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The tables list cities in alphabetical order of their countries. The tables 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. |
|
World rank
|
City
|
Country
|
City
population |
Metro
population |
Mayor
|
|
131
|
Guayaquil | Ecuador |
2,196,000
|
2,686,000
|
Jaime Nebot |
|
187
|
QUITO | Ecuador |
1,648,000
|
1,842,000
|
Augusto Barrera |
|
21
|
CAIRO | Egypt |
7,764,000
|
15,546,000
|
Abdul Azim Wazir |
|
52
|
Alexandria | Egypt |
4,110,000
|
4,350,000
|
Adel Labib |
|
127
|
Giza | Egypt |
2,225,000
|
2,600,000
|
n/k |
|
412
|
Subra al-Haymah | Egypt |
998,000
|
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
SAN SALVADOR | El Salvador |
520,000
|
1,580,000
|
Norman Quijano |
|
n/r
|
ASMARA | Eritrea |
392,000
|
881,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
TALLINN | Estonia |
407,000
|
|
Edgar Savisaar |
|
70
|
ADDIS ABABA | Ethiopia |
3,385,000
|
4,568,000
|
Kuma Demeksa |
|
577
|
HELSINKI | Finland |
583,000
|
1,311,000
|
Jussi Pajunen |
|
133
|
PARIS | France |
2,113,000
|
11,769,000
|
Bertrand Delanoë |
|
464
|
Marseille | France |
852,000
|
1,605,000
|
Jean-Claude Gaudin |
|
n/r
|
Lyon | France |
472,000
|
1,665,000
|
Gérard Collomb |
|
n/r
|
Toulouse | France |
438,000
|
851,000
|
Pierre Cohen |
|
n/r
|
Nice | France |
347,000
|
943,000
|
Christian Estrosi |
|
n/r
|
Nantes | France |
283,000
|
804,000
|
Jean-Marc Ayrault |
|
n/r
|
Strasbourg | France |
273,000
|
639,000
|
Roland Rie |
|
n/r
|
Montpellier | France |
252,000
|
|
Hélène Mandroux-Colas |
|
n/r
|
Bordeaux | France |
250,000
|
1,010,000
|
Alain Juppé |
|
n/r
|
Lille | France |
226,000
|
1,143,000
|
Martine Aubry |
|
n/r
|
Rennes | France |
206,000
|
|
Daniel Delaveau |
|
221
|
TBILISI | Georgia |
1,490,000
|
1,550,000
|
Giorgi Ugulava |
|
68
|
BERLIN | Germany |
3,432,000
|
3,943,000
|
Klaus Wowereit |
|
166
|
Hamburg | Germany |
1,775,000
|
3,260,000
|
Olaf Scholz |
|
271
|
Munich | Germany |
1,367,000
|
2,600,000
|
Christian Ude |
|
414
|
Cologne | Germany |
995,000
|
11,297,000
|
Jürgen Roters |
|
557
|
Frankfurt | Germany |
665,000
|
2,717,000
|
Petra Roth |
|
570
|
Stuttgart | Germany |
600,000
|
2,330,000
|
Wolfgang Schuster |
|
573
|
Dortmund | Germany |
584,000
|
|
Ullrich Sierau |
|
579
|
Essen | Germany |
580,000
|
|
Reinhard Paß |
|
590
|
Bremen | Germany |
547,000
|
1,009,000
|
Jens Böhrnsen |
|
n/r
|
Hannover | Germany |
520,000
|
1,130,000
|
Stephan Weil |
|
n/r
|
Leipzig | Germany |
515,000
|
1,417,000
|
Burkhard Jung |
|
n/r
|
Dresden | Germany |
512,000
|
1,030,000
|
Helma Orosz |
|
n/r
|
Nuremberg | Germany |
504,000
|
1,008,000
|
Ulrich Maly |
|
n/r
|
Duisburg | Germany |
494,000
|
|
