List of largest urban areas by country
Largest urban areas, by country[edit]
Afghanistan[edit]
4.589 million KABUL (capital) (2023)
Albania[edit]
520,000 TIRANA (capital) (2023)
Algeria[edit]
2.854 million ALGIERS (capital); 922,000 Oran (2022)
American Samoa[edit]
49,000 PAGO PAGO (capital) (2018)
Andorra[edit]
23,000 ANDORRA LA VELLA (capital) (2018)
Angola[edit]
9.292 million LUANDA (capital), 959,000 Lubango, 905,000 Cabinda, 809,000 Benguela, 783,000 Malanje (2023)
Anguilla[edit]
1,000 THE VALLEY (capital) (2018)
Antigua and Barbuda[edit]
21,000 SAINT JOHN'S (capital) (2018)
Argentina[edit]
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[edit]
1.095 million YEREVAN (capital) (2023)
Aruba[edit]
30,000 ORANJESTAD (capital) (2018)
Australia[edit]
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[edit]
1.975 million VIENNA (capital) (2023)
Azerbaijan[edit]
2.432 million BAKU (capital) (2023)
Bahamas, The[edit]
280,000 NASSAU (capital) (2018)
Bahrain[edit]
689,000 MANAMA (capital) (2022)
Bangladesh[edit]
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[edit]
89,000 BRIDGETOWN (capital) (2018)
Belarus[edit]
2.049 million MINSK (capital) (2022)
Belgium[edit]
2.110 million BRUSSELS (capital); 1.053 million Antwerp (2022)
Belize[edit]
23,000 BELMOPAN (capital) (2018)
Benin[edit]
285,000 PORTO-NOVO (capital) (2018); 1.189 million Abomey-Calavi; 709,000 COTONOU (seat of government) (2022)
Bermuda[edit]
10,000 HAMILTON (capital) (2018)
Bhutan[edit]
203,000 THIMPHU (capital) (2018)
Bolivia[edit]
1.908 million LA PAZ (capital); 1.784 million Santa Cruz; 1.369 million Cochabamba; 278,000 Sucre (constitutional capital) (2022)
Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]
344,000 SARAJEVO (capital) (2022)
Botswana[edit]
269,000 GABORONE (capital) (2018)
Brazil[edit]
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[edit]
15,000 ROAD TOWN (capital) (2018)
Brunei[edit]
241,000 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (capital) (2011)
Bulgaria[edit]
1.287 million SOFIA (capital) (2022)
Burkina Faso[edit]
3.056 million OUAGADOUGOU (capital); 1.074 million Bobo-Dioulasso (2022)
Burundi[edit]
1.139 million BUJUMBURA (capital) (2022)
Cabo Verde[edit]
168,000 PRAIA (capital) (2018)
Cambodia[edit]
2.211 million PHNOM PENH (capital) (2022)
Cameroon[edit]
4.164 million YAOUNDE (capital); 3.927 million Douala (2022)
Canada[edit]
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[edit]
35,000 GEORGE TOWN (capital) (2018)
Central African Republic[edit]
933,000 BANGUI (capital) (2022)
Chad[edit]
1.533 million N'DJAMENA (capital) (2022)
Chile[edit]
6.903 million SANTIAGO (capital), 1.009 million Valparaiso, 912,000 Concepcion (2023)
China[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
62,000 MORONI (capital) (2018)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the[edit]
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[edit]
2.638 million BRAZZAVILLE (capital), 1.336 million Pointe-Noire (2023)
Costa Rica[edit]
1.441 million SAN JOSE (capital) (2022)
Cote d'Ivoire[edit]
231,000 YAMOUSSOUKRO (capital) (2018); 5.516 million ABIDJAN (seat of government) (2022)
Croatia[edit]
684,000 ZAGREB (capital) (2022)
Cuba[edit]
2.149 million HAVANA (capital) (2023)
Curacao[edit]
144,000 WILLEMSTAD (capital) (2018)
Cyprus[edit]
269,000 NICOSIA (capital) (2018)
Czech Republic[edit]
