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List of cities in the world by population with a population of more than 4 million people as of January 2015. There are 3 cities with a population of over 20 million people and 16 cities with a population of over 10 million people. The largest cities are Shanghai (24,150,000), Karachi (23,500,000) and Beijing (21,150,000). There are two Russian cities among the largest cities: Moscow (10th place) and St. Petersburg (43rd place). The table shows the population of cities excluding the suburbs.

Cities by population

#	Town	Population (people)	City area (km 2)	Population density (people / km 2)	Country
1	Shanghai	24,150,000 (with rural suburbs)	6 340,50	3 809	PRC PRC
2	Karachi	23 500 000	3 527,00	6 663	Pakistan Pakistan
3	Beijing	21,516,000 (with rural suburbs)	16 410,54	1 311	PRC PRC
4	Delhi	16 314 838	1 484,00	7 846	India india
5	Lagos	15 118 780	999,58	17 068	Nigeria nigeria
6	Istanbul	13 854 740	5 461,00	6 467	Turkey Turkey
7	Guangzhou	13 080 500	3 843,43	3 305	PRC PRC
8	Mumbai	12 478 447	603,40	20 680	India india
9	Tokyo	13 370 198	622,99	14 562	Japan japan
10	Moscow	12 197 596	2 561,50	4 814	Russia, Russia
11	Dhaka	12 043 977	815,80	14 763	Bangladesh bangladesh
12	Cairo	11 922 949	3 085,10	3 864	Egypt egypt
13	Sao Paulo	11 895 893	1 521,11	7 762	Brazil brazil
14	Lahore	11 318 745	1 772,00	3 566	Pakistan Pakistan
15	Shenzhen	10 467 400	1 991,64	5 255	PRC PRC
16	Seoul	10 388 055	605,21	17 164	The Republic of Korea The Republic of Korea
17	Jakarta	9 988 329	664,12	15 040	Indonesia Indonesia
18	Kinshasa	9 735 000	1 117,62	8 710	Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo
19	Tianjin	9 341 844	4 037,00	2 314	PRC PRC
20	Mexico City	8 874 724	1 485,49	5 974	Mexico mexico
21	Lima	8 693 387	2 672,30	3 253	Peru Peru
22	Bangalore	8 425 970	709,50	11 876	India india
23	London	8 416 535	1 572,15	5 354	United Kingdom United Kingdom
24	New York	8 405 837	783,84	10 724	USA USA
25	Bangkok	8 280 925	1 568,74	5 280	Thailand thailand
26	Dongguan	8 220 207	2 469,40	3 329	PRC PRC
27	Tehran	8 154 051	686,00	11 886	Iran Iran
28	Ahmedabad	8 029 975	475,00	11 727	India india
29	Bogota	7 776 845	859,11	9 052	Colombia Colombia
30	Ho Chi Minh City	7 681 700	2 095,60	3 667	Vietnam Vietnam
31	Hong Kong	7 219 700	1 104,43	6 537	PRC PRC
32	Baghdad	7 180 889	4 555,00	1 577	Iraq iraq
33	Wuhan	6 886 253	1 327,61	5 187	PRC PRC
34	Hyderabad	6 809 970	621,48	10 958	India india
35	Hanoi	6 844 100	3 323,60	2 059	Vietnam Vietnam
36	Luanda	6 542 944	2 257,00	2 899	Angola Angola
37	Rio de Janeiro	6 429 923	1 200,27	5 357	Brazil brazil
38	Foshan	6 151 622	2 034,62	3 023	PRC PRC
39	Santiago	5 743 719	1 249,90	4 595	Chile Chile
40	Riyadh	5 676 621	1 233,98	4 600	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
41	Singapore	5 399 200	712,40	7 579	Singapore Singapore
42	Shantou	5 391 028	2 064,42	2 611	PRC PRC
43	St. Petersburg	5 225 690	1 439,00	3 631	Russia, Russia
44	Pune	5 049 968	450,69	6 913	India india
45	Ankara	5 045 083	1 910,92	2 282	Turkey Turkey
46	Chennai	4 792 949	426,51	21 057	India india
47	Abidjan	4 765 000	2 119,00	2 249	Cote d'Ivoire Cote d'Ivoire
48	Chengdu	4 741 929	421,00	11 260	PRC PRC
49	Yangon	4 714 000	598,75	7 873	Myanmar myanmar
50	Alexandria	4 616 625	2 300,00	2 007	Egypt egypt
51	Chongqing	4 513 137	1 435,07	3 145	PRC PRC
52	Calcutta	4 486 679	200,70	24 252	India india
53	Xi'an	4 467 837	832,17	5 388	PRC Links ... geogoroda.ru. Retrieved July 14, 2016. Excerpt characterizing List of cities in the world by population Napoleon enters Moscow after a brilliant victory de la Moskowa; there can be no doubt of victory, since the battlefield remains with the French. The Russians retreat and surrender the capital. Moscow, filled with provisions, weapons, shells and untold riches, is in the hands of Napoleon. Russian army, twice the weakest of the French, during the month does not make a single attempt at an attack. Napoleon's position is the most brilliant. In order to pile on the remnants of the Russian army with double forces and destroy it, in order to pronounce a favorable peace or, in case of refusal, to make a threatening movement to Petersburg, in order even, in case of failure, to return to Smolensk or Vilna , or stay in Moscow - in order, in a word, to maintain the brilliant position in which it was at that time french army it would seem that no special genius is needed. To do this, it was necessary to do the simplest and easiest thing: to prevent the troops from plundering, to prepare winter clothes that would be enough for the