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The tables list cities in alphabetical order. They provide city and metro population date. The column ‘mayor’ names the men and women who are carry out political and executive functions. They include elected and appointed mayors, city governors and executive city council leaders. Capital letters denote national capital cities. |
|
World rank
|
City
|
Country
|
City
population |
Metro
population |
Mayor
|
|
178
|
Ecatepec | Mexico |
1,688,000
|
1,690,000
|
Eruviel Ávila Villegas |
|
526
|
Edmonton | Canada |
730,000
|
1,035,000
|
Stephen Mandel |
|
n/r
|
Einhoven | Netherlands |
212,000
|
440,000
|
R van Gijzel |
|
286
|
Ekaterinburg | Russia |
1,323,000
|
1,389,000
|
Eugene Porunov |
|
n/r
|
Erfurt | Germany |
203,000
|
|
Andreas Bausewein |
|
197
|
Esfahan | Iran |
1,584,000
|
2,600,000
|
Morteza Saqaeian Nejad |
|
579
|
Essen | Germany |
580,000
|
|
Reinhard Paß |
|
385
|
Ezhou | China |
1,064,000
|
|
n/k |
|
107
|
Faisalabad | Pakistan |
2,510,000
|
5,081,000
|
Rana Zahid Tauseef |
|
387
|
Faridabad | India |
1,055,000
|
2,193,000
|
n/k |
|
426
|
Feicheng | China |
960,000
|
|
n/k |
|
310
|
Fengcheng | China |
1,250,000
|
|
n/k |
|
405
|
Fes | Morocco |
1,009,000
|
|
n/k |
|
438
|
Fez | Morocco |
921,000
|
921,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Florence | Italy |
375,000
|
825,000
|
Matteo Renzi |
|
108
|
Fortaleza | Brazil |
2,506,000
|
3,415,000
|
Luizianne Lins |
|
557
|
Frankfurt | Germany |
665,000
|
2,717,000
|
Petra Roth |
|
395
|
FREETOWN | Sierra Leone |
1,032,000
|
1,032,000
|
Herbert-George Williams |
|
n/r
|
Freiburg | Germany |
220,000
|
|
Dieter Salomon |
|
n/r
|
Fresno | USA |
500,000
|
1,000,000
|
Ashley Swearengin |
|
234
|
Fukuoka | Japan |
1,450,000
|
2,230,000
|
Hiroshi Yoshida |
|
323
|
Fuqing | China |
1,200,000
|
|
n/k |
|
238
|
Fushun | China |
1,445,000
|
2,300,000
|
Wang Yang |
|
541
|
Fuxin | China |
690,000
|
969,000
|
n/k |
|
174
|
Fuyang | China |
1,720,000
|
|
Sun Yunfei |
|
91
|
Fuzhou (Fujian) | China |
2,710,000
|
6,630,000
|
Yuan Rongxiang |
|
399
|
Fuzhou (Jiangxi) | China |
1,020,000
|
3,700,000
|
Xìe Yìs®• |
|
185
|
Gaozhou | China |
1,650,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Gaza | Palestine |
410,000
|
1,000,000
|
n/k |
|
434
|
Gaziantep | Turkey |
927,000
|
1,912,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Gdansk | Poland |
457,000
|
866,000
|
Pawel Adamowicz |
|
n/r
|
Gelsenkirchen | Germany |
262,000
|
|
Frank Baranowski |
|
n/r
|
Gent | Belgium |
233,000
|
|
Daniël Termont |
|
420
|
Ghaziabad | India |
970,000
|
|
Damyanti Goel |
|
127
|
Giza | Egypt |
2,225,000
|
2,600,000
|
n/k |
|
578
|
