List of largest urban areas by country
Largest urban areas, by country
Afghanistan
4.589 million KABUL (capital) (2023)
Albania
520,000 TIRANA (capital) (2023)
Algeria
2.854 million ALGIERS (capital); 922,000 Oran (2022)
American Samoa
49,000 PAGO PAGO (capital) (2018)
Andorra
23,000 ANDORRA LA VELLA (capital) (2018)
Angola
9.292 million LUANDA (capital), 959,000 Lubango, 905,000 Cabinda, 809,000 Benguela, 783,000 Malanje (2023)
Anguilla
1,000 THE VALLEY (capital) (2018)
Antigua and Barbuda
21,000 SAINT JOHN'S (capital) (2018)
Argentina
15.490 million BUENOS AIRES (capital), 1.612 million Cordoba, 1.594 million Rosario, 1.226 million Mendoza, 1.027 million San Miguel de Tucuman, 914,000 La Plata (2023)
Armenia
1.095 million YEREVAN (capital) (2023)
Aruba
30,000 ORANJESTAD (capital) (2018)
Australia
5.235 million Melbourne, 5.121 million Sydney, 2.505 million Brisbane, 2.118 million Perth, 1.367 million Adelaide, 472,000 CANBERRA (capital) (2023)
Austria
1.975 million VIENNA (capital) (2023)
Azerbaijan
2.432 million BAKU (capital) (2023)
Bahamas, The
280,000 NASSAU (capital) (2018)
Bahrain
689,000 MANAMA (capital) (2022)
Bangladesh
23.210 million DHAKA (capital), 5.380 million Chittagong, 955,000 Khulna, 962,000 Rajshahi, 969,000 Rangpur, 964,000 Sylhet, 906,000 Bogra (2023)
Barbados
89,000 BRIDGETOWN (capital) (2018)
Belarus
2.049 million MINSK (capital) (2022)
Belgium
2.110 million BRUSSELS (capital); 1.053 million Antwerp (2022)
Belize
23,000 BELMOPAN (capital) (2018)
Benin
285,000 PORTO-NOVO (capital) (2018); 1.189 million Abomey-Calavi; 709,000 COTONOU (seat of government) (2022)
Bermuda
10,000 HAMILTON (capital) (2018)
Bhutan
203,000 THIMPHU (capital) (2018)
Bolivia
1.908 million LA PAZ (capital); 1.784 million Santa Cruz; 1.369 million Cochabamba; 278,000 Sucre (constitutional capital) (2022)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
344,000 SARAJEVO (capital) (2022)
Botswana
269,000 GABORONE (capital) (2018)
Brazil
22.620 million Sao Paulo, 13.728 million Rio de Janeiro, 6.248 million Belo Horizonte, 4.873 million BRASILIA (capital), 4.264 million Recife, 4.212 million Porto Alegre (2023)
British Virgin Islands
15,000 ROAD TOWN (capital) (2018)
Brunei
241,000 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (capital) (2011)
Bulgaria
1.287 million SOFIA (capital) (2022)
Burkina Faso
3.056 million OUAGADOUGOU (capital); 1.074 million Bobo-Dioulasso (2022)
Burundi
1.139 million BUJUMBURA (capital) (2022)
Cabo Verde
168,000 PRAIA (capital) (2018)
Cambodia
2.211 million PHNOM PENH (capital) (2022)
Cameroon
4.164 million YAOUNDE (capital); 3.927 million Douala (2022)
Canada
6.372 million Toronto, 4.308 million Montreal, 3.05 million Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, 1.640 million Calgary, 1.544 million Edmonton, 1.437 million OTTAWA (capital) (2023)
Cayman Islands
35,000 GEORGE TOWN (capital) (2018)
Central African Republic
933,000 BANGUI (capital) (2022)
Chad
1.533 million N'DJAMENA (capital) (2022)
Chile
6.903 million SANTIAGO (capital), 1.009 million Valparaiso, 912,000 Concepcion (2023)
China
29.211 million Shanghai, 21.766 million BEIJING (capital), 17.341 million Chongqing, 14.284 million Guangzhou, 14.239 million Tianjin, 13.073 million Shenzhen (2023)
Colombia
