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The largest cities in the
world and their mayors
Cities ranked 451 to 600

The tables rank cities by city population but also provide data on the size of metro areas. 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.

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 |
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Largest cities and their mayors in 2010 (451 to 600)
NB Metro population figures for China are often those of their prefectures

World rank	City	Country	City population	Metro population	Mayor
451	ABU DHABI	UAE	897,000		Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
452	Cartagena	Colombia	893,000	1,240,000	Judith Pinedo
453	Teresina	Brazil	893,000	949,000	Silvio Mendes
454	Danyang	China	890,000
455	Sholapur	India	890,000	890,000
456	Hengyang	China	880,000	7,000,000
457	Honghu	China	880,000
458	Mombasa	Kenia	880,000		Ahmed Abubakar Mohdhar
459	Daye	China	874,000
460	Bogor	Indonesia	866,000		Diani Budiarto
461	LILONGWE	Malawi	866,000
462	Duque de Caxias	Brazil	864,000	1,000,000	José Camilo Zito dos Santos Filho
463	Khulna	Bangladesh	856,000	1,388,000	Talukder Abdul Khaleque
464	Marseille	France	852,000	1,605,000	Jean-Claude Gaudin
465	Bucheon	South Korea	850,000	850,000
466	Norfolk	USA	850,000	1,616,000
467	PANAMA CITY	Panama	850,000	1,220,000	Bosco Vallarino
468	Voronezh	Russia	849,000	950,000	Sergey Koliukh
469	Nova Iguacu	Brazil	846,000	959,000	Lindberg Farias
470	Sakai	Japan	836,000		Keisuke Kiharac
471	Port Elizabeth	South Africa	833,000	1,245,000	Nondumiso Maphasi
472	Saratov	Russia	831,000	1,100,000	Vyacheslav Leonovich Somov
473	Benxi	China	830,000	1,567,000	Gang Rui
474	Haikou	China	830,000
475	STOCKHOLM	Sweden	826,000	1,252,000	Sten Nordin
476	Hims	Syria	823,000		Nadia Kseibi
477	Kermanshah	Iran	823,000	966,000
478	Naucalpan	Mexico	822,000	835,000	Azucena Olivares Villagómez
479	Hamhung	North Korea	821,000	821,000
480	Hohhot	China	820,000	1,041,000
481	Padang	Indonesia	820,000	900,000	Fauzi Bahar
482	Hamamatsu	Japan	815,000	1,093,000	Yasutomo Suzuki
483	OTTAWA	Canada	815,000	1,131,000	Larry O'Brien
484	Ad-Dammam	Saudi Arabia	813,000	2,051,000	Dhaifallah al-'Utaybi
485	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	812,000	2,000,000	Dhaifallah al-'Utaybi
486	Niigata	Japan	812,000		Akira Shinoda
487	Liuzhou	China	810,000	990,000
488	Thiruvananthapuram	India	810,000	955,000	C Jayan Babu
489	Valencia	Spain	810,000	1,720,000	Rita Barberá Nolla
490	Bengbu	China	809,000	3,470,000	Chen Qitao
491	San Francisco	USA	809,000	3,229,000	Gavin Newsom
492	Guwahati	India	808,000	820,000	Dolly Borah
493	Jacksonville	USA	808,000	1,300,000	John Peyton
494	Santiago de Queretaro	Mexico	805,000	1,085,000	Francisco Domínguez Servien
495	ZAGREB	Croatia	804,000	1,288,000	Milan Bandic
496	ASTANA	Kazakhstan	803,000		Imangali Tasmagambetov
497	Kolwezi	Congo D.R.	803,000	803,000
498	Hubli	India	801,000	801,000
499	Daqing	China	800,000	2,770,000
500	Nanyang	China	800,000	10,700,000	Huang Xingwei
501	Mysore	India	799,000		Purushotham
502	Indianapolis	USA	798,000	1,715,000	Gregory A. Ballard
503	Natal	Brazil	790,000	1,100,000
504	CHISINAU	Moldova	785,000	911,000	Dorin Chirtoaca
505	Toluca	Mexico	785,000	1,650,000	Maria Elena Barrera Tapia
506	Lodz	Poland	783,000	1,429,000	Jerzy Kropiwickni
507	Sao Bernardo do Campo	Brazil	783,000		Luiz Marinho
508	Zaporizhzhya	Ukraine	782,000		Yevgeni Kartashov
509	ABUJA	Nigeria	779,000	900,000	Muhammad Adamu Aliero
510	Leeds	UK	778,000	1,500,000	Paul Rogerson
511	Masqat-Matrah	Oman	776,000	776,000
512	Tainan	Taiwan	769,000	785,000	Hsu Tain-tsair
513	BISHKEK	Kyrgyzstan	765,000	800,000	Nariman Tuleyev
514	Jerusalem	Israel	764,000	1,029,000	Nir Barkat Nazareth
515	AMSTERDAM	Netherlands	762,000	1,536,000	Job Cohen
516	Jixi	China	760,000	1,960,000	Zhu, Deyi
517	Tiruchchirappalli	India	760,000	863,000
518	ATHENS	Greece	757,000	3,216,000	Nikitas Kaklamanis
519	Krakow	Poland	755,000	1,250,000	Jacek Majchrowski
520	Cebu City	Philippines	747,000	1,198,000	Tomas R Osmena
521	Ankang	China	743,000
522	Bandar Lampung	Indonesia	743,000	1,123,000