1.318 million PRAGUE (capital) (2022)
Denmark[edit]
1.370 million COPENHAGEN (capital) (2022)
Djibouti[edit]
591,000 DJIBOUTI (capital) (2022)
Dominica[edit]
15,000 ROSEAU (capital) (2018)
Dominican Republic[edit]
3.524 million SANTO DOMINGO (capital) (2023)
Ecuador[edit]
3.142 million Guayaquil, 1.957 million QUITO (capital) (2023)
Egypt[edit]
22.183 million CAIRO (capital), 5.588 million Alexandria, 778,000 Bur Sa'id (2023)
El Salvador[edit]
1.116 million SAN SALVADOR (capital) (2023)
Equatorial Guinea[edit]
297,000 MALABO (capital) (2018)
Eritrea[edit]
1.073 million ASMARA (capital) (2023)
Estonia[edit]
452,000 TALLINN (capital) (2022)
Eswatini[edit]
68,000 MBABANE (capital) (2018)
Ethiopia[edit]
5.461 million ADDIS ABABA (capital) (2023)
Falkland Islands[edit]
2,000 STANLEY (capital) (2018)
Faroe Islands[edit]
21,000 TÓRSHAVN (capital) (2018)
Fiji[edit]
178,000 SUVA (capital) (2018)
Finland[edit]
1.328 million HELSINKI (capital) (2022)
France[edit]
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[edit]
136,000 PAPEETE (capital) (2018)
Gabon[edit]
857,000 LIBREVILLE (capital) (2022)
Gambia, The[edit]
470,000 BANJUL (capital) (2022)
Georgia[edit]
1.203 million TBILISI (capital) (2022)
Germany[edit]
3.574 million BERLIN (capital), 1.788 million Hamburg, 1.576 million Munich, 1.144 million Cologne, 796,000 Frankfurt (2023)
Ghana[edit]
3.630 million Kumasi; 2.605 million ACCRA (capital); 1.035 million Sekondi Takoradi (2022)
Gibraltar[edit]
35,000 GIBRALTAR (capital) (2018)
Greece[edit]
3.154 million ATHENS (capital); 814,000 Thessaloniki (2022)
Greenland[edit]
18,000 NUUK (capital) (2018)
Grenada[edit]
39,000 SAINT GEORGE'S (capital) (2018)
Guam[edit]
147,000 HAGATNA (capital) (2018)
Guatemala[edit]
3.095 million GUATEMALA CITY (capital) (2023)
Guernsey[edit]
16,000 SAINT PETER PORT (capital) (2018)
Guinea[edit]
2.049 million CONAKRY (capital) (2022)
Guinea-Bissau[edit]
643,000 BISSAU (capital) (2022)
Guyana[edit]
110,000 GEORGETOWN (capital) (2018)
Haiti[edit]
2.915 million PORT-AU-PRINCE (capital) (2022)
Holy See[edit]
1,000 VATICAN CITY (capital) (2018)
Honduras[edit]
1.568 million TEGUCIGALPA (capital), 982,000 San Pedro Sula (2023)
Hong Kong[edit]
7.643 million Hong Kong (2022)
Hungary[edit]
1.775 million BUDAPEST (capital) (2022)
Iceland[edit]
216,000 REYKJAVÍK (capital) (2018)
India[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
1.256 million DUBLIN (capital) (2022)
Isle of Man[edit]
27,000 DOUGLAS (capital) (2018)
Israel[edit]
4.344 million Tel Aviv-Yafo; 1.254 million JERUSALEM (capital); 1.164 million Haifa (2022)
Italy[edit]
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[edit]
595,000 KINGSTON (capital) (2022)
Japan[edit]
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[edit]
34,000 SAINT HELIER (capital) (2018)
Jordan[edit]
2.210 million AMMAN (capital) (2022)
Kazakhstan[edit]
1.987 million Almaty, 1.291 million NUR-SULTAN (capital), 1.155 million Shimkent (2023)
Kenya[edit]
5.325 million NAIROBI (capital), 1.440 million Mombassa (2023)
Kiribati[edit]
64,000 TARAWA (capital) (2018)
Korea, North[edit]
3.158 million PYONGYANG (capital) (2023)
Korea, South[edit]
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[edit]
216,870 PRISTINA (capital) (2019)
Kuwait[edit]
3.298 million KUWAIT (capital) (2023)
Kyrgyzstan[edit]
1.105 million BISHKEK (capital) (2023)
