UN WUP 2025
Largest cities in the world
Ranked by 2025 population. A city here is one contiguous urban area as the UN measures it — Tokyo is the whole built-up area, not the 23 wards. Every city page: population from 1975 to 2050, density, local time, live weather, airports and metro.
- cities counted by the UN
- 12,138
- megacities (10M+)
- 33
- cities of 1M+
- 511
- live in the top 100
- 1,041.3 million
Tbilisi ranks #571 among the world's cities, with 907,000 people. Tbilisi on Sivrce
The 100 largest cities, 2025
| # | City | Country | 2025 | 2050 (projected) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakarta | Indonesia | 41.9 million | 51.8 million | +23.5% |
| 2 | Dhaka | Bangladesh | 36.6 million | 52.1 million | +42.5% |
| 3 | Tokyo | Japan | 33.4 million | 30.7 million | −8.2% |
| 4 | New Delhi | India | 30.2 million | 33.9 million | +12.1% |
| 5 | Shanghai | China | 29.6 million | 34.9 million | +18.1% |
| 6 | Guangzhou | China | 27.6 million | 29.2 million | +6.1% |
| 7 | Cairo | Egypt | 25.6 million | 32.4 million | +26.6% |
| 8 | Manila | Philippines | 24.7 million | 27.1 million | +9.6% |
| 9 | Kolkata | India | 22.6 million | 23.8 million | +5.4% |
| 10 | Seoul | South Korea | 22.5 million | 21.2 million | −5.6% |
| 11 | Karachi | Pakistan | 21.4 million | 32.6 million | +52.1% |
| 12 | Mumbai | India | 20.2 million | 23.1 million | +14.1% |
| 13 | São Paulo | Brazil | 19 million | 18.2 million | −3.9% |
| 14 | Bangkok | Thailand | 18.2 million | 20.5 million | +12.6% |
| 15 | Mexico City | Mexico | 17.7 million | 17.7 million | −0.3% |
| 16 | Beijing | China | 17 million | 18 million | +5.8% |
| 17 | Lahore | Pakistan | 15.2 million | 20.4 million | +34.5% |
| 18 | Istanbul | Turkey | 15 million | 16.3 million | +8.6% |
| 19 | Moscow | Russia | 14.5 million | 15.5 million | +6.9% |
| 20 | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | 14.1 million | 17.2 million | +22.4% |
| 21 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 14 million | 14.2 million | +1.6% |
| 22 | New York City | United States | 13.9 million | 13.2 million | −5% |
| 23 | Shenzhen | China | 13.9 million | 14.7 million | +5.6% |
| 24 | Bengaluru | India | 13.2 million | 14.3 million | +8.1% |
| 25 | Osaka | Japan | 13 million | 10.4 million | −19.4% |
| 26 | Lagos | Nigeria | 12.8 million | 16.2 million | +26.5% |
| 27 | Los Angeles | United States | 12.7 million | 13.9 million | +8.8% |
| 28 | Luanda | Angola | 11.4 million | 20.3 million | +78.4% |
| 29 | Chennai | India | 11.2 million | 11.8 million | +5.4% |
| 30 | Kinshasa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 10.9 million | 13.2 million | +20.7% |
| 31 | Bogotá | Colombia | 10.6 million | 12.5 million | +17.5% |
| 32 | Lima | Peru | 10.6 million | 12.4 million | +16.8% |
| 33 | London | United Kingdom | 10.4 million | 11.9 million | +13.9% |
| 34 | Hajipur | India | 9.9 million | 13.7 million | +37.7% |
| 35 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 9.5 million | 9.3 million | −2.1% |
| 36 | Paris | France | 9.4 million | 9.3 million | −0.6% |
| 37 | Hyderabad | India | 9.2 million | 9.5 million | +3.9% |
| 38 | Tehran | Iran | 9.2 million | 9.5 million | +3.5% |
