List of metropolitan areas by population

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This page lists the 100 largest metropolitan areas of the world by population. This is a controversial issue rather difficult to quantify. These figures include suburban areas immediately surrounding a major city and sometimes multiple major cities which may be close enough together to function essentially as one area (e.g. Washington, D.C.-Baltimore).

Figures are based on rough estimates for the year 2005, based on populations and rates and rounded to the nearest 10,000.

Rank	Metropolitan area name	Country	Population estimate
1	Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki-Chiba (Greater Tokyo Area)	Japan	36,510,000
2	New York City, New York-Newark, New Jersey-Paterson, New Jersey (New York Metropolitan Area)	United States	22,310,000
3	Mexico City-Nezahualc�yotl-Ecatepec-Naucalpan (Greater Mexico City)	Mexico	22,090,000
4	Seoul-Incheon-Bucheon-Goyang-Seongnam-Suweon (Capital Metropolitan Area)	South Korea	21,740,000
5	Mumbai-Navi Mumbai-Kalyan-Thane-Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra (Brihanmumbai/Greater Mumbai)	India	19,470,000
6	S�o Paulo-Guarulhos-Santo Andr�-Osasco (Greater S�o Paulo Area)	Brazil	19,090,000
7	Jakarta-Bekasi-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang (Jabodetabek Metropolitan Area)	Indonesia	17,590,000
8	Los Angeles-Riverside-Anaheim (Southern California)	California, United States	17,540,000
9	Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto or Keihanshin)	Japan	17,510,000
10	Delhi, National Capital Territory-Faridabad, Haryana, Gurgaon, Haryana-Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-Noida, Uttar Pradesh	India	17,480,000
11	Manila-Quezon City-Makati City-Caloocan City (Metropolitan Manila)	Philippines	16,610,000
12	Greater Cairo, Al Qahirah-Al Jizah-Al Qalyubiyah Governorates	Egypt	15,500,000
13	Shanghai Municipality	People's Republic of China	14,610,000
14	Kolkata-Howrah, West Bengal	India	14,450,000
15	Moscow	Russia	14,440,000
16	Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires)	Argentina	13,330,000
17	London (Greater London-Surrey-East Berkshire-Buckinghamshire-Hertfordshire- South Essex-West Kent)	United Kingdom	12,420,000
18	Tehran-Karaj	Iran	11,890,000
19	Cologne-Bonn-Ruhr Area (Essen-Duisburg- Bochum-Dortmund-D�sseldorf-Wuppertal)	Germany	11,780,000
20	Rio De Janeiro-Nova Igua�u-S�o Gon�alo-Niter�i	Brazil	11,720,000
21	Karachi, Sindh	Pakistan	11,620,000
22	Istanbul	Turkey	11,580,000
23	Paris, �le-de-France	France	11,500,000
24	Dhaka	Bangladesh	11,490,000
25	Beijing Municipality	People's Republic of China	11,240,000
26	Lagos	Nigeria	10,690,000
27	Bangkok-Samut Prakarn-Nonthaburi-Pathum Thani	Thailand	9,750,000
28	Chicago, Illinois-Gary, Indiana-Kenosha, Wisconsin (Chicagoland)	United States	9,420,000
29	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9,120,000
30	Nagoya	Japan	8,760,000
31	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region-Shenzhen, Guangdong	People's Republic of China	8,720,000
32	Washington, DC-Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area)	United States	8,040,000
33	Taipei-Keelung (Taipei-Keelung metropolitan area)	Taiwan, Republic of China	8,030,000
34	Toronto-Hamilton, Ontario (Golden Horseshoe)	Canada	7,800,000
35	Bogot�	Colombia	7,790,000
36	Lima-Callao (Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area)	Peru	7,740,000
37	San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland, California (San Francisco Bay Area)	United States	7,530,000
38	Chongqing Municipality	People's Republic of China	7,480,000
39	Baghdad	Iraq	7,410,000
40	Khartoum	Sudan	7,320,000
41	Chennai-Tambaram-Avadi-Manali, Tamil Nadu	India	6,850,000
42	Johannesburg-Soweto-East Rand-West Rand (Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area)	South Africa	6,820,000
43	Amsterdam-Rotterdam (Randstad)	Netherlands	6,570,000
44	Shenyang, Liaoning	People's Republic of China	6,490,000
45	Lahore, Punjab	Pakistan	6,310,000
46	Tianjin Municipality	People's Republic of China	6,300,000
47	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Delaware Valley)	United States	6,250,000
48	Madrid	Spain	6,160,000
49	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	6,140,000
50	Bangalore, Karnataka	India	6,060,000
51	Boston, Massachusetts, (Greater Boston)	United States	5,910,000
52	Hyderabad-Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh	India	5,900,000
53	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)	United States	5,900,000
54	Detroit, Michigan-Windsor, Ontario (Metro Detroit)	United States,Canada	5,890,000
55	Guangzhou, Guangdong	People's Republic of China	5,630,000
56	Algiers	Algeria	5,520,000
57	Bandung (Kabupaten Bandung)	Indonesia	5,480,000
58	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (Houston Metropolitan Area)	United States	5,190,000
59	Singapore City-Johor Bahru	Singapore,Malaysia	5,180,000
60	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	5,050,000
61	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	India	5,000,000
62	Barcelona	Spain	4,970,000
63	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	4,920,000
64	Saint Petersburg	Russia	4,880,000
65	Santiago	Chile	4,840,000
66	Abidjan	C�te d'Ivoire	4,810,000
67	Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta Metropolitan Area)	United States	4,720,000
68	San Diego, California-Tijuana, Baja California	United States, Mexico	4,690,000
69	Harbin, Heilongjiang	People's Republic of China	4,680,000
70	Shantou, Guangdong	People's Republic of China	4,680,000
71	Xi'an, Shaanxi	People's Republic of China	4,640,000
72	Wuhan, Hubei	People's Republic of China	4,600,000
73	Chengdu, Sichuan	People's Republic of China	4,570,000
74	Busan Metropolitan City	South Korea	4,560,000
75	Pune-Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra	India	4,500,000
76	Yangon	Myanmar	4,480,000
77	Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	4,490,000
78	Hangzhou, Zhejiang	People's Republic of China	4,390,000
79	Ibadan	Nigeria	4,360,000
80	Cape Town	South Africa	4,300,000
81	Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Florida (South Florida)	United States	4,290,000
82	Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah Governorate	Egypt	4,270,000
83	Fukuoka-Kitakyushu	Japan	4,260,000
84	Milan	Italy	4,240,000
85	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	4,210,000
87	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Mexico	4,010,000
88	Berlin	Germany	4,000,000
89	Nanjing, Jiangsu	People's Republic of China	3,970,000
90	Surabaya, East Java	Indonesia	3,890,000
91	Kano	Nigeria	3,820,000
93	Phoenix, Arizona (Valley of the Sun)	United States	3,790,000
94	Naples	Italy	3,770,000
95	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington (Greater Puget Sound)	United States	3,770,000
96	Porto Alegre	Brazil	3,760,000
97	Athens	Greece	3,750,000
98	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	3,730,000
99	Caracas	Venezuela	3,720,000
100	Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n	Mexico	3,680,000

Contents

1 See also

2 Sources

3 Other lists of metropolitan areas

4 Further reading

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Sources

World Gazetteer � Largest Agglomerations in the World (http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1118288079&men=gcis&lng=en&gln=xx&dat=32&srt=pnan&col=aohdq&pt=a&va=x)

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