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Megacities on a World Map

Can you name the 45 urban agglomerations of the world that have a population of at least 10 million?
According to city population.de, January 2024
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First submittedJuly 24, 2016
Times taken236,307
Average score73.3%
Rating4.98
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Population
Agglomeration
70.1 m
Guangzhou
41.0 m
Tokyo
40.8 m
Shanghai
34.6 m
Delhi
29.2 m
Jakarta
27.2 m
Manila
27.1 m
Mumbai
25.1 m
Mexico City
25.1 m
Seoul
22.5 m
Cairo
22.5 m
Dhaka
22.1 m
São Paulo
22.0 m
New York City
21.2 m
Bangkok
21.2 m
Beijing
Population
Agglomeration
20.9 m
Karachi
20.7 m
Lagos
19.1 m
Moscow
17.7 m
Kolkata
17.7 m
Osaka
17.3 m
Chengdu
17.2 m
Los Angeles
16.7 m
Buenos Aires
16.5 m
Tehran
15.9 m
Istanbul
15.6 m
Kinshasa
14.9 m
London
14.9 m
Xiamen
14.6 m
Johannesburg
14.5 m
Lahore
Population
Agglomeration
14.2 m
Bengaluru
13.9 m
Hangzhou
13.9 m
Ho Chi Minh City
12.8 m
Xi'an
12.6 m
Chennai
12.5 m
Rio de Janeiro
12.2 m
Wuhan
11.8 m
Lima
11.5 m
Paris
11.5 m
Tianjin
11.4 m
Hyderabad
11.0 m
Changsha
10.9 m
Chongqing
10.5 m
Nagoya
10.4 m
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100 Recent Comments
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Feb 16, 2019
The following cities are listed at 9.75 million or greater: Lima, Xiamen, Hyderabad, Chengdu, Bogota, and Chicago.
angrobper14
+1
Level 86
Feb 17, 2019
There's a typo: The first 4 cities are listed with 45.6 m
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 17, 2019
Fixed, thanks
markasol
+2
Level 79
Feb 17, 2019
accept Tientsin similar to how Canton is accepted
LeoSpec
+4
Level 43
Mar 26, 2019
just curious, is lima no longer a megacity? Is bogota one yet?
sykesypicot
+2
Level 17
Mar 26, 2019
Both of those cities do not have an urban population accumulation of 10 million. (YET)
kalbahamut
+12
Level 79
Mar 26, 2019
Megacities are cities that contain one million cities. At least that's what they would be if people knew what mega meant.
EcceHomo
+10
Level 85
Oct 20, 2020
...let's be charitable and say that is a typo. Still, be very careful when you're criticising others.
kalbahamut
+10
Level 79
Mar 23, 2021
Good advice. You might wind up interpreting a joke as uncharitable criticism otherwise.
Snoflakes
+8
Level 73
Mar 3, 2024
Perhaps you should consider that your tone does not get conveyed in a text comment
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 22, 2025
@snoflakes I don't think text is the issue
AnkitMohan
+1
Level 27
Mar 26, 2019
Great quiz!!!
loganite
+10
Level 93
Mar 26, 2019
The island of Honshu never ceases to amaze me. Three mega cities and some 100 + million people on one island.
Findlay
+15
Level 80
Feb 11, 2020
It's pretty incredible. Java is also pretty mind-boggling - despite being about 100,000 sq km smaller than Honshu it packs in over 140,000,000 people, the megacity of Jakarta, and several other large cities like Surabaya, Bandung and Yogyakarta.
BotswanaEmperor
+9
Level 72
Apr 21, 2020
Java literally has more people on in than all of Russia. All of it. Saint Petersburg to Big Diomede. The largest country in the world has a smaller population than the fifth largest island in Indonesia.
JWatson24
+7
Level 71
Aug 14, 2021
I believe Java has an even higher population density than Bangladesh, which is pretty crazy. But even that doesn't hold a candle to the Nile River Delta, which is probably the most densely populated major region on Earth.
Findlay
+8
Level 80
Oct 16, 2021
I believe the Pearl River Delta surpasses the Nile River Delta in population density - roughly 1900 per sq km compared to 1600.
nerny
+1
Level 26
Mar 27, 2019
Most quizzes accept "Daka" along with "Dhaka."
gavtheman
+1
Level 65
Apr 16, 2019
Shouldn’t Lima be added?
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 66
Aug 13, 2019
It was added then removed after dipping just under the 10m mark.
Ryanlee
+1
Level 77
Jun 19, 2019
Beijing 21 mil; Shanghai 24 mil; Guangzhou 14mil and Shenzhen 11 mil. Suzhou 12mil and Nanjing 8.7 mil. Tiajnin 16 mil and Wuhan 10.6 mil. Chengdu 14 mil and Chongqing (urba) 8.9 mil. Shenyang 8.4 mil and Changsha 6.9 mil. Hangzhou 8.7 mil, Wuxi 6.5mil and Xi'an 8.9 mil.
Vicky
+4
Level 55
Feb 10, 2020
You should update for Lima, Xiamen and Hyderabad.