Adolf Sauerland |
|
n/r
|
Wuppertal | Germany |
353,000
|
|
Peter Jung |
|
n/r
|
Bielefeld | Germany |
324,000
|
1,420,000
|
Peter Clausen |
|
n/r
|
Mannheim | Germany |
311,000
|
1,456,000
|
Peter Kurz |
|
n/r
|
Karlsruhe | Germany |
291,000
|
|
Heinz Fenrich |
|
n/r
|
Wiesbaden | Germany |
277,000
|
|
Helmut Müller |
|
n/r
|
Münster | Germany |
274,000
|
|
Markus Lewe |
|
n/r
|
Augsburg | Germany |
263,000
|
|
Kurt Gribl |
|
n/r
|
Gelsenkirchen | Germany |
262,000
|
|
Frank Baranowski |
|
n/r
|
Aachen | Germany |
259,000
|
1,240,000
|
Marcel Philipp |
|
n/r
|
Braunschweig | Germany |
246,000
|
|
Gert Hoffmann |
|
n/r
|
Chemnitz | Germany |
243,000
|
1,082,000
|
Barbara Ludwig |
|
n/r
|
Krefeld | Germany |
236,000
|
|
Gregor Kathstede |
|
n/r
|
Halle | Germany |
233,000
|
|
Dagmar Szabados |
|
n/r
|
Magdeburg | Germany |
230,000
|
|
Lutz Trümper |
|
n/r
|
Freiburg | Germany |
220,000
|
|
Dieter Salomon |
|
n/r
|
Oberhausen | Germany |
216,000
|
|
Klaus Wehling |
|
n/r
|
Lübeck | Germany |
211,000
|
|
Bernd Saxe |
|
n/r
|
Erfurt | Germany |
203,000
|
|
Andreas Bausewein |
|
n/r
|
Rostock | Germany |
201,000
|
|
Roland Methling |
|
192
|
ACCRA | Ghana |
1,605,000
|
2,756,000
|
Alfred Vanderpuije |
|
216
|
Kumasi | Ghana |
1,500,000
|
2,500,000
|
Samuel Sarpong |
|
518
|
ATHENS | Greece |
757,000
|
3,216,000
|
Giorgos Kaminis |
|
n/r
|
Thessaloniki | Greece |
407,000
|
798,000
|
Vasilis Papageorgopoulos |
|
372
|
GUATEMALA CITY | Guatemala |
1,090,000
|
2,564,000
|
Alvaro Arzú |
|
145
|
CONAKRY | Guinea |
1,931,000
|
|
Mamadou Wasco Camara |
|
376
|
PORT-AU-PRINCE | Haiti |
1,083,000
|
1,728,000
|
Jean Yves Jason |
|
326
|
Tegucigalpa | Honduras |
1,200,000
|
1,324,000
|
Ricardo Alvarez |
|
175
|
BUDAPEST | Hungary |
1,712,000
|
2,503,000
|
István Tarlós |
|
3
|
Mumbai (Bombay) | India |
13,900,000
|
21,200,000
|
Shraddha Jadhav |
|
5
|
DELHI | India |
12,100,000
|
16,713,000
|
Kanwar Sain |
|
33
|
Bangalore | India |
5,840,000
|
6,562,000
|
SK Nataraj |
|
34
|
Surat | India |
5,390,000
|
6,347,000
|
Rajendra Desai |
|
36
|
Kolkata | India |
5,100,000
|
15,420,000
|
Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya |
|
44
|
Chennai | India |
4,600,000
|
7,330,000
|
M Subramaniam |
|
45
|
Ahmadabad | India |
4,525,000
|
6,168,000
|
Kanaji Thakor |
|
60
|
Hyderabad | India |
3,637,000
|
6,290,000
|
Banda Karthika Reddy |
|
71
|
Pune | India |
3,337,000
|
4,470,000
|
Mohansingh Rajpal |
|
75
|
Kanpur | India |
3,100,000
|
4,865,000
|
Ravindra Patani |
|
78
|
Jaipur | India |
3,050,000
|
5,690,000
|
Jyoti Khandelwal |
|
85
|
Durg | India |
2,810,000
|
|
Dr Shiv Kumar Tamer |
|
117
|
Nagpur | India |
2,420,000
|
|
Archana Dehankar |
|
121
|
Lucknow | India |
