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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 .
This is a list of towns and cities in the world believed to have 100,000 or more inhabitants, sorted by countries. Unless otherwise noted, populations are based on United Nations estimates from 2022. Unless otherwise noted, populations are based on United Nations estimates from 2022.
List of largest cities; Lists of cities by country; Lists of cities by continent (or continental region) Lists of cities in Africa; Lists of cities in Asia; Lists of cities in Central America; Lists of cities in Europe; List of cities in North America; Lists of cities in Oceania; List of cities in South America; Territorial claims in Antarctica
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 ...
List of cities in South Ossetia - Republic of South Ossetia; ... 2005 city population estimates for the world This page was last edited on 13 February 2025, at 08:42 ...
Last year’s winner, New York, fell to the still-impressive number three spot in 2025, with Time Out noting that 78% of New Yorkers described the city as exciting, “the highest percentage of ...
In 1800, only 3% of the world's population lived in cities, a figure that rose to 47% by the end of the twentieth century. In 1950, there were 83 cities with populations exceeding one million; by 2007, this number had risen to 468, [18] with 153 of them located in Asia. Among the 27 megacities with populations over 10 million globally, 15 were ...
Chicago — Illinois. Other U.S. cities may get more attention, but Chicago is second to none when it comes to architecture — the skyscraper was born here, after all.