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Tokyo, the world's largest city and metropolitan area. A city can be defined by the inhabitants of its demographic population, as by metropolitan area, or labour market area.
Urban area Country Built-up land area (km 2) Population Urban population density (per km 2) ; Greater Los Angeles United States 87,940 18,316,743 541.1 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (Bay Area)
Megacities are a common backdrop in dystopian science fiction, with examples such as the Sprawl in William Gibson's Neuromancer, [56] and Mega-City One, a megalopolis of between 50 and 800 million people (fluctuations due to war and disaster) across the east coast of the United States, in the Judge Dredd comic. [57]
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.
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.
This is a list of cities worldwide by population density.The population, population density and land area for the cities listed are based on the entire city proper, the defined boundary or border of a city or the city limits of the city.
This is a list of the 50 largest cities in the Americas by population residing within city limits based on the most recent official census results, estimates, or short-term projections available for all of these cities, which refer to mid-2020 populations.
The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in the Americas by city proper population using the most recent official estimate. [1] [2] [circular reference]São Paulo in Brazil is the most populous city in the Americas, the western hemisphere and also the southern hemisphere.