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Among the 27 megacities with populations over 10 million globally, 15 were situated in Asia. [19] In 2010, UN forecasted that urban population of 3.2 billion would rise to nearly 5 billion by 2030, when three out of five, or 60%, of people would live in cities. [20] This increase will be most dramatic on the least-urbanized continents, Asia and ...
There are 81 cities in the world with a population exceeding 5 million people, according to 2018 estimates by the United Nations. The UN figures include a mixture of city proper, metropolitan area, and urban area. [11]
The city population as of April 1, 2020, as enumerated by the 2020 United States census [1] The city percent population change from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023; The city land area as of January 1, 2020 [2] The city population density as of April 1, 2020 (residents per unit of land area) [2] The city latitude and longitude coordinates [2]
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [10] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas. [11]
These are the world's 10 largest urban areas, or "urban agglomerations," based on 2015 data, the most recent released by the U.N's population division.
2020 is the first census in which all ten of the largest cities have populations of over one million. It is also the first census since 1940 in which no cities entered or left the top ten, and the first census since 1950 in which all ten cities gained population. This was the twenty-fourth census.
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
Built in 1960, Brasília is the capital and third-largest city in Brazil. Skyline of Salvador, the fourth most populous city in Brazil. Downtown Toronto, the largest city in Canada located at the heart of a metropolitan area with a population of over 6.4 million. Chicago, the third-largest city in the US and the thirteenth in the Americas.