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Greater Tokyo Area, Japan, the world's most populated urban area, with about 38 million inhabitants.

An urban area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment. The creation of early predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning, which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources leads to human impact on the environment.

The world's urban population in 1950 of just 746 million has increased to 3.9 billion in the decades since.^[1] In 2009, the number of people living in urban areas (3.42 billion) surpassed the number living in rural areas (3.41 billion) and since then the world has become more urban than rural.^[2] This was the first time that the majority of the world's population lived in a city.^[3] In 2014 there were 7.2 billion people living on the planet,^[4] of which the global urban population comprised 3.9 billion. The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs at that time predicted the urban population would grow to 6.4 billion by 2050, with 37% of that growth to come from three countries: China, India and Nigeria.^[1]

Urban areas are created and further developed by the process of urbanization. Urban areas are measured for various purposes, including analyzing population density and urban sprawl.

Unlike an urban area, a metropolitan area includes not only the urban area, but also satellite cities plus intervening rural land that is socio-economically connected to the urban core city, typically by employment ties through commuting, with the urban core city being the primary labor market.

Definitions

European countries define urbanized areas on the basis of urban-type land use, not allowing any gaps of typically more than 200 metres (220 yd), and use satellite imagery instead of census blocks to determine the boundaries of the urban area. In less-developed countries, in addition to land use and density requirements, a requirement that a large majority of the population, typically 75%, is not engaged in agriculture and/or fishing is sometimes used.

Argentina

Argentina is highly urbanized.^[5] The ten largest metropolitan areas account for half of the population, and fewer than one in ten live in rural areas. About 3 million people live in Buenos Aires City and the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area totals around 15 million, making it one of the largest urban areas in the world, with a population of 18 million all up.^[6]

Córdoba has around 1.5 million people living in the urban area, while Rosario, Mendoza and Tucumán have around 1.2 million inhabitants each^[6] and La Plata, Mar del Plata, Salta and Santa Fe^[6][7] have at least 500,000 people each.

The population is unequally distributed amongst the provinces: about 60% live in the Pampa region (21% of the total area), including 20 million people in Buenos Aires Province; Córdoba Province Santa Fe Province and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires have 3 million each. Seven other provinces have over one million people each: Mendoza, Tucumán, Entre Ríos, Salta, Chaco, Corrientes and Misiones. Tucumán is the most densely populated with 60 per square kilometre (160/sq mi), the only Argentine province more densely populated than the world average, while the southern province of Santa Cruz has around 1 inhabitant per square kilometre (2.6/sq mi).

v t e Largest cities or towns in Argentina (2015 INDEC metro area estimate)[8]
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
Buenos Aires Córdoba	1	Buenos Aires	(Autonomous city)	13,834,000	11	Resistencia	Chaco	409,000	Rosario Mendoza
	2	Córdoba	Córdoba	1,519,000	12	Santiago del Estero	Santiago del Estero	406,000
	3	Rosario	Santa Fe	1,429,000	13	Corrientes	Corrientes	383,000
	4	Mendoza	Mendoza	1,082,000	14	Posadas	Misiones	355,000
	5	Tucumán	Tucumán	868,000	15	San Salvador de Jujuy	Jujuy	338,000
	6	La Plata	Buenos Aires	836,000	16	Neuquén	Neuquén	309,000
	7	Mar del Plata	Buenos Aires	633,000	17	Bahía Blanca	Buenos Aires	307,000
	8	Salta	Salta	625,000	18	Paraná	Entre Ríos	274,000
	9	Santa Fe	Santa Fe	530,000	19	Formosa	Formosa	258,000
	10	San Juan	San Juan	513,000	20	San Luis	San Luis	218,000

Australia

In Australia, urban areas are referred to as "urban centres" and are defined as population clusters of 1,000 or more people, with a density of at least 200/km² (518/sq mi)^[9] Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world, with more than 50% of the population residing in the nation's five biggest cities.

v t e Largest populated areas in Australia 2016 data from Australian Bureau of Statistics[10][11]
	Rank	Name	State	Pop.	Rank	Name	State	Pop.
Sydney Melbourne	1	Sydney	NSW	5,131,326	11	Hobart	Tas	224,462	Brisbane Perth
	2	Melbourne	Vic	4,850,740	12	Geelong	Vic	192,393
	3	Brisbane	Qld	2,408,223	13	Townsville	Qld	178,864
	4	Perth	WA	2,043,138	14	Cairns	Qld	150,041
	5	Adelaide	SA	1,333,927	15	Darwin	NT	145,916
	6	Gold Coast–Tweed Heads	Qld/NSW	646,983	16	Toowoomba	Qld	114,024
	7	Newcastle–Maitland	NSW	436,171	17	Ballarat	Vic	101,588
	8	Canberra–Queanbeyan	ACT/NSW	435,019	18	Bendigo	Vic	95,587
	9	Sunshine Coast	Qld	317,404	19	Albury-Wodonga	NSW/Vic	90,576
	10	Wollongong	NSW	295,669	20	Launceston	Tas	86,335

Brazil

According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) urban areas already concentrate 84.35% of the population, while the Southeast region remains the most populated one, with over 80 million inhabitants.^[12]
The largest metropolitan areas in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte — all in the Southeastern Region — with 20, 12, and 5 million inhabitants respectively.^[13] The majority of state capitals are the largest cities in their states, except for Vitória, the capital of Espírito Santo, and Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina. There are also non-capital metropolitan areas in the states of São Paulo (Campinas, Santos and the Paraíba Valley), Minas Gerais (Steel Valley), Rio Grande do Sul (Sinos Valley) and Santa Catarina (Itajaí Valley).^[14]

