User:Polaron/Agglomerations
Name English Name Country Population Remarks
1 Tōkyō Tokyo Japan 34,200,000 incl. Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama
(33900 for 70 km radius) (36769 WG) (35237 *keihinyo / no rural fringe)
2 Ciudad de México Mexico City Mexico 22,800,000 incl. Nezahualcóyotl, Ecatepec, Naucalpan
(*ZMVM) (22414 WG) (19013 zmcm)
3 Seoul (Sŏul) Seoul South Korea 22,300,000 incl. Bucheon, Goyang, Incheon, Seongnam, Suweon
(22174 WG) (*unofficial metro)
4 New York New York USA 21,900,000 incl. Newark, Paterson (*CSA) (22531 WG) (18498 urban area)
5 São Paulo Sao Paulo Brazil 20,200,000 incl. Guarulhos (19357 WG) *(RM + environs ?) (18333 RM)
6 Mumbai Bombay India 19,850,000 incl. Kalyan, Thane, Ulhasnagar (19944 WG) *(UA + environs ?) (18336 UA)
7 Delhi Delhi India 19,700,000 incl. Faridabad, Ghaziabad (17753 WG) *(NCT + environs ?) (15334 UA)
8 Shanghai Shanghai China 18,150,000 (14871 WG) (*municipality) (12665 urban pop)
9 Los Angeles Los Angeles USA 18,000,000 incl. Riverside, Anaheim (*CSA) (17767 WG) (12146 urban area)
10 Ōsaka Osaka Japan 16,800,000 incl. Kobe, Kyoto (17525 WG) (11286 urban / without Kyoto) (*keihanshin / no rural fringe)
11 Jakarta Jakarta Indonesia 16,550,000 incl. Bekasi, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang (17929 WG) *(45 km 16893) *(urban area + satellites) (13194 urban area)
12 Kolkata Calcutta India 15,650,000 incl. Haora (14682 WG) *(UA + environs ?) (14299 UA)
13 Al-Qāhirah Cairo Egypt 15,600,000 incl. Al-Jizah, Shubra al-Khaymah (15708 WG) (11146 official metro) (*unofficial metro)
14 Manila Manila Philippines 14,950,000 incl. Kalookan, Quezon City (17844 WG) (15693 urbanized area) *(urban area)
15 Karāchi Karachi Pakistan 14,300,000 (11969 WG) (CDG + environs ?) (11819 CDG)
16 Moskva Moscow Russia 13,750,000 (14521 WG) (*urbanized area)
17 Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina 13,450,000 incl. San Justo, La Plata (13470 WG) *(AGBA) (13349 AGBA-UN)
18 Dhaka Dacca Bangladesh 13,250,000 (11918 WG) *(megacity+environs) (megacity 12560)
19 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil 12,150,000 incl. Nova Iguaçu, São Gonçalo (11827 WG) *(RM+environs) (RM 11469)
20 Beijing Beijing China 12,100,000 (11537 WG) (*core districts + inner ring districts) (10849 urban pop)
21 London London Great Britain and Northern Ireland 12,000,000 (12524 wg) (7615 urban area) (*unofficial metro)
22 Tehrān Tehran Iran 11,850,000 incl. Karaj (12184 wg) *(agglomeration)
23 İstanbul Istanbul Turkey 11,500,000 (11913 wg) (9760 muni) *(muni + environs)
24 Lagos Lagos Nigeria 11,100,000 (11154 wg) *(11135 urban area)
25 Shenzhen Shenzhen China 10,700,000
(in Xianggang:wg) (already includes Hong Kong ???)
