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The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting. [6] [7]
This table shows all cities or conurbations with a total urbanised area of at least 5,000 km 2, according to Demographia's annual World Urban Areas [62] publication, that uses a consistent methodology between countries to provide comparable population and area figures.
The total number of megacities in the world varies between different sources and their publication dates. The world had 32 according to EU Global Human Settlement Layer (in 2024), 33 according to UN DESA (in 2018), 39 according to the OECD, 44 according to Demographia (in 2023), and 45 according to CityPopulation.de (in 2023). In total, 53 ...
As of 2016, the world had 31 megacities -- cities with 10 million inhabitants or more -- and they are growing, in both size and number. According to the U.N., the world is expected to add 10 new ...
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.
3 Russia: 16 4 Brazil: 15 5 Indonesia: 14 6 Japan: 12 7 South Korea: 11 8 Mexico: 10 Pakistan: 10 Turkey: 10 11 United States: 9 12 Iran: 8 Nigeria: 8 14 DR Congo: 7 15 South Africa: 6 Taiwan: 6 17 Australia: 5 Canada: 5 Colombia: 5 Saudi Arabia: 5 21 Egypt: 4 Germany: 4 Morocco: 4 Philippines: 4 25 Bangladesh: 3 Iraq: 3 Kazakhstan: 3 Myanmar: 3
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.
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