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1,103 places with up to 58 metrics each. Open any place for its report card.

At a glance

World Cities by the numbers

Total population
1.9B
Most populous
Shanghai24.7M
Least populous
Grise Fiord167
Fastest growing
Kuwait City5.13%
Shrinking fastest
Toluca-4.88%
Most data
Paris42 metrics

1,103 world cities

Sort by any column. The number before each name is its population rank.

1ShanghaiChina24,722,254—+1.93%33
2DelhiIndia23,390,383—+2.42%25
3KinshasaDR Congo21,852,144—+5.13%14
4MumbaiIndia21,782,818—+1.13%31
5BeijingChina21,571,693—+2.06%32
6KarachiPakistan21,243,390—+4.03%25
7ShenzhenChina20,622,629—+2.64%21
8GuangzhouChina18,515,410—+2.23%24
9ChengduChina15,831,571—+2.44%21
10IstanbulTurkey15,791,519—+0.29%29
11BengaluruIndia15,565,994—+4.1%10
12KolkataIndia15,440,671—+0.63%22
13LagosNigeria14,881,845—+2.48%26
14LahorePakistan14,062,745—+2.64%24
15MoscowRussia13,399,945—+0.95%33
16ChennaiIndia13,109,989—+2.81%17
17JakartaIndonesia12,545,537—+1.68%31
18TianjinChina12,361,093—+1.8%21
19JohannesburgSouth Africa12,043,175—+2.88%27
20Sao PauloBrazil12,005,878—+0.85%33
21LimaPeru12,003,443—+1.82%26
22HyderabadIndia11,868,136—+2.95%16
23DhakaBangladesh11,864,975—+3.61%25
24WuhanChina11,746,708—+1.81%19
25DongguanChina11,485,606—+2.74%4
26ChongqingChina10,933,060—+2.1%22
27Xi'anChina10,738,037—+2.13%12
28HangzhouChina10,697,657—+2.33%19
29FoshanChina10,673,812—+2.61%4
30AhmedabadIndia10,588,126—+3.46%8
31Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam10,545,905—+2.3%28
32TokyoJapan10,316,210—+0.97%37
33CairoEgypt10,119,520—+1.07%24
34TehranIran9,882,527—+1.29%20
35SuratIndia9,580,601—+5.03%17
36HanoiVietnam9,406,046—+2.24%20
37SeoulSouth Korea9,217,913—-0.65%33
38LondonUnited Kingdom9,188,200—+0.54%38
39Mexico CityMexico9,020,812—+0.33%33
40NanjingChina8,562,383—+2.07%17
41New YorkNew YorkUnited States8,546,038—-0.4%29
42LuandaAngola8,473,127—+1.71%17
43BaghdadIraq8,001,223—+2.21%18
44BogotaColombia7,945,996—+0.04%38
45PuneIndia7,888,467—+3.01%18
46ShenyangChina7,701,267—+1.48%18
47RiyadhSaudi Arabia7,623,986—+2.43%27
48ZhengzhouChina7,487,991—+2.34%17
49QingdaoChina7,080,465—+2.2%14
50Rio de JaneiroBrazil6,772,868—+0.63%37
51ChangshaChina6,494,068—+2.27%15
52JinanChina6,436,275—+2.08%12
53KunmingChina6,061,121—+2.21%14
54AbidjanIvory Coast6,038,204—+2.68%18
55AnkaraTurkey5,956,929—+0.79%15
56HefeiChina5,930,446—+2.52%15
57ShijiazhuangChina5,869,423—+2.26%12
58Dar es SalaamTanzania5,855,189—+2.12%12
59HarbinChina5,760,502—+1.52%16
60Saint PetersburgRussia5,708,625—+0.99%7
61NairobiKenya5,603,502—+3.52%21
62AlexandriaEgypt5,521,580—+0.98%21
63DalianChina5,521,027—+1.87%14
64XiamenChina5,471,952—+2.67%12
65NanningChina5,320,113—+2.36%12
66BangkokThailand5,186,582—-0.98%26
67BamakoMali5,163,564—+5.13%14
68ChangchunChina5,110,411—+1.84%14
69GhaziabadIndia5,029,611—+5.13%7
70SydneyAustralia4,976,762—+1.13%32
71Cape TownSouth Africa4,974,327—+2.51%20
72KanoNigeria4,929,508—+1.95%15
