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Rank	Metropolitan area name	Country	Definition	Area (km²)	Population estimate	Population density (/km²)
1	Tokyo (Greater Tokyo Area)	Japan	Official metropolitan area (Keihinyo MMA)	13,500	35,197,000	2,610
2	Mexico City (Greater Mexico City)	Mexico	Official metropolitan area (ZMCM)	4,980	19,411,000	3,818
3	New York City, New York–Newark, New Jersey (New York metropolitan area)	United States	Urban area (FIPS 63217)	8,680	18,718,000	2,131
4	São Paulo (Greater São Paulo Area)	Brazil	Official metropolitan area	8,050	18,333,000	2,277
5	Mumbai (Bombay) (MMRDA)	India	Administrative area (MMRDA)	4,360	18,196,000	4,206
6	Delhi (National Capital Territory of Delhi)	India	Administrative area (NCT)	1,480	15,048,000	10,360
7	Shanghai	China	Municipality (urban population)	6,500	14,503,000	1,949
8	Kolkata (Calcutta) (Kolkata Metropolitan Area)	India	Administrative area (KMD)	1,780	14,277,000	8,033
9	Jakarta (Jabotabek Metropolitan Area)	Indonesia	Urbanized area	1,360	13,215,000	9,701
10	Buenos Aires (Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires)	Argentina	Metropolitan area	3,680	12,550,000	3,627
11	Dhaka	Bangladesh	Official metropolitan area (Dhaka Megacity)	1,600	12,430,000	7,850
12	Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana, California (Greater Los Angeles Area)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 51445)	4,320	12,298,000	2,812
13	Karachi	Pakistan	City district	3,530	11,608,000	3,348
14	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Official metropolitan area	5,000	11,469,000	2,294
15	Osaka–Kobe (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto)	Japan	Urbanized area (administrative boundaries) (excludes Kyoto)	2,070	11,268,000	5,452
16	Cairo–Giza–Shubra El-Khema	Egypt	Metropolitan area	1,310	11,128,000	8,508
17	Lagos	Nigeria	Urbanized area	640	10,886,000	17,398
18	Beijing	China	Municipality (urban population)	16,810	10,717,000	645
19	Manila (Metropolitan Manila)	Philippines	Administrative area (Metro Manila)	640	10,686,000	16,683
20	Moscow	Russia	City proper (Federal city)	1,080	10,654,000	9,881
21	Paris	France	Urban area (commune boundaries)	2,720	9,820,000^[3]	3,623
22	Istanbul	Turkey	Metropolitan municipality	1,830	9,712,000
23	Seoul (Seoul National Capital Area)	South Korea	City proper (Seoul City)	610	9,645,000^[4]	15,725
24	Chicago, Illinois (Chicagoland)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 16264)	5,500	8,814,000	1,584
25	London (Greater London Urban Area)	United Kingdom	Urban area	1,620	8,505,000^[1]	4,701
26	Guangzhou, Guangdong	China	Prefecture-level city (urban population)	7,440	8,425,000
27	Bogotá–Soacha	Colombia	Metropolitan area	1,980	7,747,000	3,835
28	Tehran	Iran	City proper	660	7,314,000	11,139
29	Shenzhen	China			7,233,000
30	Lima (Lima Metropolitan Area)	Peru	Official metropolitan area	2,810	7,186,000
31	Wuhan, Hubei	China	Prefecture-level city (urban population)	8,490	7,093,000
32	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	China	Administrative area	1,100	7,041,000	6,529
33	Tianjin	China	Municipality (urban population)	11,940	7,040,000	783
34	Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu	India	Administrative area (CMDA)	1,180	6,916,000	5,860
35	Bangkok	Thailand	Official metropolitan area (Bangkok Metropolis)	1,570	6,593,000	4,206
36	Rhein-Ruhrgebiet North: Dortmund, Duisburg, Krefeld, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Hagen, Hamm and Herne (Ruhr Valley)	Germany	Urban area (NUTS-3 boundaries)	4,500	6,566,000	1,459
37	Bangalore, Karnataka	India	Administrative area (BDA)	1,280	6,462,000	5,103
38	Chongqing	China	Prefecture-level city [pre-1997 borders] (urban population)	14,880	6,363,000	334
39	Lahore, Punjab	Pakistan	City district	1,770	6,289,000
40	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh	India	Administrative area (HUDA)	1,860	6,115,000
41	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Province-level city (urban population)	9,960	6,049,000
42	Baghdad	Iraq	Governorate (province)	730	5,904,000	8,096
43	Santiago (Santiago Metropolitan Region)	Chile	Metropolitan area	2,350	5,683,000
44	Madrid	Spain	Official metropolitan area	1,700	5,608,000
45	Miami, Florida (South Florida)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 56602)	2,890	5,434,000	1,862
46	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Delaware Valley)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 69076)	4,660	5,392,000
47	Toronto (Greater Toronto Area)	Canada	Official metropolitan area (CMA)	5,870	5,312,000
48	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Administrative area (Gorod)	1,150	5,312,000
49	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	Official metropolitan area	9,190	5,304,000
50	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	India	Administrative area (AUDA)	1,300	5,120,000
51	Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)	Vietnam	Municipality (urban population)	2,090	5,065,000
52	Barcelona	Spain	Official metropolitan area	3,240	4,795,000
53	Shenyang, Liaoning	China	Prefecture-level city (urban population)	12,960	4,720,000
