50 largest cities in 1950.

Can you name the 50 largest cities in the world (by population) in the year 1950?
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Rank
Population
City
1
12,914,000
New York City
2
12,088,000
London
3
8,400,000
Tokyo
4
7,000,000
Moscow
5
6,650,000
Paris
6
5,800,000
Shanghai
7
5,587,000
Chicago
8
4,618,000
Buenos Aires
9
4,600,000
Calcutta
10
4,425,000
Osaka
11
4,368,000
Los Angeles
12
4,200,000
Leningrad
13
3,900,000
Beijing
14
3,671,000
Philadelphia
15
3,300,000
East Berlin
16
3,125,000
Mexico City
17
3,016,000
Detroit
18
3,000,000
Bombay
19
2,413,000
Rio de Janeiro
20
2,411,000
Boston
21
2,370,000
Cairo
22
2,242,000
Birmingham
23
2,241,000
San Francisco
24
2,228,000
Sao Paulo
25
2,213,000
Pittsburgh
Rank
Population
City
26
2,030,000
Hong Kong
27
1,833,000
Kyoto
28
1,796,000
Vienna
29
1,772,000
Tianjin
30
1,719,000
St. Louis
31
1,687,000
Hamburg
32
1,658,000
Rome
33
1,611,000
Sydney
34
1,595,000
Budapest
35
1,539,000
Montreal
36
1,527,000
Madrid
37
1,500,000
Barcelona
38
1,500,000
Manchester
39
1,500,000
Milan
40
1,475,000
Manila
41
1,466,000
Cleveland
42
1,464,000
Washington DC
43
1,450,000
Santiago
44
1,446,000
Seoul
45
1,445,000
Wuhan
46
1,416,000
Madras
47
1,413,000
Guangzhou
48
1,405,000
Baltimore
49
1,388,000
Liverpool
50
1,360,000
Melbourne
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4 Comments
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Level 76
Apr 23, 2016
Istanbul?
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Level 40
Apr 23, 2016
Apparently Istanbul is actually pretty low.
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Level 88
Apr 24, 2016
"Pittsburgh", not "Pittsburg".
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Level 40
Apr 24, 2016
Fixed.