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200 Biggest World Cities on a Map

How many of the world's 200 biggest cities can you name?
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Source: citypopulation.de - Updated as of April 2026.
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Population
City
73,600,000
Guăngzhōu
42,300,000
Shànghăi
41,300,000
Tōkyō
36,900,000
Delhi
29,800,000
Jakarta
28,100,000
Mumbai
27,100,000
Manila
25,600,000
Mexico City
25,400,000
Seoul
23,700,000
Dhaka
23,200,000
Cairo
22,700,000
São Paulo
22,600,000
New York
22,400,000
Bangkok
21,900,000
Lagos
21,800,000
Bĕijīng
21,800,000
Karāchi
19,100,000
Moscow
18,300,000
Chéngdū
18,100,000
Kolkata
17,700,000
Ōsaka
17,400,000
Los Angeles
17,200,000
Tehrān
17,000,000
Buenos Aires
16,900,000
Kinshasa
16,200,000
İstanbul
15,800,000
Xiàmén
15,400,000
London
15,300,000
Bangalore
15,100,000
Johannesburg
15,000,000
Lāhore
14,700,000
Hángzhōu
14,700,000
Ho Chi Minh City
13,700,000
Xī'ān
13,600,000
Rio de Janeiro
13,300,000
Chennai
13,200,000
Chóngqìng
12,900,000
Wŭhàn
12,200,000
Lima
12,100,000
Hyderābād
11,800,000
Tiānjīn
11,600,000
Chángshā
11,600,000
Paris
10,800,000
Bogotá
10,800,000
Rhein-Ruhr Area
10,500,000
Nagoya
10,500,000
Zhèngzhōu
10,400,000
Luanda
10,200,000
Ahmedabad
10,200,000
Taipei
9,800,000
Chicago
Population
City
9,750,000
Kuala Lumpur
9,750,000
Nánjīng
8,950,000
Shĕnyáng
8,800,000
Washington DC
8,600,000
Santiago
8,400,000
Sūrat
8,300,000
Toronto
8,250,000
Héféi
8,250,000
Pune
8,150,000
Singapore
8,100,000
Dallas
8,100,000
Shàntóu
8,000,000
Baghdād
7,900,000
Riyadh
7,900,000
Qīngdăo
7,850,000
Boston
7,750,000
Níngbō
7,700,000
San Francisco
7,650,000
Philadelphia
7,550,000
Hanoi
7,550,000
Houston
7,500,000
Hong Kong
7,400,000
Khartoum
7,300,000
Abidjan
7,150,000
Nairobi
7,100,000
Wēnzhōu
7,050,000
Accra
7,050,000
Bandung
7,000,000
Madrid
6,950,000
Jìnán
6,950,000
Kūnmíng
6,900,000
Dar es Salaam
6,700,000
Miami
6,650,000
Dubai
6,600,000
Shíjiāzhuāng
6,550,000
Milan
6,350,000
Alexandria
6,350,000
Manchester
6,350,000
Saint Petersburg
6,300,000
Ammān
6,300,000
Monterrey
6,300,000
Tàiyuán
6,250,000
Atlanta
6,000,000
Guadalajara
6,000,000
Surabaya
5,950,000
Bamako
5,850,000
Detroit
5,800,000
Rāwalpindi
5,600,000
Harbin
5,600,000
Nánníng
Population
City
5,550,000
Dàlián
5,550,000
Kano
5,450,000
Kābul
5,450,000
Melbourne
5,350,000
Belo Horizonte
5,350,000
Guìyáng
5,350,000
Kampala
5,300,000
Chángchūn
5,300,000
Sydney
5,250,000
Ankara
5,250,000
Nánchāng
5,200,000
Cape Town
5,150,000
Chittagong
5,150,000
Tampa
5,150,000
Ürümqi
5,050,000
Phoenix
5,000,000
Colombo
4,950,000
Addis Ababa
4,950,000
Barcelona
4,900,000
Yangon
4,875,000
Fúzhōu
4,825,000
Kuwait City
4,725,000
Línyí
4,700,000
Berlin
4,675,000
Montréal
4,650,000
Jaipur
4,625,000
Seattle
4,500,000
Casablanca
4,425,000
Medellín
4,400,000
Algiers
4,375,000
Dakar
4,375,000
Puebla
4,325,000
Lucknow
4,300,000
Medan
4,200,000
Faisalābād
4,100,000
Birmingham
4,100,000
Recife
4,075,000
Napoli
4,075,000
Tashkent
4,050,000
Damascus
4,050,000
Zībó
4,025,000
Orlando
4,000,000
Conakry
4,000,000
Jeddah
3,975,000
Durban
3,950,000
Busan
3,950,000
Denver
3,950,000
Douala
3,950,000
Porto Alegre
3,950,000
Santo Domingo
Population
City
3,900,000
Brasília
3,900,000
Yaoundé
3,875,000
Caracas
3,875,000
Indore
3,825,000
Fortaleza
3,825,000
Luòyáng
3,750,000
Kānpur
3,725,000
Baku
3,650,000
Lánzhōu
3,625,000
Nāgpur
3,575,000
Athens
3,575,000
Brisbane
3,575,000
Gujrānwāla
3,575,000
Nántōng
3,550,000
Ouagadougou
3,525,000
Mashhad
3,500,000
Rotterdam
3,475,000
Bhilai
3,475,000
Iṣfahān
3,475,000
Ibadan
3,475,000
Kyïv
3,450,000
Rome
3,425,000
Guayaquil
3,400,000
Guatemala City
3,400,000
Salvador
3,400,000
Ṣan'ā'
3,375,000
Curitiba
3,375,000
Wéifāng
3,325,000
Vancouver
3,275,000
Jiāngyīn
3,275,000
Minneapolis
3,250,000
Antananarivo
3,250,000
Campinas
3,250,000
San Diego
3,225,000
Frankfurt
3,225,000
Kathmandu
3,225,000
Xúzhōu
3,175,000
Abuja
3,150,000
Coimbatore
3,150,000
Port-au-Prince
3,100,000
Lusaka
3,050,000
Cleveland
3,050,000
P'yŏngyang
3,050,000
Tel Aviv
3,025,000
İzmir
3,025,000
Phnom Penh
3,000,000
Dammam
3,000,000
Cali
3,000,000
Hándān
3,000,000
Patna
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18 Comments
+1
Level 54
Apr 13, 2026
Updated as of April 2026.