2,342,000
|
2,686,000
|
Dinesh Sharma |
|
147
|
Indore | India |
1,912,000
|
1,920,000
|
Krishna Murari Moghe |
|
160
|
Patna | India |
1,800,000
|
2,500,000
|
GhanShyam Kumar |
|
184
|
Agra | India |
1,650,000
|
1,800,000
|
Anjula Singh Mahaur |
|
190
|
Nashik | India |
1,620,000
|
|
Nayana Gholap |
|
213
|
Pimpri Chinchwad | India |
1,515,000
|
|
Yogesh Behl |
|
219
|
Vadodara | India |
1,500,000
|
3,642,000
|
Balakrishna Shukla |
|
231
|
Bhopal | India |
1,458,000
|
1,600,000
|
Krishna Gaur |
|
256
|
Ludhiana | India |
1,400,000
|
4,400,000
|
n/k |
|
268
|
Thane | India |
1,375,000
|
|
Ashjok Vaity |
|
269
|
Varanasi | India |
1,375,000
|
3,150,000
|
Kaushalendra Singh |
|
283
|
Rajkot | India |
1,336,000
|
|
Sandhya Vyas |
|
298
|
Ranchi | India |
1,290,000
|
|
Rama Khalkho |
|
306
|
Meerut | India |
1,277,000
|
|
n/k |
|
320
|
Allahabad | India |
1,215,000
|
1,250,000
|
Jitendr Nath Singh |
|
329
|
Amritsar | India |
1,195,000
|
1,300,000
|
Shawet Malik |
|
339
|
Aurangabad | India |
1,168,000
|
|
Vijaya Rahatkar |
|
351
|
Solapur | India |
1,134,000
|
|
Aruna Vakase |
|
355
|
Madurai | India |
1,130,000
|
|
Thenmozhi Gopinathan |
|
358
|
Jabalpur | India |
1,117,000
|
1,150,000
|
Prabhat Sahu |
|
370
|
Mirat | India |
1,095,000
|
1,095,000
|
n/k |
|
383
|
Dhanbad | India |
1,065,000
|
1,200,000
|
n/k |
|
387
|
Faridabad | India |
1,055,000
|
2,193,000
|
n/k |
|
406
|
Haora | India |
1,008,000
|
|
Sri Gopal Mukherjee |
|
407
|
Haora | India |
1,008,000
|
1,020,000
|
Sri Gopal Mukherjee |
|
408
|
Jodhpur | India |
1,007,000
|
|
Om Kumari Gehlot |
|
420
|
Ghaziabad | India |
970,000
|
|
Damyanti Goel |
|
421
|
Visakhapatnam | India |
970,000
|
1,330,000
|
B N Vishnu |
|
428
|
Vijayawada | India |
957,000
|
1,150,000
|
Ratna Bindu |
|
433
|
Coimbatore | India |
931,000
|
1,446,000
|
R.Venkatachalam |
|
440
|
Srinagar | India |
915,000
|
1,050,000
|
Salman Sagar |
|
449
|
Chandigarh | India |
901,000
|
|
n/k |
|
455
|
Sholapur | India |
890,000
|
890,000
|
n/k |
|
488
|
Thiruvananthapuram | India |
810,000
|
955,000
|
C Jayan Babu |
|
492
|
Guwahati | India |
808,000
|
820,000
|
Dolly Borah |
|
498
|
Hubli | India |
801,000
|
801,000
|
n/k |
|
501
|
Mysore | India |
799,000
|
|
Purushotham |
|
517
|
Tiruchchirappalli | India |
760,000
|
863,000
|
n/k |
|
532
|
Jalandhar | India |
714,000
|
764,000
|
n/k |
|
542
|
Gwalior | India |
690,000
|
866,000
|
Sameeksha Gupta |
|
549
|
Aligarh | India |
680,000
|
1,116,000
|
n/k |
|
552
|
Amravati | India |
678,000
|
1,031,000
|
n/k |
|
559
|
Bhubaneswar | India |
659,000
|
1,455,000
|
n/k |
|
563
|
Jamshedpur | India |
630,000
|
1,135,000
|
n/k |
|
583
|
Bhilai | India |
564,000
|