11.508 million BOGOTA (capital), 4.102 million Medellin, 2.864 million Cali, 2.349 million Barranquilla, 1.381 million Bucaramanga, 1.088 million Cartagena (2023)
Comoros
62,000 MORONI (capital) (2018)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
16.316 million KINSHASA (capital), 2.892 million Mbuji-Mayi, 2.812 million Lubumbashi, 1.664 million Kananga, 1.423 million Kisangani, 1.249 million Bukavu (2023)
Congo, Republic of the
2.638 million BRAZZAVILLE (capital), 1.336 million Pointe-Noire (2023)
Costa Rica
1.441 million SAN JOSE (capital) (2022)
Cote d'Ivoire
231,000 YAMOUSSOUKRO (capital) (2018); 5.516 million ABIDJAN (seat of government) (2022)
Croatia
684,000 ZAGREB (capital) (2022)
Cuba
2.149 million HAVANA (capital) (2023)
Curacao
144,000 WILLEMSTAD (capital) (2018)
Cyprus
269,000 NICOSIA (capital) (2018)
Czech Republic
1.318 million PRAGUE (capital) (2022)
Denmark
1.370 million COPENHAGEN (capital) (2022)
Djibouti
591,000 DJIBOUTI (capital) (2022)
Dominica
15,000 ROSEAU (capital) (2018)
Dominican Republic
3.524 million SANTO DOMINGO (capital) (2023)
Ecuador
3.142 million Guayaquil, 1.957 million QUITO (capital) (2023)
Egypt
22.183 million CAIRO (capital), 5.588 million Alexandria, 778,000 Bur Sa'id (2023)
El Salvador
1.116 million SAN SALVADOR (capital) (2023)
Equatorial Guinea
297,000 MALABO (capital) (2018)
Eritrea
1.073 million ASMARA (capital) (2023)
Estonia
452,000 TALLINN (capital) (2022)
Eswatini
68,000 MBABANE (capital) (2018)
Ethiopia
5.461 million ADDIS ABABA (capital) (2023)
Falkland Islands
2,000 STANLEY (capital) (2018)
Faroe Islands
21,000 TÓRSHAVN (capital) (2018)
Fiji
178,000 SUVA (capital) (2018)
Finland
1.328 million HELSINKI (capital) (2022)
France
11.208 million PARIS (capital), 1.761 million Lyon, 1.628 million Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, 1.079 million Lille, 1.060 million Toulouse, 1.000 million Bordeaux (2023)
French Polynesia
136,000 PAPEETE (capital) (2018)
Gabon
857,000 LIBREVILLE (capital) (2022)
Gambia, The
470,000 BANJUL (capital) (2022)
Georgia
1.203 million TBILISI (capital) (2022)
Germany
3.574 million BERLIN (capital), 1.788 million Hamburg, 1.576 million Munich, 1.144 million Cologne, 796,000 Frankfurt (2023)
Ghana
3.630 million Kumasi; 2.605 million ACCRA (capital); 1.035 million Sekondi Takoradi (2022)
Gibraltar
35,000 GIBRALTAR (capital) (2018)
Greece
3.154 million ATHENS (capital); 814,000 Thessaloniki (2022)
Greenland
18,000 NUUK (capital) (2018)
Grenada
39,000 SAINT GEORGE'S (capital) (2018)
Guam
147,000 HAGATNA (capital) (2018)
Guatemala
3.095 million GUATEMALA CITY (capital) (2023)
Guernsey
16,000 SAINT PETER PORT (capital) (2018)
Guinea
2.049 million CONAKRY (capital) (2022)
Guinea-Bissau
643,000 BISSAU (capital) (2022)
Guyana
110,000 GEORGETOWN (capital) (2018)
Haiti
2.915 million PORT-AU-PRINCE (capital) (2022)
Holy See
1,000 VATICAN CITY (capital) (2018)
Honduras
1.568 million TEGUCIGALPA (capital), 982,000 San Pedro Sula (2023)
Hong Kong
7.643 million Hong Kong (2022)
Hungary
1.775 million BUDAPEST (capital) (2022)
Iceland
216,000 REYKJAVÍK (capital) (2018)
India
32.941 million NEW DELHI (capital), 21.297 million Mumbai, 15.333 million Kolkata, 13.608 million Bangalore, 11.776 million Chennai, 10.801 million Hyderabad (2023)
