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         Population  | 
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| 1 | Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki-Chiba (Greater Tokyo Area) | Japan | 36,510,000 | |||
| 2 | New York City, New York-Newark, New Jersey-Paterson, New Jersey (New York Metropolitan Area) | United States | 22,310,000 | |||
| 3 | Mexico City-Nezahualcóyotl-Ecatepec-Naucalpan (Greater Mexico City) | Mexico | 22,090,000 | |||
| 4 | Seoul-Incheon-Bucheon-Goyang-Seongnam-Suweon (Capital Metropolitan Area) | South Korea | 21,740,000 | |||
| 5 | Mumbai-Navi Mumbai-Kalyan-Thane-Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra (Brihanmumbai/Greater Mumbai) (Greater | India | 19,470,000 | |||
| 6 | São Paulo-Guarulhos-Santo André-Osasco (Greater São Paulo Area) | Brazil | 19,090,000 | |||
| 7 | Jakarta-Bekasi-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang (Jabodetabek Metropolitan Area) | Indonesia | 17,590,000 | |||
| 8 | Los Angeles-Riverside-Anaheim (Southern California) | United States | 17,540,000 | |||
| 9 | Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto or Keihanshin) | Japan | 17,510,000 | |||
| 10 | Delhi, National Capital Territory-Faridabad, Haryana, Gurgaon, Haryana-Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh-Noida, Uttar Pradesh | India | 17,480,000 | |||
| 11 | Manila-Quezon City-Makati City-Caloocan City (Metropolitan Manila) | Philippines | 16,610,000 | |||
| 12 | Greater Cairo, Al Qahirah-Al Jizah-Al Qalyubiyah Governorates | Egypt | 15,500,000 | |||
| 13 | Shanghai Municipality | China | 14,610,000 | |||
| 14 | Kolkata-Howrah, West Bengal (Calcutta) | India | 14,450,000 | |||
| 15 | Moscow | Russia | 14,440,000 | |||
| 16 | Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires) | Argentina | 13,330,000 | |||
| 17 | 
        London (Greater London-Surrey-East Berkshire-Buckinghamshire-Hertfordshire- South Essex-West Kent)  | 
    United Kingdom | 12,420,000 | |||
| 18 | Tehran-Karaj | Iran | 11,890,000 | |||
| 19 | Cologne-Bonn-Ruhr Area (Essen-Duisburg- Bochum-Dortmund-Düsseldorf-Wuppertal) | Germany | 11,780,000 | |||
| 20 | Rio De Janeiro-Nova Iguaçu-São Gonçalo-Niterói | Brazil | 11,720,000 | |||
| 21 | Karachi, Sindh | Pakistan | 11,620,000 | |||
| 22 | Istanbul | Turkey | 11,580,000 | |||
| 23 | Paris, Île-de-France | France | 11,500,000 | |||
| 24 | Dhaka | Bangladesh | 11,490,000 | |||
| 25 | Beijing Municipality | China | 11,240,000 | |||
| 26 | Lagos | Nigeria | 10,690,000 | |||
| 27 | Bangkok-Samut Prakarn-Nonthaburi-Pathum Thani | Thailand | 9,750,000 | |||
| 28 | Chicago, Illinois-Gary, Indiana-Kenosha, Wisconsin (Chicagoland) | United States | 9,420,000 | |||
| 29 | Kinshasa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 9,120,000 | |||
| 30 | Nagoya | Japan | 8,760,000 | |||
| 31 | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region-Shenzhen, Guangdong | China | 8,720,000 | |||
| 32 | Washington, DC-Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area) | United States | 8,040,000 | |||
| 33 | Taipei-Keelung (Jilong) (Taipei-Keelung metropolitan area) | Taiwan, (China) | 8,030,000 | |||
| 34 | Toronto-Hamilton, Ontario (Golden Horseshoe) | Canada | 7,800,000 | |||
| 35 | Bogotá | Colombia | 7,790,000 | |||
| 36 | Lima-Callao (Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area) | Peru | 7,740,000 | |||
| 37 | San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland, California (San Francisco Bay Area) | United States | 7,530,000 | |||
| 38 | Chongqing Municipality | China | 7,480,000 | |||
| 39 | Baghdad | Iraq | 7,410,000 | |||
| 40 | Khartoum | Sudan | 7,320,000 | |||
| 41 | Chennai-Tambaram-Avadi-Manali, Tamil Nadu | India | 6,850,000 | |||
| 42 | Johannesburg-Soweto-East Rand-West Rand (Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area) | South Africa | 6,820,000 | |||
