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Well-known cities

A short shelf for quick browsing. This order is based on the source population field, not a quality ranking.

01TokyoJapan→02JakartaIndonesia→03DelhiIndia→04ChongqingChina→05GuangzhouChina→06MumbaiIndia→07ManilaPhilippines→08ShanghaiChina→09Sao PauloBrazil→10SeoulKorea, South→11BeijingChina→12Mexico CityMexico→

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Popular cities A–Z

The 120 largest eligible cities, alphabetized for quick scanning. Use search or country collections for the full library.

AbidjanCôte d’Ivoire5.6 million→Addis AbabaEthiopia5.7 million→AhmedabadIndia8 million→AnkaraTurkey5.8 million→BaghdadIraq8.1 million→BandungIndonesia7.2 million→BangaloreIndia8.4 million→BangkokThailand18 million→BaodingChina11.5 million→BeijingChina21.9 million→BijieChina6.9 million→BogotaColombia10.1 million→Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de, Argentina16.7 million→CairoEgypt20.3 million→CangzhouChina7.3 million→ChangdeChina5.8 million→ChengduChina20.9 million→ChennaiIndia12.4 million→ChicagoUnited States8.6 million→ChongqingChina32.1 million→DalianChina7.5 million→DallasUnited States6 million→Dar es SalaamTanzania8 million→DelhiIndia32.2 million→DezhouChina5.6 million→DhakaDhaka, Bangladesh19.1 million→DongguanGuangdong, China10.6 million→DoualaCameroon5.8 million→FoshanChina9.5 million→FuyangAnhui, China8.2 million→GanzhouChina9 million→GuadalajaraJalisco, Mexico5.5 million→GuangzhouChina26.9 million→HangzhouChina11.9 million→HanoiVietnam8.7 million→HarbinChina10.6 million→HengyangChina6.6 million→HezeChina8.8 million→Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam15.1 million→Hong KongHong Kong7.5 million→HoustonUnited States6.2 million→HuanggangChina6.3 million→HyderabadIndia10.5 million→IstanbulTurkey15.5 million→JakartaIndonesia33.8 million→JieyangChina5.6 million→JinanChina9.2 million→JiningShandong, China8.4 million→KarachiPakistan20.2 million→KhartoumSudan7.9 million→KinshasaCongo (Kinshasa)17.1 million→KolkataIndia21.7 million→Kuala LumpurMalaysia8.9 million→LagosLagos, Nigeria16.6 million→LahorePakistan13 million→LiaochengChina6 million→LimaLima, Peru10.3 million→LinyiChina11 million→LondonLondon, City of, United Kingdom11.3 million→Los AngelesCalifornia, United States12 million→LuandaAngola9.1 million→MadridMadrid, Spain6.2 million→ManilaPhilippines24.9 million→MaomingChina6.3 million→Mexico CityMexico21.8 million→MiamiUnited States6.4 million→MoscowMoskva, Russia17.3 million→MumbaiIndia25 million→NagoyaJapan9.2 million→NairobiKenya5.5 million→NanchongChina5.6 million→NangandaoChina6.3 million→NanjingChina9.3 million→NanyangChina9.7 million→New YorkUnited States19.3 million→OsakaJapan15.1 million→ParisÎle-de-France, France11.1 million→PhiladelphiaUnited States5.8 million→PrayagrajIndia6 million→PudongChina5.7 million→PuneIndia8.2 million→QingdaoChina10.1 million→QuanzhouChina8.8 million→QujingChina5.8 million→RangoonBurma6.9 million→Rio de JaneiroBrazil12.6 million→RiyadhSaudi Arabia7.2 million→Saint PetersburgRussia5.6 million→SantiagoRegión Metropolitana, Chile7.2 million→Sao PauloBrazil23.1 million→SeoulKorea, South23 million→ShanghaiChina24.9 million→ShangqiuChina7.8 million→ShangraoChina6.5 million→ShaoyangHunan, China6.6 million→ShenyangChina8.3 million→ShenzhenChina17.6 million→SingaporeSingapore6 million→SurabayaIndonesia6.6 million→SuratIndia6.5 million→SuzhouJiangsu, China12.7 million→TehranIran14.1 million→TianjinChina13.9 million→TokyoJapan37.8 million→TongshanChina9.1 million→TorontoCanada5.6 million→WuhanChina12.4 million→Xi'anChina12.3 million→XiangyangHubei, China5.7 million→XingtaiChina7.1 million→XinyangChina6.2 million→YanchengChina6.7 million→YichunJiangxi, China5.6 million→YueyangChina5.8 million→YulinChina5.8 million→ZhanjiangChina7 million→ZhengzhouChina5.6 million→ZhoukouChina9 million→ZhumadianChina7 million→ZunyiChina6.6 million→