São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, the largest city proper in the Southern Hemisphere, in the Americas, and the world's ninth-largest urban area by population.^[15]

v t e Largest urban agglomerations in Brazil 2017 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics estimates[16][17][18]
	Rank	Name	State	Pop.	Rank	Name	State	Pop.
São Paulo Rio de Janeiro	1	São Paulo	São Paulo	21,314,716	11	Belém	Pará	2,157,180	Belo Horizonte Recife
	2	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	12,389,775	12	Manaus	Amazonas	2,130,264
	3	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	5,142,260	13	Campinas	São Paulo	2,105,600
	4	Recife	Pernambuco	4,021,641	14	Vitória	Espírito Santo	1,837,047
	5	Brasília	Federal District	3,986,425	15	Baixada Santista	São Paulo	1,702,343
	6	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	3,894,232	16	São José dos Campos	São Paulo	1,572,943
	7	Salvador	Bahia	3,863,154	17	São Luís	Maranhão	1,421,569
	8	Fortaleza	Ceará	3,594,924	18	Natal	Rio Grande do Norte	1,349,743
	9	Curitiba	Paraná	3,387,985	19	Maceió	Alagoas	1,231,965
	10	Goiânia	Goiás	2,347,557	20	João Pessoa	Paraíba	1,168,941

Canada

According to Statistics Canada, an urban area in Canada is an area with a population of at least 1,000 people where the density is no fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre (1,000/sq mi).^[19] If two or more urban areas are within 2 km (1.2 mi) of each other by road, they are merged into a single urban area, provided they do not cross census metropolitan area or census agglomeration boundaries.^[20]

v t e Largest cities or towns in Canada 2016 Census[21]
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
Toronto Montreal	1	Toronto	Ontario	2,731,571	11	Quebec City	Quebec	531,902	Calgary Ottawa
	2	Montreal	Quebec	1,704,694	12	Surrey	British Columbia	517,887
	3	Calgary	Alberta	1,239,220	13	Laval	Quebec	422,993
	4	Ottawa	Ontario	934,243	14	Halifax	Nova Scotia	403,131
	5	Edmonton	Alberta	932,546	15	London	Ontario	383,822
	6	Mississauga	Ontario	721,599	16	Markham	Ontario	328,966
	7	Winnipeg	Manitoba	705,244	17	Vaughan	Ontario	306,233
	8	Vancouver	British Columbia	631,486	18	Gatineau	Quebec	276,245
	9	Brampton	Ontario	593,638	19	Saskatoon	Saskatchewan	246,376
	10	Hamilton	Ontario	536,917	20	Longueuil	Quebec	239,700

In the Canada 2011 Census, Statistics Canada redesignated urban areas with the new term "population centre";^[22] the new term was chosen in order to better reflect the fact that urban vs. rural is not a strict division, but rather a continuum within which several distinct settlement patterns may exist. For example, a community may fit a strictly statistical definition of an urban area, but may not be commonly thought of as "urban" because it has a smaller population, or functions socially and economically as a suburb of another urban area rather than as a self-contained urban entity, or is geographically remote from other urban communities. Accordingly, the new definition set out three distinct types of population centres: small (population 1,000 to 29,999), medium (population 30,000 to 99,999) and large (population 100,000 or greater).^[22] Despite the change in terminology, however, the demographic definition of a population centre remains unchanged from that of an urban area: a population of at least 1,000 people where the density is no fewer than 400 persons per km².

China

Since 2000, China's cities have expanded at an average rate of 10% annually. It is estimated that China's urban population will increase by 292 million people by 2050,^[1] when its cities will house a combined population of over one billion.^[23] The country's urbanization rate increased from 17.4% to 46.6% between 1978 and 2009.^[24] Between 150 and 200 million migrant workers work part-time in the major cities, returning home to the countryside periodically with their earnings.^[25][26]

Today, China has more of cities with one million or more long-term residents than any other country, including the three global cities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai; by 2025, the country will be home to 221 cities with over a million inhabitants.^[23] The figures in the table below are from the 2008 census, and are only estimates of the urban populations within administrative city limits; a different ranking exists when considering the total municipal populations (which includes suburban and rural populations). The large "floating populations" of migrant workers make conducting censuses in urban areas difficult;^[27] the figures below include only long-term residents.

Panoramic view of Pudong's Skyline from the Bund in Shanghai, the largest city proper by population in the world.^[28]

v t e Largest cities or towns in China Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (2010)
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
Shanghai Beijing	1	Shanghai	Shanghai	20,217,700	11	Chengdu	Sichuan	6,316,900	Chongqing Guangzhou
	2	Beijing	Beijing	16,446,900	12	Nanjing	Jiangsu	6,238,200
	3	Chongqing	Chongqing	11,871,200	13	Shenyang	Liaoning	5,718,200
	4	Guangzhou	Guangdong	10,641,400	14	Hangzhou	Zhejiang	5,578,300
	5	Shenzhen	Guangdong	10,358,400	15	Xi'an	Shaanxi	5,399,300
	6	Tianjin	Tianjin	9,562,300	16	Harbin	Heilongjiang	5,178,000
	7	Wuhan	Hubei	7,541,500	17	Suzhou	Jiangsu	4,083,900
	8	Dongguan	Guangdong	7,271,300	18	Qingdao	Shandong	3,990,900
	9	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	7,055,071	19	Dalian	Liaoning	3,902,500
	10	Foshan	Guangdong	6,771,900	20	Zhengzhou	Henan	3,677,000

Colombia

In Colombia the largest Metropolitan area is Bogotá's, which has around 9.8 million of inhabitants and includes municipalities like Cota, La Calera, Chía, Soacha, Usaquen, Suba, among others. It's one of the most important cities in Latin America, especially in business,art and culture. Bogotá has been the International City of the Book and has unique places like Monserrate, Torre Colpatria, Bolivar Square, BD Bacatá, Corferias, National University etc.^[29][30]