whole army in Moscow, and correctly collect the provisions that were in Moscow for more than six months (according to the testimony of French historians) for the entire army. Napoleon, this most brilliant of geniuses and who had the power to control the army, according to historians, did nothing of this. Not only did he not do any of this, but, on the contrary, used his power to choose from all the paths of activity presented to him that was the stupidest and most pernicious of all. Of all that Napoleon could do: winter in Moscow, go to Petersburg, go to Nizhny Novgorod, go back, north or south, the way that Kutuzov went later - well, no matter what you think of, it is more stupid and more destructive than what Napoleon did, that is, to remain in Moscow until October, leaving the troops to plunder the city, then, hesitating, leave or not to leave the garrison, to leave Moscow, to approach Kutuzov, not to start the battle, to go to the right, to reach Maly Yaroslavets, again without experiencing an accident to break through, to go not along the road that Kutuzov took, but to go back to Mozhaisk and along the devastated Smolensk road - nothing more stupid than this, more destructive for the army could be invented, as the consequences showed. Let the most skillful strategists come up with, imagining that Napoleon's goal was to destroy his army, come up with another series of actions that would, with the same certainty and independence from everything that the Russian troops did, would completely destroy the whole the French army, like what Napoleon did. The genius Napoleon did it. But to say that Napoleon ruined his army because he wanted it, or because he was very stupid, would be just as unfair as to say that Napoleon brought his troops to Moscow because he wanted it, and because that he was very clever and brilliant. In both cases, his personal activity, which did not have more power than the personal activity of each soldier, only coincided with the laws by which the phenomenon took place. It is completely false (only because the consequences did not justify Napoleon's activities) that historians present to us Napoleon's strength as weakened in Moscow. He, just as before, as well as after, in the 13th year, used all his skill and strength to do the best for himself and his army. Napoleon's activities during this time are no less amazing than in Egypt, Italy, Austria and Prussia. We do not know for sure about the extent to which Napoleon's genius was real in Egypt, where for forty centuries they looked at his greatness, because all these great deeds are described to us only by the French. We cannot correctly judge his genius in Austria and Prussia, since information about his activities there must be drawn from French and German sources; and the incomprehensible surrender of corps without battles and fortresses without a siege should persuade the Germans to recognize genius as the only explanation for the war that was waged in Germany. But there is no reason for us to recognize his genius in order to hide our shame, thank God. We paid to have the right to simply and directly look at the case, and we will not give up this right. His activities in Moscow are as amazing and brilliant as elsewhere. Orders after orders and plans after plans come from him from the time of his entry into Moscow until his exit from it. The absence of residents and a deputation and the very fire of Moscow do not bother him. He does not lose sight of neither the good of his army, nor the actions of the enemy, nor the good of the peoples of Russia, nor the management of the valleys of Paris, nor diplomatic considerations about the upcoming conditions of peace. Militarily, immediately upon entering Moscow, Napoleon strictly orders General Sebastiani to monitor the movements of the Russian army, sends corps along different roads and orders Murat to find Kutuzov. Then he diligently orders the strengthening of the Kremlin; then he makes an ingenious plan for a future campaign across the entire map of Russia. With regard to the diplomatic, Napoleon calls on the robbed and ragged captain Yakovlev, who does not know how to get out of Moscow, expounds to him in detail all his policies and his generosity and, writing a letter to Emperor Alexander, in which he considers it his duty to inform his friend and brother that Rostopchin ordered a bad order in Moscow, he sent Yakovlev to Petersburg. Having set out in the same detail his views and generosity before Tutolmin, he sends this old man to Petersburg for negotiations.