Indonesia
11.249 million JAKARTA (capital), 3.729 million Bekasi, 3.044 million Surabaya, 3.041 million Depok, 2.674 million Bandung, 2.514 million Tangerang (2023)
Iran
9.500 million TEHRAN (capital), 3.368 million Mashhad, 2.258 million Esfahan, 1.721 million Shiraz, 1.661 million Tabriz, 1.594 million Karaj (2023)
Iraq
7.711 million BAGHDAD (capital), 1.792 million Mosul, 1.448 million Basra, 1.075 million Kirkuk, 958,000 Najaf, 897,000 Erbil (2023)
Ireland
1.256 million DUBLIN (capital) (2022)
Isle of Man
27,000 DOUGLAS (capital) (2018)
Israel
4.344 million Tel Aviv-Yafo; 1.254 million JERUSALEM (capital); 1.164 million Haifa (2022)
Italy
4.316 million ROME (capital), 3.155 million Milan, 2.179 million Naples, 1.802 million Turin, 913,000 Bergamo, 850,000 Palermo (2023)
Jamaica
595,000 KINGSTON (capital) (2022)
Japan
37.194 million TOKYO (capital), 19.013 million Osaka, 9.569 million Nagoya, 5.490 million Kitakyushu-Fukuoka, 2.937 million Shizuoka-Hamamatsu, 2.666 million Sapporo (2023)
Jersey
34,000 SAINT HELIER (capital) (2018)
Jordan
2.210 million AMMAN (capital) (2022)
Kazakhstan
1.987 million Almaty, 1.291 million NUR-SULTAN (capital), 1.155 million Shimkent (2023)
Kenya
5.325 million NAIROBI (capital), 1.440 million Mombassa (2023)
Kiribati
64,000 TARAWA (capital) (2018)
Korea, North
3.158 million PYONGYANG (capital) (2023)
Korea, South
9.988 million SEOUL (capital), 3.472 million Busan, 2.849 million Incheon, 2.181 million Daegu (Taegu), 1.577 million Daejon (Taejon), 1.529 million Gwangju (Kwangju) (2023)
Kosovo
216,870 PRISTINA (capital) (2019)
Kuwait
3.298 million KUWAIT (capital) (2023)
Kyrgyzstan
1.105 million BISHKEK (capital) (2023)
Laos
706,000 VIENTIANE (capital) (2022)
Latvia
625,000 RIGA (capital) (2022)
Lebanon
2.433 million BEIRUT (capital) (2022)
Lesotho
350,000 MASERU (capital) (2022)
Liberia
1.623 million MONROVIA (capital) (2022)
Libya
1.183 million TRIPOLI (capital), 984,000 Misratah, 859,000 Benghazi (2023)
Liechtenstein
5,000 VADUZ (capital) (2018)
Lithuania
541,000 VILNIUS (capital) (2022)
Luxembourg
120,000 LUXEMBOURG (capital) (2018)
Madagascar
3.700 million ANTANANARIVO (capital) (2022)
Malawi
1.222 million LILONGWE (capital); 995,000 Blantyre-Limbe (2022)
Malaysia
8.622 million KUALA LUMPUR (capital), 1.086 million Johor Bahru, 857,000 Ipoh (2023)
Maldives
177,000 MALE (capital) (2018)
Mali
2.817 million BAMAKO (capital) (2022)
Malta
213,000 VALLETTA (capital) (2018)
Marshall Islands
31,000 MAJURO (capital) (2018)
Mauritania
1.432 million NOUAKCHOTT (capital) (2022)
Mauritius
149,000 PORT LOUIS (capital) (2018)
Mexico
22.281 million MEXICO CITY (capital), 5.420 million Guadalajara, 5.117 million Monterrey, 3.345 million Puebla, 2.626 million Toluca de Lerdo, 2.260 million Tijuana (2023)
Federated States of Micronesia
7,000 PALIKIR (capital) (2018)
Moldova
491,000 CHISINAU (capital) (2022)
Monaco
39,000 MONACO (capital) (2018)
Mongolia
1.645 million ULAANBAATAR (capital) (2022)
Montenegro
177,000 PODGORICA (capital) (2018)
Morocco
3.893 million Casablanca, 1.959 million RABAT (capital), 1.290 million Fes, 1.314 million Tangier, 1.050 million Marrakech, 979,000 Agadir (2023)
Mozambique
1.797 million Matola; 1.139 million MAPUTO (capital); 927,000 Nampula (2022)