73KabulAfghanistan4,929,104—+1.7%19
74MelbourneAustralia4,928,443—+1.41%30
75TaiyuanChina4,831,308—+1.85%12
76GuiyangChina4,588,310—+2.1%12
77JaipurIndia4,575,390—+2.75%14
78YangonMyanmar4,556,371—-0.31%19
79IzmirTurkey4,546,894—+0.6%12
80ZhongshanChina4,541,011—+2.63%3
81KumasiGhana4,529,118—+5.13%12
82Al HudaydahYemen4,412,787—+3.31%3
83UrumqiChina4,385,217—+2.11%12
84NingboChina4,320,326—+2.33%12
85KozhikodeIndia4,294,121—+5.13%15
86FuzhouChina4,269,451—+2.18%12
87LucknowIndia4,266,929—+2.6%19
88ShantouChina4,249,275—+1.64%16
89SingaporeSingapore4,247,430—+1.02%41
90Addis AbabaEthiopia4,229,569—+2.31%20
91KochiIndia4,143,068—+4.57%17
92AleppoSyria4,105,521—+3.02%14
93New TaipeiTaiwan4,056,148—+0.11%5
94NanchangChina4,027,247—+2.15%12
95PyongyangNorth Korea4,000,888—+1.15%13
96YokohamaJapan3,962,266—+0.8%16
97FaisalabadPakistan3,959,398—+2.36%17
98ThrissurIndia3,940,307—+5.13%12
99RawalpindiPakistan3,900,989—+5.13%14
100Los AngelesCaliforniaUnited States3,863,148—-0.14%41
101JeddahSaudi Arabia3,812,058—+0.66%9
102CoimbatoreIndia3,779,472—+3.87%13
103DubaiUnited Arab Emirates3,776,252—+5.13%28
104BerlinGermany3,775,697—+1.22%23
105IndoreIndia3,754,331—+3.72%13
106DoualaCameroon3,747,138—+1.8%14
107ChangzhouChina3,711,170—+2.41%12
108YaoundeCameroon3,674,849—+1.94%17
109MalappuramIndia3,596,910—+5.13%12
110ThiruvananthapuramIndia3,556,039—+5.13%13
111MadridSpain3,543,630—+1.05%34
112MashhadIran3,532,584—+1.64%15
113ChittagongBangladesh3,504,932—+2.06%13
114NantongChina3,474,235—+2.39%12
115KannurIndia3,473,967—+5.13%12
116TorontoCanada3,358,275—+2.64%31
117LanzhouChina3,354,151—+1.73%12
118SurabayaIndonesia3,321,922—+1.15%15
119Mbuji-MayiDR Congo3,319,877—+4.68%6
120BursaTurkey3,315,749—+1.18%13
121MogadishuSomalia3,307,421—+5.13%14
122DurbanSouth Africa3,303,046—+1.14%16
123PretoriaSouth Africa3,296,921—+4.26%13
124KanpurIndia3,257,269—+0.73%18
125XuzhouChina3,247,552—+2.11%12
126TashkentUzbekistan3,235,262—+3.93%13
127BusanSouth Korea3,233,150—-0.59%13
128LinyiChina3,211,011—+2.49%12
129Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates3,210,297—+4.03%25
130CasablancaMorocco3,190,406—-0.43%18
131NagpurIndia3,173,278—+1.61%12
132Buenos AiresArgentina3,167,079—+0.57%31
133LubumbashiDR Congo3,165,454—+4.19%7
134OuagadougouBurkina Faso3,149,586—+3.87%12
135AmmanJordan3,140,757—+5.13%18
136AthensGreece3,134,884—-0.07%16
137ZiboChina3,125,463—+2.04%12
138BrasiliaBrazil3,043,900—+1.57%16
139WenzhouChina3,030,849—+2.53%16
140IncheonSouth Korea3,012,841—+0.38%13
141KievUkraine2,995,010—+0.36%2
142Quezon CityPhilippines2,967,838—+0.1%5
143AlgiersAlgeria2,961,324—+1.26%15
144AccraGhana2,951,532—+2.24%20
145GuayaquilEcuador2,900,375—+0.81%18
146TaichungTaiwan2,878,117—+0.31%18
147TangshanChina2,841,172—+1.74%12
148OsakaJapan2,828,297—+0.45%32
149AntalyaTurkey2,816,601—+1.72%13
150GujranwalaPakistan2,793,969—+3.62%13
151BhopalIndia2,773,892—+2.6%13
152BandungIndonesia2,769,370—+0.91%18
153LomeTogo2,766,121—+4.19%13