In Russia today there are about a thousand cities. All of them are radically different in area and in the number of residents.

The smallest town is Chekalin. It is located in the Suvorovsky district of the Tula region and has been known only since the end of the 19th century, but is, nevertheless, one of the historical cities of Russia. It is interesting that before the revolution in the city of Likhvin, Kaluga province (this is how the city was called until 1944, which got its name in honor of the partisan Alexander Chekalin) there were about 1,700 people.

According to the 2010 census, only 994 people live in the city. Despite such a number of indigenous people, the settlement still retains the name of the city. The status of the city was retained due to the fact that during the reporting activities on the liquidation of small cities, a list with cities that began with the letters Ч, Ш and Щ was lost.

The largest city in Russia by population

Moscow

The population is over 15 million people.
Naturally, in terms of population, the largest city in our country is the capital. This metropolis is home to many more people than in a number European countries, for example, than in Finland and Norway combined. And about the same number of residents are in the Czech Republic and Belgium. And this is only according to official data.

More than 15 million people live in Moscow. Such an amount, by the way, is typical for such a no longer small country like Kazakhstan. According to experts, only about 10 million people have a capital residence permit, and another million live with temporary registration. The rest are registered foreigners, newcomers (labor migrants, guest workers, students) and illegal immigrants. The influx of the population to Moscow is noted constantly, mainly residents of other regions come to the capital - Russians here, and residents of other countries, come in search of work. It should be noted that more than 90 percent of Moscow's population is Russian.

St. Petersburg

Population - more than 5 million people.
In the northern capital fit three times fewer people than in the capital. The cultural center of the country is inhabited by about 5 million people. The five-millionth resident of St. Petersburg was born in September 2012. In addition, St. Petersburg is the fourth largest city in Europe. By the way, there are more Russians in the northern capital than in Moscow.

The number of people living in other cities of Russia, which can be called large, fluctuates in the range of 1-1.5 million people.

Novosibirsk

Population - more than 1.5 million people.
The city is young enough. It appeared just over a hundred years ago. The number of people living in the largest city in Siberia has already exceeded 1.5 million. By the way, Novosibirsk is one of the few world record holders in transforming a small town into a millionaire city. And in the 21st century, it became the first of the cities of Russia (of course, after two historical capitals), in which the population exceeded one and a half million. Despite the remoteness from the capital, more than 80 representatives live in the city of Novonikolaevsk, as Novosibirsk was formerly called different types nationality. These include Germans, Tatars, Kazakhs, Finns, Koreans and Poles.

