250 Biggest World Cities on a Map

How many of the world's 250 biggest cities can you name?
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
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
Population
City
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
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
Population
City
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
Naples
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
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
Population
City
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
2,975,000
Lubumbashi
2,950,000
Kumasi
2,925,000
Quito
2,900,000
Hamburg
2,900,000
Hohhot
2,875,000
Fukuoka
2,875,000
Hăikŏu
2,875,000
Maracaibo
2,850,000
Chandīgarh
2,850,000
Cincinnati
2,850,000
Taichung
2,825,000
Bhopāl
2,825,000
Brussels
2,800,000
Almaty
2,800,000
Tángshān
2,775,000
Mecca
2,775,000
Toluca
2,775,000
Tūnis
2,750,000
Kaohsiung
2,750,000
Salt Lake City
2,750,000
Yìwū
2,725,000
Charlotte
2,725,000
Daegu
2,725,000
Lomé
2,725,000
Xīnxiāng
2,700,000
Doha
2,700,000
Āgra
2,700,000
Harare
2,700,000
Táizhōu
2,700,000
Zhūhăi
2,650,000
Lisbon
2,650,000
Maputo
2,625,000
Cebu
2,625,000
Yāntái
2,600,000
Amsterdam
2,600,000
Mbuji-Mayi
2,575,000
Liŭzhōu
2,575,000
Yínchuān
2,550,000
Brazzaville
2,550,000
Goiânia
2,550,000
Visākhapatnam
2,525,000
Hyderābād
2,500,000
Budapest
2,500,000
Nāshik
2,500,000
Sapporo
2,500,000
Vadodara
2,475,000
San José
2,475,000
Multān
2,475,000
Perth
2,475,000
Warsaw
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44 Comments
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Level 54
Apr 13, 2026
Finally updated again!

Data is from citypopulation.de's urban agglomerations list, as of April 2026. Take any disagreements up with them. Let me know of any incorrect city spellings or locations.

Have fun!

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Level 65
Aug 11, 2020
I just knew you'd be the creator of this quiz right when I clicked the link in Recent User Created! Great quiz!
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Level 54
Aug 11, 2020
Haha, thanks!
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Level 70
Aug 11, 2020
Nice quiz! Maybe accept Busan for Pusan and just Tel Aviv for Tel Aviv-Yafo?
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Level 54
Aug 11, 2020
Busan is now accepted.
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Level 83
Aug 11, 2020
Busan should be allowed for Pusan
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Level 55
Aug 11, 2020
+1
Level 54
Aug 11, 2020
Yeah!
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Level 55
Aug 11, 2020
Hahaha me too!! Great quiz! Yay! Warsaw and 109!! ;)
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Level 70
Aug 12, 2020
Dalian, Daegu and Mashhad should be accepted
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Level 54
Aug 12, 2020
Those will now be accepted.
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Level 59
May 12, 2021
Mashhad is still not accepted.
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Level 54
May 12, 2021
Whoops! Should be fixed.
+1
Level 81
Feb 7, 2024
Dalian is also still not accepted
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Level 65
Sep 28, 2020
btw you should add 1 more answer :)
+1
Level 54
Feb 7, 2024
Finally got it fixed
+4
Level 59
Aug 10, 2021
Nice! Could you accept Islamabad for Rawalpindi.
+2
Level 56
Oct 20, 2021
You need to make the map bigger, or the city dots smaller.

Rotterdam came up in the answer list but on the map it is completely covered by green dots.

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Level 48
Oct 28, 2021
One can click anywhere on the map to enlarge that particular region of the world.
+1
Level 56
Dec 1, 2021
So how do I know to enlarge that part of the world? Telepathy?

Do I enlarge every part of the map to find a hidden city while the time ticks on?

Or is it up to the quizmaster to present questions in such a way that they're answerable, by making the map a bit bigger, or the dots a bit smaller?

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Level 68
Mar 23, 2022
If you are missing answers, you click on the map for a close-up, e.g. Europe, then you can see that Oh I missed Rotterdam. I would call it logic or common sense or trial and error rather than telepathy.
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Level 89
Sep 7, 2022
I used telepathy and still couldn’t find it :)
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Level 54
Mar 8, 2022
Upper Silesia is not one city. There's multiple, probably over 10 cities around that area that shouldn't be considered as one big city.
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Level 89
Sep 7, 2022
Which is exactly why it’s prefilled in.
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Level 58
Sep 7, 2022
I don't think they are - that's why it's in grey and you can't select it. It's mentioned in the source they're using and is therefore it's included (the same as the Ruhr and Cologne-Dusseldorf really being considered multiple cities).
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Level 68
Mar 23, 2022
Great quiz! I got 163, gutted to get 6 below the average score! I should have got 12 more that I knew, including Munich!
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Level 29
Dec 2, 2022
hi from upper silesia (radzionków)
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Level 56
Feb 13, 2023
can you accept Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte for Colombo? pls
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Level 99
Jun 26, 2023
But they're different cities...
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Level 94
Jul 4, 2023
There are some serious inconsistencies between the data used on your various quizzes. I presume some are city proper and others urban area? For example, there are several Indian cities on here with larger populations than Hyderabad, yet these other cities don’t even appear on the 200 largest cities quiz!
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Level 54
Dec 2, 2023
Sorry about this. I'm rarely active these days, the information may have been found at different times, or may not be outdated.
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Level 57
Dec 30, 2023
It is one of the most accurate ones out here. The Hyderabad you are looking at is pakistani, the Indian Hyderabad is right up there.
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Level 81
Feb 7, 2024
please accept Hangzhou
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Level 54
Feb 7, 2024
fixed
+1
Level 70
Feb 7, 2024
And Chengdu should also been accepted.
+1
Level 54
Feb 7, 2024
also fixed
+1
Level 65
Feb 15, 2024
Really good quiz!!, however one thing thats been bothering me for a while is the spelling of Mashhad. it is spelled either mashhad or mashad so you should accept these answers. never seen it spelt meshed before, it wont even come up on google when spelt this way.
+1
Level 54
Feb 15, 2024
fixed
+1
Level 55
Sep 25, 2024
Three minutes more, and I would have had all the answers. I really don't understand why is everyone so cheap with timing?
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Level 54
Sep 26, 2024
20 minutes is 4.8 seconds per city. That seems quick but given it takes around a second for cupcakes like Paris, NYC, DC, and Tokyo, you'll have much more time for harder ones you may need to think about. Also, this quiz is less of a think about which city is right there and more of a recognize the location and enter it. Thinking is limited except for the harder ones. You are right that it might be quick, but that isn't an issue for most people; they won't be getting all 250 anyways. However, for the sake of kindness, I will add 5 more minutes just for you drazzz.
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Level 60
Apr 15, 2026
"Ahmedabad" should be accepted
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Level 54
Apr 15, 2026
Fixed.
+2
Level 62
Apr 15, 2026
Why is Algeria a different color? Also add more time
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Level 54
Apr 15, 2026
Algeria looks normal to me, and sure, I'll add a few minutes.