Bolívar Square, Bogotá

v t e Largest cities or towns in Colombia National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), 2016 projections[31]
	Rank	Name	Department	Pop.	Rank	Name	Department	Pop.
Bogotá Medellín	1	Bogotá	Bogotá	7,963,379	11	Santa Marta	Magdalena	474,520	Cali Barranquilla
	2	Medellín	Antioquia	2,457,680	12	Villavicencio	Meta	471,383
	3	Cali	Valle del Cauca	2,358,302	13	Bello	Antioquia	458,196
	4	Barranquilla	Atlántico	1,219,382	14	Pereira	Risaralda	398,719
	5	Cartagena	Bolívar	971,592	15	Valledupar	Cesar	395,860
	6	Cúcuta	Norte de Santander	634,276	16	Buenaventura	Valle del Cauca	373,717
	7	Soledad	Atlántico	631,599	17	Pasto	Nariño	371,045
	8	Ibagué	Tolima	528,214	18	Manizales	Caldas	369,981
	9	Bucaramanga	Santander	521,857	19	Montería	Córdoba	346,873
	10	Soacha	Cundinamarca	516,435	20	Neiva	Huila	324,375

Finland

Similar to other Nordic countries, an urban area (taajama in Finnish) in Finland must have a building at least every 200 m (660 ft) and at least 200 people. To be considered a town or a city (kaupunki) for statistical purposes, an urban area must have at least 15,000 people. This is not to be confused with the city / town designation used by municipalities.^[32][33]

v t e Largest cities or towns in Finland http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/sq/9af9ca56-9eea-4969-9714-db194f6847e5
	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
Helsinki Espoo	1	Helsinki	Uusimaa	635,591	11	Pori	Satakunta	85,002	Tampere Vantaa
	2	Espoo	Uusimaa	274,522	12	Joensuu	North Karelia	75,881
	3	Tampere	Pirkanmaa	228,173	13	Lappeenranta	South Karelia	72,773
	4	Vantaa	Uusimaa	219,196	14	Hämeenlinna	Tavastia Proper	67,867
	5	Oulu	Northern Ostrobothnia	200,071	15	Vaasa	Ostrobothnia	67,598
	6	Turku	Finland Proper	187,564	16	Rovaniemi	Lapland	62,246
	7	Jyväskylä	Central Finland	138,780	17	Seinäjoki	Southern Ostrobothnia	62,053
	8	Lahti	Päijänne Tavastia	119,377	18	Mikkeli	Southern Savonia	54,494
	9	Kuopio	Northern Savonia	112,980	19	Kotka	Kymenlaakso	54,160
	10	Kouvola	Kymenlaakso	85,231	20	Salo	Finland Proper	53,556

France

In France, an urban area (Fr: aire urbaine) is a zone encompassing an area of built-up growth (called an "urban unit" (unité urbaine)^[34] – close in definition to the North American urban area) and its commuter belt (couronne périurbaine). Americans would find the INSEE definition of the urban area^[35] to be similar to their metropolitan area, and the INSEE sometimes uses the term aire métropolitaine^[36] to refer to the country's largest aires urbaines.

The largest cities in France, in terms of urban area population (2013), are Paris (12,405,426), Lyon (2,237,676), Marseille (1,734,277), Toulouse (1,291,517), Bordeaux (1,178,335), Lille (1,175,828), Nice (1,004,826), Nantes (908,815), Strasbourg (773,447) and Rennes (700,675).^[37]

Panorama of Paris as seen from the Eiffel Tower as full 360-degree view (river flowing from north-east to south-west, right to left)

v t e Largest cities or towns in France 2010 census
	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
Paris Marseille	1	Paris	Île-de-France	2,243,833	11	Rennes	Brittany	207,178	Lyon Toulouse
	2	Marseille	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	850,726	12	Reims	Grand Est	179,992
	3	Lyon	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	484,344	13	Le Havre	Normandy	175,497
	4	Toulouse	Occitanie	441,802	14	Saint-Étienne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	171,260
	5	Nice	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	343,304	15	Toulon	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	164,532
	6	Nantes	Pays de la Loire	284,970	16	Grenoble	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	155,637
	7	Strasbourg	Grand Est	271,782	17	Dijon	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	151,212
	8	Montpellier	Occitanie	257,351	18	Angers	Pays de la Loire	147,571
	9	Bordeaux	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	239,157	19	Villeurbanne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	145,150
	10	Lille	Hauts-de-France	227,560	20	Saint-Denis	Réunion	145,022

Germany

Germany has a number of large cities. There are 11 officially recognised metropolitan regions in Germany – and since 2006, 34 potential cities were identified which can be called a Regiopolis.

The largest conurbation is the Rhine-Ruhr region (11.7 million in 2008^[update]), including Düsseldorf (the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia), Cologne, Bonn, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, and Bochum.^[38]

v t e Largest cities or towns in Germany Statistical offices in Germany (31 December 2015)
	Rank	Name	State	Pop.	Rank	Name	State	Pop.
Berlin Hamburg	1	Berlin	Berlin	3,710,156	11	Bremen	Bremen (state)	557,464	Munich Cologne
	2	Hamburg	Hamburg	1,787,408	12	Dresden	Saxony	543,825
	3	Munich	Bavaria	1,450,381	13	Hannover	Lower Saxony	532,163
	4	Cologne	North Rhine-Westphalia	1,060,582	14	Nuremberg	Bavaria	509,975
	5	Frankfurt	Hesse	732,688	15	Duisburg	North Rhine-Westphalia	491,231
	6	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	623,738	16	Bochum	North Rhine-Westphalia	364,742
	7	Düsseldorf	North Rhine-Westphalia	612,178	17	Wuppertal	North Rhine-Westphalia	350,046
	8	Dortmund	North Rhine-Westphalia	586,181	18	Bielefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	333,090
	9	Essen	North Rhine-Westphalia	582,624	19	Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	318,809
	10	Leipzig	Saxony	560,472	20	Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia	310,039

