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The largest cities in the
world and their mayors

Cities listed in alphabetical order M to R

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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Introduction
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 (M to R)

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 MacAllen USA
110,000
1,058,000
n/k
437 Maceio Brazil
922,000
1,100,000
José Cícero Soares de Almeida
152 Macheng China
1,880,000
n/k
73 MADRID Spain
3,213,000
5,300,000
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
355 Madurai India
1,130,000
Thenmozhi Gopinathan
n/r Magdeburg Germany
230,000
Lutz Trümper
324 Maiduguri Nigeria
1,200,000
1,200,000
n/k
360 Makasar Indonesia
1,113,000
Ilham Arief Sirajuddin
523 Malang Indonesia
742,000
921,000
n/k
n/r Malmo Sweden
244,000
1,340,000
Ilmar Reepalu
332 MANAGUA Nicaragua
1,185,000
1,342,000
Daisy Torres
173 Manaus Brazil
1,739,000
1,924,000
Amazonino Mendes
n/r Manchester UK
464,000
2,240,230
Mavis Smitheman
425 Mandalay Myanmar (Burma)
961,000
1,300,000
Phone Zaw Han
7 MANILA METRO Philippines
11,550,000
13,503,000
Alfredo S Lim
n/r Mannheim Germany
311,000
1,456,000
Peter Kurz
313 MAPUTO Mozambique
1,244,000
1,640,000
David Simango
164 Maracaibo Venezuela
1,799,000
1,868,000
Eveling Trejo
n/r Maracay Venezuela
479,000
1,125,000
Humberto Prieto
380 Marrakech Morocco
1,071,000
n/k
464 Marseille France
852,000
1,605,000
Jean-Claude Gaudin
81 Mashhad Iran
2,910,000
3,000,000
Mohammad Pejman
511 Masqat-Matrah Oman
776,000
776,000
n/k
n/r Matamoros Mexico
370,000
780,000
n/k
n/r Mataram Indonesia
330,000
1,081,000
n/k
444 Mbuji-Mayi Congo D.R.
905,000
1,054,000
n/k
177 Mecca Saudi Arabia
1,700,000
2,500,000
Osama Al-Bar
141 Medan Indonesia
1,990,000
2,390,000
Rahudman Harahap
128 Medellin Colombia
2,223,000
3,312,000
Alonso Salazar Jaramillo
291 Medina Saudi Arabia
1,300,000
1,300,000
Abdulaziz Bin Majid
306 Meerut India
1,277,000
n/k
61 Melbourne Australia
3,635,000
3,3635,000
Robert Doyle
555 Memphis USA
670,000
1,281,000
AC Wharton
n/r Mendoza Argentina
113,000
849,000
Víctor Fayad
525 Merida Mexico
734,000
890,000
César Bojórquez Zapata
411 Mexicali Mexico
1,000,000
1,000,000
n/k
14 MEXICO CITY Mexico
8,841,000
21,163,000
Miguel Angel Mancera
n/r Miami USA
386,000
5,413,000
Tomás Regalado
292 Mianyang China
1,300,000
5,200,000
Liu Dong
289 Milan Italy
1,302,000
4,051,000
Giuliano Pisapia
569 Milwaukee USA
604,000
1,740,000
Tom Barrett
n/r Minneapolis USA
392,000
3,503,000
R T Rybak
155 MINSK Belarus
1,831,000
Nikolai Ladutko
370 Mirat India
1,095,000
1,095,000
n/k
218 MOGADISHU Somalia
1,500,000
2,500,000
Mohamud Ahmed Tarzan
458 Mombasa Kenia
880,000
Ahmed Abubakar Mohdhar
594 MONROVIA Liberia
543,000
1,010,000
Ophelia Hoff Saytumah
137 Monterrey Mexico
2,057,000
3,650,000
Fernando Larrazabal
285 MONTEVIDEO Uruguay
1,326,000
1,723,000
Ana Olivera