Myanmar (Burma)
5.610 million YANGON (capital), 1.532 million Mandalay (2023)
Namibia
461,000 WINDHOEK (capital) (2022)
Nepal
1.521 million KATHMANDU (capital) (2022)
Netherlands
2.48 million AMSTERDAM (capital), 2.40 million Rotterdam – The Hague (2022)
New Caledonia
198,000 NOUMEA (capital) (2018)
New Zealand
1.652 million Auckland, 419,000 WELLINGTON (capital) (2022)
Nicaragua
1.095 million MANAGUA (capital) (2023)
Niger
1.384 million NIAMEY (capital) (2022)
Nigeria
15.946 million Lagos, 4.348 million Kano, 3.875 million Ibadan, 3.840 million ABUJA (capital), 3.480 million Port Harcourt, 1.905 million Benin City (2023)
Niue
1,000 ALOFI (capital) (2018)
North Macedonia
606,000 SKOPJE (capital) (2022)
Northern Mariana Islands
51,000 SAIPAN (capital) (2018)
Norway
1.071 million OSLO (capital) (2022)
Oman
1.623 million MUSCAT (capital) (2022)
Pakistan
17.236 million Karachi, 13.979 million Lahore, 3.711 million Faisalabad, 2.415 million Gujranwala, 2.412 million Peshawar, 1.232 million ISLAMABAD (capital) (2023)
Palau
277 NGERULMUD (capital) (2018)
Palestine
756,000 Gaza; 153,237 RAMALLAH (Capital) (2022)
Panama
1.977 million PANAMA CITY (capital) (2023)
Papua New Guinea
410,000 PORT MORESBY (capital) (2023)
Paraguay
3.511 million ASUNCION (capital) (2023)
Peru
11.204 million LIMA (capital), 959,000 Arequipa, 904,000 Trujillo (2023)
Philippines
14.667 million MANILA (capital), 1.949 million Davao, 1.025 million Cebu City, 931,000 Zamboanga, 960,000 Antipolo, 803,000 Cagayan de Oro City, 803,000 Dasmarinas (2023)
Poland
1.798 million WARSAW (capital), 769,000 Krakow (2023)
Portugal
3.001 million LISBON (capital), 1.325 million Porto (2023)
Puerto Rico
2.440 million SAN JUAN (capital) (2023)
Qatar
779,000 Ar-Rayyan; 652,000 DOHA (capital) (2022)
Romania
1.785 million BUCHAREST (capital) (2022)
Russia
12.680 million MOSCOW (capital), 5.561 million Saint Petersburg, 1.695 million Novosibirsk, 1.528 million Yekaterinburg, 1.292 million Kazan, 1.251 million Nizhniy Novgorod (2023)
Rwanda
1.208 million KIGALI (capital) (2022)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
1,000 JAMESTOWN (capital) (2018)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
14,000 BASSETERRE (capital) (2018)
Saint Lucia
22,000 CASTRIES (capital) (2018)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
6,000 SAINT – PIERRE (capital) (2018)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
27,000 KINGSTOWN (capital) (2018)
Samoa
36,000 APIA (capital) (2018)
San Marino
4,000 SAN MARINO (2018)
São Tomé and Príncipe
80,000 SÃO TOMÉ (capital) (2018)
Saudi Arabia
7.682 million RIYADH (capital), 4.863 million Jeddah, 2.150 million Mecca, 1.573 million Medina, 1.329 million Ad Dammam, 872,000 million Hufuf-Mubarraz (2023)
Senegal
3.326 million DAKAR (capital) (2022)
Serbia
1.405 million BELGRADE (capital) (2022)
Seychelles
28,000 VICTORIA (capital) (2018)
Sierra Leone
1.272 million FREETOWN (capital) (2022)
Singapore
6.081 million SINGAPORE (capital) (2023)
Sint Maarten
1,327 PHILIPSBURG (capital) (2011)
Slovakia
439,000 BRATISLAVA (capital) (2022)
Slovenia
286,000 LJUBLJANA (capital) (2018)
Solomon Islands
82,000 HONIARA (capital) (2018)
Somalia
2.610 million MOGADISHU (capital), 1.127 million Hargeysa (2023)
South Africa
