Cities in the world with more than 1 million inhabitants in 2005

Rank	Population	City	Country	Urban Area Pop.	Rank
1	12,778,721	Mumbai (Bombay)	India	17,431,305	5
2	11,507,254	Karachi	Pakistan	11,078,298	15
3	11,055,365	Delhi	India	14,145,956	6
4	10,840,516	Shanghai	China	12,759,367	9
5	10,375,688	Moscow	Russian Federation	10,468,743	18
6	10,136,978	S�o Paulo	Brazil	17,857,001	4
7	9,747,972	Seoul	South Korea	9,713,757	22
8	9,621,565	Istanbul	Turkey	9,371,163	23
9	8,548,639	Mexico City	Mexico	18,660,221	2
10	8,407,479	Jakarta	Indonesia	12,295,516	10
11	8,158,957	New York 3	United States of America	18,252,339	3
12	8,124,310	Tokyo	Japan	34,997,269	1
13	7,866,160	Lima	Peru	7,898,778	26
14	7,741,274	Beijing	China	10,847,827	16
15	7,438,376	Cairo	Egypt	10,834,495	17
16	7,404,515	Tehran	Iran	7,190,000	29
17	7,287,555	London	United Kingdom	7,619,014	27
18	7,220,971	Santa F� de Bogot�	Colombia	7,289,646	28
19	7,181,111	Lagos	Nigeria	10,103,459	20
20	6,752,001	Hong Kong 1	China, Hong Kong SAR	7,049,175	30
21	6559521	Rhein-Ruhr North 7	Germany	6,559,521	32
22	6,542,751	Bangkok	Thailand	6,486,401	33
23	6,192,853	Lahore	Pakistan	5,989,395	35
24	6,080,671	Dhaka	Bangladesh	11,560,211	12
25	6,038,581	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	11,214,126	14
26	5,556,562	Baghdad	Iraq	5,620,373	38
27	5,318,636	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	5,125,753	44
28	5,158,019	Bangalore	India	6,140,818	34
29	5,147,431	Wuhan	China	5,652,919	37
30	5,083,657	Tianjin	China	9,271,376	24
31	5,006,513	Toronto	Canada	4,879,540	48
32	4,865,499	Chongqing	China	4,847,689	51
33	4,810,997	Santiago	Chile	5,477,804	39
34	4,651,322	Calcutta	India	13,805,691	7
35	4,408,220	Singapore	Singapore	4,252,842	56
36	4,385,264	Kinshasa	Congo	5,276,958	41
37	4,368,883	Chennai (Madras)	India	6,691,180	31
38	4,178,234	Saint Petersburg	Russian Federation	5,285,799	40
39	4,111,624	Shenyang	China	4,881,757	47
40	4,056,025	Guangzhou	China	3,886,934	65
41	3,866,382	Los Angeles 2	United States of America	12,018,068	11
42	3,796,043	Ahmadabad	India	4,869,420	49
43	3,774,894	Sydney	Australia	4,273,716	55
44	3,719,989	Pusan	South Korea	3,579,050	73
45	3,700,000	Rhein-Main 4	Germany	3,712,066	70
46	3,693,412	Alexandria	Egypt	3,653,098	72
47	3,630,694	Jidda	Saudi Arabia	3,556,556	76
48	3,619,856	Hyderabad	India	5,863,694	36
49	3,561,187	Ankara	Turkey	3,428,420	78
50	3,517,961	Yokohama	Japan
51	3,509,283	Montr�al	Canada	3,470,916	77
52	3,462,648	Casablanca	Morocco	3,578,225	74
53	3,407,129	Ho Chi Minh City	Viet Nam	4,850,717	50
54	3,405,250	Berlin	Germany	3,327,070	83
55	3,300,000	Rhein-Ruhr Middle 6	Germany	3,301,432	84
56	3,245,352	Melbourne	Australia	3,577,342	75
57	3,144,005	Pyongyang	North Korea	3,228,286	87
58	3,140,853	Kabul	Afghanistan	2,955,880	103
59	3,100,000	Rhein-Ruhr South 8	Germany	3,076,356	98
60	3,058,025	Pune (Poona)	India	4,143,735	58
61	3,033,972	Yangon	Myanmar	3,873,739	66
62	3,026,831	Medell�n	Colombia	3,098,897	96
63	2,956,894	Omdurman	Sudan
64	2,931,144	Surat	India	3,260,584	86
