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Cities listed in alphabetical order S to Z
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.The research was carried out in late 2009 and early 2010. For the population data City Mayors consulted numerous national and international sources and in cases of large statistical inconsistencies elected to publish cautious averages. Readers and scholars are invited to inform of any discrepancies and/or provide missing facts and figures. The data is updated monthly. Please insert ‘Largest cities 2010’ in the subject line of any email.
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TABLES:
By size of cities: 1 to 150 | 151 to 300 | 301 to 450 | 451 to 600 |
City by city: A to D | E to L | M to R | S to Z |
Country by country: A to D | E to L | M to R | S to Z |
Comments
Largest cities and their mayors in 2010 (S to Z)
NB Metro population figures for China are often those of their prefectures; n/r = not ranked
|
World rank
|
City
|
Country
|
City
population |
Metro
population |
Mayor
|
|
n/r
|
Sacramento | USA |
419,000
|
1,000,000
|
Kevin Johnson
|
|
432
|
Safi | Morocco |
933,000
|
|
|
|
n/r
|
Saint Louis | USA |
371,000
|
2,850,000
|
Francis G. Slay
|
|
334
|
Saitama | Japan |
1,183,000
|
|
Hayato Shimizu
|
|
470
|
Sakai | Japan |
836,000
|
|
Keisuke Kiharac
|
|
446
|
Salé | Morocco |
904,000
|
|
|
|
n/r
|
Salt Lake City | USA |
188,000
|
1,677,000
|
Ralph Becker
|
|
79
|
Salvador da Bahia | Brazil |
2,998,000
|
3,173,000
|
João Henrique Carneiro
|
|
344
|
Samara | Russia |
1,160,000
|
1,500,000
|
Viktor Tarkhov
|
|
276
|
San Antonio | USA |
1,351,000
|
2,031,000
|
Julian Castro
|
|
305
|
San Diego | USA |
1,280,000
|
3,001,000
|
Jerry Sanders
|
|
491
|
San Francisco | USA |
809,000
|
3,229,000
|
Gavin Newsom
|
|
409
|
San Jose | USA |
1,007,000
|
1,819,000
|
Chuck Reed
|
|
n/r
|
SAN JOSE | Costa Rica |
357,000
|
1,370,000
|
Johnny Araya
|
|
n/r
|
SAN JUAN | Puerto Rico |
442,000
|
2,500,000
|
Jorge A. Santini Padilla
|
|
544
|
San Luis Potosi | Mexico |
685,000
|
957,000
|
Jorge Lozano Armengol
|
|
n/r
|
SAN SALVADOR | El Salvador |
520,000
|
1,580,000
|
Norman Quijano
|
|
172
|
SANAA | Yemen |
1,747,000
|
2,168,000
|
Abdulrahman al-Akwaa
|
|
196
|
Santa Cruz | Bolivia |
1,595,000
|
1,863,000
|
Percy Fernandez
|
|
35
|
SANTIAGO | Chile |
5,278,000
|
6,677,000
|
Pablo Zalaquett Said
|
|
284
|
Santiago de los Caballeros | Dominican Republic |
1,329,000
|
1,937.000
|
|
|
494
|
Santiago de Queretaro | Mexico |
805,000
|
1,085,000
|
Francisco Domínguez Servien
|
|
80
|
SANTO DOMINGO | Dominican Republic |
2,989,000
|
3,813,000
|
Roberto Salcedo
|
|
n/r
|
Santos | Brazil |
418,000
|
1,477,000
|
João Paulo Tavares Papa
|
|
507
|
Sao Bernardo do Campo | Brazil |
783,000
|
|
Luiz Marinho
|
|
419
|
Sao Goncalo | Brazil |
973,000
|
1.221,000
|
|
|
567
|
Sao Jose dos Campos | Brazil |
611,000
|
794,000
|
Eduardo Cury
|
|
417
|
Sao Luis | Brazil |
987,000
|
1,228,000
|
João Castelo
