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A to Z of world’s largest
cities and urban areas
Urban areas M to R
The 2006 population figures are based on censuses carried out between 2000 and 2005 and adjusted to take account of average annual population changes. The 2020 population figures were calculated using the 2006 data as base and applying annual rates of population changes.LARGEST URBAN AREAS:
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In 2006: Urban areas ranked 1 to 100 | Urban areas ranked 101 to 200 | Urban areas ranked 201 to 300 | Urban areas ranked 301 to 400 |
In 2020: Urban areas ranked 1 to 100 | Urban areas ranked 101 to 200 | Urban areas ranked 201 to 300 | Urban areas ranked 301 to 400 |
FASTEST GROWING URBAN AREAS:
Urban areas ranked 1 to 100 | Urban areas ranked 101 to 200 | Urban areas ranked 201 to 300 |
ALPHABETICAL INDEX:
Urban areas A to D | Urban areas E to L | Urban areas M to R | Urban areas S to Z |
Largest cities and urban areas M to R
|
City/Urban area
|
Country
|
Population in 2006
(millions) |
Rank in 2006
|
Population in 2020
(millions) |
Rank in 2020
|
| Maceió | Brazil |
1.18
|
351
|
1.72
|
290
|
| Madrid | Spain |
5.17
|
47
|
5.39
|
62
|
| Madurai | India |
1.26
|
327
|
1.48
|
339
|
| Managua | Nicaragua |
1.19
|
348
|
1.71
|
293
|
| Manaus | Brazil |
1.74
|
212
|
2.57
|
181
|
| Manchester | UK |
2.19
|
159
|
2.15
|
227
|
| Mannheim, Heidelberg | Germany |
1.63
|
229
|
1.65
|
305
|
| Maputo | Mozambique |
1.36
|
296
|
2.21
|
217
|
| Maracaibo | Venezuela |
2.25
|
152
|
3.04
|
141
|
| Maracay | Venezuela |
1.17
|
355
|
1.53
|
328
|
| Marseille, Aix-en-Provence | France |
1.39
|
291
|
1.46
|
342
|
| Mashhad | Iran |
2.18
|
161
|
2.73
|
162
|
| Mecca | Saudi Arabia |
1.57
|
240
|
2.24
|
215
|
| Medan | Indonesia |
2.15
|
166
|
2.97
|
147
|
| Medellín | Colombia |
3.33
|
93
|
4.38
|
89
|
| Meerut | India |
1.38
|
292
|
2.04
|
242
|
| Melbourne | Australia |
3.71
|
76
|
4.26
|
93
|
| Memphis | USA |
1.06
|
396
|
1.24
|
370
|
| Mendoza | Argentina |
1.10
|
383
|
1.43
|
348
|
| Metro Manila | Philippines |
10.80
|
20
|
13.40
|
14
|
| Mexico City | Mexico |
19.24
|
2
|
21.81
|
5
|
| Miami | USA |
5.48
|
42
|
6.59
|
48
|
| Mianyang | China |
1.20
|
346
|
1.57
|
318
|
| Milan | Italy |
3.96
|
68
|
3.71
|
113
|
| Milwaukee | USA |
1.35
|
300
|
1.48
|
340
|
| Minneapolis, St. Paul | USA |
2.56
|
135
|
2.93
|
149
|
| Minsk | Belarus |
1.72
|
216
|
1.74
|
286
|
| Mogadishu | Somalia |
1.30
|
315
|
2.11
|
236
|
| Monterrey | Mexico |
3.58
|
80
|
4.27
|
92
|
| Montevideo | Uruguay |
1.36
|
298
|
1.44
|
346
|
| Montréal | Canada |
3.53
|
81
|
3.81
|
104
|
| Moscow | Russia |
10.82
|
19
|
11.73
|
19
|
| Mosul | Iraq |
1.28
|
322
|
1.89
|
266
|
| Multan | Pakistan |
1.50
|
259
|
2.28
|
211
|
| Mumbai (Bombay) | India |
18.84
|
3
|
25.97
|
2
|
| Munich | Germany |
2.33
|
148
|
2.36
|
205
|
| Nagpur | India |
2.42
|
143
|
3.31
|
125
|
| Nairobi | Kenya |
2.95
|
108
|
5.02
|
73
|
| Nampho | North Korea |
1.22
|
338
|
1.59
|
316
|
| Nanchang | China |
1.77
|
207
|
2.17
|
223
|
| Nanchong | China |
1.09
|
385
|
1.34
|
358
|
| Nanjing | China |
2.82
|
117
|
3.08
|
138
|
| Nanning | China |
1.41
|
283
|
1.70
|
296
|
| Naples | Italy |
2.88
|
113
|
2.75
|
161
|
| Nashik | India |
1.47
|
263
|
2.52
|
186
|
| Neijiang | China |
1.46
|
268
|
1.66
|
304
|
| New Orleans | USA |
1.00
|
406
|
1.05
|
396
|
| New York | USA |
18.65
|
4
|
20.43
|
9
|
| Newcastle, Gateshead | UK |
1.07
|
392
|
1.22
|
376
|
| Ningbo | China |
1.19
|
347
|
1.27
|
367
|
| Nizhni Novgorod | Russia |
1.28
|
319
|
1.17
|
384
|
| Novosibirsk | Russia |
1.43
|
275
|
1.36
|
357
|
| Nürnberg | Germany |
1.21
|
341
|
1.23
|
372
|
| Odessa | Ukraine |
1.01
|
405
|
0.94
|
404
|
| Omsk | Russia |
1.13
|
365
|
1.08
|
393
|
| Orlando | USA |
1.32
|
306
|
1.67
|
302
|
| Osaka, Kobe | Japan |
11.32
|
16
|
11.53
|
20
|
| Ottawa | Canada |
1.14
|
363
|
1.32
|
361
|
| Palembang | Indonesia |
1.73
|
214
|
2.59
|
177
|
| Paris | France |
9.89
