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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 ...
Map showing urban areas with at least one million inhabitants in 2020. 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. [16]
List of cities in the Republic of the Congo; List of cities in Côte d'Ivoire; List of cities in Djibouti; List of cities and towns in Egypt; List of cities in Equatorial Guinea; List of cities in Eritrea; List of cities in Eswatini; List of cities and towns in Ethiopia; List of cities in Gabon; List of cities in the Gambia; List of cities in Ghana
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 ...
In sub-Saharan Africa in 1960 "only one city, Johannesburg, had a population of one million;...in 2009, there were fifty-two cities with such large populations." [ 2 ] The Nigerian city of Lagos that in 1963 had 665,000 inhabitants (Rakodi, 1997) and 8.7 million in 2000 is expected to become the world's 11th biggest city by 2015 with 16 million ...
The following is a list of the largest cities by population and of capital cities in the geographic region of East Africa. Because population counts in each country occur at different times, the list of numbers is meant as a rough indicator of relative size.