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Name the 101 most populous cities in the world according to citypopulation.de's "Major Urban Agglomerations Of The World."
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Rank
Population
Answer
1.
73,600,000
Guangzhou/Shenzhen
2.
42,300,000
Shanghai
3.
41,300,000
Tokyo
4.
36,900,000
Delhi
5.
29,800,000
Jakarta
6.
28,100,000
Mumbai
7.
27,100,000
Manila
8.
25,600,000
Mexico City
9.
25,400,000
Seoul
10.
23,700,000
Dhaka
11.
23,200,000
Cairo
12.
22,700,000
Sao Paulo
13.
22,600,000
New York City
14.
22,400,000
Bangkok
15.
21,900,000
Lagos
16. (t)
21,800,000
Beijing
Karachi
18.
19,100,000
Moscow
19.
18,300,000
Chengdu
20.
18,100,000
Kolkata
21.
17,700,000
Osaka
22.
17,400,000
Los Angeles
23.
17,200,000
Tehran
24.
17,000,000
Buenos Aires
25.
16,900,000
Kinshasa
26.
16,200,000
Istanbul
27.
15,800,000
Xiamen
28.
15,400,000
London
29.
15,300,000
Bangalore
30.
15,100,000
Johannesburg
31.
15,000,000
Lahore
32. (t)
14,700,000
Hangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
34.
13,700,000
Xi'an
35.
13,600,000
Rio de Janeiro
36.
13,300,000
Chennai
37.
13,200,000
Chongqing
38.
12,900,000
Wuhan
39.
12,200,000
Lima
40.
12,100,000
Hyderabad
41.
11,800,000
Tianjin
42. (t)
11,600,000
Changsha
Paris
44. (t)
10,800,000
Bogota
Rhine-Ruhr
46. (t)
10,500,000
Nagoya
Zhengzhou
48.
10,400,000
Luanda
49. (t)
10,200,000
Ahmedabad
Taipei
51.
9,800,000
Chicago
52. (t)
9,750,000
Kuala Lumpur
Nanjing
54.
8,950,000
Shenyang
55.
8,800,000
Washington, D.C.
56.
8,600,000
Santiago
57.
8,400,000
Surat
58.
8,300,000
Toronto
59. (t)
8,250,000
Hefei
Pune
61.
8,150,000
Singapore
62. (t)
8,100,000
Dallas
Shantou
64.
8,000,000
Baghdad
65. (t)
7,900,000
Riyadh
Qingdao
67.
7,850,000
Boston
68.
7,750,000
Ningbo
69.
7,700,000
San Francisco
70.
7,650,000
Philadelphia
71. (t)
7,550,000
Hanoi
Houston
73.
7,500,000
Hong Kong
74.
7,400,000
Khartoum
75.
7,300,000
Abidjan
76.
7,150,000
Nairobi
77.
7,100,000
Wenzhou
78. (t)
7,050,000
Accra
Bandung
80.
7,000,000
Madrid
81. (t)
6,950,000
Jinan
Kunming
83.
6,900,000
Dar es Salaam
84.
6,700,000
Miami
85.
6,650,000
Dubai
86.
6,600,000
Shijiazhuang
87.
6,550,000
Milan
88. (t)
6,350,000
Alexandria
Manchester
St. Petersburg
91. (t)
6,300,000
Amman
Monterrey
Taiyuan
94.
6,250,000
Atlanta
95. (t)
6,000,000
Guadalajara
Surabaya
97.
5,950,000
Bamako
98.
5,850,000
Detroit
99.
5,800,000
Rawalpindi/Islamabad
100. (t)
5,600,000
Harbin
Nanning
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