|
|
9
|
Sao Paulo | Brazil |
11,038,000
|
19,890,000
|
Gilberto Kassab
|
|
148
|
Sapporo | Japan |
1,906,000
|
2,130,000
|
Fumio Ueda
|
|
472
|
Saratov | Russia |
831,000
|
1,100,000
|
Vyacheslav Leonovich Somov
|
|
581
|
Seattle | USA |
578,000
|
3,584,000
|
Mike McGinn
|
|
259
|
Semarang | Indonesia |
1,393,000
|
1,400,000
|
|
|
396
|
Sendai | Japan |
1,032,000
|
1,300,000
|
Emiko Okuyama
|
|
379
|
Seongnam | South Korea |
1,073,000
|
|
|
|
8
|
SEOUL | South Korea |
11,153,000
|
24,472,000
|
Oh Se-hoon
|
|
537
|
Sevilla | Spain |
704,000
|
1,135,000
|
Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín
|
|
2
|
Shanghai | China |
14,900,000
|
19,200,000
|
Han Zheng
|
|
191
|
Shangqiu | China |
1,610,000
|
8,220,000
|
|
|
167
|
Shantou | China |
1,770,000
|
4,972,000
|
Cai Zong Ze
|
|
599
|
Sheffield | UK |
535,000
|
640,000
|
Paul Scriven
|
|
37
|
Shenyang | China |
5,090,000
|
7,760,000
|
Li Yingjie
|
|
50
|
Shenzhen | China |
4,320,000
|
8,616,000
|
|
|
97
|
Shijiazhuang | China |
2,630,000
|
9,600,000
|
Ai Wenli
|
|
318
|
Shiraz | Iran |
1,228,000
|
1,300,000
|
Mehran E'temad
|
|
530
|
Shizuoka | Japan |
718,000
|
1,211,000
|
Zenkichi Kojima
|
|
455
|
Sholapur | India |
890,000
|
890,000
|
|
|
373
|
Shouguang | China |
1,090,000
|
|
|
|
39
|
SINGAPORE | Singapore |
4,988,000
|
|
Lee Hsien Loong
|
|
252
|
SOFIA | Bulgaria |
1,403,000
|
1,455,000
|
Yordanka Fandukova
|
|
351
|
Solapur | India |
1,134,000
|
|
Aruna Vakase
|
|
445
|
Songzi | China |
905,000
|
|
|
|
436
|
Soweto | South Africa |
923,000
|
|
Amos Masondo (Johannesburg)
|
|
440
|
Srinagar | India |
915,000
|
1,050,000
|
Salman Sagar
|
|
43
|
St Petersburg | Russia |
4,661,000
|
4,900,000
|
Valentina Matviyenko
|
|
n/r
|
St. Louis | USA |
372,000
|
2,850,000
|
Francis G Slay
|
|
475
|
STOCKHOLM | Sweden |
826,000
|
1,252,000
|
Sten Nordin
|
|
n/r
|
Strasbourg | France |
273,000
|
639,000
|
Roland Rie
|
|
570
|
Stuttgart | Germany |
600,000
|
2,330,000
|
Wolfgang Schuster
|
|
412
|
Subra al-Haymah | Egypt |
998,000
|
|
|
|
262
|
Suining | China |
1,385,000
|
3,500,000
|
|
|
181
|
Suizhou | China |
1,680,000
|
|
Li Hongyun
|
|
77
|
Surabaya | Indonesia |
3,100,000
|
3,700,000
|
Bambang D H
|
|
600
|
Surakarta | Indonesia |
533,000
|
857,000
|
|
|
34
|
Surat | India |
5,390,000
|
6,347,000
|
|
|
375
|
Suwon | South Korea |
1,087,000
|
|
|
|
119
|
Suzhou | China |
2,383,000
|
6,298,000
|
Yan Li
|
|
161
|
Suzhou Anhui | China |
1,800,000
|
5,600,000
|
Tang Chengpei
|
|
48
|
Sydney | Australia |
4,400,000
|
|
Clover Moore
|
|
248
|
Tabriz | Iran |
1,420,000
|
|
Alireza Novin
|
|
186
|
Taian | China |
1,650,000
|
5,500,000
|
Li Hongfeng
|
|
384
|
Taichung | Taiwan |
1,065,000
|
2,700,000
|
Jason Hu
|
|
512
|
Tainan | Taiwan |
769,000
|
785,000
|
Hsu Tain-tsair
|
|
98
|
TAIPEI | Taiwan |
2,620,000
|
6,753,000
|
Hau Lung-pin
|
|
381
|
Taishan | China |
1,070,000
|
|
|
|
274
|
Taixing | China |
1,355,000
|
|
|
|
103
|
Taiyuan | China |
2,550,000
|
3,400,000
|