154MeccaSaudi Arabia2,763,316—+3.74%14
155RomeItaly2,746,472—-0.02%24
156ChicagoIllinoisUnited States2,727,758—-0.08%40
157HaikouChina2,727,405—+2.37%12
158PatnaIndia2,716,691—+1.9%16
159HohhotChina2,715,016—+2.14%12
160KaohsiungTaiwan2,713,913—-0.32%16
161ShaoxingChina2,713,087—+2.39%12
162YantaiChina2,684,197—+2.37%12
163AgraIndia2,676,236—+2.83%13
164MaracaiboVenezuela2,637,705—+2.22%13
165FortalezaBrazil2,609,729—+1.21%15
166Nakhon RatchasimaThailand2,599,753—-0.24%12
167SalvadorBrazil2,593,321—+1.14%15
168ZhuhaiChina2,574,666—+2.44%3
169AntananarivoMadagascar2,567,094—+3.97%14
170Phnom PenhCambodia2,542,893—+2.03%15
171MedellinColombia2,526,795—-0.06%17
172LuoyangChina2,521,653—+1.96%12
173VisakhapatnamIndia2,514,213—+2.53%13
174LiuzhouChina2,508,650—+2.06%12
175VijayawadaIndia2,501,222—+3.57%14
176BrisbaneAustralia2,484,138—+1.61%15
177NashikIndia2,464,374—+3.09%13
178VadodaraIndia2,461,877—+2.03%13
179Belo HorizonteBrazil2,434,975—+0.79%17
180NagoyaJapan2,434,621—+0.72%21
181TaipeiTaiwan2,431,249—-1.2%29
182HoustonTexasUnited States2,419,191—+0.86%21
183MultanPakistan2,409,602—+2.84%14
184HandanChina2,408,684—+2.22%12
185MonroviaLiberia2,396,360—+4.85%13
186LusakaZambia2,393,400—+1.99%12
187YangzhouChina2,389,666—+2.3%12
188BakuAzerbaijan2,389,227—+0.8%15
189KonyaTurkey2,372,305—+0.9%12
190KollamIndia2,351,284—+5.13%12
191DaeguSouth Korea2,345,915—-0.45%15
192ManausBrazil2,341,723—+1.65%15
193MedanIndonesia2,330,213—+0.66%16
194BaotouChina2,323,692—+1.6%12
195BrazzavilleRepublic of the Congo2,323,299—+2.81%13
196AdanaTurkey2,295,419—+0.33%13
197WeifangChina2,287,356—+2.15%12
198RaipurIndia2,284,211—+4.84%14
199KhartoumSudan2,274,979—+2.69%17
200RajkotIndia2,270,259—+3.32%13
201CaliColombia2,269,983—-0.32%18
202GaziantepTurkey2,242,869—+1.12%12
203CaracasVenezuela2,223,474—+0.9%19
204PerthAustralia2,218,366—+1.6%14
205BaodingChina2,214,667—+2.11%12
206SemarangIndonesia2,209,539—+2.36%12
207TijuanaMexico2,207,854—+3.36%18
208ConakryGuinea2,195,947—+2.35%14
209FaridabadIndia2,191,312—+2.96%5
210AlmatyKazakhstan2,185,094—+0.36%14
211BucharestRomania2,117,843—-0.3%20
212Kuala LumpurMalaysia2,111,536—+1.06%28
213IbadanNigeria2,098,855—+2.26%12
214GanzhouChina2,086,733—+2.53%12
215KigaliRwanda2,075,215—+4.42%13
216SapporoJapan2,066,420—+0.77%15
217ParisFrance2,059,821—-0.7%42
218AbujaNigeria2,057,985—+5%13
219BatamIndonesia2,043,042—+5.13%12
220TiruppurIndia2,039,037—+5.13%12
221MakassarIndonesia2,022,830—+2.65%14
222HyderabadPakistan2,022,586—+1.73%16
223LudhianaIndia2,016,311—+1.47%16
224MersinTurkey2,002,110—+1.22%12
225MinskBelarus1,991,934—-0.24%13
226DatongChina1,987,839—+1.52%12
227MaduraiIndia1,970,639—+1.99%12
228DavaoPhilippines1,952,063—+1.64%6
229MontrealCanada1,943,903—+1.49%20
230YinchuanChina1,928,110—+2.35%12
231ViennaAustria1,925,213—-0.02%29
232MeerutIndia1,922,030—+2.03%16
233XiangyangChina1,920,516—+2.07%12
234HamburgGermany1,917,879—+1.47%26
235GurgaonIndia1,909,771—+5.13%4
236ManilaPhilippines1,909,418—+0.64%30
