{"id":216,"date":"2010-02-05T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:56:05","slug":"largestcities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/largestcities\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>List of the world&#8217;s largest cities by population. Half of the world population live in cities &#8211; in 1900 one in ten people lived in cities. More than 400 cities have a population of more than a million people, some 100 of those cities are in China (the world&#8217;s most populous nation), 40 in Europe, 45 in the Amercas, 20 in Africa. A city with more than 10 million inhabitants is a Mega City.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>City<\/th>\n<th>Population<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Tokio, Japan<\/td>\n<td>37,800,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Seoul, South Korea<\/td>\n<td>23,900,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Mexico City, Mexico<\/td>\n<td>22,900,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Delhi, India<\/td>\n<td>22,400,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>New York, NY, USA<\/td>\n<td>21,900,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Mumbai, India<\/td>\n<td>21,400,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/td>\n<td>21,500,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Shangai, China<\/td>\n<td>17,900,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Kolkata (Culcutta), India<\/td>\n<td>16,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Beunos Aires, Argentina<\/td>\n<td>14,100,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Note: Population as per metropolitan areas<\/p>\n<p>When including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypopulation.de\/world\/Agglomerations.html\">city agglomerations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Manila, Pilippines &#8211; 19,900,000<br \/>\nJakarta, Indonesia &#8211; 18,900,000<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhabitat.org\">UN Habitat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/world-gazetteer.com\">World Gazetteer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>List of the world&#8217;s largest cities by population. Half of the world population live in cities &#8211; in 1900 one in ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,165,209,235],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countries","tag-cities","tag-new-york","tag-shangai","tag-tokio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}