65	2,915,961	Madrid	Spain	5,103,072	45
66	2,906,769	Abidjan	C�te d'Ivoire	3,336,518	82
67	2,878,939	Xian	China	3,203,019	91
68	2,871,499	Chicago	United States of America	8,567,571	25
69	2,866,404	Nanjing	China	2,780,117	110
70	2,841,882	Kanpur	India	2,878,643	107
71	2,794,711	Kano	Nigeria	2,762,800	113
72	2,758,136	Harbin	China	2,911,071	106
73	2,746,761	Buenos Aires	Argentina	13,047,115	8
74	2,737,479	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	2,723,482	115
75	2,731,523	East Rand (Ekurhuleni)	South Africa	2,808,417	109
76	2,692,503	Surabaja	Indonesia	2,616,236	124
77	2,679,891	Jaipur	India	2,574,719	127
78	2,665,657	Nairobi	Kenya	2,574,847	126
79	2,621,530	Salvador	Brazil	3,187,408	92
80	2,616,702	Inch'on	South Korea	2,575,456	125
81	2,595,202	Taegu	South Korea	2,501,881	130
82	2,591,277	Kiev	Ukraine	2,618,246	123
83	2,588,807	Bekasi	Indonesia
84	2,588,577	Chengdu	China	3,403,732	81
85	2,588,286	Osaka-Kobe	Japan	11,243,853	13
86	2,541,837	Al-Jizah	Egypt
87	2,520,368	Taipei	Taiwan	2,505,388	129
88	2,512,422	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2,440,794	135
89	2,503,056	Rome	Italy	2,664,649	120
90	2,485,674	Lucknow	India	2,439,439	136
91	2,456,783	Cali	Colombia	2,451,869	134
92	2,455,943	Quezon City	Philippines
93	2,453,779	Luanda	Angola	2,622,976	121
94	2,423,015	Changchun	China	3,009,884	100
95	2,415,818	Izmir	Turkey	2,387,686	138
96	2,403,972	Cali	Colombia
97	2,402,958	Faisalabad	Pakistan	2,369,534	141
98	2,375,910	Cape Town	South Africa	2,967,088	101
99	2,344,475	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	5,047,563	46
100	2,336,837	Ibadan	Nigeria	2,284,396	144
101	2,324,195	Fortaleza	Brazil	3,106,895	94
102	2,306,744	Aleppo	Syrian Arab Republic	2,379,054	140
103	2,263,923	Dalian	China	2,676,733	119
104	2,243,597	Nagpur	India	2,250,549	146
105	2,236,294	Havana	Cuba	2,188,919	151
106	2,207,850	Ta�kent	Uzbekistan
107	2,189,759	Bandung	Indonesia	3,764,939	69
108	2,178,958	Nagoya	Japan	3,164,003	93
109	2,176,681	Bras�lia	Brazil	3,099,146	95
110	2,164,229	Jinan	China	2,619,328	122
111	2,157,853	Guayaquil	Ecuador	2,262,343	145
112	2,149,788	Vancouver	Canada	2,059,499	166
113	2,123,709	Chittagong	Bangladesh	3,793,643	68
114	2,117,932	Mashhad	Iran	2,080,268	162
115	2,103,674	Paris	France	9,794,337	21
116	2,084,974	Qingdao	China	2,384,606	139
117	2,083,021	Durban	South Africa	2,551,257	128
118	2,067,551	Taiyuan	China	2,475,566	133
119	2,064,719	Medan	Indonesia	2,009,686	167
120	2,049,949	Houston	United States of America	4,117,892	59
121	2,022,561	Medellin	Colombia
122	2,021,669	Jiulong	Hong Kong
123	2,005,703	Agadir	Morocco
124	1,998,635	Dakar	Senegal	2,166,861	155
125	1,969,858	de Morelos	Mexico
126	1,964,179	Zhengzhou	China	2,176,109	153
127	1,894,753	Kaesong	North Korea
128	1,884,802	Douala	Cameroon	1,857,638	182
129	1,879,251	Baku	Azerbaijan	1,816,208	186
130	1,876,857	Bucharest	Romania	1,853,401	183
131	1,875,453	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	1,864,858	181
132	1,848,952	Indore	India	1,800,220	189