Ekaterinburg

The population is about 1.4 million people.
Yekaterinburg has every chance of removing its predecessor from the pedestal. In the capital of the Urals, according to data for 2012, almost 1.4 million people live. The first five largest cities in Russia are closed by Nizhny Novgorod with a population of about 1.3 million people.

It should be noted that Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Ufa, Volgograd, Samara and Kazan are among the cities with a population of over one million. More recently, Perm was in the ranking, however, the city has lost the honorary title of a millionaire. Its place was empty for a relatively short time; Krasnoyarsk became a city with a million population.

The largest cities in Russia by area

Sochi

The area is 3605 square kilometers.
Sochi is still a record holder among cities in another "nomination". It is the longest city in Russia. The capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches stretches along the Black Sea coast for 145 kilometers, moreover, the lion's share of the distance, namely 118 kilometers, is the beach strip. The resort capital is divided into Central, Khostinsky, Lazarevsky and Adler districts.

Today, megalopolises are growing by leaps and bounds, attracting people from the surrounding settlements. Most of them have already moved to cities, and villages continue to empty. But where are the most big cities Russia, and most importantly, how many people live there? Let's try to figure it out.

Moscow

The first place is quite logical and predictable - Moscow. The capital of our vast homeland itself is not too small, and although they say that it is not rubber, in fact it stretches to the envy of any rubber. Now it is home to over 12 million people. This is according to official figures. The anecdotal evidence is even more impressive.

The ethnic composition is rather motley. The basis is made up of Russians - almost 92%, 1.4% of Ukrainians, they have the largest national community, almost the same number - Tatars, 1.38%, less than 1% of Armenians, half a percent of Armenians and Jews, 0.36 - Belarusians and Georgians. But, again, this is the official data.

The second place is also quite predictable - St. Petersburg, the northern or cultural capital. Unlike Moscow, it has a much smaller population - "only" 5,200,000 people. And this is on an area of ​​1439 square kilometers. As a result, it turns out that 3566 people are constantly on one kilometer. The ethnic composition is practically the same as in Moscow.

There are many differences between St. Petersburg and Moscow, but one of the main ones is age. Moscow grew gradually, finally reaching such dimensions. St. Petersburg appeared with a wave of the hand of Peter the Great. As a city it is very young, just over three centuries old. Perhaps, over time, he will still catch up with Moscow.

Novosibirsk is considered to be the northernmost city with a population of one million, as it is home to 1,500,000 people. This makes it the largest city in Siberia and the third in Russia. It is worth noting that about 500,000 more live in the nearby neighborhoods, creating a total agglomeration of two million.

Despite the fact that the climate in Novosibirsk is very harsh, the city has won the title of one of the most comfortable to live in. It is a business, trade, transport, scientific and industrial center a huge region, but at the same time has a developed infrastructure, thought out for the convenience of residents. All this allowed the city to bear the proud title of the capital of Siberia.

Yekaterinburg continues the list of millionaires. This city is home to 1396 people. It should be noted that Yekaterinburg has enough a large number of satellite cities, and the total size of the agglomeration is more than 2,200,000 people.

By the way, like St. Petersburg, this city appeared by order of Peter the Great. Yekaterinburg also has the unofficial title of the capital, but this time the capital of the Urals.

Like many major cities, Nizhny Novgorod has long history... It was first mentioned in 1221. It is difficult to compare its size then and today, for example, even at the beginning of the 19th century, a little more than 14,000 people lived in Nizhny Novgorod. But by our time its population has increased tenfold, and now it is 1 272 000 people.

Like many cities on this list, Nizhny Novgorod has a vast metropolitan area with a population of over 2,020,000. Actually. 60% of the entire Novgorod region live in it. At the same time, Novgorod has a serious problem - a rapid population decline. It is partly explained by natural processes, partly by the outflow of young people to nearby Moscow.

