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The largest cities in the
world and their mayors
Cities listed in alphabetical order (E to L)

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 (E to L)
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
178	Ecatepec	Mexico	1,688,000	1,690,000	Eruviel Ávila Villegas
526	Edmonton	Canada	730,000	1,035,000	Stephen Mandel
n/r	Einhoven	Netherlands	212,000	440,000	R van Gijzel
286	Ekaterinburg	Russia	1,323,000	1,389,000	Eugene Porunov
n/r	Erfurt	Germany	203,000		Andreas Bausewein
197	Esfahan	Iran	1,584,000	2,600,000	Morteza Saqaeian Nejad
579	Essen	Germany	580,000		Reinhard Paß
385	Ezhou	China	1,064,000		n/k
107	Faisalabad	Pakistan	2,510,000	5,081,000	Rana Zahid Tauseef
387	Faridabad	India	1,055,000	2,193,000	n/k
426	Feicheng	China	960,000		n/k
310	Fengcheng	China	1,250,000		n/k
405	Fes	Morocco	1,009,000		n/k
438	Fez	Morocco	921,000	921,000	n/k
n/r	Florence	Italy	375,000	825,000	Matteo Renzi
108	Fortaleza	Brazil	2,506,000	3,415,000	Luizianne Lins
557	Frankfurt	Germany	665,000	2,717,000	Petra Roth
395	FREETOWN	Sierra Leone	1,032,000	1,032,000	Herbert-George Williams
n/r	Freiburg	Germany	220,000		Dieter Salomon
n/r	Fresno	USA	500,000	1,000,000	Ashley Swearengin
234	Fukuoka	Japan	1,450,000	2,230,000	Hiroshi Yoshida
323	Fuqing	China	1,200,000		n/k
238	Fushun	China	1,445,000	2,300,000	Wang Yang
541	Fuxin	China	690,000	969,000	n/k
174	Fuyang	China	1,720,000		Sun Yunfei
91	Fuzhou (Fujian)	China	2,710,000	6,630,000	Yuan Rongxiang
399	Fuzhou (Jiangxi)	China	1,020,000	3,700,000	Xìe Yìs®•
185	Gaozhou	China	1,650,000		n/k
n/r	Gaza	Palestine	410,000	1,000,000	n/k
434	Gaziantep	Turkey	927,000	1,912,000	n/k
n/r	Gdansk	Poland	457,000	866,000	Pawel Adamowicz
n/r	Gelsenkirchen	Germany	262,000		Frank Baranowski
n/r	Gent	Belgium	233,000		Daniël Termont
420	Ghaziabad	India	970,000		Damyanti Goel
127	Giza	Egypt	2,225,000	2,600,000	n/k
578	Glasgow	UK	581,000	1,200,000	n/k
301	Goiania	Brazil	1,282,000	2,064,000	Íris Rezende Machado
391	Gongzhuling	China	1,050,000		n/k
n/r	Gothenburg	Sweden	506,000	916,000	Anneli Hulthén
378	Goyang	South Korea	1,073,000		n/k
n/r	Grand Rapids	USA	193,000	777,000	George Heartwell
n/r	Greensboro	USA	256,000	710,000	Bill Knight
198	Guadalajara	Mexico	1,580,000	3,600,000	Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval
341	Guangyuan	China	1,160,000	3,037,000	n/k
28	Guangzhou	China	6,458,000	10,182,000	Wan Qingliang
300	Guarulhos	Brazil	1,283,000	1,500,000	Sebastião Moreira
372	GUATEMALA CITY	Guatemala	1,090,000	2,564,000	Alvaro Arzú
131	Guayaquil	Ecuador	2,196,000	2,686,000	Jaime Nebot
215	Guigang	China	1,500,000	4,400,000	n/k
280	Guilin	China	1,340,000		Li Zhigang
245	Guiping	China	1,420,000		n/k
67	Guiyang	China	3,450,000		Yuan Zhou
249	Gujranwala	Pakistan	1,416,000	1,900,000	Fayyaz Ahmad Chattha
492	Guwahati	India	808,000	820,000	Dolly Borah
