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 
654. Aachen  Germany 585,000
532. Aba  Nigeria 790,000
76. Abidjan  Cote d'Ivoire 4,125,000
529. Abu Dhabi  United Arab Emirates 800,000
199. Abuja  Nigeria 2,000,000
631. Acapulco  Mexico 600,000
90. Accra  Ghana 3,600,000
465. Ad Dammam  Saudi Arabia 900,000
302. Adana  Turkey 1,360,000
119. Addis Ababa  Ethiopia 2,925,000
392. Adelaide  Australia 1,040,000
701. Aden  Yemen 550,000
540. Agadir  Morocco 775,000
237. Agra  India 1,703,000
450. Aguascalientes  Mexico 930,000
50. Ahmadabad  India 5,720,000
387. Ahvaz  Iran 1,050,000
670. Akron  United States 570,000
453. Al Basrah  Iraq 920,000
794. Al _udaydah  Yemen 400,000
677. Albany  United States 559,000
648. Albuquerque  United States 598,000
115. Aleppo  Syria 3,090,000
71. Alexandria  Egypt 4,375,000
131. Algiers  Algeria 2,800,000
486. Aligarh  India 860,000
321. Allahabad  India 1,280,000
659. Allentown-Bethlehem  United States 576,000
297. Almaty  Kazakhstan 1,380,000
161. Amman  Jordan 2,300,000
714. Amravati  India 525,000
316. Amritsar  India 1,300,000
390. Amsterdam  Netherlands 1,050,000
81. Ankara  Turkey 3,910,000
246. Anshan  China 1,660,000
501. Antalya  Turkey 840,000
212. Antananarivo  Madagascar 1,875,000
435. Antwerpen  Belgium 960,000
354. Anyang  China 1,130,000
534. Aracaju  Brazil 780,000
533. Arequipa  Peru 790,000
505. As Sulaymaniyah  Iraq 840,000
792. Asansol  India 486,000
645. Ashgabat  Turkmenistan 600,000
755. Asmara  Eritrea 500,000
717. Astana  Kazakhstan 525,000
773. Astrakhan'  Russia 500,000
196. Asunción  Paraguay 2,030,000
107. Athens  Greece 3,260,000
93. Atlanta  United States 3,500,000
325. Auckland  New Zealand 1,250,000
334. Aurangabad  India 1,200,000
463. Austin  United States 902,000
48. Baghdad  Iraq 5,890,000
203. Baku  Azerbaijan 1,970,000
192. Baltimore  United States 2,076,000
238. Bamako  Mali 1,700,000
521. Bandar Lampung  Indonesia 800,000
46. Bandung  Indonesia 5,950,000
39. Bangalore  India 7,220,000
41. Bangkok  Thailand 6,980,000
747. Bangui  Central African Republic 500,000
740. Banjarmasin  Indonesia 505,000
788. Banjul  The Gambia 500,000
333. Baoding  China 1,210,000
516. Baoji  China 815,000
175. Baotou  China 2,200,000
83. Barcelona  Spain 3,900,000
723. Barcelona-Puerto la Cruz  Venezuela 525,000
479. Bareilly  India 870,000
638. Barnaul  Russia 600,000
338. Barquisimeto  Venezuela 1,180,000
216. Barranquilla  Colombia 1,850,000
419. Batam  Indonesia 1,000,000
16. Beijing  China 13,545,000
207. Beirut  Lebanon 1,940,000
181. Belém  Brazil 2,175,000
738. Belgaum  India 506,000
372. Belgrade  Serbia 1,100,000
49. Belo Horizonte  Brazil 5,850,000
288. Benares  India 1,430,000
578. Bengbu  China 700,000
630. Benghazi  Libya 600,000
315. Benin City  Nigeria 1,300,000
434. Benxi  China 960,000
96. Berlin  Germany 3,450,000
727. Bhavnagar  India 518,000
344. Bhilai  India 1,170,000
218. Bhopal  India 1,840,000
462. Bhubaneshwar  India 910,000
715. Bikaner  India 525,000
559. Bilbao  Spain 750,000
167. Birmingham  United Kingdom 2,284,000
596. Birmingham  United States 664,000
490. Bishkek  Kyrgyzstan 860,000
491. Blantyre  Malawi 860,000
684. Blumenau  Brazil 550,000
31. Bogotá  Colombia 8,500,000
756. Bok_ro  India 500,000
763. Bologna  Italy 500,000