942,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Kozhikode | India |
437,000
|
|
M. Bhaskaran |
|
11
|
JAKARTA | Indonesia |
10,100,000
|
24,100,000
|
Joko Widodo |
|
77
|
Surabaya | Indonesia |
3,100,000
|
3,700,000
|
Bambang D H |
|
106
|
Bandung | Indonesia |
2,510,000
|
3,829,000
|
Dada Rosada |
|
141
|
Medan | Indonesia |
1,990,000
|
2,390,000
|
Rahudman Harahap |
|
195
|
Palembang | Indonesia |
1,600,000
|
|
Eddy Santana Putra |
|
203
|
Tangerang | Indonesia |
1,545,000
|
|
Wahidin Halim |
|
259
|
Semarang | Indonesia |
1,393,000
|
1,400,000
|
Soemarmo HS |
|
338
|
Ujung Pandang | Indonesia |
1,170,000
|
1,254,000
|
n/k |
|
360
|
Makasar | Indonesia |
1,113,000
|
|
Ilham Arief Sirajuddin |
|
460
|
Bogor | Indonesia |
866,000
|
|
Diani Budiarto |
|
481
|
Padang | Indonesia |
820,000
|
900,000
|
Fauzi Bahar |
|
522
|
Bandar Lampung | Indonesia |
743,000
|
1,123,000
|
n/k |
|
523
|
Malang | Indonesia |
742,000
|
921,000
|
n/k |
|
600
|
Surakarta | Indonesia |
533,000
|
857,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Denpasar | Indonesia |
491,000
|
934,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Yogyakarta | Indonesia |
417,000
|
840,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Mataram | Indonesia |
330,000
|
1,081,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Cirebon | Indonesia |
319,000
|
926,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Tegal | Indonesia |
238,000
|
784,000
|
n/k |
|
16
|
TEHRAN | Iran |
8,430,000
|
13,450,000
|
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf |
|
81
|
Mashhad | Iran |
2,910,000
|
3,000,000
|
Mohammad Pejman |
|
197
|
Esfahan | Iran |
1,584,000
|
2,600,000
|
Morteza Saqaeian Nejad |
|
248
|
Tabriz | Iran |
1,420,000
|
|
Alireza Novin |
|
264
|
Karaj | Iran |
1,380,000
|
|
n/k |
|
282
|
Ahwaz | Iran |
1,338,000
|
1,500,000
|
Saeed Mombeini |
|
318
|
Shiraz | Iran |
1,228,000
|
1,300,000
|
Mehran E'temad |
|
393
|
Qom | Iran |
1,042,000
|
|
n/k |
|
477
|
Kermanshah | Iran |
823,000
|
966,000
|
n/k |
|
32
|
Baghdad | Iraq |
6,050,000
|
6,500,000
|
Sabir al-Issawi |
|
168
|
Basrah | Iraq |
1,760,000
|
3,800,000
|
Jabbar Jaber Al-Latif |
|
295
|
Irbil | Iraq |
1,294,000
|
1,5000,000
|
n/k |
|
348
|
Mosul | Iraq |
1,139,000
|
1,139,000
|
n/k |
|
n/r
|
Dublin | Ireland |
506,000
|
1,661,000
|
Emer Costello |
|
514
|
Jerusalem | Israel |
764,000
|
1,029,000
|
Nir Barkat Nazareth |
|
n/r
|
TEL AVIV | Israel |
383,000
|
3,250,000
|
Ron Huldai |
|
n/r
|
Haifa | Israel |
276,000
|
975,000
|
Yona Yahav |
|
90
|
ROME | Italy |
2,732,000
|
3,555,000
|
Gianni Alemanno |
|
289
|
Milan | Italy |
1,302,000
|
4,051,000
|
Giuliano Pisapia |
|
423
|
Naples | Italy |
963,000
|
3,000,000
|