133	1,838,939	Caracas	Venezuela	3,226,084	88
134	1,814,764	Hai Phong	Viet Nam	1,754,537	198
135	1,792,299	Barranquilla	Colombia	1,830,006	185
136	1,790,389	Sapporo	Japan	1,800,101	190
137	1,789,635	Rabat	Morocco	1,758,613	197
138	1,777,236	Shangqiu	China
139	1,774,124	Kunming	China	1,729,233	201
140	1,772,747	Maracaibo	Venezuela	2,072,949	164
141	1,753,839	Si Racha	Thailand
142	1,752,150	Hamburg	Germany	2,681,360	118
143	1,749,721	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	1,679,700	210
144	1,740,661	Khartoum	Sudan	4,285,542	54
145	1,728,718	Budapest	Hungary	1,707,860	204
146	1,723,081	Al-Khartum Bahri	Sudan
147	1,720,675	Curitiba	Brazil	2,720,960	116
148	1,702,061	Minsk	Belarus	1,704,866	205
149	1,692,603	Zibo	China	2,734,961	114
150	1,687,484	Shijiazhuang	China	1,679,955	209
151	1,684,974	Xiantao	China	1,698,901	206
152	1,680,890	Warsaw	Poland	2,199,895	150
153	1,668,193	Damascus	Syrian Arab Republic	2,227,929	147
154	1,651,417	Guadalajara	Mexico	3,824,582	67
155	1,649,169	Lanzhou	China	1,764,859	196
156	1,640,507	Accra	Ghana	1,847,432	184
157	1,635,655	Hangzhou	China	1,882,986	177
158	1,626,496	Yaound�	Cameroon	1,616,170	218
159	1,613,375	Antananarivo	Madagascar	1,677,981	211
160	1,609,122	Patna	India	1,897,917	176
161	1,608,674	Bhopal	India	1,563,015	226
162	1,602,011	Palembang	Indonesia	1,569,437	223
163	1,600,000	Rhein-Neckar 5	Germany	1,620,372	217
164	1,599,169	Changsha	China	1,935,042	174
165	1,598,216	Tangerang	Indonesia
166	1,593,819	Manaus	Brazil	1,559,358	227
167	1,574,387	Beirut	Lebanon	1,792,111	192
168	1,568,926	Metro Manila	Philippines	10,352,249	19
169	1,561,614	Yulin, Guangxi	China	1,636,762	214
170	1,559,875	Ludhiana	India	1,495,696	236
171	1,553,789	Vienna	Austria	2,178,674	152
172	1,550,528	Esfahan	Iran	1,479,595	241
173	1,547,888	Semarang	Indonesia
174	1,526,575	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
175	1,518,083	Algiers	Algeria	3,059,643	99
176	1,516,353	Quito	Ecuador	1,451,071	249
177	1,500,400	Kobe	Japan
178	1,499,946	Thana	India
179	1,487,028	Harare	Zimbabwe	1,469,149	244
180	1,482,822	Recife	Brazil	3,410,509	80
181	1,479,745	Kharkov	Ukraine	1,454,730	248
182	1,475,672	Depok	Indonesia
183	1,473,521	Samut Prakan	Thailand
184	1,470,597	Kyoto	Japan	1,805,980	188
185	1,465,762	Philadelphia	United States of America	5,260,635	42
186	1,465,649	Tijuana	Mexico	1,464,748	246
187	1,465,015	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	1,446,419	250
188	1,463,736	Barcelona	Spain	4,406,380	53
189	1,461,190	Nanchang	China	1,695,587	208
190	1,456,320	Johannesburg	South Africa	3,084,207	97
191	1,440,888	Taejon	South Korea	1,426,080	258
192	1,440,025	Ciudad Ju�rez	Mexico	1,380,504	275
193	1,440,012	Kwangju	South Korea	1,410,357	263
194	1,439,071	Novosibirsk	Russian Federation	1,430,270	256
195	1,438,852	Caloocan	Philippines
196	1,438,506	Agra	India	1,430,971	255
197	1,438,031	Urumqi	China
198	1,435,968	Phoenix-Mesa	United States of America	3,217,573	89
199	1,431,649	Sana'a	Yemen	1,469,072	245
200	1,430,063	Vadodara	India	1,596,259	220