54	Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 22042)	3,640	4,655,000
55	Khartoum–Khartoum North–Omdurman	Sudan	Urbanized area (administrative boundaries)		4,518,000
56	Pune, Maharashtra	India	Urbanized area	700	4,409,000	6,407
57	Boston, Massachusetts (Greater Boston)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 09271)	4,500	4,361,000
58	Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	Metropolitan area (Statistical Division)	12,140	4,331,000
59	Singapore City	Singapore	City proper	690	4,326,000	6,336
60	Houston, Texas (Greater Houston)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 40429)	3,350	4,320,000
61	Dongguan, Guangdong	China			4,320,000
62	Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta Metropolitan Area)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 03817)	5,080	4,304,000
63	Washington, DC	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 92242) (excludes Baltimore)	3,000	4,238,000
64	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	City proper	1,550	4,193,000
65	Hanoi	Vietnam	Metropolitan area	2,150	4,164,000
66	Bandung	Indonesia	Urbanized area	220	4,126,000	18,273
67	Chittagong	Bangladesh	Official metropolitan area (census definition)	990	4,114,000	4,213
68	Yangon	Myanmar	Urbanized area	350	4,107,000	11,663
69	Chengdu, Sichuan	China	Prefecture-level city (urban population)	12,350	4,065,000
70	Detroit, Michigan (Metro Detroit)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 23824)	3,270	4,034,000
71	Guadalajara, Jalisco	Mexico	Official metropolitan area	2,730	3,968,000
72	Xi'an	China	Prefecture-level city (urban population)	9,980	3,926,000
73	Porto Alegre	Brazil	Metropolitan area	9,890	3,795,000
74	Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah Governorate	Egypt	Governorate	2,970	3,770,000
75	Rhein-Main–Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main and Wiesbaden (Greater Frankfurt)	Germany	Urban area (NUTS-3 boundaries)	3,500	3,721,000
76	Haerbin	China			3,695,000
77	Montreal, Quebec (Greater Montreal Area)	Canada	Metropolitan area (CMA)	4,050	3,640,000
78	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Metropolitan area (Statistical Division)	7,690	3,626,000
79	Nanjing, Jiangsu	China			3,621,000
80	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Mexico	Official metropolitan area	4,010	3,596,000
81	Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire	City proper	550	3,577,000	6,393
82	Ankara	Turkey	Metropolitan municipality	2,500	3,573,000
83	Surat, Gujarat	India	Urbanized area	200	3,557,000	18,355
84	Busan (Pusan)	South Korea	City proper (Busan City)	760	3,554,000	4,641
85	Recife, Brazil	Brazil	Metropolitan area	2,770	3,527,000
86	Guiyang	China			3,447,000
87	Phoenix–Mesa, Arizona (Valley of the Sun)	United States	Urbanized area (FIPS 69184)	2,070	3,416,000	1,639
88	Berlin	Germany	Berlin city state	890	3,389,000	3,739
89	San Francisco–Oakland, California	United States	Urbanized area (excludes San Jose)	1,360	3,385,000^[2]
90	Pyongyang	North Korea	City proper	2,110	3,351,000
91	Rome	Italy	Urbanized area (administrative boundaries)	1,700	3,348,000
92	Brasilia	Brazil	Metropolitan area (RIDE)	14,400	3,341,000
93	Salvador	Brazil	Metropolitan area	2,340	3,331,000
94	Rhein-Ruhrgebiet Middle–Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach, Remscheid, Solingen and Wuppertal	Germany	Urban area (NUTS-3 boundaries)	1,500	3,325,000
95	Johannesburg	South Africa	Metropolitan municipality (excludes Ekurhuleni and West Rand)	1,640	3,254,000
96	Fortaleza	Brazil	Metropolitan area	4,950	3,237,000
97	Athens	Greece	Urbanized area (administrative boundaries)		3,230,000
98	Algiers	Algeria	Wilaya (province)	270	3,200,000	12,074
99	Nagoya (Chukyo Metropolitan Area)	Japan	Urbanized area (administrative boundaries)	670	3,179,000	4,760
100	Casablanca (Region du Grand Casablanca)	Morocco	Administrative area	1,620	3,138,000

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^{^} Eurostat defines a "Larger Urban Zone" or LUZ for London (based on commuting and employment) composed of Greater London and 42 surrounding districts with a total population of 11,624,807 (2001).
^{^} San Francisco is more often considered to be part of a combined metropolitan area with the city of San Jose. This metropolitan area is called the "San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area", or the "San Francisco Bay Area". The total population of the combined statistical area is 7,159,693 (2004 estimate), with a combined urban area population of 5,016,000.
^{^} The statistical metropolitan area (aire urbaine) of Paris has an official population of 11,174,743 (as of 1999).
^{^} The Korean National Statistics Office does not tabulate metropolitan areas. Unofficial definitions of the metropolitan area (see Other Lists section) put the population at around 22 million. The metropolitan area includes Incheon and most of Gyeonggi-do. See Seoul National Capital Area for more information.
The metropolitan area of Taipei (not in the above list) is commonly taken to consist of Taipei City, Keelung City, and Taipei County with a total population of 6,733,843 (as of 2000).

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