n/r Montpellier France
252,000
Hélène Mandroux-Colas
189 Montreal Canada
1,621,000
3,636,000
Gérald Tremblay
10 MOSCOW Russia
10,524,000
14,800,000
Sergei Sobyanin
348 Mosul Iraq
1,139,000
1,139,000
n/k
402 Mudanjiang China
1,014,000
2,707,000
n/k
243 Multan Pakistan
1,424,000
1,500,000
Mian Faisal Mukhtar
3 Mumbai (Bombay) India
13,900,000
21,200,000
Shraddha Jadhav
271 Munich Germany
1,367,000
2,600,000
Christian Ude
n/r Münster Germany
274,000
Markus Lewe
501 Mysore India
799,000
Purushotham
125 Nagoya Japan
2,260,000
9,250,000
Takashi Kawamura
117 Nagpur India
2,420,000
Archana Dehankar
74 NAIROBI Kenya
3,130,000
3,300,000
Geoffrey Majiwa
224 Nanan China
1,480,000
Chen Law
154 Nanchang China
1,844,000
3.790,000
Hu Xian
144 Nanchong China
1,950,000
7,300,000
Liu Hongjian
51 Nanjing China
4,150,000
7,600,000
Ji Jianye
115 Nanning China
2,450,000
6,480,000
Huang Fangfang
n/r Nantes France
283,000
804,000
Jean-Marc Ayrault
500 Nanyang China
800,000
10,700,000
Huang Xingwei
423 Naples Italy
963,000
3,000,000
Luigi di Magistris
190 Nashik India
1,620,000
Nayana Gholap
565 Nashville USA
626,000
1,633,000
Karl Dean
503 Natal Brazil
790,000
1,100,000
n/k
478 Naucalpan Mexico
822,000
835,000
Azucena Olivares Villagómez
201 Neijiang China
1,560,000
n/k
n/r New Orleans USA
488,000
1,350,000
Mitch Landrieu
17 New York City USA
8,364,000
20,090,000
Michael Bloomberg
n/r Newcastle upon Tyne UK
234,000
800,000
n/k
346 Nezahualcoyotl Mexico
1,141,000
1,150,000
Edgar Cesáreo Navarro Sánchez
n/r Nice France
347,000
943,000
Christian Estrosi
486 Niigata Japan
812,000
Akira Shinoda
130 Ningbo China
2,201,000
5,600,000
Mao Guanglie
304 Nizhniy Novgorod Russia
1,280,000
1,900,000
Vadim Bulavinov
466 Norfolk USA
850,000
1,616,000
Paul D Fraim
469 Nova Iguacu Brazil
846,000
959,000
Lindberg Farias
258 Novosibirsk Russia
1,396,000
1,429,000
Vladimir Gorodetsky
n/r Nuremberg Germany
504,000
1,008,000
Ulrich Maly
n/r Oakland USA
446,900
Jean Quan
n/r Oberhausen Germany
216,000
Klaus Wehling
377 Odessa Ukraine
1,080,000
1,200,000
Eduard Gurwits
527 Ogbomosho Nigeria
726,000
985,000
n/k
539 Okayama Japan
700,000
1,250,000
Shigeo Takaya
n/r Okinawa Japan
129,000
Kita Kurose
588 Oklahoma City USA
551,000
1,276,000
Mick Cornett
118 Omdurman Sudan
2,400,000
Al-Fatih Az-ddin
350 Omsk Russia
1,137,000
1,145,000
Viktor Shreyder
n/r Onitsha Nigeria
509,000
1,001,000
n/k
547 Oran Algeria
683,000
772,000
Saddek Benkada
n/r Orlando USA
231,000
2,055,000
Buddy Dyer
95 Osaka Japan
2,647,000
17,590,000
Toru Hashimoto
n/r Osh Kyrgyztan
230,000
Melis Myrzakmatov
n/r Oshogbo Nigeria
421,000
1,309,000
n/k
575 OSLO Norway
584,000
876,000
Fabian Stang
483 OTTAWA Canada
815,000
1,131,000
Larry O'Brien
225 OUAGADOUGOU Burkina Faso
1,475,000
1,727,000
Simon Compaoré
481 Padang Indonesia
820,000
900,000
Fauzi Bahar
195 Palembang Indonesia
1,600,000
Eddy Santana Putra
546 Palermo Italy
684,000
947,000
Leoluca Orlando