Laos[edit]
706,000 VIENTIANE (capital) (2022)
Latvia[edit]
625,000 RIGA (capital) (2022)
Lebanon[edit]
2.433 million BEIRUT (capital) (2022)
Lesotho[edit]
350,000 MASERU (capital) (2022)
Liberia[edit]
1.623 million MONROVIA (capital) (2022)
Libya[edit]
1.183 million TRIPOLI (capital), 984,000 Misratah, 859,000 Benghazi (2023)
Liechtenstein[edit]
5,000 VADUZ (capital) (2018)
Lithuania[edit]
541,000 VILNIUS (capital) (2022)
Luxembourg[edit]
120,000 LUXEMBOURG (capital) (2018)
Madagascar[edit]
3.700 million ANTANANARIVO (capital) (2022)
Malawi[edit]
1.222 million LILONGWE (capital); 995,000 Blantyre-Limbe (2022)
Malaysia[edit]
8.622 million KUALA LUMPUR (capital), 1.086 million Johor Bahru, 857,000 Ipoh (2023)
Maldives[edit]
177,000 MALE (capital) (2018)
Mali[edit]
2.817 million BAMAKO (capital) (2022)
Malta[edit]
213,000 VALLETTA (capital) (2018)
Marshall Islands[edit]
31,000 MAJURO (capital) (2018)
Mauritania[edit]
1.432 million NOUAKCHOTT (capital) (2022)
Mauritius[edit]
149,000 PORT LOUIS (capital) (2018)
Mexico[edit]
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[edit]
7,000 PALIKIR (capital) (2018)
Moldova[edit]
491,000 CHISINAU (capital) (2022)
Monaco[edit]
39,000 MONACO (capital) (2018)
Mongolia[edit]
1.645 million ULAANBAATAR (capital) (2022)
Montenegro[edit]
177,000 PODGORICA (capital) (2018)
Morocco[edit]
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[edit]
1.797 million Matola; 1.139 million MAPUTO (capital); 927,000 Nampula (2022)
Myanmar (Burma)[edit]
5.610 million YANGON (capital), 1.532 million Mandalay (2023)
Namibia[edit]
461,000 WINDHOEK (capital) (2022)
Nepal[edit]
1.521 million KATHMANDU (capital) (2022)
Netherlands[edit]
2.48 million AMSTERDAM (capital), 2.40 million Rotterdam – The Hague (2022)
New Caledonia[edit]
198,000 NOUMEA (capital) (2018)
New Zealand[edit]
1.652 million Auckland, 419,000 WELLINGTON (capital) (2022)
Nicaragua[edit]
1.095 million MANAGUA (capital) (2023)
Niger[edit]
1.384 million NIAMEY (capital) (2022)
Nigeria[edit]
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[edit]
1,000 ALOFI (capital) (2018)
North Macedonia[edit]
606,000 SKOPJE (capital) (2022)
Northern Mariana Islands[edit]
51,000 SAIPAN (capital) (2018)
Norway[edit]
1.071 million OSLO (capital) (2022)
Oman[edit]
1.623 million MUSCAT (capital) (2022)
Pakistan[edit]
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[edit]
277 NGERULMUD (capital) (2018)
Palestine[edit]
756,000 Gaza; 153,237 RAMALLAH (Capital) (2022)
Panama[edit]
1.977 million PANAMA CITY (capital) (2023)
Papua New Guinea[edit]
410,000 PORT MORESBY (capital) (2023)
Paraguay[edit]
3.511 million ASUNCION (capital) (2023)
Peru[edit]
11.204 million LIMA (capital), 959,000 Arequipa, 904,000 Trujillo (2023)
Philippines[edit]
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[edit]
1.798 million WARSAW (capital), 769,000 Krakow (2023)
Portugal[edit]
3.001 million LISBON (capital), 1.325 million Porto (2023)
Puerto Rico[edit]
2.440 million SAN JUAN (capital) (2023)
Qatar[edit]
779,000 Ar-Rayyan; 652,000 DOHA (capital) (2022)
Romania[edit]
1.785 million BUCHAREST (capital) (2022)
Russia[edit]
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[edit]
1.208 million KIGALI (capital) (2022)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha[edit]
1,000 JAMESTOWN (capital) (2018)