India

For the Census of India 2011, the definition of urban area is a place having a minimum population of 5,000 of density 400 persons per square kilometre (1,000/sq mi) or higher, and 75% plus of the male working population employed in non-agricultural activities. Places administered by a municipal corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee are automatically considered urban areas.^[39]

The Census of India 2011 also defined the term "urban agglomeration" as an integrated urban area consisting of a core town together with its "outgrowths" (contiguous suburbs).^[40]

v t e Largest cities or towns in India 2011 Census of India[41]
	Rank	Name	State/UT	Pop.	Rank	Name	State/UT	Pop.
Mumbai Delhi	1	Mumbai	Maharashtra	12,478,447	11	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh	2,920,067	Bangalore Hyderabad
	2	Delhi	Delhi	11,007,835	12	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	2,901,474
	3	Bangalore	Karnataka	8,425,970	13	Nagpur	Maharashtra	2,405,421
	4	Hyderabad	Telangana	6,809,970	14	Indore	Madhya Pradesh	1,960 521
	5	Ahmedabad	Gujarat	5,570,585	15	Thane	Maharastra	1,818,872
	6	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	4,681,087	16	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh	1,795,648
	7	Kolkata	West Bengal	4,486,679	17	Visakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh	1,730,320
	8	Surat	Gujarat	4,462,002	18	Pimpri-Chinchwad	Maharashtra	1,729,359
	9	Pune	Maharashtra	3,115,431	19	Patna	Bihar	1,683,200
	10	Jaipur	Rajasthan	3,073,350	20	Ludhiana	Punjab	1,613,878

Japan

In Japan urbanized areas are defined as contiguous areas of densely inhabited districts (DIDs) using census enumeration districts as units with a density requirement of 4,000 inhabitants per square kilometre (10,000/sq mi).

v t e Largest cities or towns in Japan 2010 Census
	Rank	Name	Prefecture	Pop.	Rank	Name	Prefecture	Pop.
Tokyo Yokohama	1	Tokyo	Tokyo	13,839,910	11	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	1,174,209	Osaka Nagoya
	2	Yokohama	Kanagawa	3,689,603	12	Sendai	Miyagi	1,045,903
	3	Osaka	Osaka	2,666,371	13	Kitakyushu	Fukuoka	977,288
	4	Nagoya	Aichi	2,263,907	14	Chiba	Chiba	962,130
	5	Sapporo	Hokkaido	1,914,434	15	Sakai	Osaka	842,134
	6	Kobe	Hyōgo	1,544,873	16	Niigata	Niigata	812,192
	7	Kyoto	Kyoto	1,474,473	17	Hamamatsu	Shizuoka	800,912
	8	Fukuoka	Fukuoka	1,463,826	18	Kumamoto	Kumamoto	734,294
	9	Kawasaki	Kanagawa	1,425,678	19	Sagamihara	Kanagawa	717,561
	10	Saitama	Saitama	1,222,910	20	Shizuoka	Shizuoka	716,328

Netherlands

The Netherlands is the 30th most densely populated country in the world, with 404.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,048/sq mi)—or 497 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,287/sq mi) if only the land area is counted. The Randstad is the country's largest conurbation located in the west of the country and contains the four largest cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht. The Randstad has a population of 7 million inhabitants and is the 6th largest metropolitan area in Europe.

v t e Largest municipalities in the Netherlands Statistics Netherlands[42]
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
Amsterdam Rotterdam	1	Amsterdam	North Holland	855,896	11	Apeldoorn	Gelderland	161,181	The Hague Utrecht
	2	Rotterdam	South Holland	638,751	12	Haarlem	North Holland	159,819
	3	The Hague	South Holland	531,935	13	Enschede	Overijssel	158,276
	4	Utrecht	Utrecht	347,526	14	Arnhem	Gelderland	157,277
	5	Eindhoven	North Brabant	229,184	15	Amersfoort	Utrecht	155,215
	6	Tilburg	North Brabant	215,631	16	Zaanstad	North Holland	154,826
	7	Almere	Flevoland	203,997	17	's-Hertogenbosch	North Brabant	153,429
	8	Groningen	Groningen	202,900	18	Haarlemmermeer	North Holland	147,302
	9	Breda	North Brabant	183,749	19	Zwolle	Overijssel	126,158
	10	Nijmegen	Gelderland	175,928	20	Zoetermeer	South Holland	124,719

New Zealand

Statistics New Zealand defines urban areas in New Zealand, which are independent of any administrative subdivisions and have no legal basis.^[43] There are three classes of urban area: main urban areas are the 17 urban areas which have a population of 30,000 or more; secondary urban areas are the 14 urban areas which have a population of 10,000 or more but less than 30,000, and minor urban areas are the 103 urban areas which have a population of 1,000 or more but less than 10,000. Urban areas are reclassified after each New Zealand census, so population changes between censuses does not change an urban area's classification. For example, Rolleston (pop. 16,250) is still classified as a minor urban area because its population was under 10,000 at the 2013 Census.