Glasgow | UK |
581,000
|
1,200,000
|
n/k |
|
301
|
Goiania | Brazil |
1,282,000
|
2,064,000
|
Íris Rezende Machado |
|
391
|
Gongzhuling | China |
1,050,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Gothenburg | Sweden |
506,000
|
916,000
|
Anneli Hulthén |
|
378
|
Goyang | South Korea |
1,073,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Grand Rapids | USA |
193,000
|
777,000
|
George Heartwell |
|
n/r
|
Greensboro | USA |
256,000
|
710,000
|
Bill Knight |
|
198
|
Guadalajara | Mexico |
1,580,000
|
3,600,000
|
Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval |
|
341
|
Guangyuan | China |
1,160,000
|
3,037,000
|
n/k |
|
28
|
Guangzhou | China |
6,458,000
|
10,182,000
|
Wan Qingliang |
|
300
|
Guarulhos | Brazil |
1,283,000
|
1,500,000
|
Sebastião Moreira |
|
372
|
GUATEMALA CITY | Guatemala |
1,090,000
|
2,564,000
|
Alvaro Arzú |
|
131
|
Guayaquil | Ecuador |
2,196,000
|
2,686,000
|
Jaime Nebot |
|
215
|
Guigang | China |
1,500,000
|
4,400,000
|
n/k |
|
280
|
Guilin | China |
1,340,000
|
|
Li Zhigang |
|
245
|
Guiping | China |
1,420,000
|
|
n/k |
|
67
|
Guiyang | China |
3,450,000
|
|
Yuan Zhou |
|
249
|
Gujranwala | Pakistan |
1,416,000
|
1,900,000
|
Fayyaz Ahmad Chattha |
|
492
|
Guwahati | India |
808,000
|
820,000
|
Dolly Borah |
|
542
|
Gwalior | India |
690,000
|
866,000
|
Sameeksha Gupta |
|
250
|
Gwangju | South Korea |
1,415,000
|
1,500,000
|
Kang Un-tae |
|
354
|
Haicheng | China |
1,130,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Haifa | Israel |
276,000
|
975,000
|
Yona Yahav |
|
474
|
Haikou | China |
830,000
|
|
n/k |
|
429
|
Haimen | China |
950,000
|
|
n/k |
|
151
|
Haiphong | Vietnam |
1,885,000
|
1,885,000
|
Trinh Quang Su |
|
n/r
|
Halle | Germany |
233,000
|
|
Dagmar Szabados |
|
n/r
|
Hama | Syria |
325,000
|
1,500,000
|
Abdul Razzaq al-Qutainy |
|
482
|
Hamamatsu | Japan |
815,000
|
1,093,000
|
Yasutomo Suzuki |
|
166
|
Hamburg | Germany |
1,775,000
|
3,260,000
|
Olaf Scholz |
|
479
|
Hamhung | North Korea |
821,000
|
821,000
|
n/k |
|
260
|
Handan | China |
1,390,000
|
8,500,000
|
Guo Dajian |
|
69
|
Hangzhou | China |
3,408,000
|
6,776,000
|
Cai Qi |
|
n/r
|
Hannover | Germany |
520,000
|
1,130,000
|
Stephan Weil |
|
270
|
HANOI | Vietnam |
1,372,000
|
6,500,000
|
Nguyen The Thao |
|
406
|
Haora | India |
1,008,000
|
|
Sri Gopal Mukherjee |
|
407
|
Haora | India |
1,008,000
|
1,020,000
|
Sri Gopal Mukherjee |
|
194
|
HARARE | Zimbabwe |
1,600,000
|
2,800,000
|
Muchadeyi Masunda |
|
42
|
Harbin | China |
4,755,000
|
9,874,000
|
Zhang Xiaolian |
|
116
|
HAVANA | Cuba |
2,430,000
|
3,700,000
|
Juan Contino Aslán |
|
207
|
Hechuan | China |
1,530,000
|
|
n/k |
|
169
|
Hefei | China |
