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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.

The research was carried out in 2010 and 2011. 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 2011’ 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 2011 (A to D)
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	Aachen	Germany	259,000	1,240,000	Marcel Philipp
56	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	3,800,000	4,000,000	Pierre Djédji Amondji
451	ABU DHABI	UAE	897,000		Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
509	ABUJA	Nigeria	779,000	900,000	Muhammad Adamu Aliero
529	Acapulco	Mexico	718,000	880,000	Manuel Añorve Bolaños
192	ACCRA	Ghana	1,605,000	2,756,000	Alfred Vanderpuije
484	Ad-Dammam	Saudi Arabia	813,000	2,051,000	Dhaifallah al-'Utaybi
340	Adana	Turkey	1,162,000	1,556,000	Aytaç Durak
70	ADDIS ABABA	Ethiopia	3,385,000	4,568,000	Kuma Demeksa
296	Adelaide	Australia	1,290,000		Stephen Yarwood
184	Agra	India	1,650,000	1,800,000	Anjula Singh Mahaur
558	Aguascalientes	Mexico	664,000	701,000	Gabriel Arellano Espinoza
45	Ahmadabad	India	4,525,000	6,168,000	Kanaji Thakor
282	Ahwaz	Iran	1,338,000	1,500,000	Saeed Mombeini
n/r	Al-Hufuf	Saudi Arabia	286,000	784,000	n/k
n/r	Albany	USA	96,000	1,100,000	Gerald Jennings
120	Aleppo	Syria	2,360,000	3,000,000	Ma'an Al-Shibli
52	Alexandria	Egypt	4,110,000	4,350,000	Adel Labib
211	ALGIERS	Algeria	1,520,000	3,354,000	Tayeb Zitouni
549	Aligarh	India	680,000	1,116,000	n/k
320	Allahabad	India	1,215,000	1,250,000	Jitendr Nath Singh
244	ALMATY	Kazakhstan	1,420,000	1,500,000	Akhmetzhan Yesimov
146	AMMAN	Jordan	1,919,000	2,524,000	Omar Maani
552	Amravati	India	678,000	1,031,000	n/k
329	Amritsar	India	1,195,000	1,300,000	Shawet Malik
515	AMSTERDAM	Netherlands	762,000	1,536,000	Eberhard van der Laan
521	Ankang	China	743,000		n/k
57	ANKARA	Turkey	3,764,000	4,000,000	Melih Gökçek
322	Anqiu	China	1,200,000		n/k
297	Anshan	China	1,290,000	2,404,000	n/k
447	ANTANANARIVO	Madagascar	903,000	1,403,000	n/k
n/r	Antwerp	Belgium	444,000	948,000	Patrick Janssens
233	Anyang	China	1,450,000	3,000,000	Zhang Xiaodong
443	Arequipa	Peru	905,000		Simón Balbuena Marroquín
n/r	ASMARA	Eritrea	392,000	881,000	n/k
496	ASTANA	Kazakhstan	803,000		Imangali Tasmagambetov
592	ASUNCION	Paraguay	546,000	1,433,000	Evangelista Troche de Gallegos
518	ATHENS	Greece	757,000	3,216,000	Giorgos Kaminis
598	Atlanta	USA	538,000	3,500,000	Kasim Reed
n/r	Auckland	New Zealand	428,000	1,333,000	Len Brown
n/r	Augsburg	Germany	263,000		Kurt Gribl
339	Aurangabad	India	1,168,000		Vijaya Rahatkar
548	Austin	USA	681,000	1,185,000	Lee Leffingwell
32	Baghdad	Iraq	6,050,000	6,500,000	Sabir al-Issawi
138	BAKU	Azerbaijan	2,040,000	2,072,000	Hajibala Abutalybov
556	Baltimore	USA	667,000	2,670,000	Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake
