It is perhaps unsurprising that the majority of the most populous cities in the world are in the two most populated countries in the world, China and India. Among these are Shanghai and Beijing, with populations of 25 and 22 million respectively, Delhi (27 million), and Mumbai (over 21.5 million).
However, Tokyo is the largest city in the world if the entire Tokyo metro area is included, with a total of more than 38 million residents. Another Japanese city, Osaka, also has a very large population of almost 20.5 million.
Source: United Nations - World Urbanization Prospects
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PeterIm confused. In the dataset you note Tokyo’s metro area is 38M. However, New York is listed at 8.5M - which is the city population. We cant be using metro areas for some places and offical city populations for others.
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