201	1,416,119	Guiyang	China	2,401,839	137
202	1,411,263	Puebla	Mexico	1,875,669	180
203	1,405,313	Tabriz	Iran	1,345,614	283
204	1,399,981	Conakry	Guinea	1,365,778	278
205	1,396,890	Bel�m	Brazil	1,956,421	173
206	1,389,028	Barranquilla	Colombia
207	1,388,608	Fukuoka-Kitakyushu	Japan	2,776,933	111
208	1,381,830	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	1,352,057	281
209	1,374,213	Multan	Pakistan	1,375,917	276
210	1,368,418	P�rto Alegre	Brazil	3,681,622	71
211	1,368,390	Santa Cruz	Bolivia
212	1,367,072	Bursa	Turkey	1,319,898	288
213	1,365,259	Tangshan	China	1,731,705	200
214	1,360,797	Montevideo	Uruguay	1,340,560	284
215	1,357,325	Perth	Australia	1,441,577	252
216	1,348,288	Hyderabad	Pakistan	1,319,358	289
217	1,340,045	Gujranwala	Pakistan	1,365,664	279
218	1,333,531	Valencia	Venezuela	2,159,571	156
219	1,331,254	Lusaka	Zambia	1,394,315	269
220	1,318,992	C�rdoba	Argentina	1,532,546	232
221	1,311,398	Nizhni Novgorod	Russian Federation	1,306,190	292
222	1,306,729	La Matanza	Argentina
223	1,305,264	Ekaterinburg	Russian Federation	1,292,455	294
224	1,304,987	Jilin	China	1,471,260	243
225	1,303,833	Al-Madinah	Saudi Arabia
226	1,301,961	Fuzhou, Fujian	China	1,397,854	267
227	1,301,804	Nashik	India	1,287,411	296
228	1,299,713	Anshan	China	1,456,935	247
229	1,299,487	Pimpri-Chinchwad	India
230	1,299,149	Dubai	United Arab Emirates
231	1,291,690	Abadan	Iran
232	1,289,626	Bamako	Mali	1,264,393	302
233	1,286,369	San Diego	United States of America	2,765,908	112
234	1,284,156	Kampala	Uganda	1,245,695	307
235	1,283,754	Kawasaki	Japan
236	1,273,458	Kaduna	Nigeria	1,272,541	300
237	1,269,723	Kalyan	India
238	1,254,625	Hefei	China	1,288,292	295
239	1,248,099	San Antonio	United States of America	1,385,939	273
240	1,246,756	Fushun	China	1,420,498	261
241	1,235,227	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	1,961,455	172
242	1,234,977	Munich	Germany	2,311,810	143
243	1,233,466	Shenzhen	China	1,221,080	315
244	1,233,195	Xuzhou	China	1,620,840	216
245	1,230,538	Meerut	India	1,259,654	303
246	1,228,127	Dallas-Fort Worth	United States of America	4,445,561	52
247	1,223,087	F�s	Morocco
248	1,209,115	Baotou	China	1,347,985	282
249	1,207,823	Milan	Italy	4,063,643	61
250	1,206,972	Jamshedpur	India	1,179,480	331
251	1,206,453	Bogor	Indonesia
252	1,205,995	Shiraz	Iran	1,186,229	328
253	1,205,782	Adana	Turkey	1,199,016	324
254	1,205,393	Faridabad	India	1,199,769	323
255	1,203,379	Hanoi	Viet Nam	3,977,202	63
256	1,202,204	Santa Cruz	Bolivia	1,230,665	311
257	1,200,719	Karaj	Iran	1,165,056	338
258	1,200,603	Amman	Jordan	1,236,733	309
259	1,197,799	Nezahualc�yotl	Mexico
260	1,189,043	Ad-Dammam	Saudi Arabia
261	1,188,926	Peshawar	Pakistan	1,175,776	332
262	1,188,435	Guarulhos	Brazil
263	1,184,045	Tripoli	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2,006,260	168
264	1,174,823	Varanasi (Benares)	India	1,259,384	304
265	1,174,022	Mosul	Iraq	1,162,606	339
266	1,172,316	Wuxi	China	1,165,959	337
267	1,171,880	Kuwait City	Kuwait	1,222,374	313
268	1,169,623	Goi�nia	Brazil	1,770,386	194