9200 Hong Kong SAR + Shenzhen; 1500 environs of Shenzhen
26 Paris Paris France 9,950,000 (11634 wg) *(urban area) (9854 UN)
27 Chicago Chicago USA 9,750,000 (9465 wg) *(CSA) (8711 urban area)
28 Guangzhou Canton China 9,550,000
(5681 wg)(incl. Foshan) *(agglomeration) (3881 urbanpopprefcity)
Faoshan prefcity entire: 3390 (2003)
Guangzhou prefcity entire: 7206 (2003)
29 Chongqing Chungking China 9,350,000
(7572 wg) *(shixiaqu: all districts not counties/countycities) (4975 urbanpop)
entire shixiaqu: 9990 (2003)
30 Wuhan Wuhan China 9,100,000
(4648 wg) (*prefcity entire) (6003 urbanpop)
(shi:8312 (2002))
31 Lima Lima Peru 8,550,000 (7857 wg) *(Lima Metropolitana) (LM: 8180)
32 Krung Thep Bangkok Thailand 8,450,000 (9996 wg) (BM + environs ?)
33 Bogotá (Santa Fe de) Bogota Colombia 8,350,000 (7942 wg) *(official metro + environs ?) (7594 official metro)
34 Washington Washington USA 8,150,000 incl. Baltimore (8117 wg) *(CSA)
35 Nagoya Nagoya Japan 8,050,000 (8799 wg) (50 km zone?) (3189 urban area) *(Chukyo / no rural fringe)
36 Chennai Madras India 7,600,000 (6958 wg) *(UA + environs ?) (6915 UA)
37 Lahore Lahore Pakistan 7,550,000 (6485 wg) *(CDG + environs ?) (6373 CDG)
38 Hong Kong (Xianggang) Hong Kong China 7,400,000 incl. Kowloon (8855 wg) *(SAR only) (CP double counts Hong Kong?)
39 Johannesburg Johannesburg South Africa 7,400,000 incl. Soweto, East Rand, West Rand (7092 wg) *(agglomeration)
40 San Francisco San Francisco USA 7,250,000 incl. Oakland, San Jose (7627 wg) *(CSA)
41 Bangalore Bangalore India 7,100,000
6532 UA; 6159 wg; *(UA+environs)
42 Kinshasa Kinshasa Congo (Dem. Rep.) 7,000,000
5717 urban pop province; 9343 kinshasa-brazzaville WG; (*province-level city)
43 Taipei (Taibei) Taipei Taiwan 6,950,000
8137 WG (incl. Keelung); *(shih+hsien)
44 Hyderābād Hyderabad India 6,700,000
6012 wg; 6145 UA *(UA+environs)
45 Tianjin Tientsin China 6,350,000
6354 wg; 9346 muni urban pop; (*core districts + inner ring)
46 Dallas Dallas USA 6,000,000 incl. Fort Worth
*(CSA) 6035 wg
47 Philadelphia Philadelphia USA 6,000,000
6262 wg; *(CSA)
48 Santiago Santiago Chile 5,900,000
5623 *official metro?; 4893 wg
49 Detroit Detroit USA 5,800,000 incl. Windsor (Canada)
detroit-windsor 5906 wg; *(CSA + Windsor 306)
50 Ruhr Ruhr Germany 5,800,000 incl. Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg
6566 un urban; *(urban area)
51 Boston Boston USA 5,700,000
6149 wg; *CSA
52 Al-Kharṭūm Khartoum Sudan 5,650,000
4495 un urban; 7830 wg; *probably agglomeration
53 Ahmadābād Ahmadabad India 5,600,000
5171 UA; *UA+environs; 5081 wg
54 Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte Brazil 5,600,000
5082 wg; 5304 RM; *RM+environs
55 Madrid Madrid Spain 5,600,000
5145 official metro; *official metro+environs; 6071 wg
56 Baghdād Baghdad Iraq 5,550,000
5910 province; 7725 wg; *probably province
57 Miami Miami USA 5,550,000 incl. Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach
*MSA, 4681 wg; 5476 MSA
58 Houston Houston USA 5,400,000
*CSA, 5300 wg
59 Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 5,400,000