Let me know if there are any incorrect spellings or locations.

Have fun!

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Level 84
Aug 23, 2020
Some of the following type-ins should probably be added: Mashhad for Meshed, Tel Aviv for Tel Aviv-Yafo, Daegu for Taegu, Busan for Pusan, Dalian for Dairen. Great quiz though!
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Level 54
Aug 24, 2020
Thanks! Those will now be accepted!
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Level 25
Jan 24, 2021
164! Lowest ones I get were Huizhou, Rawalpindi, Shijiazhuang and Faisalabad
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Level 59
Sep 6, 2021
You should accept Mashhad as well as Mashad. Islamabad as well as Rawalpindi.
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Level 61
Feb 9, 2023
200/200 I almost forgot huizhou and Tangshan. Well I did forget, but then I remembered.
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Level 63
Feb 22, 2023
187/200 although could have had 190, forgot a few Chinese cities.
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Level 65
Apr 26, 2023
Good quiz!

Mashhad still not accepted

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Level 94
Jul 2, 2023
Fantastic quiz, the map gives you just enough encouragement to plough through 39 Chinese cities!
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Level 70
Jan 1, 2024
Foshan? I thought it had about 7 million people.
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Level 33
Aug 6, 2024
For some reason, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Dongguan are merged into the same city.
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Level 81
Feb 7, 2024
there are some typos/ different type-ins, which should be changed/accepted:

Dubai

Isfahan

tashkent

damascus

hangzhou

chengdu

mashhad

naples

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Level 54
Feb 7, 2024
Thanks, these should be fixed.
+1
Level 77
Feb 23, 2024
Please accept just Tel Aviv
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Level 54
Feb 23, 2024
sure
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Level 68
May 13, 2024
Maybe accept Wúxī for Jiāngyīn?
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Level 56
Feb 6, 2025
so that's why i couldn't find that last city. i spammed changzhou and wuxi so many times
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Level 50
Apr 12, 2025
You can fix Washington and turn it in to Washington D.C or type in D.C.