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The World's Largest Metropolitan Areas

The cities are ordered by population. Status of population ~ Jan 2006. Cities in this list include satellite municipalities.

There is also a list excluding surrounding cities and towns and those are the largest cities with ONE mayor and that have distinctive city limits: "10 Largest Cities (Municipalities?) in the World by Population":http://www.listsofbests.com/list/8695

(found at: http://www.citypopulation.com)

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1. Tokyo 4217 people  
2. Mexico City 459 people  
3. Seoul 383 people  
4. New York City 7258 people  
5. São Paulo 107 people  
6. Mumbai 339 people  
7. Delhi 65 people  
8. Shanghai 950 people  
9. Los Angeles 1886 people  
10. Osaka 320 people  
11. Jakarta 80 people  
12. Kolkata 75 people  
13. al-Qāhirah (Cairo) 387 people  
14. Metro Manila 63 people  
15. Karachi 22 people  
16. Moscow Metro 85 people  
17. Buenos Aires 1123 people  
18. Dhaka 13 people  
19. Rio de Janeiro 1581 people  
20. Beijing 886 people  
21. London 6160 people  
22. Tehran 56 people  
23. Istanbul 1174 people  
24. Lagos 45 people  
25. Shenzhen 24 people  
26. Paris 6031 people  
27. Chicago 2157 people  
28. Guangzhou 53 people  
29. Chongqing 9 people  
30. Wuhan 8 people  
31. Lima 122 people  
32. Bangkok 529 people  
33. Bogotá 100 people  
34. Washington, D.C. 1011 people  
35. Nagoya 12 people  
36. Chennai 40 people  
37. Lahore Cantonment 1 person  
38. Hong Kong 2110 people  
39. Johannesburg 190 people  
40. San Francisco 3469 people  
41. Bangalore 107 people  
42. Kinshasa 9 people  
43. Taipei 137 people  
44. Hyderabad 40 people  
45. Tianjin 11 people  
46. Dallas 196 people  
47. Philadelphia 514 people  
48. Santiago Metropolitan Region 136 people  
49. Detroit 136 people  
50. Dortmund 3 people  
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Created by kalavinka on Jun 26, 2006.