1,750,000
|
4,867,000
|
Wu Cunrong |
|
577
|
HELSINKI | Finland |
583,000
|
1,311,000
|
Jussi Pajunen |
|
456
|
Hengyang | China |
880,000
|
7,000,000
|
n/k |
|
584
|
Hengyang | China |
561,000
|
799,000
|
n/k |
|
303
|
Heze | China |
1,280,000
|
|
Du Changwen |
|
415
|
Hezhou | China |
990,000
|
2,090,000
|
n/k |
|
476
|
Hims | Syria |
823,000
|
|
Nadia Kseibi |
|
336
|
Hiroshima | Japan |
1,174,000
|
1,700,000
|
Kazumi Matsui |
|
26
|
Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam |
7,100,000
|
|
Pham Phuong Thao |
|
480
|
Hohhot | China |
820,000
|
1,041,000
|
n/k |
|
27
|
Hong Kong | China |
7,055,000
|
|
Donald Tsang |
|
457
|
Honghu | China |
880,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Honolulu | USA |
370,000
|
894,000
|
Peter Carlisle |
|
126
|
Houston | USA |
2,242,000
|
5,728,000
|
Annise Parker |
|
321
|
Huainan | China |
1,201,000
|
|
Cao Yong |
|
246
|
Huazhou | China |
1,420,000
|
|
n/k |
|
498
|
Hubli | India |
801,000
|
801,000
|
n/k |
|
86
|
Huludao | China |
2,787,000
|
|
Sun Zhaolin |
|
159
|
Huzhou | China |
1,800,000
|
2,700,000
|
Ma Yi |
|
60
|
Hyderabad | India |
3,637,000
|
6,290,000
|
Banda Karthika Reddy |
|
237
|
Hyderabad | Pakistan |
1,447,000
|
1,500,000
|
Kanwar Naveed Jamil |
|
102
|
Ibadan | Nigeria |
2,550,000
|
3,000,000
|
Adebayo Alao-Akala |
|
96
|
Incheon | South Korea |
2,630,000
|
2,630,000
|
Song Young-gil |
|
502
|
Indianapolis | USA |
798,000
|
1,715,000
|
Gregory A. Ballard |
|
147
|
Indore | India |
1,912,000
|
1,920,000
|
Krishna Murari Moghe |
|
295
|
Irbil | Iraq |
1,294,000
|
1,5000,000
|
n/k |
|
12
|
Istanbul | Turkey |
9,560,000
|
12,600,000
|
Kadir Topbas |
|
122
|
Izmir | Turkey |
2,330,000
|
3,200,000
|
Aziz Kocaoglu |
|
358
|
Jabalpur | India |
1,117,000
|
1,150,000
|
Prabhat Sahu |
|
493
|
Jacksonville | USA |
808,000
|
1,300,000
|
John Peyton |
|
78
|
Jaipur | India |
3,050,000
|
5,690,000
|
Jyoti Khandelwal |
|
11
|
JAKARTA | Indonesia |
10,100,000
|
24,100,000
|
Joko Widodo |
|
532
|
Jalandhar | India |
714,000
|
764,000
|
n/k |
|
563
|
Jamshedpur | India |
630,000
|
1,135,000
|
n/k |
|
54
|
Jeddah | Saudi Arabia |
3,856,000
|
4,500,000
|
Adil Faqeeh |
|
514
|
Jerusalem | Israel |
764,000
|
1,029,000
|
Nir Barkat Nazareth |
|
388
|
Jiangdu | China |
1,053,000
|
|
n/k |
|
241
|
Jianyang | China |
1,430,000
|
|
n/k |
|
143
|
Jilin | China |
1,953,000
|
4,523,000
|
Zhang Xiaopei |
|
361
|
Jimo | China |
1,112,000
|
|
n/k |
|
149
|
Jinan | China |
1,900,000
|
2,444,000
|
Zhang Jianguo |
|
362
|
Jining | China |
1,110,000
|
|
Zhang Zhen Chuan |
|
277
|
Jinjiang | China |
1,350,000
|
|
Kenneth Li |
|
543
|
Jinzhou | China |
690,000
|
902,000
|
n/k |
|
516
|
Jixi | China |
