	11,262,000	Primary
36	Paris	France	11,060,000	Primary
37	Linyi	China	10,820,000
38	Dongguan	China	10,646,000	Minor
39	Baoding	China	10,546,831	Minor
40	Hyderābād	India	10,494,000	Admin
41	Tianjin	China	10,368,000	Admin
42	Lima	Peru	10,320,000	Primary
43	Wuhan	China	10,251,000	Admin
44	Nanyang	China	9,577,771
45	Hangzhou	China	9,523,000	Admin
46	Nagoya	Japan	9,197,000	Admin
47	Luanda	Angola	9,051,000	Primary
48	Foshan	China	9,042,500	Minor
49	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	8,911,000	Primary
50	Zhoukou	China	8,677,800	Minor
51	Tongshan	China	8,669,000	Minor
52	Hanoi	Vietnam	8,587,100	Primary
53	Chicago	United States	8,489,066
54	Nanjing	China	8,422,000	Admin
55	Heze	China	8,287,693	Minor
56	Pune	India	8,231,000
57	Jining	China	8,081,905
58	Bogotá	Colombia	8,034,649	Primary
59	Ahmedabad	India	8,009,000	Minor
60	Shenyang	China	7,964,000	Admin
61	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	7,962,000	Admin
62	Khartoum	Sudan	7,869,000	Primary
63	Johannesburg	South Africa	7,860,781	Admin
64	Fuyang	China	7,599,913
65	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	7,450,000	Primary
66	Ganzhou	China	7,396,873	Minor
67	Shangqiu	China	7,325,300
68	Cangzhou	China	7,300,783	Minor
69	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	7,237,000	Primary
70	Santiago	Chile	7,171,000	Primary
71	Zhumadian	China	7,008,427
72	Zhanjiang	China	6,981,236	Minor
73	Rangoon	Burma	6,874,000	Primary
74	Yancheng	China	6,709,629	Minor
75	Bijie	China	6,686,100
76	Xingtai	China	6,645,766	Minor
77	Hengyang	China	6,645,243
78	Shaoyang	China	6,563,520
79	Surabaya	Indonesia	6,556,000	Admin
80	Sūrat	India	6,538,000
81	Quanzhou	China	6,480,000	Minor
82	Shangrao	China	6,435,300	Minor
83	Zunyi	China	6,270,700
84	Madrid	Spain	6,211,000	Primary
85	Baghdad	Iraq	6,183,000	Primary
86	Maoming	China	6,174,050	Minor
87	Miami	United States	6,113,982
88	Xinyang	China	6,109,106
89	Houston	United States	6,046,392
90	Singapore	Singapore	5,983,000	Primary
91	Prayagraj	India	5,954,391
92	Huanggang	China	5,882,719	Minor
93	Dalian	China	5,871,474
94	Ankara	Turkey	5,864,049	Primary
95	Dallas	United States	5,843,632
96	Qingdao	China	5,818,255	Minor
97	Yulin	China	5,796,766	Minor
98	Liaocheng	China	5,789,863	Minor
99	Douala	Cameroon	5,768,400	Admin
100	Qujing	China	5,765,775

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