| 43 | Amsterdam-Rotterdam (Randstad) | Netherlands | 6,570,000 | |||
| 44 | Shenyang, Liaoning | China | 6,490,000 | |||
| 45 | Lahore, Punjab | Pakistan | 6,310,000 | |||
| 46 | Tianjin Municipality | China | 6,300,000 | |||
| 47 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Delaware Valley) | United States | 6,250,000 | |||
| 48 | Madrid | Spain | 6,160,000 | |||
| 49 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 6,140,000 | |||
| 50 | Bangalore, Karnataka | India | 6,060,000 | |||
| 51 | Boston, Massachusetts, (Greater Boston) | United States | 5,910,000 | |||
| 52 | Hyderabad-Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh | India | 5,900,000 | |||
| 53 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex) | United States | 5,900,000 | |||
| 54 | Detroit, Michigan-Windsor, Ontario (Metro Detroit) | United States, Canada | 5,890,000 | |||
| 55 | Guangzhou, Guangdong | China | 5,630,000 | |||
| 56 | Algiers | Algeria | 5,520,000 | |||
| 57 | Bandung (Kabupaten Bandung) | Indonesia | 5,480,000 | |||
| 58 | Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (Houston Metropolitan Area) | United States | 5,190,000 | |||
| 59 | Singapore City-Johor Bahru | Singapore, Malaysia | 5,180,000 | |||
| 60 | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam | 5,050,000 | |||
| 61 | Ahmedabad, Gujarat | India | 5,000,000 | |||
| 62 | Barcelona | Spain | 4,970,000 | |||
| 63 | Belo Horizonte-Contagem | Brazil | 4,920,000 | |||
| 64 | Saint Petersburg | Russia | 4,880,000 | |||
| 65 | Santiago | Chile | 4,840,000 | |||
| 66 | Abidjan | Côte d'Ivoire | 4,810,000 | |||
| 67 | Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta Metropolitan Area) | United States | 4,720,000 | |||
| 68 | San Diego, California-Tijuana, Baja California | United States, Mexico | 4,690,000 | |||
| 69 | Harbin, Heilongjiang | China | 4,680,000 | |||
| 70 | Shantou, Guangdong | China | 4,680,000 | |||
| 71 | Xi'an, Shaanxi | China | 4,640,000 | |||
| 72 | Wuhan, Hubei | China | 4,600,000 | |||
| 73 | Chengdu, Sichuan | China | 4,570,000 | |||
| 74 | Busan Metropolitan City | South Korea | 4,560,000 | |||
| 75 | Pune-Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra | India | 4,500,000 | |||
| 76 | Yangon | Myanmar | 4,480,000 | |||
| 77 | Sydney, New South Wales | Australia | 4,490,000 | |||
| 78 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang | China | 4,390,000 | |||
| 79 | Ibadan | Nigeria | 4,360,000 | |||
| 80 | Cape Town | South Africa | 4,300,000 | |||
| 81 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Florida (South Florida) | United States | 4,290,000 | |||
| 82 | Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah Governorate | Egypt | 4,270,000 | |||
| 83 | Fukuoka-Kitakyushu | Japan | 4,260,000 | |||
| 84 | Milan | Italy | 4,240,000 | |||
| 85 | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 4,210,000 | |||
| 86 | Guadalajara, Jalisco | Mexico | 4,010,000 | |||
| 87 | Berlin | Germany | 4,000,000 | |||
| 88 | Nanjing, Jiangsu | China | 3,970,000 | |||
| 89 | Surabaya, East Java | Indonesia | 3,890,000 | |||
| 90 | Surabaya, East Java | Indonesia | 3,890,000 | |||
| 91 | Kano | Nigeria | 3,820,000 | |||
| 92 | Medan | Indonesia | 3,800,000 | |||
| 93 | Phoenix-Mesa, Arizona (Valley of the Sun) | United States | 3,790,000 | |||
| 94 | Naples | Italy | 3,770,000 | |||
| 95 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington (Greater Puget Sound) | United States | 3,770,000 | |||
| 96 | Porto Alegre | Brazil | 3,760,000 | |||
| 97 | Athens | Greece | 3,750,000 | |||
| 98 | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | 3,730,000 | |||
| 99 | Caracas | Venezuela | 3,720,000 | |||
| 100 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | Mexico | 3,680,000 | |||
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