100 Biggest Cities (Updated 2025)

Name the 100 most populous cities in the world according to citypopulation.de's "Major Agglomerations Of The World."

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Rank	Population	Answer
1.	72,700,000	Guangzhou/Shenzhen
2.	41,600,000	Shanghai
3	41,200,000	Tokyo
4.	35,700,000	Delhi
5.	29,500,000	Jakarta
6.	27,800,000	Manila
7.	27,600,000	Mumbai
8.	25,400,000	Mexico City
9.	25,200,000	Seoul
10.	23,100,000	Dhaka
11.	22,800,000	Cairo
12.	22,600,000	Sao Paulo
13. (t)	21,800,000	Bangkok
13. (t)	21,800,000	New York City
15.	21,500,000	Beijing
16.	21,300,000	Lagos
17.	21,000,000	Karachi
18.	18,800,000	Moscow
19.	18,100,000	Chengdu
20.	17,900,000	Kolkata
21.	17,700,000	Osaka
22.	17,100,000	Los Angeles
23. (t)	16,800,000	Buenos Aires
23. (t)	16,800,000	Tehran
25.	16,300,000	Kinshasa
26.	16,000,000	Istanbul
27.	15,400,000	Xiamen
28.	15,100,000	London
29.	14,800,000	Johannesburg
30.	14,700,000	Bengaluru
31. (t)	14,600,000	Hangzhou
31. (t)	14,600,000	Lahore
33.	14,300,000	Ho Chi Minh City
34.	13,600,000	Rio de Janeiro
35.	13,400,000	Xi'An
36. (t)	12,900,000	Chennai
36. (t)	12,900,000	Chongqing
38.	12,600,000	Wuhan
39.	12,000,000	Lima
40. (t)	11,700,000	Hyderabad
40. (t)	11,700,000	Tianjin
42. (t)	11,500,000	Changsha
42. (t)	11,500,000	Paris
44.	10,900,000	Rhine-Ruhr
45.	10,600,000	Bogota
46.	10,500,000	Nagoya
47.	10,300,000	Zhengzhou
48.	10,100,000	Taipei
49.	9,900,000	Ahmedabad
50.	9,650,000	Luanda
51.	9,600,000	Chicago
52.	9,550,000	Kuala Lumpur
53.	9,500,000	Nanjing
54.	8,800,000	Shenyang
55.	8,650,000	Washington, D.C.
56.	8,400,000	Santiago
57.	8,200,000	Hefei
58. (t)	8,050,000	Shantou
58. (t)	8,050,000	Surat
60. (t)	8,000,000	Pune
60. (t)	8,000,000	Singapore
62.	7,850,000	Toronto
63. (t)	7,800,000	Baghdad
63. (t)	7,800,000	Dallas
65. (t)	7,700,000	Riyadh
		Boston
		Qingdao
68.	7,600,000	Ningbo
69. (t)	7,500,000	Hong Kong
		Philadelphia
		San Francisco
72.	7,350,000	Hanoi
73. (t)	7,200,000	Khartoum
73. (t)	7,200,000	Houston
75.	7,050,000	Abidjan
76. (t)	7,000,000	Bandung
76. (t)	7,000,000	Wenzhou
78.	6,900,000	Nairobi
79. (t)	6,800,000	Accra
79. (t)	6,800,000	Kunming
81.	6,750,000	Jinan
82.	6,700,000	Madrid
83.	6,650,000	Dar es Salaam
84.	6,450,000	Shijiazhuang
85.	6,350,000	St. Petersburg
86.	6,300,000	Miami
87.	6,250,000	Alexandria
88. (t)	6,150,000	Amman
		Atlanta
		Milan
		Monterrey
		Taiyuan
93.	6,100,000	Manchester
94.	6,050,000	Dubai
95. (t)	5,950,000	Guadalajara
95. (t)	5,950,000	Surabaya
97.	5,750,000	Detroit
98.	5,700,000	Bamako
99.	5,650,000	Yangon
100.	5,600,000	Rawalpindi/Islamabad

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