Saint Kitts and Nevis[edit]
14,000 BASSETERRE (capital) (2018)
Saint Lucia[edit]
22,000 CASTRIES (capital) (2018)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon[edit]
6,000 SAINT – PIERRE (capital) (2018)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[edit]
27,000 KINGSTOWN (capital) (2018)
Samoa[edit]
36,000 APIA (capital) (2018)
San Marino[edit]
4,000 SAN MARINO (2018)
São Tomé and Príncipe[edit]
80,000 SÃO TOMÉ (capital) (2018)
Saudi Arabia[edit]
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[edit]
3.326 million DAKAR (capital) (2022)
Serbia[edit]
1.405 million BELGRADE (capital) (2022)
Seychelles[edit]
28,000 VICTORIA (capital) (2018)
Sierra Leone[edit]
1.272 million FREETOWN (capital) (2022)
Singapore[edit]
6.081 million SINGAPORE (capital) (2023)
Sint Maarten[edit]
1,327 PHILIPSBURG (capital) (2011)
Slovakia[edit]
439,000 BRATISLAVA (capital) (2022)
Slovenia[edit]
286,000 LJUBLJANA (capital) (2018)
Solomon Islands[edit]
82,000 HONIARA (capital) (2018)
Somalia[edit]
2.610 million MOGADISHU (capital), 1.127 million Hargeysa (2023)
South Africa[edit]
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[edit]
459,000 JUBA (capital) (2023)
Spain[edit]
6.751 million MADRID (capital), 5.687 million Barcelona, 838,000 Valencia (2023)
Sri Lanka[edit]
103,000 Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative capital) (2018), 633,000 COLOMBO (capital) (2023)
Sudan[edit]
6.344 million KHARTOUM (capital), 1.057 million Nyala (2023)
Suriname[edit]
239,000 PARAMARIBO (capital) (2018)
Sweden[edit]
1.659 million STOCKHOLM (capital) (2022)
Switzerland[edit]
1.420 million Zurich, 437,000 BERN (capital) (2022)
Syria[edit]
2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023)
Taiwan[edit]
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[edit]
962,000 DUSHANBE (capital) (2022)
Tanzania[edit]
262,000 Dodoma (legislative capital) (2018), 7.776 million DAR ES SALAAM (administrative capital), 1.311 million Mwanza, 800,000 Zanzibar (2023)
Thailand[edit]
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[edit]
281,000 DILI (capital) (2018)
Togo[edit]
1.926 million LOME (capital) (2022)
Tonga[edit]
23,000 NUKU'ALOFA (2018)
Trinidad and Tobago[edit]
545,000 PORT OF SPAIN (capital) (2022)
Tunisia[edit]
2.439 million TUNIS (capital) (2022)
Turkey[edit]
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[edit]
883,000 ASHGABAT (capital) (2022)
Turks and Caicos Islands[edit]
5,000 GRAND TURK (capital) (2018)
Tuvalu[edit]
7,000 FUNAFUTI (capital) (2018)
Uganda[edit]
3.652 million KAMPALA (capital) (2022)
Ukraine[edit]
3.010 million KYIV (capital); 1.423 million Kharkiv; 1.008 million Odesa; 952,000 Dnipro; 893,000 Donetsk (2022)
United Arab Emirates[edit]
2.964 million Dubai; 1.786 million Sharjah; 1.540 million ABU DHABI (capital) (2022)
United Kingdom[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
1.767 million MONTEVIDEO (capital) (2022)
Uzbekistan[edit]
2.574 million TASHKENT (capital) (2022)
Vanuatu[edit]
53,000 PORT – VILA (capital) (2018)
Venezuela[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
52,000 CHARLOTTE AMALIE (capital) (2018)
Wallis and Futuna[edit]
1,000 MATA – UTU (capital) (2018)
Yemen[edit]
3.182 million SANAA (capital), 1.045 million Aden (2022)
Zambia[edit]
3.042 million LUSAKA (capital) (2022)
Zimbabwe[edit]
1.558 million HARARE (capital) (2022)