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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 255. | Kampala | Uganda | 1,600,000 | |
| 645. | Ashgabat | Turkmenistan | 600,000 | |
| 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 | |
| 187. | Tunis | Tunisia | 2,100,000 | |
| 721. | Port of Spain | Trinidad and Tobago | 525,000 | |
| 242. | Lomé | Togo | 1,670,000 | |
| 788. | Banjul | The Gambia | 500,000 | |
| 41. | Bangkok | Thailand | 6,980,000 | |
| 413. | Pattaya | Thailand | 1,000,000 | |
| 103. | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | 3,350,000 | |
| 700. | Dushanbe | Tajikistan | 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 | |
| 115. | Aleppo | Syria | 3,090,000 | |
| 143. | Damascus | Syria | 2,600,000 | |
| 682. | Home | Syria | 550,000 | |
| 564. | Zürich | Switzerland | 735,000 | |
| 729. | Genève | Switzerland | 515,000 | |
| 326. | Stockholm | Sweden | 1,250,000 | |
| 735. | Göteborg | Sweden | 510,000 | |
| 55. | Khartoum | Sudan | 5,170,000 | |
| 198. | Colombo | Sri Lanka | 2,000,000 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 270. | Mogadishu | Somalia | 1,500,000 | |
| 59. | Singapore | Singapore | 5,075,000 | |
| 464. | Freetown | Sierra Leone | 900,000 | |
| 372. | Belgrade | Serbia | 1,100,000 | |
| 124. | Dakar | Senegal | 2,860,000 | |
| 720. | Touba | Senegal | 525,000 | |
| 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 | |
| 442. | Kigali | Rwanda | 940,000 | |
| 17. | Moscow | Russia | 13,250,000 | |
| 68. | Saint Petersburg | Russia | 4,560,000 | |
| 291. | Novosibirsk | Russia | 1,400,000 | |
| 306. | Yekaterinburg | Russia | 1,340,000 | |
| 323. | Nizhniy Novgorod | Russia | 1,270,000 | |
| 349. | Kazan | Russia | 1,140,000 | |
| 360. | Samara | Russia | 1,120,000 | |
| 363. | Omsk | Russia | 1,110,000 | |
| 374. | Chelyabinsk | Russia | 1,090,000 | |
| 396. | Rostov | Russia | 1,040,000 | |
| 406. | Ufa | Russia | 1,020,000 | |
| 428. | Perm | Russia | 975,000 | |
| 431. | Volgograd | Russia | 970,000 | |
| 436. | Krasnoyarsk | Russia | 960,000 |
