World's Largest Cities by Population (2025)
Key Findings
About This Dataset
World's Largest Cities by Population (2025)Asia dominates this ranking completely: fifteen of the twenty largest urban areas are Asian, and the top six are all in Asia. Jakarta leads with almost 42 million people, ahead of Dhaka on 36.6 million and Tokyo on 33.4 million. India places three cities in the top twelve - Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai - and China three in the top sixteen. Outside Asia only Cairo, São Paulo, Mexico City and Moscow appear at all, and no city in the United States, Western Europe or sub-Saharan Africa makes the list. The gap between first and twentieth is nearly threefold, so the largest agglomerations are far bigger than the rest of the field rather than clustered together.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- United Nations World Urbanization Prospects
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2025 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Urban agglomeration population (UN 2025 estimate)
- Last updated
- 26 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
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