| 39 | Taipei | Taiwan | 9.1 million | 8.2 million | −10.5% |
| 40 | Bandung | Indonesia | 8.9 million | 9.7 million | +9.4% |
| 41 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 8.4 million | 10.6 million | +25.9% |
| 42 | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | 7.8 million | 13.2 million | +68.8% |
| 43 | Suzhou | China | 7.7 million | 7.6 million | −1.2% |
| 44 | Ahmedabad | India | 7.6 million | 8.2 million | +7.9% |
| 45 | Hangzhou | China | 7.5 million | 9.6 million | +28.3% |
| 46 | Wuhan | China | 7.4 million | 6.2 million | −16.4% |
| 47 | Tianjin | China | 7.3 million | 7.6 million | +4.9% |
| 48 | Alexandria | Egypt | 7.3 million | 9 million | +24.2% |
| 49 | Nagoya | Japan | 7.1 million | 6.3 million | −11.9% |
| 50 | Johannesburg | South Africa | 7.1 million | 8.9 million | +26% |
| 51 | Chongqing | China | 7.1 million | 6.1 million | −14% |
| 52 | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 6.9 million | 9.2 million | +32.3% |
| 53 | Surat | India | 6.9 million | 8 million | +16.5% |
| 54 | Surabaya | Indonesia | 6.8 million | 6.3 million | −7.3% |
| 55 | Pune | India | 6.8 million | 7.7 million | +13.6% |
| 56 | Khartoum | Sudan | 6.8 million | 9.4 million | +38.7% |
| 57 | Nanjing | China | 6.8 million | 6.3 million | −7.1% |
| 58 | Santiago | Chile | 6.7 million | 6.9 million | +3% |
| 59 | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | 6.7 million | 10.8 million | +60.8% |
| 60 | Abidjan | Cote d'Ivoire | 6.6 million | 9.8 million | +47.6% |
| 61 | Chaozhou | China | 6.4 million | 6.8 million | +6.7% |
| 62 | Amman | Jordan | 6.4 million | 8.4 million | +31.1% |
| 63 | Baghdad | Iraq | 6.4 million | 7.5 million | +16.8% |
| 64 | Chengdu | China | 6.1 million | 5.2 million | −15% |
| 65 | Nairobi | Kenya | 6.1 million | 8.5 million | +38.8% |
| 66 | Kozhikode | India | 6.1 million | 7.1 million | +16% |
| 67 | Shenyang | China | 5.7 million | 5.1 million | −11.4% |
| 68 | Kabul | Afghanistan | 5.6 million | 8 million | +42% |
| 69 | Onitsha | Nigeria | 5.6 million | 8.7 million | +54.2% |
| 70 | Yangon | Myanmar | 5.6 million | 6.1 million | +7.7% |
| 71 | Accra | Ghana | 5.6 million | 7.2 million | +29.3% |
| 72 | Madrid | Spain | 5.6 million | 5.6 million | +0.1% |
| 73 | Faisalabad | Pakistan | 5.6 million | 7.3 million | +31.4% |
| 74 | Toronto | Canada | 5.5 million | 6.2 million | +12.3% |
| 75 | Mashhad | Iran | 5.4 million | 5.7 million | +5% |
| 76 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 5.3 million | 6.9 million | +29.7% |
| 77 | Xi'an | China | 5.2 million | 4.7 million | −9.3% |
| 78 | Colombo | Sri Lanka | 5.2 million | 5.8 million | +11.3% |
| 79 | Yaoundé | Cameroon | 5.1 million | 8.7 million | +69.6% |
| 80 | Kochi | India | 5.1 million | 5.8 million | +15.1% |
| 81 | Hanoi | Vietnam | 5.1 million | 4.8 million | −5.5% |
| 82 | Lucknow | India | 5.1 million | 5.7 million | +12.6% |
| 83 | Chattogram | Bangladesh | 5 million | 5.9 million | +19.1% |
| 84 | Singapore | Singapore | 5 million | 5.1 million | +3.3% |
| 85 | Kampala | Uganda | 4.9 million | 7.9 million | +61.7% |
| 86 | Zhengzhou | China | 4.9 million | 4.4 million | −9% |
| 87 | Hefei | China | 4.9 million | 4.5 million | −7.8% |
