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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. |
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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/k |
| 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/k |
| 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
|
n/k |
| n/r | SAN JOSE | Costa Rica |
357,000
|
1,370,000
|
Johnny Araya |
| 409 | San Jose | USA |
1,007,000
|
1,819,000
|
Chuck Reed |
| 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
|
Gilberto Serulle |
| 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
|
n/k |
| 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
|
Fernando Haddad |
| 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
|
Soemarmo HS |
| 396 | Sendai | Japan |
1,032,000
|
1,300,000
|
Emiko Okuyama |
| 379 | Seongnam | South Korea |
1,073,000
|
|
n/k |
| 8 | SEOUL | South Korea |
11,153,000
|
24,472,000
|
Oh Se-hoon |
| 537 | Sevilla | Spain |
704,000
|
1,135,000
|
lfredo Sánchez Monteseirín |
| 2 | Shanghai | China |
14,900,000
|
19,200,000
|
Han Zheng |
| 191 | Shangqiu | China |
1,610,000
|
8,220,000
|
Tao Minglun |
| 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
|
Xy Qin |
| 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
|
Nabuhiro Tanabe |
| 455 | Sholapur | India |
890,000
|
890,000
|
n/k |
| 373 | Shouguang | China |
1,090,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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
|
|
n/k |
| 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
|
|
n/k |
| 262 | Suining | China |
1,385,000
|
3,500,000
|
n/k |
| 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
|
n/k |
| 34 | Surat | India |
5,390,000
|
6,347,000
|
Rajendra Desai |
| 375 | Suwon | South Korea |
1,087,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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
|
|
n/k |
| 274 | Taixing | China |
1,355,000
|
|
Gao Yazi |
| 103 | Taiyuan | China |
2,550,000
|
3,400,000
|
Zhang Bingsheng |
| 210 | Taizhou | China |
1,528,000
|
5,741,000
|
Wu Weirong |
| 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
|
n/k |
| 203 | Tangerang | Indonesia |
1,545,000
|
|
Wahidin Halim |
| 536 | Tangier | Morocco |
710,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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
|
n/k |
| 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
|
|
Ashjok Vaity |
| n/r | The Hague | Netherlands |
486,000
|
1,011,000
|
Van Aartsen |
| n/r | Thessaloniki | Greece |
407,000
|
798,000
|
Yiannis Boutaris |
| 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
|
|
n/k |
| 188 | Tianshui | China |
1,630,000
|
3,450,000
|
Li Wenqing |
| 222 | Tijuana | Mexico |
1,484,000
|
1,500,000
|
Carlos Bustamante |
| 517 | Tiruchchirappalli | India |
760,000
|
863,000
|
n/k |
| 545 | Tlalnepantla de Baz | Mexico |
685,000
|
800,000
|
Arturo Ugalde Meneses |
| 15 | TOKYO | Japan |
8,653,000
|
31,036,000
|
Naoki Inose |
| 505 | Toluca | Mexico |
785,000
|
1,650,000
|
Maria Elena Barrera Tapia |
| 257 | Tongzhou | China |
1,400,000
|
|
Ding Dawei |
| 101 | Toronto | Canada |
2,571,000
|
5,100,000
|
Rob Ford |
| 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
|
n/k |
| 364 | ULAANBAATAR | Mongolia |
1,108,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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 |
| 489 | Valencia | Spain |
810,000
|
1,720,000
|
Rita Barberá Nolla |
| 328 | Valencia | Venezuela |
1,200,000
|
1,750,000
|
Edgardo Parra |
| 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 | Vereeniging | South Africa |
385,000
|
774,000
|
n/k |
| 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
|
|
n/k |
| 176 | WARSAW | Poland |
1,712,000
|
3,350,000
|
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz |
| 571 | WASHINGTON DC | USA |
600,000
|
5,300,000
|
Vincent Gray |
| 235 | Weifang | China |
1,450,000
|
8,500,000
|
Xu Liquan |
| 435 | Weinan | China |
925,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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/k |
| 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
|
|
Liu Cigui |
| 93 | Xian | China |
2,670,000
|
4,480,000
|
Chen Baogen |
| 533 | Xining | China |
713,000
|
894,000
|
n/k |
| 223 | Xintai | China |
1,480,000
|
|
Liu Daqun |
| 230 | Xinyang | China |
1,460,000
|
|
Guo Ruimin |
| 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
|
n/k |
| 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/k |
| n/r | Yogyakarta | Indonesia |
417,000
|
840,000
|
n/k |
| 59 | Yokohama | Japan |
3,655,000
|
|
Fumiko Hayashi |
| 279 | Yongcheng | China |
1,347,000
|
|
n/k |
| 317 | Yuzhou | China |
1,230,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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
|
|
n/k |
| 551 | Zhangjiakou | China |
680,000
|
882,000
|
n/k |
| 236 | Zhanjiang | China |
1,450,000
|
6,900,000
|
Ruan Risheng |
| 99 | Zhengzhou | China |
2,600,000
|
4,510,000
|
Zhao Jiancai |
| 111 | Zhongshan | China |
2,495,000
|
|
n/k |
| 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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