158	BAMAKO	Mali	1,809,000		Adama B. Sangaré
522	Bandar Lampung	Indonesia	743,000	1,123,000	n/k
106	Bandung	Indonesia	2,510,000	3,829,000	Dada Rosada
33	Bangalore	India	5,840,000	6,562,000	SK Nataraj
13	BANGKOK	Thailand	9,100,000	11,970,000	Sukhumbhand Paribatra
560	BANGUI	Central African Republic	652,000	789,000	n/k
413	Baoding	China	997,000		n/k
109	Baoshan	China	2,500,000		Xiong Qinghua
287	Baotou	China	1,318,000	1,750,000	Hu Ercha
182	Barcelona	Spain	1,673,000	3,890,000	Jordi Hereu
214	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	1,500,000	1,500,000	Amalia Saez
294	Barranquilla	Colombia	1,298,000	1,871,000	Alejandro Char Chaljub
168	Basrah	Iraq	1,760,000	3,800,000	Jabbar Jaber Al-Latif
331	Bazhong	China	1,186,000		n/k
4	BEIJING	China	12,460,000	17,550,000	Guo Jinlong
390	Beiliu	China	1,050,000		n/k
309	BEIRUT	Lebanon	1,250,000	2,600,000	Abdel Mounim Ariss
251	Belem	Brazil	1,409,000	1,913,000	Duciomar Costa
335	BELGRADE	Yugoslavia	1,182,000	1,630,000	Dragan Dillas
114	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	2,453,000	5,397,000	Marcio Lacerda
490	Bengbu	China	809,000	3,470,000	Chen Qitao
226	Benghazi	Libya	1,471,000	1,500,000	n/k
389	Benin	Nigeria	1,051,000	1,052,000	n/k
473	Benxi	China	830,000	1,567,000	Gang Rui
68	BERLIN	Germany	3,432,000	3,943,000	Klaus Wowereit
583	Bhilai	India	564,000	942,000	n/k
231	Bhopal	India	1,458,000	1,600,000	Krishna Gaur
559	Bhubaneswar	India	659,000	1,455,000	n/k
n/r	Bielefeld	Germany	324,000	1,420,000	Peter Clausen
353	Bijie	China	1,130,000	7,188,000	n/k
n/r	Bilbao	Spain	351,000	879,000	Iñzki Azkuna
401	Birmingham	UK	1,017,000	2,284,000	Mike Whitby
n/r	Birmingham	USA	245,000	1,200,000	William A. Bell
513	BISHKEK	Kyrgyzstan	765,000	800,000	Nariman Tuleyev
460	Bogor	Indonesia	866,000		Diani Budiarto
25	BOGOTA	Colombia	7,320,000	8,361,000	Samuel Moreno Rojas
n/r	Bordeaux	France	250,000	1,010,000	Alain Juppé
566	Boston	USA	621,000	4,033,000	Thomas Menino
n/r	Bouakt	Ivory Coast	531,000	775,000	n/k
275	Bozhou	China	1,352,000		Liu Jian
134	BRASILIA	Brazil	2,089,000	2,090,000	José Roberto Arruda
n/r	BRATISLAVA	Slovak Republic	431,000	550,000	Milan Ftácnik
n/r	Braunschweig	Germany	246,000		Gert Hoffmann
352	BRAZZAVILLE	Congo Br	1,133,000	1,134,000	n/k
590	Bremen	Germany	547,000	1,009,000	Jens Böhrnsen
204	Brisbane	Australia	1,544,000	1,544,000	Campbell Newman
n/r	Bruges	Belgium	117,000		Patrick Moenaert
427	BRUSSELS	Belgium	958,000	1,740,000	Freddy Thielemans
595	Bucaramanga	Colombia	542,000	956,000	n/k
140	BUCHAREST	Romania	1,994,000	2,151,000	Sorin Oprescu
465	Bucheon	South Korea	850,000	850,000	n/k
175	BUDAPEST	Hungary	1,712,000	2,503,000	István Tarlós
6	BUENOS AIRES	Argentina	11,655,000	12,924,000	Mauricio Macri
n/r	Buffalo	USA	296,000	1,572,000	Byron Brown