v t e Largest urban areas in New Zealand Statistics New Zealand June 2018 estimate (NZSAC92 boundaries)[44]
	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
Auckland Wellington	1	Auckland	Auckland	1,628,900	11	Whangarei	Northland	58,800	Christchurch Hamilton
	2	Wellington	Wellington	418,500	12	New Plymouth	Taranaki	58,300
	3	Christchurch	Canterbury	404,500	13	Invercargill	Southland	51,200
	4	Hamilton	Waikato	241,200	14	Kapiti	Wellington	42,700
	5	Tauranga	Bay of Plenty	141,600	15	Whanganui	Manawatu-Wanganui	40,900
	6	Napier-Hastings	Hawke's Bay	134,500	16	Gisborne	Gisborne	37,200
	7	Dunedin	Otago	122,000	17	Blenheim	Marlborough	31,600
	8	Palmerston North	Manawatu-Wanganui	86,600	18	Pukekohe	Auckland	31,400
	9	Nelson	Nelson	67,500	19	Timaru	Canterbury	29,100
	10	Rotorua	Bay of Plenty	59,500	20	Taupo	Waikato	24,700

Norway

Statistics Norway defines urban areas ("tettsteder") similarly to the other Nordic countries. Unlike in Denmark and Sweden, the distance between each building has to be of less than 50 m, although exceptions are made due to parks, industrial areas, rivers, and similar. Groups of houses less than 400 m from the main body of an urban area are included in the urban area.^[45]

v t e Largest cities or towns in Norway According to Statistics 2017
	Rank	Name	County	Pop.	Rank	Name	County	Pop.
Oslo Bergen	1	Oslo	Oslo	988,873	11	Moss	Østfold	46,618	Stavanger/Sandnes Trondheim
	2	Bergen	Hordaland	254,235	12	Haugesund	Rogaland	44,830
	3	Stavanger/Sandnes	Rogaland	220,943	13	Sandefjord	Vestfold	43,595
	4	Trondheim	Trøndelag	180,557	14	Arendal	Aust-Agder	43,084
	5	Drammen	Buskerud	116,446	15	Bodø	Nordland	40,705
	6	Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg	Østfold	111,267	16	Tromsø	Troms	38,980
	7	Porsgrunn/Skien	Telemark	92,753	17	Hamar	Hedmark	27,324
	8	Kristiansand	Vest-Agder	61,536	18	Halden	Østfold	25,300
	9	Ålesund	Møre og Romsdal	52,163	19	Larvik	Vestfold	24,208
	10	Tønsberg	Vestfold	51,571	20	Askøy	Hordaland	23,194

Pakistan

In Pakistan an area is a major city and municipality if it has more than 100,000 inhabitants according to census results,
Cities include adjacent cantonments.
Urbanisation in Pakistan has increased since the time of independence and has several different causes. The majority of southern Pakistan's population lives along the Indus River. Karachi is its most populous city.^[46] In the northern half of the country, most of the population lives in an arc formed by the cities of Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Jhelum, Sargodha, Sheikhupura, Nowshera, Mardan and Peshawar. During 1990–2008, city dwellers made up 36% of Pakistan's population, making it the most urbanised nation in South Asia. Furthermore, 50% of Pakistanis live in towns of 5,000 people or more.^[47]
Karachi is the most populated city in Pakistan closely followed by Lahore according to the 2017 Census.

v t e Largest cities or towns in Pakistan According to the 2017 Census[48]
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
Karachi Lahore	1	Karachi	Sindh	14,916,456	11	Bahawalpur	Punjab	762,111	Faisalabad
	2	Lahore	Punjab	11,126,285	12	Sargodha	Punjab	659,862
	3	Faisalabad	Punjab	3,204,726	13	Sialkot	Punjab	655,852
	4	Rawalpindi	Punjab	2,098,231	14	Sukkur	Sindh	499,900
	5	Gujranwala	Punjab	2,027,001	15	Larkana	Sindh	490,508
	6	Peshawar	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	1,970,042	16	Sheikhupura	Punjab	473,129
	7	Multan	Punjab	1,871,843	17	Rahim Yar Khan	Punjab	420,419
	8	Hyderabad	Sindh	1,734,309	18	Jhang	Punjab	414,131
	9	Islamabad	Capital Territory	1,009,832	19	Dera Ghazi Khan	Punjab	399,064
	10	Quetta	Balochistan	1,001,205	20	Gujrat	Punjab	390,533

Philippines

With an estimated population of 16.3 million, Metro Manila is the most populous metropolitan area in the Philippines and the 11th in the world. However, the greater urban area is the 5th largest in the world with a population of 20,654,307 people (2010 estimate).^[49] Including Metro Manila, the Philippines has twelve metropolitan areas as defined by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Metro Angeles, Metro Bacolod, Metro Baguio, Metro Batangas, Metro Cagayan de Oro, Metro Cebu, Metro Dagupan, Metro Davao, Metro Iloilo-Guimaras, Metro Naga, Metro Olongapo.

As per Republic Act No. 9009, in order to become a city, a local government unit must :

• locally generated income of at least ₱ 100 million (based on constant prices in the year 2000) for the last two consecutive years, as certified by the Department of Finance, AND


• a population of 150,000 or more, as certified by the National Statistics Office (NSO); OR a contiguous territory of 100 square kilometers, as certified by the Land Management Bureau, with contiguity not being a requisite for areas that are on two or more islands.

v t e Largest cities in the Philippines PSA Census August 2015
	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
Quezon City Manila	1	Quezon City	National Capital Region	2,936,116	11	Parañaque	National Capital Region	665,822	Davao City Caloocan
	2	Manila	National Capital Region	1,780,148	12	Dasmariñas	Calabarzon	659,019
	3	Davao City	Davao Region	1,632,991	13	Valenzuela	National Capital Region	620,422
	4	Caloocan	National Capital Region	1,583,978	14	Bacoor	Calabarzon	600,609
	5	Cebu City	Central Visayas	922,611	15	General Santos	Soccsksargen	594,446
	6	Zamboanga City	Zamboanga Peninsula	861,799	16	Las Piñas	National Capital Region	588,894
	7	Taguig	National Capital Region	804,915	17	Makati	National Capital Region	582,602
	8	Antipolo	Calabarzon	776,386	18	San Jose del Monte	Central Luzon	574,089
	9	Pasig	National Capital Region	755,300	19	Bacolod	Western Visayas	561,875
	10	Cagayan de Oro	Northern Mindanao	675,950	20	Muntinlupa	National Capital Region	504,509

