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List of metropolitan areas in Asia

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Asia is one of the world's fastest-growing continents, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Tokyo, in Japan, is the world's largest metropolitan area by population.

The populations of the given cities are obtained from five sources:

  • Cities
  • World Atlas
  • National Official Estimate (NOE)

Out of these five sources, the highest estimate is shown in bold. The cities are ranked on the basis of their highest estimate of population. Some remarks:

  • The official statistics for Chinese cities are for municipalities which usually extend well beyond the urban areas and comprise a substantial rural population. When such statistics exceed the estimated figures, as in the case for Chongqing, Wuhan and Shenyang, they are not taken into account.
  • The figure for Shanghai from City Population includes the city of Suzhou (some 100 km or 62 miles northwest of Shanghai), which is not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore is not taken into account.
  • The figure for Guangzhou from City Population is for the urban population of the Guangdong province, also which includes the cities Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Huizhou. The area has not yet been developed into a single metropolitan area and therefore this figure is not taken into account. Shenzhen and Dongguan are listed separately in this table.
  • Demographia and world Atlas give figures for the contiguous cities of Quanzhou, Jinjiang and Shishi. City Population includes these three cities in its figures for Xiamen (population 4-4.8 million), giving a total population of 10,000,000. However, Xiamen is not actually contiguous with the three other cities and this statistic is not taken into account.
  • The figure for Delhi from City Population includes the cities of Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, which are not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore is not taken into account.
  • The figure for Mumbai from City Population includes the cities of Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Vasai-Virar which are not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore is not taken into account.

The table is color-coded to show which region of Asia each city is in. The color-code key is as follows:

  East Asia
  South Asia
  Southeast Asia
  West Asia

With twenty cities, East Asia accounts for half of cities under this list, with China having the most with fifteen cities, South Asia comes second with ten cities, seven of which are in India. Southeast Asia accounts for seven cities and West Asia with just four cities.

List

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Area Image Country Metro
Population
(2024 est.)[1] 		Demographia
(2017 est.)[2] 		UN WC
(2016 est.)[3] 		World
Atlas
(2017 est.)[4] 		Official or
Other 		Est. Year
Guangzhou  China 70,100,000[5] 19,075,000 Guangzhou 13,070,000[6]
Foshan 7,089,000[6] 		20,597,000 12,700,800[7] –
Jakarta  Indonesia 29,200,000 35,386,000 32,594,159 30,539,000 54,842,885[8] 2023
Mumbai  India 27,100,000 23,355,000 21,357,000[6] 17,712,000 47,800,000[9] 2001
Delhi  India 34,600,000 29,617,000 26,454,000[6] 24,998,000 41,034,555 [10][11] 2011
Tokyo  Japan 41,000,000 37,977,000 38,140,000[12] 37,843,000 31,714,000[13] 2005
Shanghai  China 40,800,000 23,390,000 24,484,000[10] 23,416,000 23,019,148[14] 2010
Manila  Philippines 27,200,000 24,245,000 13,131,000[6] 24,123,000 11,553,427[15] 2007
Seoul  South Korea 25,100,000 21,794,000 Seoul 9,979,000[10]
Incheon 2,711,000[10] 		23,480,000 26,015,868 [16] 2007
Dhaka  Bangladesh 22,500,000 16,820,000 18,237,000[12] 15,669,000 12,797,394[17] 2008
Beijing  China 21,200,000 20,415,000 21,240,000[6] 21,009,000 19,612,368[18] 2010
Bangkok  Thailand 21,200,000 15,645,000 9,440,000[12] 14,998,000 8,249,117 [19] 2010
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Keihanshin)  Japan 17,700,000 17,075,000 20,337,000[12] 17,440,000 16,663,000[13] 2005
Surabaya  Indonesia 5,900,000 6,556,000 9,958,656 6,251,766 19,659,028[20] 2023
Kolkata  India 18,560,853 18,560,853 18,560,853[6] 18,560,853 – –
Chengdu  China 17,300,000 11,050,000 7,820,000[6] 10,376,000 – –
Tehran  Iran 16,500,000 13,805,000 8,516,000[10] 13,532,000 13,422,366[21] 2006
Istanbul[22]  Turkey 15,900,000 15,154,000 14,365,000[10] 14,163,989 15,519,267[23] 2019
Bangalore  India 14,200,000 10,535,000 10,456,000[6] 8,728,906 8,499,399 2011[24]
Ho Chi Minh City  Vietnam 13,900,000 10,380,000 7,498,000[6] 8,957,000 7,955,000 2016
Hangzhou  China 13,900,000 6,820,000 – 7,275,000 – –
Chongqing  China 10,900,000 7,990,000 13,744,000[6] 7,217,000 28,846,170[25][26] 2010
Tianjin  China 11,500,000 13,245,000 11,558,000[6] 10,920,000 12,938,224[27] –
Shenzhen  China included in Guangzhou 12,775,000 10,828,000 12,084,000[6] 10,357,938[28] –
Chennai  India 12,600,000 12,395,000 10,163,000[6] 9,714,000 8,696,010 2022[24]
Wuhan  China 12,200,000 7,895,000 7,979,000[6] 7,509,000 9,785,392[29][30] –
Hyderabad  India 11,400,000 9,305,000 9,218,000[6] 8,754,000 – –
Nagoya  Japan 10,500,000 10,070,000 9,434,000[12] 10,177,000 9,046,000[13] 2005
Taipei  Taiwan 9,950,000 8,550,000 2,669,000[6] 7,438,000 8,916,653 [21] 2010
Zhengzhou-Xingyang  China 9,800,000 7,005,000 4,539,000[6] 4,942,000 – –
Ahmedabad  India 9,600,000 7,645,000 7,571,000[6] 7,186,000 – –
Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia 9,300,000 7,590,000 7,047,000[6] 7,088,000 1,768.00 [31][32] 2015
Nanjing  China 9,300,000 6,320,000 – 6,155,000 – –
Bandung  Indonesia 6,950,000 7,203,000 – 6,251,766 9,054,175[33] 2023


