Urban centre population: ranking of world cities

Order: lowest value first. This indicator is neutral: a higher value does not mean a better one.

Urban centre population: ranking of world cities: Vilnius ranks first (339,420 people) and Shenzhen last (42,987,704 people). The median across 81 world cities is 5,609,627 people. Observation period: 2025. Source: GHSL UCDB R2024A V1_2, EC JRC, CC BY 4.0.

Population of the dense GHSL urban centre. May include neighbouring cities.

Data quality: modelled estimate from raster data; centre boundaries differ from city boundaries.

#CityValue
1Vilnius339,420 people
2Tallinn449,861 people
3Riga516,897 people
4Oslo889,573 people
5Tbilisi988,278 people
6Helsinki1,001,125 people
7Yerevan1,027,656 people
8Dublin1,124,520 people
9Belgrade1,200,547 people
10Prague1,201,278 people
11Amsterdam1,223,407 people
12Copenhagen1,258,202 people
13Kharkiv1,284,380 people
14Stockholm1,543,892 people
15Budapest1,743,875 people
16Bucharest1,971,350 people
17Baku1,973,054 people
18Lisbon1,974,574 people
19Doha1,980,416 people
20Warsaw1,999,986 people
21Vienna2,056,565 people
22Minsk2,093,512 people
23Almaty2,315,538 people
24Rome2,476,089 people
25Kyiv2,575,199 people
26Tel Aviv2,628,335 people
27Athens3,166,757 people
28Berlin3,549,997 people
29Tashkent3,874,653 people
30Barcelona3,908,362 people
31Melbourne4,010,658 people
32Cape Town4,338,251 people
33Sydney4,375,394 people
34Dubai4,565,478 people
35Casablanca4,577,677 people
36Hong Kong4,807,599 people
37Saint Petersburg4,878,966 people
38Hanoi4,965,520 people
39Singapore5,117,759 people
40Toronto5,566,382 people
41Chengdu5,609,627 people
42Madrid5,680,137 people
43Accra5,890,466 people
44Santiago6,633,767 people
45Nairobi6,646,257 people
46Baghdad6,891,722 people
47Addis Ababa7,280,463 people
48Riyadh7,970,319 people
49Kuala Lumpur8,413,206 people
50Johannesburg8,592,843 people
51Paris9,328,385 people
52Tehran9,363,124 people
53Taipei9,686,521 people
54Rio de Janeiro9,853,693 people
55London10,408,332 people
56Bogotá10,419,361 people
57Lima10,828,104 people
58Osaka12,653,994 people
59Lagos12,846,045 people
60Kinshasa12,945,683 people
61Buenos Aires14,179,912 people
62Istanbul14,210,222 people
63Moscow14,384,082 people
64Ho Chi Minh City14,557,830 people
65Bengaluru15,178,533 people
66Mexico City17,639,164 people
67Beijing18,150,576 people
68Bangkok19,048,032 people
69São Paulo19,485,158 people
70Mumbai20,453,270 people
71Karachi21,031,703 people
72Seoul22,261,692 people
73Cairo25,230,325 people
74Manila25,921,189 people
75Shanghai30,678,616 people
76Delhi31,422,508 people
77Tokyo33,155,907 people
78Dhaka37,307,160 people
79Jakarta40,545,126 people
80Guangzhou42,987,704 people
81Shenzhen42,987,704 people

Only places with a value for the indicator are ranked; a gap is not a zero. A ranking on one indicator is not an assessment of a place to live.

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