10.316 million Johannesburg (includes Ekurhuleni), 4.890 million Cape Town (legislative capital), 3.228 million Durban, 2.818 million PRETORIA (administrative capital), 1.296 million Port Elizabeth, 934,000 West Rand (2023)
South Sudan
459,000 JUBA (capital) (2023)
Spain
6.751 million MADRID (capital), 5.687 million Barcelona, 838,000 Valencia (2023)
Sri Lanka
103,000 Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative capital) (2018), 633,000 COLOMBO (capital) (2023)
Sudan
6.344 million KHARTOUM (capital), 1.057 million Nyala (2023)
Suriname
239,000 PARAMARIBO (capital) (2018)
Sweden
1.659 million STOCKHOLM (capital) (2022)
Switzerland
1.420 million Zurich, 437,000 BERN (capital) (2022)
Syria
2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023)
Taiwan
4.504 million New Taipei City, 2.754 million TAIPEI (capital), 2.319 million Taoyuan, 1.553 million Kaohsiung, 1.369 million Taichung, 863,000 Tainan (2023)
Tajikistan
962,000 DUSHANBE (capital) (2022)
Tanzania
262,000 Dodoma (legislative capital) (2018), 7.776 million DAR ES SALAAM (administrative capital), 1.311 million Mwanza, 800,000 Zanzibar (2023)
Thailand
10.5 million BANGKOK (capital), 1.2 million Chiang Mai, 450,000 Nakhon Ratchasima, 415,000 Khon Kaen,
400,000 Hat Yai (2023)
Timor-Leste
281,000 DILI (capital) (2018)
Togo
1.926 million LOME (capital) (2022)
Tonga
23,000 NUKU'ALOFA (2018)
Trinidad and Tobago
545,000 PORT OF SPAIN (capital) (2022)
Tunisia
2.439 million TUNIS (capital) (2022)
Turkey
15.848 million Istanbul, 5.397 million ANKARA (capital), 3.088 million Izmir, 2.086 million Bursa, 1.836 million Adana, 1.805 million Gaziantep (2023)
Turkmenistan
883,000 ASHGABAT (capital) (2022)
Turks and Caicos Islands
5,000 GRAND TURK (capital) (2018)
Tuvalu
7,000 FUNAFUTI (capital) (2018)
Uganda
3.652 million KAMPALA (capital) (2022)
Ukraine
3.010 million KYIV (capital); 1.423 million Kharkiv; 1.008 million Odesa; 952,000 Dnipro; 893,000 Donetsk (2022)
United Arab Emirates
2.964 million Dubai; 1.786 million Sharjah; 1.540 million ABU DHABI (capital) (2022)
United Kingdom
9.648 million LONDON (capital), 2.791 million Manchester, 2.665 million Birmingham, 1.929 million West Yorkshire, 1.698 million Glasgow, 952,000 Southampton / Portsmouth (2023)
United States
18.937 million New York – Newark, 12.534 million Los Angeles – Long Beach – Santa Ana, 8.937 million Chicago, 6.707 million Houston, 6.574 million Dallas – Fort Worth, 5.490 million WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) (2023)
Uruguay
1.767 million MONTEVIDEO (capital) (2022)
Uzbekistan
2.574 million TASHKENT (capital) (2022)
Vanuatu
53,000 PORT – VILA (capital) (2018)
Venezuela
2.972 million CARACAS (capital), 2.368 million Maracaibo, 1.983 million Valencia, 1.254 million Barquisimeto, 1.243 million Maracay, 964,000 Ciudad Guayana (2023)
Vietnam
9.321 million Ho Chi Minh City, 5.253 million HANOI (capital), 1.865 million Can Tho, 1.423 million Hai Phong, 1.221 million Da Nang, 1.111 million Bien Hoa (2023)
Virgin Islands
52,000 CHARLOTTE AMALIE (capital) (2018)
Wallis and Futuna
1,000 MATA – UTU (capital) (2018)
Yemen
3.182 million SANAA (capital), 1.045 million Aden (2022)
Zambia
3.042 million LUSAKA (capital) (2022)
Zimbabwe
1.558 million HARARE (capital) (2022)