Shenyang  China 8,700,000 7,935,000 6,438,000[6] 6,078,000 8,106,171[34] –
Dongguan  China Included in Guangzhou 8,310,000 7,469,000[6] 8,442,000 – –
Singapore  Singapore 7,850,000 5,825,000 5,717,000[6] 5,624,000 5,607,300 [35] 2017
Hanoi  Vietnam 7,150,000 7,785,000 3,790,000[6] 3,715,000 – –
Baghdad  Iraq 7,650,000 6,960,000 6,811,000[6] 6,625,000 – –
Riyadh  Saudi Arabia 7,500,000 6,030,000 6,540,000[10] 5,666,000 6,506,000 2014
Hong Kong  China 7,250,000 7,330,000 – 7,246,000[6] 7,246,000 –
Quanzhou-Shishi-Jinjiang  China Included in Xiamen [36] 6,480,000 1,469,000[6] 6,710,000 – –

See also

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References

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  5. ^ This figure is for the urban population of the Guangdong province, which includes Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, and Huizhou, which has not yet been developed into a single metropolitan area
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  22. ^ Istanbul is a transcontinental city straddling Eurasia. The majority of its residents live in the commercial and historical centre on the European side, and about a third of its population lives in suburbs on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, however the population figure includes the whole city.
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  26. ^ Figure for the municipality which extend well beyond the urban area (31,816 sq mi)
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  29. ^ "武汉市2010年第六次全国人口普查主要数据公报". Wuhan Statistics Bureau. 10 May 2011. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  30. ^ Figure for the municipality which extend well beyond the urban area (3,279.71 sq mi)
  31. ^ Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
  32. ^ Population projections for 2015
  33. ^ Kemendari 2023 census
  34. ^ "武汉市2010年第六次全国人口普查主要数据公报". Shenyang Statistics Bureau. 20 May 2011. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
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  36. ^ City Population includes these three cities in its figures for Xiamen (population 4-4.8 million), giving a total population of 10,000,000. However Xiamen is not actually contiguous
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