Kazan is not just a large city, it is the capital of one of the republics of Russia, Tatarstan. And again, however, it has a name with the word capital, this time “third capital”, which has even become an official brand. There are others, unofficial, "the capital of all Tatars in the world", "the capital of Russian federalism."

The population of this capital allowed the city to receive an honorable sixth place in our ranking, because it is home to 1,190,000 people. Agglomeration, in comparison with others, is rather small - just over 1,500,000 people.

Kazan recently turned 1000 years old, and this clearly affected its appearance, and most importantly - the composition of the population. Representatives of more than 115 nationalities live in the city, which makes it one of the most multinational cities in Russia.

Samara

This city is unique in its own way, it is home to 1,171,000 people, which makes it the seventh of all settlements in Russia. But, at the same time, it has one of the largest agglomerations, more than 2,500,000 people - the third largest after Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Samara is the largest city in the Volga Region. On the one hand, this is good, the central location facilitates the establishment of business and trade ties. At the same time, the proximity to other, larger cities leads to the fact that many young residents are leaving.

Omsk

One of the interesting features of this city is its multinationality. Russians live in it, and there are only 88.8% of them, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Tatars, Germans. In total, 56 national-cultural organizations are registered.

The ninth city on the list is Chelyabinsk, famous for its large metallurgical plant, the comedy show "Our Russia" and a meteorite. This "harsh" place is home to 1,169,000 people.

Moreover, like Omsk, it has become a hometown for many nationalities. Only 86.5% are Russians, 5% Tatars, 3.1% Bashkirs, 1.4% Ukrainians, and so it goes on for a long time.

Rostov-on-Don closes our list, administrative center Yuzhny federal district... It is home to 1,109,000 people. The agglomeration is almost twice as large - 2.5 million people. Another multinational city, in which the Russians, although they make up the majority, 90.6%, but there are also many other nationalities.

These are the ten largest cities in Russia. But the list could go on for a very, very long time. There are many settlements in our country, and there are only 15 million of them. The second ten is Ufa, Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Perm and Voronezh. Perhaps someday they will become larger and take a place on this list. In the meantime, the list looks like this and is not going to change.

The list includes the largest cities in the world with a population of over 1 million people. The largest cities in the world are represented, where the population of the largest cities in the world is more than 1 billion people. Thus, the total number of the largest cities in the world is 1 180 485 707 people.

The list shows the largest cities in the world, where the largest cities in the world in terms of population are presented starting from the largest cities - the number of the largest cities in the world, the flag of the country, the name of the country and the name of the continent of each major city are indicated.

Population of the largest cities in the world in relation to the population of the Earth.

The population of the largest cities in the world is 15.76% of the total population of the Earth (7.4 billion people), as of 2017. The largest cities in the world in terms of population in our list begin with the largest city on planet Earth - the city of Chongqing in China with a population of 30,165,500 people. Other largest cities in the world are Shanghai in China (24,150,000 people), Beijing in China (21,148,000 people), Tianjin in China (14,425,000 people), Istanbul in Turkey with a population of 13 854 740 people

Top 10 largest cities in the world.

10 largest cities in the world in decreasing order starting from the largest: Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Istanbul, Guangzhou, Tokyo, Karachi, Mumbai, Moscow. Moreover, the city of Moscow is the only European city out of the 10 largest cities in the world and is the largest city in Europe. The largest cities in the world in terms of population on our list are the capitals and major cities of the world with over one million people (1,000,000 people).

Which countries have the most millionaire cities.

It is interesting to note the fact that of all the millionaire cities on the planet Earth, 15 millionaire cities are located in Russia. The number of the largest cities in the world in different countries differs: 123 cities with a population of more than one million are located in China, 54 cities with a population of over one million are in India, 17 cities with a population of over one million are in Indonesia, 14 cities are located in Brazil, 12 cities with a population of over one million are in Japan and 9 cities are located in the United States.