(Citypopulation updated its page!)

Jeremy
+5
Level 78
Feb 10, 2020
IAB to the rescue, less than an hour after the update
Quizzer6794
+2
Level 66
Feb 10, 2020
Updated! Working through all of my city features.
OwlArm
+2
Level 59
Feb 26, 2020
Anywhere I look for the Xiamen population, I'm told it's less than 4M? Am I missing something? I thought Chongqing and Shenzhen were both over 10M...??
TurkeyCookTime
+4
Level 85
Mar 1, 2020
Shenzhen is included in the Guangzhou stats
magicllama
+4
Level 66
Mar 5, 2020
Xiamen's urban area is above 10 million while city proper is about 4
KlmlK
+2
Level 43
Apr 16, 2024
It’s actually Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou / West Coast Strait city cluster, sometimes even includes Fuzhou. The three cities are closely connected, Xiamen is the most famous one.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Mar 18, 2020
man 33/37 only gives you 3 points, I guess you have to get 37 to get 5 and 36 or something to get 4. No way I am gonna get nogoya or tianjin... (other two I missed were karachi and lahore don't think I would ve thought of lahore, but karachi is getable)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Mar 18, 2020
hm looking at the stats, it doesnt all seem above board. Not a natural curve at all. Things smoothly slope up from 0 to 6% for the amount of people that got a certain amount of questions correct, and then suddenly jumps to 22% for the ones with all questions right. (which looks to be atleast 15% more than expected)

Edit not that I mind getting a low score, before people accuse me of complaininng just because I didnt get more points, I dont really care about them, even if I have gotten 1 or 0 I would ve been fine with that, just decided to look at the stats because I like stats and graphs and wanted to see if I could figure out the actual needed number of correct answers. When I saw a really unanticipated curve (the 100% is allways more than it should be, but haven't often seen Súch a discrepancy)

EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Oct 20, 2020
Hey Mr Sifhraven. I'm not so sure - there are plenty of more knowledgeable (nerdy!) people on here than I am, and I got 35/37 without too much trouble. The map is a huge help. I did not get Hyderabad and Tianjin. I may get them next time (and forget some others though.....)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 22, 2025
@Eccehomo, it is not mister ;) And I am not at all surprised at people getting 100% And that is not what is said.

I said when looking at the graphs, when you click "more stats" the curve was really unnatural.

It still is, now the amount of people guessing 1 to 44 answers correct gradually goes up from 0 to 4% and then jumps to 14% for 45.

kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Mar 21, 2020
Breezed through this in a couple of seconds just now. What's so impossible about remembering two cities? You can do it. And there are so many big cities quizzes on this site I think that's why the scores are pretty high on average. I must have typed in Tianjin and Nagoya at least 100 times each coming to this site over the years.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 22, 2025
Never said it was impossible, and never thought that. I think it very achievable actually. one of the easier ones compared to others on this site The gap between between those that get between 1 and 44 answers correct and those that get 45 answers correct is just unusually large.

It seems like neither of you looked at the graph and didn't really read my comment and just assumed it was about "how can so many people get it right" which is far from what my comment was about.