Zhang Bingsheng
|
|
210
|
Taizhou | China |
1,528,000
|
5,741,000
|
|
|
n/r
|
TALLINN | Estonia |
407,000
|
|
Edgar Savisaar
|
|
n/r
|
Tampa | USA |
341,000
|
2,700,000
|
Pam Iorio
|
|
n/r
|
Tampico | Mexico |
319,000
|
775,000
|
|
|
203
|
Tangerang | Indonesia |
1,545,000
|
|
Wahidin Halim
|
|
536
|
Tangier | Morocco |
710,000
|
|
|
|
142
|
Tangshan | China |
1,980,000
|
7,100,000
|
Zhang Guodong
|
|
132
|
TASHKENT | Uzbekistan |
2,180,000
|
3,400,000
|
Abdukahar Tuhtayev
|
|
221
|
TBILISI | Georgia |
1,490,000
|
1,550,000
|
Giorgi Ugulava
|
|
n/r
|
Tegal | Indonesia |
238,000
|
784,000
|
|
|
326
|
Tegucigalpa | Honduras |
1,200,000
|
1,324,000
|
Ricardo Alvarez
|
|
16
|
TEHRAN | Iran |
8,430,000
|
13,450,000
|
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
|
|
n/r
|
TEL AVIV | Israel |
383,000
|
3,250,000
|
Ron Huldai
|
|
170
|
Tengzhou | China |
1,750,000
|
|
Du Yongguang
|
|
453
|
Teresina | Brazil |
893,000
|
949,000
|
Silvio Mendes
|
|
268
|
Thane | India |
1,375,000
|
|
Smita Indulkar
|
|
n/r
|
The Hague | Netherlands |
486,000
|
1,011,000
|
Van Aartsen
|
|
n/r
|
Thessaloniki | Greece |
407,000
|
798,000
|
Vasilis Papageorgopoulos
|
|
488
|
Thiruvananthapuram | India |
810,000
|
955,000
|
C Jayan Babu
|
|
24
|
Tianjin | China |
7,500,000
|
11,750,000
|
Huang Xingguo
|
|
165
|
Tianmen | China |
1,790,000
|
|
|
|
188
|
Tianshui | China |
1,630,000
|
3,450,000
|
|
|
222
|
Tijuana | Mexico |
1,484,000
|
1,500,000
|
Jorge Ramos Hernandez
|
|
517
|
Tiruchchirappalli | India |
760,000
|
863,000
|
|
|
545
|
Tlalnepantla de Baz | Mexico |
685,000
|
800,000
|
Arturo Ugalde Meneses
|
|
15
|
TOKYO | Japan |
8,653,000
|
31,036,000
|
Shintaro Ishihara
|
|
505
|
Toluca | Mexico |
785,000
|
1,650,000
|
Maria Elena Barrera Tapia
|
|
257
|
Tongzhou | China |
1,400,000
|
|
|
|
101
|
Toronto | Canada |
2,571,000
|
5,100,000
|
David Miller
|
|
410
|
Torreon | Mexico |
1,001,000
|
|
Eduardo Olmos Castro
|
|
n/r
|
Toulouse | France |
438,000
|
851,000
|
Pierre Cohen
|
|
179
|
TRIPOLI | Libya |
1,683,000
|
2,270,000
|
Abdullatif Abdulrahman Aldaali
|
|
209
|
TSHWANE (PRETORIA) | South Africa |
1,530,000
|
2,346,000
|
Gwen Ramokgopa
|
|
597
|
Tucson | USA |
542,000
|
720,000
|
Bob Walkup
|
|
n/r
|
Tucuman | Argentina |
528,000
|
830,000
|
Domingo Amaya
|
|
n/r
|
Tulsa | USA |
399,000
|
813,000
|
Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr
|
|
327
|
TUNIS | Tunisia |
1,200,000
|
3,980,000
|
Abbès Mohsen
|
|
442
|
Turin | Italy |
910,000
|
1,617,000
|
Sergio Chiamparino
|
|
398
|
Ufa | Russia |
1,023,000
|
1,050,000
|
Pavel Kachkayev
|
|
338
|
Ujung Pandang | Indonesia |
1,170,000
|
1,254,000
|
|
|
364
|
ULAANBAATAR | Mongolia |
1,108,000
|
|
|
|
356
|
Ulsan | South Korea |
1,127,000
|
|
Bak Maeng-woo
|
|
162
|
Urumqi | China |
1,800,000
|
2,680,000
|
Jerla Isamudin
|
|
219
|
Vadodara | India |
1,500,000
|
3,642,000
|
Balakrishna Shukla
|
|
328
|
Valencia | Venezuela |
1,200,000
|
1,750,000
|
Edgardo Parra
|
|
489
|