542	Gwalior	India	690,000	866,000	Sameeksha Gupta
250	Gwangju	South Korea	1,415,000	1,500,000	Kang Un-tae
354	Haicheng	China	1,130,000		n/k
n/r	Haifa	Israel	276,000	975,000	Yona Yahav
474	Haikou	China	830,000		n/k
429	Haimen	China	950,000		n/k
151	Haiphong	Vietnam	1,885,000	1,885,000	Trinh Quang Su
n/r	Halle	Germany	233,000		Dagmar Szabados
n/r	Hama	Syria	325,000	1,500,000	Abdul Razzaq al-Qutainy
482	Hamamatsu	Japan	815,000	1,093,000	Yasutomo Suzuki
166	Hamburg	Germany	1,775,000	3,260,000	Olaf Scholz
479	Hamhung	North Korea	821,000	821,000	n/k
260	Handan	China	1,390,000	8,500,000	Guo Dajian
69	Hangzhou	China	3,408,000	6,776,000	Cai Qi
n/r	Hannover	Germany	520,000	1,130,000	Stephan Weil
270	HANOI	Vietnam	1,372,000	6,500,000	Nguyen The Thao
406	Haora	India	1,008,000		Sri Gopal Mukherjee
407	Haora	India	1,008,000	1,020,000	Sri Gopal Mukherjee
194	HARARE	Zimbabwe	1,600,000	2,800,000	Muchadeyi Masunda
42	Harbin	China	4,755,000	9,874,000	Zhang Xiaolian
116	HAVANA	Cuba	2,430,000	3,700,000	Juan Contino Aslán
207	Hechuan	China	1,530,000		n/k
169	Hefei	China	1,750,000	4,867,000	Wu Cunrong
577	HELSINKI	Finland	583,000	1,311,000	Jussi Pajunen
456	Hengyang	China	880,000	7,000,000	n/k
584	Hengyang	China	561,000	799,000	n/k
303	Heze	China	1,280,000		Du Changwen
415	Hezhou	China	990,000	2,090,000	n/k
476	Hims	Syria	823,000		Nadia Kseibi
336	Hiroshima	Japan	1,174,000	1,700,000	Tadatoshi Akiba
26	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	7,100,000		Pham Phuong Thao
480	Hohhot	China	820,000	1,041,000	n/k
27	Hong Kong	China	7,055,000		Donald Tsang
457	Honghu	China	880,000		n/k
n/r	Honolulu	USA	370,000	894,000	Peter Carlisle
126	Houston	USA	2,242,000	5,728,000	Annise Parker
321	Huainan	China	1,201,000		Cao Yong
246	Huazhou	China	1,420,000		n/k
498	Hubli	India	801,000	801,000	n/k
86	Huludao	China	2,787,000		Sun Zhaolin
159	Huzhou	China	1,800,000	2,700,000	Ma Yi
60	Hyderabad	India	3,637,000	6,290,000	Banda Karthika Reddy
237	Hyderabad	Pakistan	1,447,000	1,500,000	Kanwar Naveed Jamil
102	Ibadan	Nigeria	2,550,000	3,000,000	Adebayo Alao-Akala
96	Incheon	South Korea	2,630,000	2,630,000	Song Young-gil
502	Indianapolis	USA	798,000	1,715,000	Gregory A. Ballard
147	Indore	India	1,912,000	1,920,000	Krishna Murari Moghe
295	Irbil	Iraq	1,294,000	1,5000,000	n/k
12	Istanbul	Turkey	9,560,000	12,600,000	Kadir Topbas
122	Izmir	Turkey	2,330,000	3,200,000	Aziz Kocaoglu
358	Jabalpur	India	1,117,000	1,150,000	Prabhat Sahu
493	Jacksonville	USA	808,000	1,300,000	John Peyton
78	Jaipur	India	3,050,000	5,690,000	Jyoti Khandelwal
11	JAKARTA	Indonesia	10,100,000	24,100,000	Fauzi Bowo
532	Jalandhar	India	714,000	764,000	n/k
563	Jamshedpur	India	630,000	1,135,000	n/k
54	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	3,856,000	4,500,000	Adil Faqeeh
514	Jerusalem	Israel	764,000	1,029,000	Nir Barkat Nazareth
388	Jiangdu	China	1,053,000		n/k
241	Jianyang	China	1,430,000		n/k