760,000
|
1,960,000
|
Zhu, Deyi |
|
538
|
Joao Pessoa | Brazil |
702,000
|
984,000
|
Ricardo Coutinho |
|
408
|
Jodhpur | India |
1,007,000
|
|
Om Kumari Gehlot |
|
53
|
Johannesburg | South Africa |
3,888,000
|
10,268,000
|
Amos Masondo |
|
64
|
KABUL | Afghanistan |
3,586,000
|
4,000,000
|
Mohammad Yunus Noandesh |
|
229
|
Kaduna | Nigeria |
1,460,000
|
1,500,000
|
Mohammed Namadi Sambo |
|
574
|
Kaifeng | China |
584,000
|
855,000
|
n/k |
|
247
|
KAMPALA | Uganda |
1,420,000
|
1,600,000
|
Nasser Sebaggala |
|
62
|
Kano | Nigeria |
3,626,000
|
3,900,000
|
Ibrahim Shekarau |
|
75
|
Kanpur | India |
3,100,000
|
4,865,000
|
Ravindra Patani |
|
n/r
|
Kansas City | USA |
480,000
|
2,050,000
|
Mark Funkhouser |
|
208
|
Kaohsiung | Taiwan |
1,530,000
|
2,960,000
|
Chen Chu |
|
1
|
Karachi | Pakistan |
15,500,000
|
18,000,000
|
Fazlur Rehman |
|
264
|
Karaj | Iran |
1,380,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Karlsruhe | Germany |
291,000
|
|
Heinz Fenrich |
|
430
|
KATHMANDU | Nepal |
949,000
|
1,700,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Katowice | Poland |
340,000
|
2,746,000
|
Piotr Uszok |
|
261
|
Kawasaki | Japan |
1,390,000
|
1,450,000
|
Takao Abe |
|
359
|
Kazan | Russia |
1,115,000
|
1,300,000
|
lsur Metshin |
|
477
|
Kermanshah | Iran |
823,000
|
966,000
|
n/k |
|
228
|
Kharkiv | Ukraine |
1,461,000
|
1,674,000
|
Mykhailo Dobkin |
|
129
|
KHARTOUM | Sudan |
2,208,000
|
7,500,000
|
Abdul Rahman Alkheder |
|
463
|
Khulna | Bangladesh |
856,000
|
1,388,000
|
Talukder Abdul Khaleque |
|
84
|
KIEV | Ukraine |
2,820,000
|
3,300,000
|
Alexander Popov |
|
562
|
KINGSTON | Jamaica |
650,000
|
925,000
|
n/k |
|
18
|
KINSHASA | Congo D.R. |
8,200,000
|
10,100,000
|
André Kimbuta Yango |
|
n/r
|
Kisangani | Congo D.R. |
510,000
|
818,000
|
n/k |
|
418
|
Kitakyushu | Japan |
985,000
|
1,050,000
|
Kenji Kitahashi |
|
589
|
Kitwe | Zambia |
548,000
|
786,000
|
n/k |
|
206
|
Kobe | Japan |
1,534,000
|
1,560,000
|
Tatsuo Yada |
|
36
|
Kolkata | India |
5,100,000
|
15,420,000
|
Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya |
|
497
|
Kolwezi | Congo D.R. |
803,000
|
803,000
|
n/k |
|
139
|
Kowloon | China |
2,020,000
|
2,200,000
|
Wong Kwok-keung |
|
n/r
|
Kozhikode | India |
437,000
|
|
M. Bhaskaran |
|
519
|
Krakow | Poland |
755,000
|
1,250,000
|
Jacek Majchrowski |
|
534
|
Krasnodar | Russia |
710,000
|
780,000
|
Vladimir Yevlanov |
|
439
|
Krasnoyarsk | Russia |
920,000
|
950,000
|
Pyotr Pimashkov |
|
n/r
|
Krefeld | Germany |
236,000
|
|
Gregor Kathstede |
|
157
|
KUALA LUMPUR | Malaysia |
1,810,000
|
5,470,000
|
Dato Ahmed Fuad Ismail |
|
216
|
Kumasi | Ghana |
1,500,000
|
2,500,000
|
Samuel Sarpong |
