The World - Top 100+ Urban Areas by Population
Population data courtesy of the United Nations Statistics Division and is by urban area as defined by each member country (for specific city data, see our ranking by city). Data is as of 2010 estimates.
| Rank | Urban Area | Country | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 640. | Yaroslavl' | Russia | 600,000 | |
| 641. | Ul'yanovsk | Russia | 600,000 | |
| 695. | Khabarovsk | Russia | 550,000 | |
| 697. | Makhachkala | Russia | 550,000 | |
| 773. | Astrakhan' | Russia | 500,000 | |
| 776. | Lipetsk | Russia | 500,000 | |
| 777. | Naberezhnyye Chelny | Russia | 500,000 | |
| 778. | Novokuznetsk | Russia | 500,000 | |
| 780. | Ryazan' | Russia | 500,000 | |
| 782. | Tyumen | Russia | 500,000 | |
| 442. | Kigali | Rwanda | 940,000 | |
| 64. | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 4,850,000 | |
| 109. | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | 3,230,000 | |
| 277. | Mecca | Saudi Arabia | 1,480,000 | |
| 368. | Medina | Saudi Arabia | 1,100,000 | |
| 465. | Ad Dammam | Saudi Arabia | 900,000 | |
| 783. | Ta'if | Saudi Arabia | 500,000 | |
| 124. | Dakar | Senegal | 2,860,000 | |
| 720. | Touba | Senegal | 525,000 | |
| 372. | Belgrade | Serbia | 1,100,000 | |
| 464. | Freetown | Sierra Leone | 900,000 | |
| 59. | Singapore | Singapore | 5,075,000 | |
| 270. | Mogadishu | Somalia | 1,500,000 | |
| 36. | Johannesburg-East Rand | South Africa | 7,275,000 | |
| 98. | Cape Town | South Africa | 3,400,000 | |
| 122. | Durban | South Africa | 2,880,000 | |
| 156. | Pretoria | South Africa | 2,345,000 | |
| 350. | Vereeniging | South Africa | 1,140,000 | |
| 379. | Port Elizabeth | South Africa | 1,070,000 | |
| 610. | East London | South Africa | 650,000 | |
| 2. | Seoul-Incheon | South Korea | 22,500,000 | |
| 376. | Ulsan | South Korea | 1,080,000 | |
| 99. | Pusan | South Korea | 3,400,000 | |
| 149. | Taegu | South Korea | 2,440,000 | |
| 273. | Daejeon | South Korea | 1,500,000 | |
| 281. | Kwangju | South Korea | 1,470,000 | |
| 422. | Changwon | South Korea | 1,000,000 | |
| 623. | Chungju | South Korea | 625,000 | |
| 642. | Jeonju | South Korea | 600,000 | |
| 784. | Cheonan | South Korea | 500,000 | |
| 785. | Hoko | South Korea | 500,000 | |
| 63. | Madrid | Spain | 4,900,000 | |
| 83. | Barcelona | Spain | 3,900,000 | |
| 519. | Valencia | Spain | 810,000 | |
| 559. | Bilbao | Spain | 750,000 | |
| 560. | Seville | Spain | 750,000 | |
| 582. | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | Spain | 700,000 | |
| 643. | Málaga | Spain | 600,000 | |
| 786. | Palma de Mallorca | Spain | 500,000 | |
| 787. | Zaragoza | Spain | 500,000 | |
| 198. | Colombo | Sri Lanka | 2,000,000 | |
| 55. | Khartoum | Sudan | 5,170,000 | |
| 326. | Stockholm | Sweden | 1,250,000 | |
| 735. | Göteborg | Sweden | 510,000 | |
| 564. | Zürich | Switzerland | 735,000 | |
| 729. | Genève | Switzerland | 515,000 | |
| 115. | Aleppo | Syria | 3,090,000 | |
| 143. | Damascus | Syria | 2,600,000 | |
| 682. | Home | Syria | 550,000 | |
| 32. | Taipei | Taiwan | 8,300,000 | |
| 146. | Taichung | Taiwan | 2,500,000 | |
| 147. | Kaohsiung | Taiwan | 2,500,000 | |
| 365. | Tainan | Taiwan | 1,100,000 | |
| 553. | Tainan | Taiwan | 750,000 | |
| 611. | Hsinchu | Taiwan | 650,000 | |
| 700. | Dushanbe | Tajikistan | 550,000 | |
| 103. | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | 3,350,000 | |
| 41. | Bangkok | Thailand | 6,980,000 | |
| 413. | Pattaya | Thailand | 1,000,000 | |
| 788. | Banjul | The Gambia | 500,000 | |
| 242. | Lomé | Togo | 1,670,000 | |
| 721. | Port of Spain | Trinidad and Tobago | 525,000 | |
| 187. | Tunis | Tunisia | 2,100,000 | |
| 20. | Istanbul | Turkey | 12,739,000 | |
| 81. | Ankara | Turkey | 3,910,000 | |
| 135. | Izmir | Turkey | 2,720,000 | |
| 259. | Bursa | Turkey | 1,590,000 | |
| 302. | Adana | Turkey | 1,360,000 | |
| 362. | Gaziantep | Turkey | 1,110,000 | |
| 425. | Konya | Turkey | 980,000 | |
| 501. | Antalya | Turkey | 840,000 | |
| 592. | Kayseri | Turkey | 675,000 | |
| 644. | Mersin | Turkey | 600,000 | |
| 664. | Diyarbakir | Turkey | 575,000 | |
| 669. | Eskisehir | Turkey | 570,000 | |
| 645. | Ashgabat | Turkmenistan | 600,000 | |
| 255. | Kampala | Uganda | 1,600,000 | |
| 130. | Kiev | Ukraine | 2,810,000 | |
| 287. | Kharkiv | Ukraine | 1,450,000 | |
| 371. | Dnipropetrovsk | Ukraine | 1,100,000 | |
| 411. | Odessa | Ukraine | 1,010,000 | |
| 432. | Donetsk | Ukraine | 970,000 | |
| 543. | Zaporizhzhya | Ukraine | 775,000 | |
| 561. | L'viv | Ukraine | 750,000 | |
| 612. | Kryvyy Rih | Ukraine | 650,000 | |
| 722. | Luhans'k | Ukraine | 525,000 | |
| 789. | Mariupol | Ukraine | 500,000 | |
| 114. | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | 3,100,000 | |
| 529. | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | 800,000 | |
| 33. | London | United Kingdom | 8,278,000 |