Poland

In Poland, official "urban" population figures simply refer to those localities which have the status of towns (miasta). The "rural" population is that of all areas outside the boundaries of these towns. This distinction may give a misleading impression in some cases, since some localities with only village status may have acquired larger and denser populations than many many smaller towns.^[50]

v t e Largest cities or towns in Poland Central Statistical Office population report for 30.06.2018
	Rank	Name	Voivodeship	Pop.	Rank	Name	Voivodeship	Pop.
Warsaw Kraków	1	Warsaw	Masovian	1,769,529	11	Katowice	Silesian	295,449	Łódź Wrocław
	2	Kraków	Lesser Poland	769,498	12	Gdynia	Pomeranian	246,204
	3	Łódź	Łódź	687,702	13	Częstochowa	Silesian	223,322
	4	Wrocław	Lower Silesian	639,258	14	Radom	Masovian	213,910
	5	Poznań	Greater Poland	537,643	15	Sosnowiec	Silesian	203,094
	6	Gdańsk	Pomeranian	464,829	16	Toruń	Kuyavian-Pomeranian	202,482
	7	Szczecin	West Pomeranian	403,274	17	Kielce	Świętokrzyskie	196,335
	8	Bydgoszcz	Kuyavian-Pomeranian	351,254	18	Rzeszów	Subcarpathian	190,849
	9	Lublin	Lublin	339,811	19	Gliwice	Silesian	180,708
	10	Białystok	Podlaskie	297,403	20	Zabrze	Silesian	173,784

Russia

v t e Largest cities or towns in Russia Rosstat (2016[51][52]/2017)
	Rank	Name	Federal subject	Pop.	Rank	Name	Federal subject	Pop.
Moscow Saint Petersburg	1	Moscow	Moscow	[53]12,381,000	11	Rostov-na-Donu	Rostov Oblast	1,120,000	Novosibirsk Yekaterinburg
	2	Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	[53]5,282,000	12	Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk Krai	[54]1,084,000
	3	Novosibirsk	Novosibirsk Oblast	[55]1,603,000	13	Perm	Perm Krai	1,042,000
	4	Yekaterinburg	Sverdlovsk Oblast	[56]1,456,000	14	Voronezh	Voronezh Oblast	1,032,000
	5	Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	1,267,000	15	Volgograd	Volgograd Oblast	1,016,000
	6	Kazan	Tatarstan	[57]1,232,000	16	Krasnodar	Krasnodar Krai	[58]881,000
	7	Chelyabinsk	Chelyabinsk Oblast	[59]1,199,000	17	Saratov	Saratov Oblast	843,000
	8	Omsk	Omsk Oblast	[60]1,178,000	18	Tolyatti	Samara Oblast	[61]711,000
	9	Samara	Samara Oblast	[61]1,170,000	19	Izhevsk	Udmurtia	[62]646,000
	10	Ufa	Bashkortostan	[63]1,126,000	20	Ulyanovsk	Ulyanovsk Oblast	622,000

Singapore

Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. About 5.6 million people live and work within 700 square kilometres (270 sq mi), making Singapore the 3rd-most-densely populated country in the world, after Monaco, another city-state. The Central Area in the south-eastern part of the island, is the country's city centre. It is surrounded by suburban settlements outside of its limits. These settlements are connected to the Central Area and each other by a dense network of roads, expressways and metro railway lines dubbed MRT by locals. Singapore has a highly centralised, unitary government with a unicameral legislature (the City Council and the Rural Board were abolished in the 1960s). While there are town councils and mayors in Singapore, these are essentially property managers in charge of the maintenance of public housing within their constituency boundaries. They do not represent local authorities with any legislative or executive autonomy from the national government.^[64]

v t e Largest planning areas in Singapore Singapore Department of Statistics population report for 2017
	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.	Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
Bedok Jurong West	1	Bedok	East	284,930	11	Punggol	North-East	146,640	Tampines Woodlands
	2	Jurong West	West	267,840	12	Pasir Ris	East	144,960
	3	Tampines	East	258,310	13	Bukit Panjang	West	141,930
	4	Woodlands	North	250,170	14	Bukit Batok	West	138,290
	5	Sengkang	North-East	232,100	15	Toa Payoh	Central	121,770
	6	Hougang	North-East	224,390	16	Serangoon	North-East	119,140
	7	Yishun	North	210,440	17	Geylang	Central	113,460
	8	Choa Chu Kang	West	186,580	18	Kallang	Central	101,610
	9	Ang Mo Kio	North-East	166,820	19	Queenstown	Central	97,600
	10	Bukit Merah	Central	152,790	20	Clementi	West	92,580

South Africa

v t e Largest cities or towns in South Africa 2016 Community Survey[65]
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
City of Johannesburg City of Cape Town	1	City of Johannesburg	Gauteng	4,949,347	EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality Ekurhuleni
	2	City of Cape Town	Western Cape	4,004,793
	3	EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality	KwaZulu-Natal	3,661,911
	4	Ekurhuleni	Gauteng	3,379,104
	5	City of Tshwane	Gauteng	3,275,152
	6	Nelson Mandela Bay	Eastern Cape	1,263,051
	7	Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality	Eastern Cape	810,528
	8	Mangaung	Free State	759,693
	9	Emfuleni	Gauteng	733,445
	10	Polokwane Local Municipality	Limpopo	702,190