143	Jilin	China	1,953,000	4,523,000	Zhang Xiaopei
361	Jimo	China	1,112,000		n/k
149	Jinan	China	1,900,000	2,444,000	Zhang Jianguo
362	Jining	China	1,110,000		Zhang Zhen Chuan
277	Jinjiang	China	1,350,000		Kenneth Li
543	Jinzhou	China	690,000	902,000	n/k
516	Jixi	China	760,000	1,960,000	Zhu, Deyi
538	Joao Pessoa	Brazil	702,000	984,000	Ricardo Coutinho
408	Jodhpur	India	1,007,000		Om Kumari Gehlot
53	Johannesburg	South Africa	3,888,000	10,268,000	Amos Masondo
64	KABUL	Afghanistan	3,586,000	4,000,000	Mohammad Yunus Noandesh
229	Kaduna	Nigeria	1,460,000	1,500,000	Mohammed Namadi Sambo
574	Kaifeng	China	584,000	855,000	n/k
247	KAMPALA	Uganda	1,420,000	1,600,000	Nasser Sebaggala
62	Kano	Nigeria	3,626,000	3,900,000	Ibrahim Shekarau
75	Kanpur	India	3,100,000	4,865,000	Ravindra Patani
n/r	Kansas City	USA	480,000	2,050,000	Mark Funkhouser
208	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	1,530,000	2,960,000	Chen Chu
1	Karachi	Pakistan	15,500,000	18,000,000	Fazlur Rehman
264	Karaj	Iran	1,380,000		n/k
n/r	Karlsruhe	Germany	291,000		Heinz Fenrich
430	KATHMANDU	Nepal	949,000	1,700,000	n/k
n/r	Katowice	Poland	340,000	2,746,000	Piotr Uszok
261	Kawasaki	Japan	1,390,000	1,450,000	Takao Abe
359	Kazan	Russia	1,115,000	1,300,000	lsur Metshin
477	Kermanshah	Iran	823,000	966,000	n/k
228	Kharkiv	Ukraine	1,461,000	1,674,000	Mykhailo Dobkin
129	KHARTOUM	Sudan	2,208,000	7,500,000	Abdul Rahman Alkheder
463	Khulna	Bangladesh	856,000	1,388,000	Talukder Abdul Khaleque
84	KIEV	Ukraine	2,820,000	3,300,000	Alexander Popov
562	KINGSTON	Jamaica	650,000	925,000	n/k
18	KINSHASA	Congo D.R.	8,200,000	10,100,000	André Kimbuta Yango
n/r	Kisangani	Congo D.R.	510,000	818,000	n/k
418	Kitakyushu	Japan	985,000	1,050,000	Kenji Kitahashi
589	Kitwe	Zambia	548,000	786,000	n/k
206	Kobe	Japan	1,534,000	1,560,000	Tatsuo Yada
36	Kolkata	India	5,100,000	15,420,000	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya
497	Kolwezi	Congo D.R.	803,000	803,000	n/k
139	Kowloon	China	2,020,000	2,200,000	Wong Kwok-keung
n/r	Kozhikode	India	437,000		M. Bhaskaran
519	Krakow	Poland	755,000	1,250,000	Jacek Majchrowski
534	Krasnodar	Russia	710,000	780,000	Vladimir Yevlanov
439	Krasnoyarsk	Russia	920,000	950,000	Pyotr Pimashkov
n/r	Krefeld	Germany	236,000		Gregor Kathstede
157	KUALA LUMPUR	Malaysia	1,810,000	5,470,000	Dato Ahmed Fuad Ismail
216	Kumasi	Ghana	1,500,000	2,500,000	Samuel Sarpong
76	Kunming	China	3,100,000	6,800,000	Zhang Zulin
n/r	KUWAIT CITY	Kuwait	96,000	2,380,000	n/k
227	Kyoto	Japan	1,466,000	1,500,000	Daisaku Kadokawa
307	La Matanza	Argentina	1,255,000		n/k
212	LA PAZ	Bolivia	1,517,000	1,551,000	Luis Antonio Revilla Herrero
535	La Plata	Argentina	710,000	833,000	Pablo Bruera
20	Lagos	Nigeria	7,938,000	9,123,000	n/k
30	Lahore	Pakistan	6,100,000	8,600,000	Mian Amir Mahmood
312	Laiwu	China	1,249,000		Ma Pingchang
448	Laizhou	China	902,000		n/k