553	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	676,000	676,000	Thaba Moyo
253	Bursa	Turkey	1,400,000	3,190,000	Recep Altepe
63	Busan	South Korea	3,600,000	4,292,000	Hur Nam-sik
21	CAIRO	Egypt	7,764,000	15,546,000	Abdul Azim Wazir
416	Calgary	Canada	988,000	1,080,000	Naheed Nenshi
104	Cali	Colombia	2,525,000	2,801,000	Jorge Ivan Ospina
267	Caloocan	Philippines	1,379,000		Enrico Echiverri
386	Campinas	Brazil	1,059,000	3,200,000	Hélio de Oliveira Santos
66	Cape Town	South Africa	3,497,000	7,280,000	Patricia de Lille
87	CARACAS	Venezuela	2,762,000	3,478,000	Antonio Ledezma
452	Cartagena	Colombia	893,000	1,240,000	Judith Pinedo
58	Casablanca	Morocco	3,673,000	3,850,000	Mohammed Sajid
n/r	Catania	Italy	337,000	831,000	n/k
520	Cebu City	Philippines	747,000	1,198,000	Tomas R Osmena
449	Chandigarh	India	901,000		n/k
65	Changchun	China	3,581,000	7,460,000	Cui Jie
254	Changde	China	1,400,000	6,000,000	Chen Wenhao
89	Changsha	China	2,744,000	6,140,000	Zhang Jiangfei
392	Changshu	China	1,048,000		Wang Xiang
n/r	Changweon	South Korea	486,000	1,254,000	n/k
136	Changzhou	China	2,086,000	3,570,000	Wang Weicheng
113	Chaoyang	China	2,471,000		Zhang Tiemin
585	Charlotte	USA	559,000	1,466,000	Anthony Foxx
371	Chelyabinsk	Russia	1,092,000	1,200,000	Mikhail Yurevich
n/r	Chemnitz	Germany	243,000	1,082,000	Barbara Ludwig
49	Chengdu	China	4,334,000	11,000,000	Ge Honglin
44	Chennai	India	4,600,000	7,330,000	M Subramaniam
424	Chiba	Japan	962,000	970,000	Toshihito Kumagai
82	Chicago	USA	2,853,000	8,770,000	Rahm Emanuel
540	Chihuahua	Mexico	694,000	825,000	n/k
504	CHISINAU	Moldova	785,000	911,000	Dorin Chirtoaca
100	Chittagong	Bangladesh	2,580,000	3,858,000	Mohammed Manjur Alam
38	Chongqing	China	5,087,000	9,700,000	Huang Qifan
n/r	Cincinnati	USA	380,000	2,155,000	Mark L. Mallory
n/r	Cirebon	Indonesia	319,000	926,000	n/k
431	Ciudad Guayana	Venezuela	940,000	1,000,000	José Ramón Lopéz
255	Ciudad Juarez	Mexico	1,400,000	2,010,000	José Reyes Ferriz
319	Cixi	China	1,220,000		n/k
n/r	Cleveland	USA	434,000	2,250,000	Frank G. Jackson
568	Cochabamba	Bolivia	608,000	798,000	n/k
433	Coimbatore	India	931,000	1,446,000	R.Venkatachalam
414	Cologne	Germany	995,000	11,297,000	Jürgen Roters
n/r	Colombo	Brazil	247,000	2,160,000	José Antonio Camargo
561	COLOMBO	Sri Lanka	650,000	2,400,000	Uvais Mohamed Imitiyas
531	Columbus	USA	714,000	1,540,000	Michael B Coleman
145	CONAKRY	Guinea	1,931,000		Mamadou Wasco Camara
n/r	Concepción	Chile	404,000	978,000	Jacqueline van Rysselberghe
369	COPENHAGEN	Denmark	1,096,000	1,096,000	Frank Jensen
288	Cordoba	Argentina	1,310,000	1,528,000	Daniel Giacomino
582	Culiacan	Mexico	567,000	766,000	n/k
153	Curitiba	Brazil	1,851,000	3,261,000	Carlos Richa
105	Daegu	South Korea	2,512,000		Kim Bum-il
239	Daejeon	South Korea	1,443,000		Yum Hong-chul
