The Most Populous Cities

The Most Populous Cities

1 - Shanghai - China - 13,831,900 inhabitants

   Shanghai is the largest city in the People's Republic of China and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world with over 20 million inhabitants. Located on the central coast of eastern China at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is the world's most populous.

2 - Bombay - India - 13,831,900 inhabitants

     Bombay or Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra state and India's largest city and second most populous in the world. Mumbai lies on the island of Salsette, off the western coast of Maharashtra. Its metropolitan area is the third largest in the world with a population of about 22 million inhabitants.

3 - Karachi - Pakistan - 12,991,000 inhabitants

      Karachi is Pakistan's most populous city and capital of the province of Sind in the south.It is the financial, commercial and port of the country. It is the third most populous city in the world.

4 - Delhi - India - 12,565,991 inhabitants

      Delhi appears the second most populous Indian city, and the fourth most populous in the world - while its metropolitan area, known as National Capital Territory of Delhi, which is capital, has about 22.2 million inhabitants destribuida over an area estimated at 1483km ².

5 - Istanbul - Turkey - 12,517,664 inhabitants

      Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, the fifth largest in the world, rivaling London as the largest metropolitan area in Europe. Majority of the population is Muslim.

6 - São Paulo - Brazil - 11,316,149 inhabitants

     Sao Paulo is the main financial center, corporate and commercial Latin America. It is the most populous city in Brazil, the Americas and around the Southern Hemisphere. It is the sixth city and the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world.

7 - Moscow - Russia - 10,563,038 inhabitants

     Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia and is among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a great center for political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational and transportation in Russia. It is also the seventh most populous city in the world.

8 - Seoul - South Korea - 10,464,051 inhabitants

     Seoul is the capital and the largest and most important city in South Korea, situated in the northwest, on the banks of the Han River is the eighth most populous city in the world and its metropolitan area, in turn, which includes the city of peripheral Incheon, encompasses about 22.7 million inhabitants. Seoul is the largest and most developed financial and commercial center of South Korea, and one of the main Asian continent and the world.

9 - Beijing - China - 10,123,000 inhabitants

      Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the ninth most populous city in the world. Located north of the country, Beijing is famous for the Forbidden City, a group of palaces of Chinese emperors built in the fifteenth century. The city was the capital of the Chinese Empire from 1421 to 1911.

10 - Jakarta - Indonesia - 9,588,198 inhabitants

      Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. It is located in Java Island and has about 18.2 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area and how the city is the tenth most populous city in the world.