South Korea

The largest cities of South Korea have an autonomous status equivalent to that of provinces. Seoul, the largest city and capital, is classified as a teukbyeolsi (Special City), while the next 6 largest cities (see the list below) are classified as gwangyeoksi (Metropolitan Cities; see Special cities of South Korea). Smaller cities are classified as si ("cities") and are under provincial jurisdiction, at the same level as counties (see:Administrative divisions of South Korea).

v t e Largest cities or towns in South Korea 2015 Population and Housing Census[66]
	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.	Rank	Name	Province	Pop.
Seoul Busan	1	Seoul	Seoul	9,904,312	11	Yongin	Gyeonggi	971,327	Incheon Daegu
	2	Busan	Busan	3,448,737	12	Seongnam	Gyeonggi	948,757
	3	Incheon	Incheon	2,890,451	13	Bucheon	Gyeonggi	843,794
	4	Daegu	Daegu	2,446,052	14	Cheongju	North Chungcheong	833,276
	5	Daejeon	Daejeon	1,538,394	15	Ansan	Gyeonggi	747,035
	6	Gwangju	Gwangju	1,502,881	16	Jeonju	North Jeolla	658,172
	7	Suwon	Gyeonggi	1,194,313	17	Cheonan	South Chungcheong	629,062
	8	Ulsan	Ulsan	1,166,615	18	Namyangju	Gyeonggi	629,061
	9	Changwon	South Gyeongsang	1,059,241	19	Hwaseong	Gyeonggi	608,725
	10	Goyang	Gyeonggi	990,073	20	Anyang	Gyeonggi	585,177

Sweden

Urban areas in Sweden (tätorter) are statistically defined localities, totally independent of the administrative subdivision of the country. There are 1,956 such localities in Sweden, with a population ranging from 200 to 1,372,000 inhabitants.^[67]

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	Rank	Name	County	Pop.	Metro.	Rank	Name	County	Pop.	Metro.
Stockholm Gothenburg	1	Stockholm	Stockholm	952,058	2,205,105	11	Umeå	Västerbotten	125,434	137,800	Malmö Uppsala
	2	Gothenburg	Västra Götaland	565,496	1,015,974	12	Lund	Skåne	121,893	197,300
	3	Malmö	Skåne	334,987	689,206	13	Borås	Västra Götaland	111,354	151,300
	4	Uppsala	Uppsala	221,141	257,200	14	Huddinge	Stockholm	110,335	136,000
	5	Linköping	Östergötland	158,953	189,800	15	Eskilstuna	Södermanland	105,014	110,900
	6	Örebro	Örebro	150,949	196,700	16	Nacka	Stockholm	101,697	114,800
	7	Västerås	Västmanland	150,564	169,200	17	Gävle	Gävleborg	100,825	107,500
	8	Helsingborg	Skåne	143,671	321,500	18	Halmstad	Halland	99,932	119,300
	9	Norrköping	Östergötland	140,991	149,600	19	Sundsvall	Västernorrland	98,837	115,300
	10	Jönköping	Jönköping	137,863	156,700	20	Södertälje	Stockholm	96,254	158,300

Taiwan

The figures below are the 2011 estimates for the twenty largest urban populations within administrative city limits; a different ranking exists when considering the total metropolitan area populations (in such rankings the Taipei-Keelung metro area is by far the largest agglomeration).

v t e Largest administrative divisions in Taiwan source
	Rank	Name	Division	Pop.
New Taipei Taichung	1	New Taipei	New Taipei City	3,979,208	Kaohsiung Taipei
	2	Taichung	Taichung City	2,778,182
	3	Kaohsiung	Kaohsiung City	2,777,873
	4	Taipei	Taipei City	2,687,629
	5	Taoyuan	Taoyuan City	2,171,127
	6	Tainan	Tainan City	1,886,267
	7	Hsinchu	Hsinchu City	439,435
	8	Keelung	Keelung City	371,853
	9	Chiayi	Chiayi City	269,608
	10	Changhua	Changhua County	234,053

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics has produced census results from urban areas since 1951, since 1981 based upon the extent of irreversible urban development indicated on Ordnance Survey maps. The definition is an extent of at least 20 ha and at least 1,500 census residents. Separate areas are linked if less than 200 m (220 yd) apart. Included are transportation features.^[68] The UK has five Urban Areas with a population over a million and a further sixty nine with a population over one hundred thousand.

v t e Largest urban areas of the United Kingdom (England and Wales: 2011 census built-up area;[69] Scotland: 2012 estimates urban area;[70] Northern Ireland: 2001 census urban area)[71]
	Rank	Urban area	Pop.	Principal settlement	Rank	Urban area	Pop.	Principal settlement
Greater London Urban Area Greater Manchester Urban Area	1	Greater London Urban Area	9,787,426	London	11	Bristol Urban Area	617,280	Bristol	West Midlands Urban Area West Yorkshire Urban Area
	2	Greater Manchester Urban Area	2,553,379	Manchester	12	Leicester Urban Area	508,916	Leicester
	3	West Midlands Urban Area	2,440,986	Birmingham	13	Edinburgh Urban Area	488,610	Edinburgh
	4	West Yorkshire Urban Area	1,777,934	Leeds	14	Belfast Urban Area	483,418	Belfast
	5	Greater Glasgow	1,199,629	Glasgow	15	Brighton and Hove built-up area	474,485	Brighton
	6	Liverpool Urban Area	864,122	Liverpool	16	South East Dorset conurbation	466,266	Bournemouth
	7	South Hampshire	855,569	Southampton	17	Cardiff Urban Area	390,214	Cardiff
	8	Tyneside	774,891	Newcastle	18	Teesside	376,633	Middlesbrough
	9	Nottingham Urban Area	729,977	Nottingham	19	The Potteries Urban Area	372,775	Stoke-on-Trent
	10	Sheffield Urban Area	685,368	Sheffield	20	Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area	359,262	Coventry