523	Malang	Indonesia	742,000	921,000
524	Lviv	Ukraine	740,000	1,040,000	Andriy Sadovyi
525	Merida	Mexico	734,000	890,000	César Bojórquez Zapata
526	Edmonton	Canada	730,000	1,035,000	Stephen Mandel
527	Ogbomosho	Nigeria	726,000	985,000
528	RIGA	Latvia	725,000	878,000	Nils Usakovs
529	Acapulco	Mexico	718,000	880,000	Manuel Añorve Bolaños
530	Shizuoka	Japan	718,000	1,211,000	Zenkichi Kojima
531	Columbus	USA	714,000	1,540,000	Michael B Coleman
532	Jalandhar	India	714,000	764,000
533	Xining	China	713,000	894,000
534	Krasnodar	Russia	710,000	780,000	Vladimir Yevlanov
535	La Plata	Argentina	710,000	833,000	Pablo Bruera
536	Tangier	Morocco	710,000
537	Sevilla	Spain	704,000	1,135,000	Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín
538	Joao Pessoa	Brazil	702,000	984,000	Ricardo Coutinho
539	Okayama	Japan	700,000	1,250,000	Shigeo Takaya
540	Chihuahua	Mexico	694,000	825,000
541	Fuxin	China	690,000	969,000
542	Gwalior	India	690,000	866,000	Sameeksha Gupta
543	Jinzhou	China	690,000	902,000
544	San Luis Potosi	Mexico	685,000	957,000	Jorge Lozano Armengol
545	Tlalnepantla de Baz	Mexico	685,000	800,000	Arturo Ugalde Meneses
546	Palermo	Italy	684,000	947,000	Diego Cammarata
547	Oran	Algeria	683,000	772,000	Saddek Benkada
548	Austin	USA	681,000	1,185,000	Lee Leffingwell
549	Aligarh	India	680,000	1,116,000
550	DUSHANBE	Tajikistan	680,000	810,000	Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev
551	Zhangjiakou	China	680,000	882,000
552	Amravati	India	678,000	1,031,000
553	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	676,000	676,000	Thaba Moyo
554	Durban	South Africa	670,000	3,468,000	Obed Mlama
555	Memphis	USA	670,000	1,281,000	AC Wharton
556	Baltimore	USA	667,000	2,670,000	Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake
557	Frankfurt	Germany	665,000	2,717,000	Petra Roth
558	Aguascalientes	Mexico	664,000	701,000	Gabriel Arellano Espinoza
559	Bhubaneswar	India	659,000	1,455,000
560	BANGUI	Central African Republic	652,000	789,000
561	COLOMBO	Sri Lanka	650,000	2,400,000	Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas
562	KINGSTON	Jamaica	650,000	925,000
563	Jamshedpur	India	630,000	1,135,000
564	RABAT	Morocco	627,000	1,790,000	Omar El Bahraoui
565	Nashville	USA	626,000	1,633,000	Karl Dean
566	Boston	USA	621,000	4,033,000	Thomas Menino
567	Sao Jose dos Campos	Brazil	611,000	794,000	Eduardo Cury
568	Cochabamba	Bolivia	608,000	798,000
569	Milwaukee	USA	604,000	1,740,000	Tom Barrett
570	Stuttgart	Germany	600,000	2,330,000	Wolfgang Schuster
571	WASHINGTON DC	USA	600,000	5,300,000	Adrian Fenty
572	Rotterdam	Netherlands	590,000	1,187,000	Ahmed Aboutaleb
573	Dortmund	Germany	584,000		Ullrich Sierau
574	Kaifeng	China	584,000	855,000
575	OSLO	Norway	584,000	876,000	Fabian Stang
576	Denver	USA	583,000	2,746,000	John W Hickenlooper
577	HELSINKI	Finland	583,000	1,311,000	Jussi Pajunen
578	Glasgow	UK	581,000	1,200,000
579	Essen	Germany	580,000		Reinhard Paß
580	Vancouver	Canada	580,000	2,120,000	Gregor Robertson
581	Seattle	USA	578,000	3,584,000	Mike McGinn
582	Culiacan	Mexico	567,000	766,000
583	Bhilai	India	564,000	942,000
584	Hengyang	China	561,000	799,000
585	Charlotte	USA	559,000	1,466,000	Anthony Foxx
586	Las Vegas	USA	558,000	1,866,000	Oscar B Goodman
587	LISBON	Portugal	558,000	2,612,000	António Costa
588	Oklahoma City	USA	551,000	1,276,000	Mick Cornett
589	Kitwe	Zambia	548,000	786,000
590	Bremen	Germany	547,000	1,009,000	Jens Böhrnsen
591	Ribeirao Preto	Brazil	547,000	789,000	Dárcy Vera
592	ASUNCION	Paraguay	546,000	1,433,000	Evangelista Troche de Gallegos
593	VILNIUS	Lithuania	545,000		Vilius Navickas
594	MONROVIA	Liberia	543,000	1,010,000	Ophelia Hoff Saytumah
595	Bucaramanga	Colombia	542,000	956,000
596	Portland	USA	542,000	2,255,000	Sam Adams
597	Tucson	USA	542,000	720,000	Bob Walkup
598	Atlanta	USA	538,000	3,500,000	Kasim Reed
599	Sheffield	UK	535,000	640,000	Paul Scriven
600	Surakarta	Indonesia	533,000	857,000

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The largest cities in the world and their mayors Cities ranked 451 to 600

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Cities ranked 451 to 600