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world and their mayors
Countries listed in alphabetical order M to R

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.

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 (Countries 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
447	ANTANANARIVO	Madagascar	903,000	1,403,000
461	LILONGWE	Malawi	866,000
157	KUALA LUMPUR	Malaysia	1,810,000	5,470,000	Dato Ahmed Fuad Ismail
158	BAMAKO	Mali	1,809,000
14	MEXICO CITY	Mexico	8,841,000	21,163,000	Marcelo Ebrard
137	Monterrey	Mexico	2,057,000	3,650,000	Fernando Larrazabal
150	Puebla	Mexico	1,888,000	2,500,000	Blanca Alcala Ruiz
178	Ecatepec	Mexico	1,688,000	1,690,000	Eruviel Ávila Villegas
198	Guadalajara	Mexico	1,580,000	3,600,000	Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval
222	Tijuana	Mexico	1,484,000	1,500,000	Jorge Ramos Hernandez
255	Ciudad Juarez	Mexico	1,400,000	2,010,000	José Reyes Ferriz
345	Zapopan	Mexico	1,155,000	1,200,000	Hector Vielma Ordoñez
346	Nezahualcoyotl	Mexico	1,141,000	1,150,000	Edgar Cesáreo Navarro Sánchez
349	Leon	Mexico	1,138,000	1,635,000	Ricardo Sheffield
410	Torreon	Mexico	1,001,000		Eduardo Olmos Castro
411	Mexicali	Mexico	1,000,000	1,000,000
478	Naucalpan	Mexico	822,000	835,000	Azucena Olivares Villagómez
494	Santiago de Queretaro	Mexico	805,000	1,085,000	Francisco Domínguez Servien
505	Toluca	Mexico	785,000	1,650,000	Maria Elena Barrera Tapia
525	Merida	Mexico	734,000	890,000	César Bojórquez Zapata
529	Acapulco	Mexico	718,000	880,000	Manuel Añorve Bolaños
540	Chihuahua	Mexico	694,000	825,000
544	San Luis Potosi	Mexico	685,000	957,000	Jorge Lozano Armengol
545	Tlalnepantla de Baz	Mexico	685,000	800,000	Arturo Ugalde Meneses
558	Aguascalientes	Mexico	664,000	701,000	Gabriel Arellano Espinoza
582	Culiacan	Mexico	567,000	766,000
n/r	Matamoros	Mexico	370,000	780,000
n/r	Tampico	Mexico	319,000	775,000
504	CHISINAU	Moldova	785,000	911,000	Dorin Chirtoaca
364	ULAANBAATAR	Mongolia	1,108,000
58	Casablanca	Morocco	3,673,000	3,850,000	Mohammed Sajid
380	Marrakech	Morocco	1,071,000
405	Fes	Morocco	1,009,000
432	Safi	Morocco	933,000
438	Agadir	Morocco	921,000
446	Salé	Morocco	904,000
536	Tangier	Morocco	710,000
564	RABAT	Morocco	627,000	1,790,000	Omar El Bahraoui
313	MAPUTO	Mozambique	1,244,000	1,640,000	David Simango
47	Yangon	Myanmar (Burma)	4,468,000	5.500,000	Aung Thein Lynn
425	Mandalay	Myanmar (Burma)	961,000	1,300,000	Phone Zaw Han
430	KATHMANDU	Nepal	949,000	1,700,000
515	AMSTERDAM	Netherlands	762,000	1,536,000	Job Cohen
572	Rotterdam	Netherlands	590,000	1,187,000	Ahmed Aboutaleb
n/r	The Hague	Netherlands	486,000	1,011,000	Van Aartsen
n/r	Einhoven	Netherlands	212,000	440,000	R van Gijzel
n/r	Auckland	New Zealand	428,000	1,333,000	John Banks
332	MANAGUA	Nicaragua	1,185,000	1,342,000	Daisy Torres
20	Lagos	Nigeria	7,938,000	9,123,000
62	Kano	Nigeria	3,626,000	3,900,000	Ibrahim Shekarau
94	Port Harcourt	Nigeria	2,667,000	3,761,000	Azubuike Nmerukini
102	Ibadan	Nigeria	2,550,000	3,000,000	Adebayo Alao-Akala
229	Kaduna	Nigeria	1,460,000	1,500,000	Mohammed Namadi Sambo
324	Maiduguri	Nigeria	1,200,000	1,200,000
389	Benin	Nigeria	1,051,000	1,052,000
450	Zaria	Nigeria	898,000