467 PANAMA CITY Panama
850,000
1,220,000
Bosco Vallarino
n/r Panzhihua China
478,000
771,000
n/k
133 PARIS France
2,113,000
11,769,000
Bertrand Delanoë
160 Patna India
1,800,000
2,500,000
GhanShyam Kumar
404 Perm Russia
1,010,000
1,200,000
Igor Shubin
193 Perth Australia
1,603,000
Lisa Scaffidi
367 Peshawar Pakistan
1,100,000
3,100,000
Muhammad Umar Khan
205 Philadelphia USA
1,540,000
5,345,000
Michael Nutter
314 PHNOM PENH Cambodia
1,242,000
2,001,000
Keb Chutema
199 Phoenix USA
1,568,000
4,282,000
Phil Gordon
325 Pikine-Guediawaye Senegal
1,200,000
n/k
213 Pimpri Chinchwad India
1,515,000
Yogesh Behl
316 Pingdingshan China
1,230,000
5,200,000
Deng Yongjian
281 Pingdu China
1,340,000
n/k
n/r Pittsburgh USA
335,000
2,411,000
Luke Ravenstahl
n/r Pointe Noire Congo Br
527,000
789,000
n/k
471 Port Elizabeth South Africa
833,000
1,245,000
Nondumiso Maphasi
94 Port Harcourt Nigeria
2,667,000
3,761,000
Azubuike Nmerukini
376 PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti
1,083,000
1,728,000
Jean Yves Jason
596 Portland USA
542,000
2,255,000
Sam Adams
n/r Porto Portugal
263,000
1,210,000
Rui Rio
273 Porto Alegre Brazil
1,355,000
3,646,000
José Fortunati
315 PRAGUE Czech Republic
1,242,000
1,900,000
Zdenek Tuma
150 Puebla Mexico
1,888,000
2,500,000
Blanca Alcala Ruiz
71 Pune India
3,337,000
4,470,000
Mohansingh Rajpal
72 PYONGYANG North Korea
3,255,000
3,400,000
n/k
330 Qianjiang China
1,190,000
n/k
342 Qidong China
1,160,000
n/k
88 Qingdao China
2,755,000
7,580,000
Xia Geng
240 Qiqihaer China
1,439,000
6,011,000
Liu Gang
393 Qom Iran
1,042,000
n/k
220 Quanzhou China
1,490,000
7,790,000
Zhu Ming
n/r Québec Canada
495,000
717,000
Régis Labeaume
92 Quezon City Philippines
2,680,000
Herbert M Bautis
187 QUITO Ecuador
1,648,000
1,842,000
Augusto Barrera
564 RABAT Morocco
627,000
1,790,000
Omar El Bahraoui
283 Rajkot India
1,336,000
Sandhya Vyas
n/r Raleigh USA
393,000
1,691,000
Charles Meeker
298 Ranchi India
1,290,000
Rama Khalkho
202 Rawalpindi Pakistan
1,558,000
2,548,000
Raja Hamid Nawaz
200 Recife Brazil
1,561,000
3,769,000
João da Costa Bezerra Filho
n/r Rennes France
206,000
Daniel Delaveau
591 Ribeirao Preto Brazil
547,000
789,000
Dárcy Vera
n/r Richmond USA
200,000
1,213,000
Dwight Clinton Jones
528 RIGA Latvia
725,000
878,000
Nils Usakovs
31 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
6,093,000
14,387,000
Eduardo Paes
40 RIYADH Saudi Arabia
4,950,000
5,855,000
Abdul Aziz ibn 'Ayyaf Al Migrin
299 Rizhao China
1,290,000
Zhao Xiaowei
n/r Rochester USA
220,000
1,100,000
n/k
90 ROME Italy
2,732,000
3,555,000
Gianni Alemanno
343 Rosario Argentina
1,160,000
1,358,000
Miguel Lifschitz
n/r Rostock Germany
201,000
Roland Methling
382 Rostov on Don Russia
1,068,000
1,250,000
Mikhail Chernyshyov
572 Rotterdam Netherlands
590,000
1,187,000
Ahmed Aboutaleb
232 Rugao China
1,453,000
Ding Dawei
311 Ruian China
1,250,000
n/k

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