|
76
|
Kunming | China |
3,100,000
|
6,800,000
|
Zhang Zulin |
|
n/r
|
KUWAIT CITY | Kuwait |
96,000
|
2,380,000
|
n/k |
|
227
|
Kyoto | Japan |
1,466,000
|
1,500,000
|
Daisaku Kadokawa |
|
307
|
La Matanza | Argentina |
1,255,000
|
|
n/k |
|
212
|
LA PAZ | Bolivia |
1,517,000
|
1,551,000
|
Luis Antonio Revilla Herrero |
|
535
|
La Plata | Argentina |
710,000
|
833,000
|
Pablo Bruera |
|
20
|
Lagos | Nigeria |
7,938,000
|
9,123,000
|
Babatunde Raji Fashola |
|
30
|
Lahore | Pakistan |
6,100,000
|
8,600,000
|
Mian Amir Mahmood |
|
312
|
Laiwu | China |
1,249,000
|
|
Ma Pingchang |
|
448
|
Laizhou | China |
902,000
|
|
n/k |
|
135
|
Lanzhou | China |
2,088,000
|
3,300,000
|
Zhang Jinliang |
|
586
|
Las Vegas | USA |
558,000
|
1,866,000
|
Oscar B Goodman |
|
510
|
Leeds | UK |
778,000
|
1,500,000
|
Paul Rogerson |
|
n/r
|
Leipzig | Germany |
515,000
|
1,417,000
|
Burkhard Jung |
|
349
|
Leon | Mexico |
1,138,000
|
1,635,000
|
Ricardo Sheffield |
|
333
|
Leqing | China |
1,183,000
|
|
n/k |
|
357
|
Leshan | China |
1,120,000
|
|
n/k |
|
290
|
Lianjiang | China |
1,300,000
|
|
Xing Taian |
|
n/r
|
Lille | France |
226,000
|
1,143,000
|
Martine Aubry |
|
461
|
LILONGWE | Malawi |
866,000
|
|
n/k |
|
22
|
LIMA | Peru |
7,606,000
|
8,473,000
|
Susana Villaran |
|
123
|
Linyi | China |
2,300,000
|
10,080,000
|
Lian Chengmin |
|
587
|
LISBON | Portugal |
558,000
|
2,612,000
|
António Costa |
|
n/r
|
Liuan | China |
320,000
|
1,600,000
|
Tang Linxiang |
|
265
|
Liuyang | China |
1,380,000
|
|
Liang Zhong |
|
487
|
Liuzhou | China |
810,000
|
990,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Liverpool | UK |
435,000
|
817,000
|
n/k |
|
506
|
Lodz | Poland |
783,000
|
1,429,000
|
Jerzy Kropiwickni |
|
23
|
LONDON | UK |
7,557,000
|
12,200,000
|
Boris Johnson |
|
55
|
Los Angeles | USA |
3,834,000
|
12,890,000
|
Antonio Villaraigosa |
|
n/r
|
Louisville | USA |
260,000
|
1,040,000
|
Jerry Abramson |
|
41
|
LUANDA | Angola |
4,799,000
|
5,500,000
|
José Maria Ferraz dos Santos |
|
n/r
|
Lübeck | Germany |
211,000
|
|
Bernd Saxe |
|
347
|
Lubumbashi | Congo D.R. |
1,140,000
|
1,250,000
|
Moise Katumbi |
|
121
|
Lucknow | India |
2,342,000
|
2,686,000
|
Dinesh Sharma |
|
256
|
Ludhiana | India |
1,400,000
|
4,400,000
|
n/k |
|
278
|
Lufeng | China |
1,350,000
|
|
n/k |
|
217
|
Luoyang | China |
1,500,000
|
1,499,000
|
Guo Hongchang |
|
363
|
LUSAKA | Zambia |
1,110,000
|
3,120,000
|
Robert Chikwelete |
|
266
|
Luzhou | China |
1,380,000
|
4,800,000
|
Liu Guoqiang |
|
524
|
Lviv | Ukraine |
740,000
|
1,040,000
|
Andriy Sadovyi |
|
n/r
|
Lyon | France |
472,000
|
1,665,000
|
Gérard Collomb |
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