135	Lanzhou	China	2,088,000	3,300,000	Zhang Jinliang
586	Las Vegas	USA	558,000	1,866,000	Oscar B Goodman
510	Leeds	UK	778,000	1,500,000	Paul Rogerson
n/r	Leipzig	Germany	515,000	1,417,000	Burkhard Jung
349	Leon	Mexico	1,138,000	1,635,000	Ricardo Sheffield
333	Leqing	China	1,183,000		n/k
357	Leshan	China	1,120,000		n/k
290	Lianjiang	China	1,300,000		Xing Taian
n/r	Lille	France	226,000	1,143,000	Martine Aubry
461	LILONGWE	Malawi	866,000		n/k
22	LIMA	Peru	7,606,000	8,473,000	Susana Villaran
123	Linyi	China	2,300,000	10,080,000	Lian Chengmin
587	LISBON	Portugal	558,000	2,612,000	António Costa
n/r	Liuan	China	320,000	1,600,000	Tang Linxiang
265	Liuyang	China	1,380,000		Liang Zhong
487	Liuzhou	China	810,000	990,000	n/k
n/r	Liverpool	UK	435,000	817,000	n/k
506	Lodz	Poland	783,000	1,429,000	Jerzy Kropiwickni
23	LONDON	UK	7,557,000	12,200,000	Boris Johnson
55	Los Angeles	USA	3,834,000	12,890,000	Antonio Villaraigosa
n/r	Louisville	USA	260,000	1,040,000	Jerry Abramson
41	LUANDA	Angola	4,799,000	5,500,000	José Maria Ferraz dos Santos
n/r	Lübeck	Germany	211,000		Bernd Saxe
347	Lubumbashi	Congo D.R.	1,140,000	1,250,000	Moise Katumbi
121	Lucknow	India	2,342,000	2,686,000	Dinesh Sharma
256	Ludhiana	India	1,400,000	4,400,000	n/k
278	Lufeng	China	1,350,000		n/k
217	Luoyang	China	1,500,000	1,499,000	Guo Hongchang
363	LUSAKA	Zambia	1,110,000	3,120,000	Robert Chikwelete
266	Luzhou	China	1,380,000	4,800,000	Liu Guoqiang
524	Lviv	Ukraine	740,000	1,040,000	Andriy Sadovyi
n/r	Lyon	France	472,000	1,665,000	Gérard Collomb

City Mayors accepts nominations for the 2012 World Mayor Prize

World Mayor 2012
Nominations sought
The City Mayors Foundation now seeks nominations for the 2012 World Mayor Prize. The Prize is awarded every two years to a mayor who has made outstanding contributions to his / her community and has developed a vision for urban living and working that is relevant to towns and cities across the world. Online nominations

Time table
Nominations will be accepted until the middle of May 2012. A shortlist of candidates will be published in early June 2012. The winner of the 2012 World Mayor Prize and other results of the World Mayor Project will be announced in early December 2012. Online nominations

Background
The City Mayors Foundation, the international think tank on urban affairs, organises the World Mayor Project and awards the World Mayor Prize. The Prize, which has been given since 2004, honours mayors with the vision, passion and skills to make their cities incredible places to live in, work in and visit. The World Mayor Project aims to show what outstanding mayors can achieve and raise their profiles nationally and internationally. Online nominations

Winners and runners-up
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 (E to L)

The largest cities in the
world and their mayors
Cities listed in alphabetical order (E to L)