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The World's 50 Largest Cities by Letter - A

Can you guess the 50 biggest urban areas that start with the letter A?
See comments for further sources and methodology
In 2018, Allahabad was renamed to Prayagraj
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Last updated: July 15, 2024
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First submittedAugust 19, 2017
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Population
Country
Urban Area
1
7,967,535
India
Ahmedabad
2
7,165,715
Egypt
Alexandria
3
6,599,805
Jordan
Amman
4
6,321,017
Côte d'Ivoire
Abidjan
5
6,098,561
United States
Atlanta
6
6,018,348
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
7
5,623,845
Ghana
Accra
8
5,268,737
Turkey
Ankara
9
5,009,842
Algeria
Algiers
10
3,618,860
Greece
Athens
11
3,559,860
India
Asansol
12
3,244,330
Madagascar
Antananarivo
13
2,889,032
India
Agra
14
2,774,180
Nigeria
Abuja
15
2,761,563
Syria
Aleppo
16
2,424,600
Kazakhstan
Almaty
17
2,339,567
United States
Austin
18
2,320,815
Philippines
Angeles
19
2,143,362
China
Anyang
20
2,080,000
Paraguay
Asunción
21
2,017,935
Netherlands
Amsterdam
22
1,906,672
China
Anshan
23
1,860,869
Belgium
Antwerp
24
1,832,546
India
Aurangabad
25
1,799,921
India
Aligarh
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Population
Country
Urban Area
26
1,779,463
Turkey
Adana
27
1,731,774
New Zealand
Auckland
28
1,687,650
Iran
Ahvaz
29
1,441,726
India
Amritsar
30
1,426,803
Australia
Adelaide
31
1,406,171
Kazakhstan
Astana
32
1,385,471
Turkey
Antalya
33
1,292,138
Nigeria
Aba
34
1,249,557
Morocco
Agadir
35
1,202,756
U. A. E.
Abu Dhabi
36
1,179,485
Turkmenistan
Ashgabat
37
1,151,618
India
Alappuzha
38
1,140,916
Mexico
Aguascalientes
39
1,125,400
Peru
Arequipa
40
1,079,593
United States
Allentown
41
1,050,885
Uzbekistan
Andijan
42
1,026,717
Brazil
Aracaju
43
1,005,892
Yemen
Aden
44
1,001,262
U. A. E.
Al-Ain
45
983,205
Netherlands
Arnhem - Nijmegen
46
981,666
United States
Albuquerque
47
896,000
Eritrea
Asmara
48
861,288
India
Agartala
49
860,247
China
Ankang
50
852,622
Mexico
Acapulco
7 Comments
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Level 70
Jul 12, 2024
Methodology and Sources:

I created a database, listing all urban areas with at least 100,000 inhabitants (roughly 6,200 cities) in order to avoid obscure suburbs. However, international urban areas (e.g. Juárez - El Paso) have NOT been grouped together.

The main sources are the OECD's Regions and Cities Atlas as well as CityPopulation.de, usually choosing whoever lists the higher population figure. Untrustworthy figures (e.g. OECD listing Comilla, Bangladesh as having 8 million inhabitants) have been discarded. For CityPopulation, only country-specific sites have been used (and thus not the agglomerations page).

Note China: As China uses a complicated city-county system, only OECD data has been taken into account.

For Libya and the D.R. Congo, Wikipedia has been used.

Enjoy!

+2
Level 96
Aug 19, 2017
A really interesting list and a tough quiz.

It's strange not to find Atlanta on this list since its metro area (5.7 million) is the ninth largest in the US, but the population of the city proper is 472k.

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Level 70
Dec 15, 2020
It now is! Amazing to see the difference between Atlanta proper and Atlanta metro.
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Level 85
Jan 17, 2021
Maybe something went wrong in the process, but in the other quizzes the dots vary in size while they're all the same in this one.
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Level 70
Jan 17, 2021
D'oh! I simply forgot to adjust dot sizes to population. It'll eventually be fixed.
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Level 72
May 16, 2023
Nur Sultan is back to Astana, so maybe add it?
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Level 56
May 14, 2024
As of 2018, Allahabad changed it's name to Prayagraj, so it should no longer be in this quiz. Great series though :P