Every City Bigger Than Its Country's Capital

Name every city that has a population larger than the capital city of its country, according to citypopulation.de, May 2026. For countries with multiple capital cities, the city must be larger than all of them. Seats of government are not the same as capital cities.

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Population	City
73,600,000	Guangzhou
42,300,000	Shanghai
22,600,000	New York
21,494,671	São Paulo
18,868,012	Karachi
17,400,000	Los Angeles
16,200,000	Istanbul
15,100,000	Johannesburg
15,070,000	Lagos
13,004,135	Lahore
12,663,012	Rio de Janeiro
9,800,000	Chicago
8,993,082	Ho Chi MInh City
7,108,874	Toronto
5,616,633	Abidjan
5,383,728	Dar es Salaam
5,328,274	Melbourne
5,219,674	Sydney
5,209,921	Belo Horizonte
5,051,500	Milan
4,910,000	Kano
4,597,837	Montréal
4,584,622	Yangon
3,816,500	Douala
3,691,999	Faisalabad
3,570,099	Dubai
3,357,612	Rawalpindi
3,218,036	Casablanca
3,190,000	Ibadan
3,088,036	Vancouver
2,745,086	Brisbane
2,650,288	Guayaquil
2,511,118	Gujranwala
2,430,757	Perth
2,348,103	Almaty
2,215,381	Multan
1,921,275	Hyderabad
1,905,975	Peshawar
1,836,012	Calgary
1,565,546	Quetta
1,547,200	Auckland
1,498,745	Zurich
1,470,938	Adelaide
1,441,406	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
1,275,428	Tangier
1,249,519	Bujumbura
1,182,963	Fes
1,162,500	Mandalay
1,104,521	Mwanza
1,014,813	Marrakech
945,101	Salé
761,634	Gold Coast
679,012	Cotonou
632,065	Geneva
580,603	Basel
556,012	Meknès
541,634	Newcastle
462,325	Lausanne
65,834	Belize City
6,297	Schaan