509	ABUJA	Nigeria	779,000	900,000	Muhammad Adamu Aliero
527	Ogbomosho	Nigeria	726,000	985,000
n/r	Onitsha	Nigeria	509,000	1,001,000
n/r	Oshogbo	Nigeria	421,000	1,309,000
72	PYONGYANG	North Korea	3,255,000	3,400,000
479	Hamhung	North Korea	821,000	821,000
575	OSLO	Norway	584,000	876,000	Fabian Stang
511	Masqat-Matrah	Oman	776,000	776,000
1	Karachi	Pakistan	15,500,000	18,000,000	Syed Mustafa Kamal
30	Lahore	Pakistan	6,100,000	8,600,000	Mian Amir Mahmood
107	Faisalabad	Pakistan	2,510,000	5,081,000	Rana Zahid Tauseef
202	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	1,558,000	2,548,000	Raja Javed Ikhlas
237	Hyderabad	Pakistan	1,447,000	1,500,000	Kanwar Naveed Jamil
243	Multan	Pakistan	1,424,000	1,500,000	Mian Faisal Mukhtar
249	Gujranwala	Pakistan	1,416,000	1,900,000	Fayyaz Ahmad Chattha
367	Peshawar	Pakistan	1,100,000	3,100,000	Muhammad Umar Khan
n/r	Gaza	Palestine	410,000	1,000,000
467	PANAMA CITY	Panama	850,000	1,220,000	Bosco Vallarino
592	ASUNCION	Paraguay	546,000	1,433,000	Evangelista Troche de Gallegos
22	LIMA	Peru	7,606,000	8,473,000	Luis Castañeda Lossio
443	Arequipa	Peru	905,000		Simón Balbuena Marroquín
7	MANILA METRO	Philippines	11,550,000	13,503,000	Alfredo S Lim
92	Quezon City	Philippines	2,680,000		Feliciano Belmonte
267	Caloocan	Philippines	1,379,000		Enrico Echiverri
272	Davao City	Philippines	1,363,000		Rodrigo R Duterte
520	Cebu City	Philippines	747,000	1,198,000	Tomas R Osmena
176	WARSAW	Poland	1,712,000	3,350,000	Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
506	Lodz	Poland	783,000	1,429,000	Jerzy Kropiwickni
519	Krakow	Poland	755,000	1,250,000	Jacek Majchrowski
n/r	Gdansk	Poland	457,000	866,000	Pawel Adamowicz
n/r	Katowice	Poland	340,000	2,746,000	Piotr Uszok
587	LISBON	Portugal	558,000	2,612,000	António Costa
n/r	Porto	Portugal	263,000	1,210,000	Rui Rio
n/r	SAN JUAN	Puerto Rico	442,000	2,500,000	Jorge A. Santini Padilla
140	BUCHAREST	Romania	1,994,000	2,151,000	Sorin Oprescu
10	MOSCOW	Russia	10,524,000	14,800,000	Yury Luzhkov
43	St Petersburg	Russia	4,661,000	4,900,000	Valentina Matviyenko
258	Novosibirsk	Russia	1,396,000	1,429,000	Vladimir Gorodetsky
286	Ekaterinburg	Russia	1,323,000	1,389,000	Arkadiy Tchernetskiy
304	Nizhniy Novgorod	Russia	1,280,000	1,900,000	Vadim Bulavinov
344	Samara	Russia	1,160,000	1,500,000	Viktor Tarkhov
350	Omsk	Russia	1,137,000	1,145,000	Viktor Shreyder
359	Kazan	Russia	1,115,000	1,300,000	lsur Metshin
371	Chelyabinsk	Russia	1,092,000	1,200,000	Mikhail Yurevich
382	Rostov on Don	Russia	1,068,000	1,250,000	Mikhail Chernyshyov
398	Ufa	Russia	1,023,000	1,050,000	Pavel Kachkayev
403	Volgograd	Russia	1,012,000	1,292,000	Roman Grebennikov
404	Perm	Russia	1,010,000	1,200,000	Igor Shubin
439	Krasnoyarsk	Russia	920,000	950,000	Pyotr Pimashkov
468	Voronezh	Russia	849,000	950,000	Sergey Koliukh
472	Saratov	Russia	831,000	1,100,000	Vyacheslav Leonovich Somov
534	Krasnodar	Russia	710,000	780,000	Vladimir Yevlanov

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The largest cities in the world and their mayors Countries listed in alphabetical order M to R

The largest cities in the
world and their mayors
Countries listed in alphabetical order M to R