Luigi di Magistris |
|
442
|
Turin | Italy |
910,000
|
1,617,000
|
Pietro Franco |
|
546
|
Palermo | Italy |
684,000
|
947,000
|
Leoluca Orlando |
|
n/r
|
Florence | Italy |
375,000
|
825,000
|
Matteo Renzi |
|
n/r
|
Catania | Italy |
337,000
|
831,000
|
Raffaele Stancanelli |
|
56
|
Abidjan | Ivory Coast |
3,800,000
|
4,000,000
|
Pierre Djédji Amondji |
|
n/r
|
Bouakt | Ivory Coast |
531,000
|
775,000
|
n/k |
|
562
|
KINGSTON | Jamaica |
650,000
|
925,000
|
n/k |
|
15
|
TOKYO | Japan |
8,653,000
|
31,036,000
|
Naoki Inose |
|
59
|
Yokohama | Japan |
3,655,000
|
|
Fumiko Hayashi |
|
95
|
Osaka | Japan |
2,647,000
|
17,590,000
|
Toru Hashimoto |
|
125
|
Nagoya | Japan |
2,260,000
|
9,250,000
|
Takashi Kawamura |
|
148
|
Sapporo | Japan |
1,906,000
|
2,130,000
|
Fumio Ueda |
|
206
|
Kobe | Japan |
1,534,000
|
1,560,000
|
Tatsuo Yada |
|
227
|
Kyoto | Japan |
1,466,000
|
1,500,000
|
Daisaku Kadokawa |
|
234
|
Fukuoka | Japan |
1,450,000
|
2,230,000
|
Hiroshi Yoshida |
|
261
|
Kawasaki | Japan |
1,390,000
|
1,450,000
|
Takao Abe |
|
334
|
Saitama | Japan |
1,183,000
|
|
Hayato Shimizu |
|
336
|
Hiroshima | Japan |
1,174,000
|
1,700,000
|
Kazumi Matsui |
|
396
|
Sendai | Japan |
1,032,000
|
1,300,000
|
Emiko Okuyama |
|
418
|
Kitakyushu | Japan |
985,000
|
1,050,000
|
Kenji Kitahashi |
|
424
|
Chiba | Japan |
962,000
|
970,000
|
Toshihito Kumagai |
|
470
|
Sakai | Japan |
836,000
|
|
Osami Takeyama |
|
482
|
Hamamatsu | Japan |
815,000
|
1,093,000
|
Yasutomo Suzuki |
|
486
|
Niigata | Japan |
812,000
|
|
Akira Shinoda |
|
530
|
Shizuoka | Japan |
718,000
|
1,211,000
|
Nobuhiro Tanabe |
|
539
|
Okayama | Japan |
700,000
|
1,250,000
|
Shigeo Takaya |
|
n/r
|
Okinawa | Japan |
129,000
|
|
Kita Kurose |
|
146
|
AMMAN | Jordan |
1,919,000
|
2,524,000
|
Omar Maani |
|
244
|
ALMATY | Kazakhstan |
1,420,000
|
1,500,000
|
Akhmetzhan Yesimov |
|
496
|
ASTANA | Kazakhstan |
803,000
|
|
Imangali Tasmagambetov |
|
458
|
Mombasa | Kenia |
880,000
|
|
Ahmed Abubakar Mohdhar |
|
74
|
NAIROBI | Kenya |
3,130,000
|
3,300,000
|
Geoffrey Majiwa |
|
n/r
|
KUWAIT CITY | Kuwait |
96,000
|
2,380,000
|
n/k |
|
513
|
BISHKEK | Kyrgyzstan |
765,000
|
800,000
|
Nariman Tuleyev |
|
n/r
|
Osh | Kyrgyztan |
230,000
|
|
Melis Myrzakmatov |
|
528
|
RIGA | Latvia |
725,000
|
878,000
|
Nils Usakovs |
|
309
|
BEIRUT | Lebanon |
1,250,000
|
2,600,000
|
Abdel Mounim Ariss |
|
594
|
MONROVIA | Liberia |
543,000
|
1,010,000
|
Ophelia Hoff Saytumah |
|
179
|
TRIPOLI | Libya |
1,683,000
|
2,270,000
|
Abdullatif Abdulrahman Aldaali |
|
226
|
Benghazi | Libya |
1,471,000
|
1,500,000
|
n/k |
|
593
|
VILNIUS | Lithuania |
545,000
|
|
Vilius Navickas |
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