237KanangaDR Congo1,897,178—+4.5%6
238PalembangIndonesia1,891,525—+1.72%13
239XiningChina1,881,962—+1.85%12
240PeshawarPakistan1,874,831—-0.55%16
241QuitoEcuador1,865,632—+0.2%20
242WarsawPoland1,863,578—+0.04%18
243DiyarbakirTurkey1,863,340—+0.81%12
244KampalaUganda1,862,258—+1.78%17
245VaranasiIndia1,858,451—+1.75%14
246CuritibaBrazil1,852,299—+1.17%16
247JiningChina1,850,655—+1.37%12
248TainanTaiwan1,849,281—-0.25%15
249Johor BahruMalaysia1,846,586—+1.29%12
250AurangabadIndia1,844,391—+2.95%13
251WuhuChina1,834,285—+2.19%12
252SrinagarIndia1,829,225—+2.49%14
253LeonMexico1,827,805—+2.46%16
254PutianChina1,821,529—+2.65%12
255QuettaPakistan1,818,905—+5.13%12
256ShirazIran1,798,531—+1.4%12
257ValenciaVenezuela1,791,449—+1.76%13
258MianyangChina1,790,980—+2.3%12
259JamshedpurIndia1,788,266—+1.95%13
260FukuokaJapan1,777,644—+1.64%18
261DaqingChina1,776,920—+1.65%12
262Benin CityNigeria1,770,251—+2.47%12
263DenpasarIndonesia1,755,037—+5.13%12
264BarcelonaSpain1,748,128—+0.95%28
265YiwuChina1,746,582—+2.6%6
266QinhuangdaoChina1,744,875—+2.19%12
267JodhpurIndia1,730,911—+2.83%12
268QuanzhouChina1,725,800—+2.54%12
269XingtaiChina1,712,952—+2.31%12
270ZhuzhouChina1,711,295—+2%12
271CixiChina1,705,623—+2.48%6
272KotaIndia1,703,199—+3.6%13
273N'DjamenaChad1,697,201—+2.65%12
274TabrizIran1,694,340—+0.84%12
275BudapestHungary1,685,165—-0%19
276UlaanbaatarMongolia1,682,636—+2.79%16
277BelgradeSerbia1,681,182—-0.05%16
278CalgaryCanada1,678,073—+4.04%14
279PhoenixArizonaUnited States1,677,947—+0.67%24
280Bac NinhVietnam1,676,677—+2.94%3
281RanchiIndia1,655,837—+2.64%12
282BeirutLebanon1,650,000—0%16
283Santa Cruz de la SierraBolivia1,647,330—+1.12%7
284NovosibirskRussia1,640,688—+0.21%13
285NouakchottMauritania1,637,012—+4.2%13
286Port-au-PrinceHaiti1,633,591—+3.73%16
287NanyangChina1,632,090—+2.35%12
288Chiang MaiThailand1,630,451—-0.01%16
289KobeJapan1,628,857—+1.1%12
290JuarezMexico1,621,517—+1.29%4
291Chon BuriThailand1,619,225—+0.74%12
292PueblaMexico1,611,012—+0.73%13
293BasraIraq1,609,715—+2.31%12
294MosulIraq1,598,730—+2.03%14
295RecifeBrazil1,598,694—+0.65%15
296GwaliorIndia1,586,309—+2.45%15
297JilinChina1,585,983—+0.81%12
298KisanganiDR Congo1,583,825—+3.9%6
299HavanaCuba1,583,433—-4.88%12
300ZhanjiangChina1,577,776—+1.91%13
301JabalpurIndia1,576,233—+1.46%12
302San AntonioTexasUnited States1,572,360—+1.5%12
303PhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUnited States1,567,280—-0.35%27
304AsansolIndia1,563,390—+1.54%14
305YekaterinburgRussia1,560,285—+0.78%14
306CordobaArgentina1,558,828—+1%13
307AstanaKazakhstan1,557,758—+4.77%14
308YanchengChina1,556,374—+2.22%12
309WeihaiChina1,554,203—+2.36%12
310TaizhouChina1,550,745—+2.22%12
311KarajIran1,549,130—-0.28%3
312GuilinChina1,538,844—+1.96%12
313AucklandNew Zealand1,536,416—+0.99%15
314KyotoJapan1,534,703—+0.79%17
315MedinaSaudi Arabia1,533,929—+2.1%13
316MunichGermany1,531,842—+0.89%23
317AnshanChina1,531,601—+0.56%12
318SamarindaIndonesia1,526,407—+5.13%12