|
22
|
10.18
|
23
|
| Patna | India |
2.16
|
165
|
3.60
|
118
|
| Perth | Australia |
1.51
|
255
|
1.79
|
280
|
| Peshawar | Pakistan |
1.29
|
316
|
2.04
|
244
|
| Philadelphia | USA |
5.36
|
44
|
5.88
|
56
|
| Phnom Penh | Cambodia |
1.20
|
345
|
1.59
|
314
|
| Phoenix, Mesa | USA |
3.51
|
83
|
4.69
|
81
|
| Pingxiang, Jiangxi | China |
1.57
|
239
|
1.79
|
281
|
| Pittsburgh | USA |
1.79
|
206
|
1.92
|
262
|
| Port-au-Prince | Haiti |
2.17
|
162
|
3.27
|
127
|
| Portland | USA |
1.84
|
194
|
2.37
|
201
|
| Porto | Portugal |
1.31
|
311
|
1.45
|
344
|
| Pôrto Alegre | Brazil |
3.86
|
72
|
4.60
|
83
|
| Prague | Czech Republic |
1.16
|
358
|
1.14
|
385
|
| Pretoria | South Africa |
1.33
|
303
|
1.76
|
285
|
| Providence | USA |
1.24
|
330
|
1.41
|
352
|
| Puebla | Mexico |
1.87
|
191
|
1.96
|
257
|
| Pune (Poona) | India |
4.67
|
53
|
7.53
|
43
|
| Pusan | South Korea |
3.49
|
84
|
3.23
|
129
|
| Pyongyang | North Korea |
3.33
|
95
|
3.72
|
110
|
| Qingdao | China |
2.45
|
141
|
2.85
|
154
|
| Qiqihar | China |
1.46
|
269
|
1.54
|
323
|
| Quito | Ecuador |
1.55
|
246
|
2.03
|
247
|
| Rabat | Morocco |
1.91
|
187
|
2.69
|
169
|
| Rajkot | India |
1.26
|
326
|
2.07
|
241
|
| Rawalpindi | Pakistan |
1.85
|
192
|
2.92
|
151
|
| Recife | Brazil |
3.59
|
79
|
4.36
|
90
|
| Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
11.62
|
15
|
13.23
|
16
|
| Riverside, San Bernardino | USA |
1.71
|
218
|
2.13
|
230
|
| Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
5.76
|
40
|
8.82
|
34
|
| Rome | Italy |
2.60
|
132
|
2.43
|
195
|
| Rosario | Argentina |
1.33
|
304
|
1.55
|
320
|
| Rostov-on-Don | Russia |
1.09
|
387
|
1.09
|
389
|
| Rotterdam | Netherlands |
1.12
|
374
|
1.18
|
381
|
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Mayors from 50 cities compete for the World Mayor Award 2008. Vote now for the mayor you believe most deserves to win. Vote now
AFRICAN FINALISTS
• Winstanley Bankole Johnson, Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Helen Zille, Cape Town, South Africa
• Amos Masondo, Johannesburg, South Africa
NORTH AMERICAN FINALISTS
• Stephen Mandel, Edmonton, Canada
• Sam Katz, Winnipeg, Canada
• Martin Chavez, Albuquerque, USA
• Michael B Coleman, Columbus, USA
• Mufi Hannemann, Honolulu, USA
• Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, USA
• Willie W Herenton, Memphis, USA
• Manny Diaz, Miami, USA
• Raymond Thomas Rybak, Minneapolis, USA
• Phil Gordon, Phoenix, USA
LATIN AMERICAN FINALISTS
• José Fogaça, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Sergio Fajardo Valderrama, Medellin, Colombia
• Juan Contino Aslán, Havana, Cuba
• Jaime Nebot, Guayaquil, Ecuador
• Paco Moncayo, Quito, Ecuador
• Salvador Gandara, Villa Nueva, Guatemala
• Antonio Astiazaran, Guaymas, Mexico
• Ernesto Gandara, Hermosillo, Mexico
• Ricardo Ehrlich, Montevideo, Uruguay
• Juan Barreto, Caracas, Venezuela
• Leopoldo Eduardo López, Chacao, Venezuela
ASIAN FINALISTS
• Han Zheng, Shanghai, China
• Zhang Guangning, Guangzhou, China
• C M Sheila Dikshit, Delhi, India
• Fauzi Bowo, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Tehran, Iran
• Tadatoshi Akiba, Hiroshima, Japan
• Hiroshi Nakada, Yokohama, Japan
• Marides Fernando, Marikina City, Philippines
• Vladimir Gorodets, Novosibirsk, Russia
• Park Wan-soo, Changwon City, South Korea
• Kadir Topbas, Istanbul, Turkey
EUROPEAN FINALISTS
• Patrick Janssens, Antwerp, Belgium
• Boiko Borisov, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Eleni Mavrou, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Bertrand Delanoë, Paris, France
• Pierre Albertini, Rouen, France
• Jens Böhrnsen, Bremen, Germany
• Ulrich Maly, Nürnberg, Germany
• Wolfgang Schuster, Stuttgart, Germany
• Kyriakos Virvidakis, Chania, Greece
• Sergio Cofferati, Bologna, Italy
• Walter Veltroni, Rome, Italy
• Rafal Dutkiewicz, Wroclaw, Poland
• Rosa Aguilar, Cordoba, Spain
• Göran Johansson, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Elmar Ledergerber, Zurich, Switzerland