It is more, why aren't there more people getting 44 right.

roadrage
+2
Level 67
Mar 21, 2020
Wikipedia says Xi’an has twice the population of Xiamen. But on the quiz that’s not the case. Xi’an doesn’t even make the cut. Why is that?
tzhg
+4
Level 58
Jun 20, 2020
https://www.jetpunk.com/users/wildkrattsisawesome/blog/the-difference-between-city-proper-metro-area-and-urban-area
KlmlK
+2
Level 43
Apr 16, 2024
Xiamen includes Quanzhou and Zhangzhou as well. Quanzhou city proper on itself has more than 9 million people.
Sheriff25
+1
Level 86
Mar 21, 2020
In almost all other sources, a number of other Chinese cities/metropolitanareas have a population greater than Xiamen.
Eduardoleonl05
+1
Level 25
Aug 12, 2021
Yeah thats what im saying, Shenzen, Nanjing, Chongqing, Wuhan, even Quangzhou are bigger than Xiamen, I've never even heard of it until now lmfao
Splodgylodgyy
+3
Level 65
Jun 9, 2020
Chongqing has a population of 30.48 million, it should be 5th
sacheth9
+6
Level 65
Sep 7, 2020
*sighs*
parkave
+2
Level 56
Dec 23, 2020
Chongqing takes up an area bigger than Austria. It should not be counted.
TheBerryLegend
+1
Level 51
Dec 17, 2020
I got 36/37 and missed the least guessed one Xiamen but i'm happy I missed the least guessed one it means it wasn't just me
furqanahmad
+1
Level 25
Feb 11, 2021
got them all in my first try
Vicky
+3
Level 55
Feb 24, 2021
2021, Chengdu and Ho Chi Minh City add themselves to the list!
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Jul 16, 2023
Chengdu is still missing here. Or maybe it was removed.
deebte
+1
Level 64
May 4, 2021
Just wondering, can you make LA an acceptable type in for Los Angeles? Seems like it should be there but it's not, or is it already used for something else?
AllenY
+3
Level 68
Jul 23, 2021
i don't think that's typically done on the site because two letters would be a bit too easy (both in terms of guessing and in terms of accidentally guessing it when you're going for lahore or lanzhou or lansing or goodness knows what)
SpencerGT
+1
Level 68
Apr 4, 2022
I do have a tendency to accidentally get Los Angeles when I go to type in Lansing.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Jul 16, 2023
I think it's not because of length (BH is accepted for Belo Horizonte), but because of how common LA is like you said (BH is pretty much just in Bhutan).
Eduardoleonl05
+1
Level 25
Aug 12, 2021
If im not wrong, Lahore, Bogota, Chongqing and Chicago are all above the 10 million mark
Lemondance
+1
Level 68
Oct 27, 2021
An update soon would be nice, the source now lists Ho Chi Minh City and Chengdu as 10M+
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Oct 27, 2021
Will be updated in early 2022.
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 66
Feb 23, 2022
Early 2022
QuizzerBros
+2
Level 69
Mar 2, 2022
Updated!
Jonney
+2
Level 60
Apr 14, 2023
still no Chengdu
UAE
+1
Level 22
Nov 20, 2021
Hey.....can u Accept Bangalore for Bengaluru?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 2, 2022
It already is accepted
cathlete
+1
Level 78
Mar 2, 2022
Which cities dropped off and/or were added?
QuizzerBros
+3
Level 69
Mar 2, 2022
Changsha, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Bogota were added. Guangzhou gain a whopping 18 million people, so it must have swallowed a bunch of other nearby cities. Chengdu was removed although that was a mistake in the update and should be present :)
Geografen
+1
Level 70
Apr 2, 2022
What mistake? Is the source wrong?
Iluvbread123
+1
Level 78
Mar 2, 2022
65.1 m, really wondering how cp.de calculated this
LAP3UNC
+12
Level 91
Mar 2, 2022
Where is Chengdu?
QuizzerBros
+4
Level 69
Mar 2, 2022
Chengdu is the capital of the Sichuan province in China.