5030 un urban pop; 5117 wg; *municipality 5731 (2004)
60 Toronto Toronto Canada 5,400,000
*CMA; 6142 wg
61 Sankt-Peterburg (Leningrad) St. Petersburg Russia 5,250,000
Gorod* 5315; city proper 4853 wg
62 Atlanta Atlanta USA 5,100,000
MSA 4843 wg; CSA*; 4284 UA
63 Al-Iskandarīyah Alexandria Egypt 5,000,000
3760 governorate, 4320 wg; gov+env*
64 Caracas Caracas Venezuela 4,700,000
3276 UN metro; 3787 wg; DC+miranda+vargas*
65 Singapore Singapore Singapore 4,650,000
4372 city proper; 5331 wg (with Johor Baru); city+env*
66 Ar-Riyād Riyadh Saudi Arabia 4,550,000
5514 admin area; 4328 wg; city proper*
67 Shenyang Shenyang China 4,550,000
4916 prefcity urbanpop; 6545 wg; prefcity core*
68 Yangon Rangoon Myanmar 4,500,000
4082 UA; 4573 admin area; city proper*
69 Pune Poona India 4,450,000 incl. Pimpri-Chinchwad
4485 census UA*; 4684 wg
70 Guadalajara Guadalajara Mexico 4,350,000 incl. Zapopan
3905 official metro; 4057 wg; offmetro + env*
71 Sydney Sydney Australia 4,350,000
4388 SD*; 4445 wg
72 Chittagong Chittagong Bangladesh 4,300,000
4171 census metro*; 3795 wg
73 Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 4,300,000
not on UN top 100; 6527 wg; metro*
74 Berlin Berlin Germany 4,200,000
3328 state; 4010 metro*
75 El Djazaïr Algiers Algeria 4,150,000
3260 province; 5724 wg; metro*
76 Porto Alegre Porto Alegre Brazil 4,150,000
3795 offmetro; offmetro+env*; 3813 wg
77 Abidjan Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire 4,100,000
3516 city; 5061 wg; metro*
78 Monterrey Monterrey Mexico 3,950,000
3517 offmetro; 3745 wg; offmetro+env*
79 Phoenix Phoenix USA 3,900,000
3393 UA; 3907 csa*
80 Casablanca (Dar-el-Beida) Casablanca Morocco 3,850,000
3743 grand casablanca*; 3177 city
81 Milano Milan Italy 3,850,000 Urban area* 4007 UN 4282 WG 82 Barcelona Barcelona Spain 3,800,000 4424 offmetro 4864 WG urban area(?)* 83 Ankara Ankara Turkey 3,750,000 3626 WG 3593 UN metromuni* 84 Recife Recife Brazil 3,750,000 3587 WG 3527 UN offmetro+env* 85 Seattle Seattle USA 3,750,000 3811 WG not on UN CSA* 86 Busan (Pusan) Busan South Korea 3,700,000 3527 UN 4617 WG metrocity* 87 Melbourne Melbourne Australia 3,700,000 3781 WG 3663 UN metroarea(SD)* 88 Sūrat Surat India 3,700,000 3671 UN 3045 WG offurbagglo* 89 Montréal Montreal Canada 3,650,000 3511 UN 3624 WG CMA* 90 Brasília Brasília Brazil 3,600,000 2261 WG 3341 UN RIDE+env* 91 P'yŏngyang Pyongyang North Korea 3,600,000 3284 UN 2992 WG city+env* 92 Xi'an Sian China 3,600,000 3256 UN 4785 WG prefcity+env* 93 Athínai Athens Greece 3,500,000 3238 UN 3776 WG urbanarea+env* 94 Durban Durban South Africa 3,500,000 3244 WG not on UN metromuni(?)+env* 95 Fortaleza Fortaleza Brazil 3,500,000 3261 UN 3193 WG offmetro+env* 96 Nanjing Nanking China 3,500,000 4072 WG not on UN prefcity+env(?) 97 Salvador Salvador Brazil 3,500,000 3331 UN 3515 WG offmetro+env* 98 Medellín Medellin Colombia 3,450,000 3236 UN 3313 WG offmetro+env* 99 Harbin Harbin China 3,400,000 not on UN 4757 WG prefcity+env* 100 Minneapolis Minneapolis USA 3,400,000 3201 WG not on UN CSA*