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Afghanistan44 cities Albania13 cities Algeria310 cities Andorra2 cities Angola97 cities Antigua and Barbuda1 city Argentina335 cities Armenia12 cities Aruba2 cities Australia78 cities Austria26 cities Azerbaijan46 cities Bahamas, The2 cities Bahrain6 cities Bangladesh118 cities Barbados1 city Belarus36 cities Belgium157 cities Belize3 cities Benin93 cities Bhutan2 cities Bolivia47 cities Bosnia and Herzegovina23 cities Botswana18 cities Brazil1,607 cities Brunei2 cities Bulgaria47 cities Burkina Faso49 cities Burma100 cities Burundi10 cities Cabo Verde6 cities Cambodia26 cities Cameroon75 cities Canada233 cities Cayman Islands1 city Central African Republic14 cities Chad32 cities Chile136 cities China1,335 cities Colombia370 cities Comoros3 cities Congo (Brazzaville)20 cities Congo (Kinshasa)94 cities Costa Rica55 cities Croatia23 cities Cuba143 cities Curaçao1 city Cyprus8 cities Czechia68 cities Côte d’Ivoire65 cities Denmark33 cities Djibouti4 cities Dominican Republic82 cities Ecuador68 cities Egypt137 cities El Salvador68 cities Equatorial Guinea5 cities Eritrea6 cities Estonia5 cities Eswatini3 cities Ethiopia91 cities Fiji6 cities Finland57 cities France451 cities French Guiana2 cities French Polynesia1 city Gabon13 cities Gambia, The10 cities Gaza Strip8 cities Georgia18 cities Germany683 cities Ghana62 cities Gibraltar1 city Greece101 cities Grenada1 city Guam1 city Guatemala183 cities Guinea29 cities Guinea-Bissau9 cities Guyana2 cities Haiti96 cities Honduras39 cities Hong Kong13 cities Hungary59 cities Iceland6 cities India2,607 cities Indonesia236 cities Iran286 cities Iraq85 cities Ireland30 cities Isle of Man1 city Israel74 cities Italy498 cities Jamaica11 cities Japan969 cities Jersey1 city Jordan22 cities Kazakhstan70 cities Kenya52 cities Kiribati1 city Korea, North26 cities Korea, South87 cities Kosovo21 cities Kuwait5 cities Kyrgyzstan32 cities Laos15 cities Latvia10 cities Lebanon31 cities Lesotho13 cities Liberia15 cities Libya30 cities Lithuania15 cities Luxembourg4 cities Macau1 city Madagascar203 cities Malawi18 cities Malaysia82 cities Maldives1 city Mali123 cities Malta6 cities Marshall Islands1 city Martinique3 cities Mauritania16 cities Mauritius6 cities Mayotte3 cities Mexico602 cities Moldova11 cities Monaco1 city Mongolia15 cities Montenegro2 cities Morocco204 cities Mozambique40 cities Namibia14 cities Nepal49 cities Netherlands226 cities New Caledonia4 cities New Zealand24 cities Nicaragua54 cities Niger17 cities Nigeria133 cities North Macedonia9 cities Norway53 cities Oman19 cities Pakistan248 cities Panama17 cities Papua New Guinea13 cities Paraguay50 cities Peru95 cities Philippines1,288 cities Poland216 cities Portugal152 cities Puerto Rico15 cities Qatar8 cities Reunion13 cities Romania90 cities Russia678 cities Rwanda23 cities Saint Lucia2 cities Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2 cities Samoa1 city Sao Tome and Principe1 city Saudi Arabia69 cities Senegal41 cities Serbia72 cities Seychelles1 city Sierra Leone15 cities Singapore11 cities Slovakia35 cities Slovenia7 cities Solomon Islands1 city Somalia41 cities South Africa145 cities South Sudan18 cities Spain390 cities Sri Lanka49 cities Sudan38 cities Suriname3 cities Sweden74 cities Switzerland54 cities Syria85 cities Taiwan105 cities Tajikistan44 cities Tanzania64 cities Thailand129 cities Timor-Leste1 city Togo16 cities Tonga1 city Trinidad and Tobago10 cities Tunisia87 cities Turkey216 cities Turkmenistan20 cities Uganda69 cities Ukraine195 cities United Arab Emirates11 cities United Kingdom638 cities United States2,573 cities Uruguay27 cities Uzbekistan82 cities Vanuatu1 city Venezuela144 cities Vietnam141 cities West Bank12 cities Yemen31 cities Zambia30 cities Zimbabwe27 cities

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Reference datasets help with city identity, scale and geography. Local place records and scientific sources add context where available. Fast-changing decisions such as prices, visas, housing, schedules and neighbourhood conditions still need a current check. Materially updated September 2026.