Valencia | Spain |
810,000
|
1,720,000
|
Rita Barberá Nolla
|
|
n/r
|
Valparaiso | Chile |
301,000
|
904,000
|
Aldo Cornej
|
|
580
|
Vancouver | Canada |
580,000
|
2,120,000
|
Gregor Robertson
|
|
269
|
Varanasi | India |
1,375,000
|
3,150,000
|
Kaushalendra Singh
|
|
n/r
|
Venice | Italy |
271,000
|
Giorgio Orsoni | |
|
n/r
|
Vereeniging | South Africa |
385,000
|
774,000
|
|
|
180
|
VIENNA | Austria |
1,681,000
|
2,269,000
|
Michael Häupl
|
|
428
|
Vijayawada | India |
957,000
|
1,150,000
|
Ratna Bindu
|
|
593
|
VILNIUS | Lithuania |
545,000
|
|
Vilius Navickas
|
|
421
|
Visakhapatnam | India |
970,000
|
1,330,000
|
B N Vishnu
|
|
n/r
|
Vitoria | Brazil |
313,000
|
1,628,000
|
João Carlos Coser
|
|
403
|
Volgograd | Russia |
1,012,000
|
1,292,000
|
Roman Grebennikov
|
|
468
|
Voronezh | Russia |
849,000
|
950,000
|
Sergey Koliukh
|
|
368
|
Wafangdian | China |
1,100,000
|
|
|
|
176
|
WARSAW | Poland |
1,712,000
|
3,350,000
|
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
|
|
571
|
WASHINGTON DC | USA |
600,000
|
5,300,000
|
Adrian Fenty
|
|
235
|
Weifang | China |
1,450,000
|
8,500,000
|
Xu Liquan
|
|
435
|
Weinan | China |
925,000
|
|
|
|
n/r
|
Wiesbaden | Germany |
277,000
|
|
Helmut Müller
|
|
46
|
Wuhan | China |
4,500,000
|
6,200,000
|
Ruan Chengfa
|
|
422
|
Wujiang | China |
970,000
|
1,500,000
|
|
|
n/r
|
Wuppertal | Germany |
353,000
|
|
Peter Jung
|
|
171
|
Wuxi | China |
1,750,000
|
2,230,000
|
Mao Xiaoping
|
|
112
|
Xiamen | China |
2,490,000
|
|
|
|
93
|
Xian | China |
2,670,000
|
4,480,000
|
Chen Baogen
|
|
533
|
Xining | China |
713,000
|
894,000
|
|
|
223
|
Xintai | China |
1,480,000
|
|
|
|
230
|
Xinyang | China |
1,460,000
|
|
|
|
156
|
Xuzhou | China |
1,830,000
|
9,410,000
|
Cao Xinping
|
|
47
|
Yangon | Myanmar (Burma) |
4,468,000
|
5.500,000
|
Aung Thein Lynn
|
|
163
|
Yantai | China |
1,800,000
|
6,500,000
|
Zhang Jiangting
|
|
242
|
YAOUNDÉ | Cameroon |
1,430,000
|
1,550,000
|
|
|
365
|
YEREVAN | Armenia |
1,108,000
|
1,246,000
|
Gagik Beglaryan
|
|
400
|
Yichun | China |
1,020,000
|
958,000
|
Gong Jianhua
|
|
293
|
Yiyang | China |
1,300,000
|
4,500,000
|
|
|
n/r
|
Yogyakarta | Indonesia |
417,000
|
840,000
|
|
|
59
|
Yokohama | Japan |
3,655,000
|
|
Fumiko Hayashi
|
|
279
|
Yongcheng | China |
1,347,000
|
|
|
|
317
|
Yuzhou | China |
1,230,000
|
|
|
|
495
|
ZAGREB | Croatia |
804,000
|
1,288,000
|
Milan Bandic
|
|
345
|
Zapopan | Mexico |
1,155,000
|
1,200,000
|
Hector Vielma Ordoñez
|
|
508
|
Zaporizhzhya | Ukraine |
782,000
|
|
Yevgeni Kartashov
|
|
450
|
Zaria | Nigeria |
898,000
|
|
|
|
551
|
Zhangjiakou | China |
680,000
|
882,000
|
|
|
236
|
Zhanjiang | China |
1,450,000
|
6,900,000
|
Ruan Risheng
|
|
99
|
Zhengzhou | China |
2,600,000
|
4,510,000
|
Zhou Jiancai
|
|
111
|
Zhongshan | China |
2,495,000
|
|
Li Qihong
|
|
83
|
Zibo | China |
2,850,000
|
4,200,000
|
Liu Huiyan
|
|
n/r
|
Zurich | Switzerland |
333,000
|
965,000
|
Corine Mauch
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