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Cairo, Egypt is the third largest city in Africa and the largest one in the Arab world. Riverside of Giza, a mega-suburb of Cairo and the second-largest city in Egypt with over 9 million inhabitants. Oceanside of Luanda, the Angolan metropolis and a major hub for Africa's fossil fuel industries.
City Country Administrative area according to local national census authorities Urban agglomerations United Nations - 2020 [1] Urban agglomerations citypopulation.de - 2023 [2] Image Cairo Egypt: 10,044,894 (2022) [3] Governorate: 20,901,000 22,200,000 Lagos Nigeria: 27,000,000 (2023) [4] 14,368,000 30,000,000 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of ...
From around 1825 to 1918 London was the largest city in the world, with the population growing rapidly; it was the first city to reach a population of over 5 million in 1900. In 1950, New York City was the only urban area with a population of over 10 million. [ 32 ]
New York City – Newark (United States) – 18,867,000 Los Angeles – Long Beach – Santa Ana (United States) – 12,488,000 Chicago (United States) – 8,901,000
UNICEF defines city proper as, "the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city or controlled directly from the city by a single authority." A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognised urban status that is usually characterised by some form of local ...
This is a list of lists of cities in Africa. Countries. The regions of Africa. List of cities in Algeria; List of cities in Angola; List of cities in Benin;
Lagos (/ ˈ l eɪ ɡ ɒ s / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ s / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwest Nigeria. With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the African continent.
Horn of Africa: Blantyre Malawi: 994,500 2018 Southeast Africa: Bujumbura Burundi: 1,056,169 2019 Former capital Great Lakes Region: Dar es Salaam Tanzania: 8,383,728 2022 [6] Former Capital Great Lakes Region: Dire Dawa Ethiopia: 607,321 2008 [citation needed] Horn of Africa: Djibouti City Djibouti: 475,322 2009 Capital Horn of Africa: Dodoma ...