| 88 | Islāmābād | Pakistan | 4.9 million | 6.7 million | +37.4% |
| 89 | Kano | Nigeria | 4.8 million | 6.4 million | +31.4% |
| 90 | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 4.8 million | 3.9 million | −17.3% |
| 91 | Saint Petersburg | Russia | 4.7 million | 4.7 million | −1% |
| 92 | Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 4.6 million | 5.3 million | +14.4% |
| 93 | Cape Town | South Africa | 4.5 million | 6.1 million | +35.9% |
| 94 | Casablanca | Morocco | 4.5 million | 5 million | +11.9% |
| 95 | Mogadishu | Somalia | 4.4 million | 7.2 million | +63.6% |
| 96 | Harbin | China | 4.4 million | 4.1 million | −5.4% |
| 97 | Kanpur | India | 4.3 million | 4.6 million | +7.1% |
| 98 | Kumasi | Ghana | 4.3 million | 5.4 million | +26.8% |
| 99 | Damascus | Syria | 4.3 million | 6.3 million | +47.8% |
| 100 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 4.3 million | 5.8 million | +35% |
Cities by country
- China 351 cities
- India 314 cities
- Indonesia 65 cities
- United States 62 cities
- Pakistan 58 cities
- Brazil 60 cities
- Nigeria 69 cities
- Japan 28 cities
- Bangladesh 39 cities
- Egypt 49 cities
- Mexico 43 cities
- Russia 46 cities
- Turkey 30 cities
- Philippines 17 cities
- Iran 33 cities
- South Korea 11 cities
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 28 cities
- Vietnam 16 cities
- United Kingdom 23 cities
- Colombia 18 cities
- Iraq 21 cities
- Argentina 14 cities
- South Africa 13 cities
- Angola 15 cities
- Thailand 5 cities
- Germany 19 cities
- Saudi Arabia 10 cities
- Malaysia 15 cities
- Taiwan 8 cities
- Spain 14 cities
- Peru 11 cities
- Canada 14 cities
- France 12 cities
- Sudan 14 cities
- Morocco 11 cities
- Tanzania 8 cities
- Italy 11 cities
- Cameroon 8 cities
- Ethiopia 13 cities
- Ghana 4 cities
- Australia 6 cities
- Venezuela 13 cities
- Chile 7 cities
- Yemen 9 cities
- Ukraine 12 cities
- Kenya 6 cities
- Syria 5 cities
- Uzbekistan 9 cities
- Afghanistan 5 cities
- Algeria 11 cities
- Cote d'Ivoire 4 cities
- Somalia 7 cities
- Myanmar 3 cities
- United Arab Emirates 4 cities
- Hong Kong 4 cities
- Ecuador 4 cities
- Senegal 5 cities
- Sri Lanka 3 cities
- Poland 10 cities
- Mozambique 6 cities
- North Korea 8 cities
- Bolivia 4 cities
- Kazakhstan 6 cities
- Uganda 3 cities
- Zambia 4 cities
- Israel 3 cities
- Belarus 6 cities
- Benin 3 cities
- Netherlands 4 cities
- Tunisia 3 cities
- Niger 5 cities
- Palestine 5 cities
- Haiti 4 cities
- Azerbaijan 3 cities
- Romania 3 cities
- Belgium 3 cities
- Sweden 3 cities
- Cuba 3 cities
- South Sudan 4 cities
- Switzerland 3 cities
FAQ
What is the largest city in the world?
Jakarta, Indonesia, with 41.9 million people in 2025 according to the UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025.
How many megacities are there?
33 cities have 10 million people or more in 2025.
Which city will be the largest in 2050?
Dhaka, with about 52.1 million people, according to the UN projection.
How does the UN define a city?
A city is a contiguous area with at least 1,500 people per km² and at least 50,000 people in total, measured on a 1 km² grid from satellite data — one method for every country.