But in all seriousness you are correct, Chengdu is missing at 15.2m

ghanburighan
+2
Level 84
Mar 18, 2022
Yes - why does Chengdu not feature here?
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 88
Mar 16, 2022
This is crazy. Why did China gain like five cities? Last I checked only like two were actually that close to 10 million. And I don’t know if I want to know about Guangzhou...
MinecraftLegnd69
+1
Level 33
Sep 3, 2024
Guangzhou + Shenzhen + Foshan + Dongguan = Guangzhou on jetpunk
Shadywyvern
+2
Level 84
Mar 29, 2022
Chengdu is missing despite being above 10M just wanted to let you know
Paarseorka
+1
Level 46
Apr 2, 2022
For someone whose age is almost 14 I think 34 is a good score
EvanAviator
+5
Level 61
Apr 2, 2022
"for someone whose age is almost 14" bro tried avoiding saying 13
EvanAviator
+1
Level 61
Mar 3, 2024
Looking back on my reply, I was literally 14 almost 15 when I said that 💀
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
May 16, 2023
Whatever you can achieve is a good score :)
parkave
+1
Level 56
Apr 4, 2022
Given that Chengdu is a "city" the size of Connecticut, I'm fine with it not being on here
ItzIngenious
+4
Level 66
Apr 30, 2022
Instead you get Guangzhou, which is even bigger!
Tramp
+3
Level 79
Mar 3, 2024
You're thinking of Chongqing, but honestly, even the urban area of Chongqing is huge and meets the criteria of a megacity.
Findlay
+4
Level 80
May 16, 2022
As others have said, Chengdu does appear to be missing. Citypopulation.de lists the population in the urban agglomeration as 15,200,000.
WeDoALittleTroll
+3
Level 45
Jun 7, 2022
No Chengdu?
xdremdrake
+1
Level 30
May 4, 2023
I forgot Beijing ._.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
May 16, 2023
Could this be updated to include Harbin? Harbin has reached 10,009,854 people on citypopulation.de.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
May 16, 2023
Also, Chengdu is on the empty map version but not here.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Mar 2, 2024
Never mind on Harbin. The city is only about 5 million.
kuel
+1
Level 64
Jan 1, 2024
I only missed Changsha. Didn't occur how big it was to me. Nice quiz
toripolliisi28
+1
Level 66
Feb 7, 2024
Chengdu.
Azusa03
+1
Level 21
Mar 3, 2024
I believe Shenzhen and Harbin is worth mentioning
Megrez
+1
Level 52
Mar 3, 2024
Got all except those 5 Chinese cities, whose name I will probably never remember no matter how many times I see them.
jsmay311
+1
Level 70
Apr 4, 2024
Accepts "Saigon" but not "Ho Chi Min"? :-\

Pretty harsh on the spelling IMO. Didn't remember the silent "h" at the end.

Wistful
+1
Level 72
Apr 4, 2024
For future reference, HCMC works.
BB55
+1
Level 43
Apr 4, 2024
too much in China and India
gengarca
+1
Level 35
Apr 7, 2024
Got all except xiamen
ktmnyo
+1
Level 34
Jul 29, 2024
Chongqing and Changsha got me:( idk how i always forget abt chongqing despite seeing its panorama on tiktok numerous timesssssss
Hakuchuu
+3
Level 16
Aug 6, 2024
Where is Shenzhen and Dongguan? Also population of Guangzhou should be 18.8M, not 70M. 70M is like more than half of the population of the whole Guangdong province.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 74
Nov 26, 2024
Its 70M because it includes Dongguan, Shenzhen etc
megaloceros
+1
Level 71
Feb 28, 2025
'urban agglomeration' - read caveats
TurkeyCookTime
+2
Level 85
Apr 15, 2025
It's been a while since the city populations have been updated. Shouldn't Zhengzhou and Taipei be here now?
zarodinu
+1
Level 54
Jun 4, 2025
how long until Austin reaches 10 million?
Cellomaster12
+2
Level 38
Jun 18, 2025
Aren’t Guangzhou and Shenzhen in different metro areas?
ooftownroad
+1
Level 68
Sep 24, 2025
Yes, but not an urban agglomeration
Joe1
+1
Level 64
Nov 8, 2025
India has 6 cities on the list, China has 11 (including numbers 1 and 3). China is also more than twice as large in area.

Yet India has a higher population now. Something doesn't add up.

pablogarand
+1
Level 47
Jan 24, 2026
India's population is way more rural than China's. India's urbanization rate is about half (~36%) than China's (~65%).
JetpunkSandwich
+1
Level 46
Dec 11, 2025
I'm not particularly fond of the idea that Guangzhou and Shenzhen are combined. Despite the cities being geographically close, they're still two distinct cities.
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