319NiameyNiger1,523,856—+3.22%13
320GoianiaBrazil1,523,855—+1.37%12
321AllahabadIndia1,521,127—+1.52%14
322AmritsarIndia1,515,021—+1.66%15
323TripoliLibya1,506,832—+1.76%13
324QomIran1,502,321—+2.26%12
325HarareZimbabwe1,494,371—+0.04%16
326BareillyIndia1,490,250—+2.79%12
327ZhangjiakouChina1,479,923—+1.61%12
328MombasaKenya1,478,607—+2.93%13
329HezeChina1,475,478—+2.1%13
330KayseriTurkey1,470,263—+0.61%12
331ChandigarhIndia1,468,323—+2.42%13
332DamascusSyria1,461,290—+0.15%14
333JieyangChina1,452,295—+2.46%12
334YichangChina1,452,027—+1.96%12
335SanaaYemen1,451,676—+2.1%2
336AligarhIndia1,448,230—+3.14%12
337HiroshimaJapan1,447,743—+3.17%12
338MoradabadIndia1,445,424—+3.3%12
339PragueCzechia1,438,705—+2.92%16
340NanchongChina1,433,721—+2.13%12
341DaejeonSouth Korea1,430,621—-0.66%5
342XinxiangChina1,427,659—+1.86%12
343DhanbadIndia1,423,304—+1.17%13
344BukavuDR Congo1,417,332—+5.13%6
345QingyuanChina1,416,880—+2.65%12
346Thai NguyenVietnam1,415,283—+1.37%3
347San DiegoCaliforniaUnited States1,410,522—+0.33%20
348Porto AlegreBrazil1,397,153—+0.6%16
349SamsunTurkey1,395,789—+0.48%12
350RosarioArgentina1,389,856—+0.96%12
351JiaxingChina1,383,109—+2.4%12
352FuyangChina1,383,005—+2.36%12
353BhubaneswarIndia1,381,168—+3.01%12
354MilanItaly1,370,242—+0.3%29
355MysoreIndia1,367,944—+2.17%12
356HuainanChina1,361,846—+1.32%12
357SaharanpurIndia1,358,665—+4.47%12
358AdenYemen1,351,170—+3.84%12
359NoidaIndia1,349,105—+5.13%5
360AhvazIran1,344,918—+1.28%12
361LilongweMalawi1,344,144—+3.91%12
362KazanRussia1,341,141—+0.85%12
363DallasTexasUnited States1,336,440—+0.42%26
364AnyangChina1,336,053—+1.88%12
365KaifengChina1,332,913—+1.77%12
366DublinIreland1,327,053—+1.24%23
367TbilisiGeorgia1,326,701—+1.59%10
368HengyangChina1,325,705—+1.8%12
369GuadalajaraMexico1,323,777—-0.76%15
370ShymkentKazakhstan1,322,619—+3.52%3
371MwanzaTanzania1,320,718—+4.57%12
372TiruchirappalliIndia1,311,095—+1.67%12
373PadangIndonesia1,301,164—+3.09%12
374AdelaideAustralia1,299,185—+0.84%15
375LuzhouChina1,286,949—+2.1%12
376MontevideoUruguay1,285,414—-0.45%14
377EdmontonCanada1,284,480—+3.73%14
378SuqianChina1,280,787—+2.66%12
379ZhenjiangChina1,278,222—+2.05%12
380YueyangChina1,277,946—+2.03%12
381BarranquillaColombia1,275,854—-0.27%12
382DushanbeTajikistan1,274,774—+1.28%13
383BrusselsBelgium1,264,392—+0.68%27
384ChangdeChina1,254,536—+2.09%12
385HuzhouChina1,251,744—+2.29%12
386KadunaNigeria1,249,777—+2.47%12
387BaojiChina1,248,457—+1.92%12
388BarquisimetoVenezuela1,243,395—+1.91%12
389ChifengChina1,240,315—+2.02%12
390SalemIndia1,237,581—+2.02%12
391TasikmalayaIndonesia1,232,273—+4.84%12
392SuwonSouth Korea1,229,432—+0.26%3
393GuwahatiIndia1,226,141—+1.63%14
394SendaiJapan1,222,410—+1.83%12
395LianyungangChina1,221,093—+2.09%12
396OttawaCanada1,218,903—+2.59%16
397KrasnoyarskRussia1,218,072—+0.52%14
398FushunChina1,215,614—-0.18%12
399NyalaSudan1,212,545—+5.13%12
400JinhuaChina1,211,434—+2.4%12

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