269	1,167,967	Le�n	Mexico	1,382,674	274
270	1,159,828	Zapopan	Mexico
271	1,159,073	Handan	China	2,069,505	165
272	1,157,133	Glasgow	Scotland
273	1,155,177	Ghaziabad	India	1,129,148	350
274	1,154,393	Samara	Russian Federation	1,154,591	342
275	1,152,290	Suzhou, Jiangsu	China	1,168,201	336
276	1,150,332	Prague	Czech Republic	1,169,517	335
277	1,148,755	Omsk	Russian Federation	1,137,021	347
278	1,143,834	Hiroshima	Japan
279	1,141,708	Qiqihar	China	1,445,423	251
280	1,130,497	Luoyang	China	1,535,468	231
281	1,124,729	Belgrade	Serbia and Montenegro	1,118,465	357
282	1,120,309	Yantai	China	1,666,787	212
283	1,118,288	Kazan	Russian Federation	1,108,127	361
284	1,116,074	Monterrey	Mexico	3,421,598	79
285	1,112,005	Ottawa	Canada	1,093,233	367
286	1,107,159	Nampho	North Korea	1,124,371	353
287	1,105,953	Suwon	South Korea	1,073,437	378
288	1,102,822	Amritsar	India	1,091,877	369
289	1,102,551	Rajkot	India	1,110,083	360
290	1,100,790	Basra	Iraq	1,149,981	343
291	1,100,116	Ujung Pandang	Indonesia	1,139,581	346
292	1,098,923	Shantou	China	1,280,625	298
293	1,097,133	Mogadishu	Somalia	1,174,881	333
294	1,092,933	Nanning	China	1,360,881	280
295	1,091,623	Adelaide	Australia	1,123,992	354
296	1,090,295	Sofia	Bulgaria	1,075,791	375
297	1,088,044	Brazzaville	Congo	1,080,102	372
298	1,087,065	Datong	China	1,134,157	349
299	1,086,418	Pretoria	South Africa	1,208,537	319
300	1,085,696	Almaty	Kazakhstan	1,114,941	359
301	1,084,644	Chelyabinsk	Russian Federation	1,077,409	374
302	1,082,872	Rostov-on-Don	Russian Federation	1,075,432	376
303	1,080,487	Yerevan	Armenia	1,079,054	373
304	1,080,137	Soweto	South Africa
305	1,078,658	Allahabad	India	1,105,559	362
306	1,076,689	Maputo	Mozambique	1,220,632	316
307	1,073,088	Goyang	South Korea
308	1,068,874	Visakhapatnam	India	1,404,253	265
309	1,068,617	Dnepropetrovsk	Ukraine	1,051,833	385
310	1,063,646	Victoria	Hong Kong
311	1,061,190	Nanchong	China	1,044,936	387
312	1,060,120	Zigong	China	1,102,238	364
313	1,054,266	Benin City	Nigeria
314	1,054,202	T'aichung	Taiwan
315	1,052,749	Ahvaz	Iran
316	1,052,238	Ufa	Russian Federation	1,042,881	388
317	1,049,071	Sendai	Japan
318	1,046,915	Jabalpur	India	1,180,036	330
319	1,044,993	Tbilisi	Georgia	1,064,117	382
320	1,042,309	Qom	Iran
321	1,035,597	Calgary	Canada	1,014,342	403
322	1,032,150	Haora	India
323	1,029,366	Odessa	Ukraine	1,021,194	397
324	1,025,899	Aurangabad	India
325	1,023,007	Seongnam	South Korea
326	1,021,862	Shubra al-Khaymah	Egypt
327	1,020,700	Volgograd	Russian Federation	1,015,581	401
328	1,018,697	Donetsk	Ukraine	1,005,289	406
329	1,012,113	Campinas	Brazil	2,488,426	131
330	1,011,534	Gaziantep	Turkey
331	1,008,279	Ulsan	South Korea	1,042,379	389
332	1,005,645	Sholapur	India
333	1,005,245	Kitakyushu	Japan
334	1,005,231	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
335	1,004,563	Perm	Russia
336	1,003,792	Sao Luis	Brazil

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Cities in the world with more than 1 million inhabitants in 2005

Cities in the world with more than 1 million inhabitants in 2005