397	DAKAR	Senegal	1,031,000	2,253,000	Khalifa Sall
124	Dalian	China	2,270,000	3,478,000	Li Wancai
302	Dallas	USA	1,280,000	6,300,000	Tom Leppert
183	DAMASCUS	Syria	1,670,000	4,350,000	Bishr Al Sabban
485	Dammam	Saudi Arabia	812,000	2,000,000	Dhaifallah al-'Utaybi
454	Danyang	China	890,000		n/k
499	Daqing	China	800,000	2,770,000	n/k
110	DAR ES SALAAM	Tanzania	2,498,000	2,700,000	Adam Kimbisa
308	Datong	China	1,253,000	1,377,000	n/k
272	Davao City	Philippines	1,363,000		Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio
459	Daye	China	874,000		n/k
n/r	Dayton	USA	167,000	848,000	n/k
5	DELHI	India	12,100,000	16,713,000	Kanwar Sain
n/r	Denpasar	Indonesia	491,000	934,000	n/k
576	Denver	USA	583,000	2,746,000	John W Hickenlooper
441	Detroit	USA	912,000	3,903,000	Dave Bing
19	DHAKA	Bangladesh	7,940,000	12,797,000	Sadeque Hossain Khosa
383	Dhanbad	India	1,065,000	1,200,000	n/k
394	Dnipropetrovsk	Ukraine	1,040,000	1,480,000	Ivan Ivanovych Kulichenko
366	Donetsk	Ukraine	1,100,000	1,570,000	Oleksandr Lukianchenko
29	Dongguan	China	6,446,000	7,650,000	Li Yuquan
337	Dongtai	China	1,170,000		n/k
n/r	Dongying	China	294,000	804,000	n/k
573	Dortmund	Germany	584,000		Ullrich Sierau
263	Douala	Cameroon	1,382,000	2,000,000	n/k
n/r	Dresden	Germany	512,000	1,030,000	Helma Orosz
374	Dubai	UAE	1,089,000	2,100,000	n/k
n/r	Dublin	Ireland	506,000	1,661,000	Emer Costello
n/r	Duisburg	Germany	494,000		Adolf Sauerland
462	Duque de Caxias	Brazil	864,000	1,000,000	José Camilo Zito dos Santos Filho
554	Durban	South Africa	670,000	3,468,000	Obed Mlama
85	Durg	India	2,810,000		Dr Shiv Kumar Tamer
550	DUSHANBE	Tajikistan	680,000	810,000	Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev

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2004 to 2010
In 2004: Winner: Edi Rama (Tirana, Albania); Runner-up: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico City, Mexico); In third place: Walter Veltroni (Rome, Italy)
In 2005: Winner: Dora Bakoyannis (Athens, Greece); Runner-up: Hazel McCallion (Mississauga, Canada); In third place: Alvaro Arzú (Guatemala City, Guatemala)
In 2006: Winner: John So (Melbourne, Australia); Runner up: Job Cohen (Amsterdam, Netherland); In third place: Stephen Reed (Harrisburg, USA)
In 2008: Winner: Helen Zille (Cape Town, South Africa); Runner up: Elmar Ledergerber (Zurich, Switzerland); In third place: Leopoldo López (Chacao, Venezuela)
In 2010: Winner: Marcelo Ebrard (Mexico City, Mexico); Runner-up: Mick Cornett (Oklahoma City, USA); In third place: Domenico Lucano (Riace, Italy)
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The largest cities in the world and their mayors Cities listed in alphabetical order A to D

The largest cities in the
world and their mayors
Cities listed in alphabetical order A to D