United States

In the United States, there are two categories of urban area. The term urbanized area denotes an urban area of 50,000 or more people. Urban areas under 50,000 people are called urban clusters. Urbanized areas were first delineated in the United States in the 1950 census, while urban clusters were added in the 2000 census. There are 1,371 urban areas and urban clusters with more than 10,000 people.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines an urban area as "core census block groups or blocks that have a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile (386 per square kilometer) and surrounding census blocks that have an overall density of at least 500 people per square mile (193 per square kilometer)".^[72]

The largest urban area in the United States is the New York metropolitan area. The population of New York City, the core of the metropolitan area, exceeds 8.5 million people, its metropolitan statistical area has a population that is over 20 million, and its combined statistical area population is over 23 million. The next six largest urban areas in the U.S. are Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Houston.^[73] About 82 percent of the population of the United States lives within the boundaries of an urbanized area as of December, 2010.^[74] Combined, these areas occupy about 2 percent of the land area of the United States. Many Americans live in agglomerations of cities, suburbs, and towns that are adjacent to a metropolitan area's largest city.^{[citation needed]}

The skyscrapers of New York City, the most populous city in the United States and the most populous U.S. metropolitan area, are almost all situated in Manhattan, the world's largest central business district, seen here in this panorama in February 2018, as viewed from Weehawken, New Jersey.

1. Riverside Church


2. Time Warner Center


3. 220 Central Park South


4. Central Park Tower


5. One57


6. 432 Park Avenue


7. 53W53


8. Chrysler Building


9. Bank of America Tower


10. Conde Nast Building


11. The New York Times Building


12. Empire State Building


13. Manhattan West


14. a: 55 Hudson Yards, b: 35 Hudson Yards, c: 10 Hudson Yards, d: 15 Hudson Yards
    


15. 56 Leonard Street


16. 8 Spruce Street


17. Woolworth Building


18. 70 Pine Street


19. 30 Park Place


20. Trump Building


21. Three World Trade Center


22. Four World Trade Center


23. One World Trade Center

The concept of Urbanized Areas as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau is often used as a more accurate gauge of the size of a city, since in different cities and states the lines between city borders and the urbanized area of that city are often not the same. For example, the city of Greenville, South Carolina has a city population just over 64,000 and an urbanized area population of over 400,000, while Greensboro, North Carolina has a city population just over 285,000 and an urbanized area population of around 310,000 — meaning that Greenville is actually "larger" for some intents and purposes, but not for others, such as taxation, local elections, etc.

In the U.S. Department of Agriculture's natural resources inventory, urban areas are officially known as developed areas or urban and built-up areas. Such areas include cities, ethnic villages, other built-up areas of more than 10 ac (4 ha), industrial sites, railroad yards, cemeteries, airports, golf courses, shooting ranges, institutional and public administration sites, and similar areas. The 1997 national resources inventory placed over 98,000,000 ac (40,000,000 ha) in this category, an increase of 25,000,000 ac (10,000,000 ha) since 1982.^[75]

Leading population centers (see complete list)					view talk edit
Rank	Core city (cities)	Metro area population	Metropolitan Statistical Area	Region[76]	New York City Los Angeles Chicago Dallas
1	New York City	20,320,876	New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA MSA	Northeast
2	Los Angeles	13,353,907	Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA	West
3	Chicago	9,533,040	Chicago–Joliet–Naperville, IL–IN–WI MSA	Midwest
4	Dallas–Fort Worth	7,399,662	Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX MSA	South
5	Houston	6,892,427	Houston–The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA	South
6	Washington, D.C.	6,216,589	Washington, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA	South
7	Miami	6,158,824	Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach, FL MSA	South
8	Philadelphia	6,096,120	Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD MSA	Northeast
9	Atlanta	5,884,736	Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell, GA MSA	South
10	Boston	4,836,531	Boston–Cambridge–Quincy, MA–NH MSA	Northeast
11	Phoenix	4,737,270	Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ MSA	West
12	San Francisco	4,727,357	San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont, CA MSA	West
13	Riverside–San Bernardino	4,580,670	Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA MSA	West
14	Detroit	4,313,002	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI MSA	Midwest
15	Seattle	3,867,046	Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA MSA	West
16	Minneapolis–St. Paul	3,600,618	Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington, MN–WI MSA	Midwest
17	San Diego	3,337,685	San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos, CA MSA	West
18	Tampa–St. Petersburg	3,091,399	Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater, FL MSA	South
19	Denver	2,888,227	Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO MSA	West
20	Baltimore	2,808,175	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD MSA	South
Based on 2017 MSA population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau[77]

Vietnam

In Vietnam, there are 6 types of urban areas:

• Special urban area (2 municipalities): Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.


• Type I urban area (12 provincial cities and 3 municipalities): Thanh Hóa, Hạ Long, Việt Trì, Thái Nguyên, Nam Định, Vũng Tàu, Buôn Ma Thuột, Đà Lạt, Quy Nhơn, Nha Trang, Huế, Vinh, Cần Thơ, Đà Nẵng and Hải Phòng.


• Type II urban area (21 provincial cities and 1 district): Đồng Hới, Uông Bí, Bắc Giang, Bắc Ninh, Ninh Bình, Bạc Liêu, Bà Rịa, Thái Bình, Rạch Giá, Cà Mau, Long Xuyên, Mỹ Tho, Phan Rang - Tháp Chàm, Tuy Hòa, Phan Thiết, Pleiku, Thủ Dầu Một, Biên Hòa, Hải Dương, Vĩnh Yên, Lào Cai and Phú Quốc.


• Type III urban area (31 provincial cities and 12 towns).


• Type IV urban area (35 towns and 35 townships).


• Type V urban area (586 townships and 54 communes).

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