The CIA World Factbook Edition 2014 People and Society

Major urban areas - population In 15 editions of 36.

Major urban areas - population was published in 15 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2011 to 2025. The 2014 edition carries it in 210 entries, in its People and Society section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

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Africa

56 entries

Algeria

  • ALGIERS (capital) 2.916 million; Oran 783,000 (2011)

Angola

  • LUANDA (capital) 5.068 million; Huambo 1.098 million (2011)

Benin

  • COTONOU (seat of government) 924,000; PORTO-NOVO (capital) 314,000 (2011)

Botswana

  • GABORONE (capital) 202,000 (2011)

Burkina Faso

  • OUAGADOUGOU (capital) 2.053 million (2011)

Burundi

  • BUJUMBURA (capital) 605,000 (2011)

Cabo Verde

  • PRAIA (capital) 132,000 (2011)

Cameroon

  • Douala 2.449 million; YAOUNDE (capital) 2.432 million (2011)

Central African Republic

  • BANGUI (capital) 740,000 (2011)

Chad

  • N'DJAMENA (capital) 1.079 million (2011)

Comoros

  • MORONI (capital) 54,000 (2011)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • KINSHASA (capital) 8.798 million;
  • Lubumbashi 1.556 million;
  • Mbuji-Mayi 1.504 million;
  • Kananga 888,000;
  • Kisangani 820,000 (2011)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

  • BRAZZAVILLE (capital) 1.611 million; Pointe-Noire 834,000 (2011)

Cote d'Ivoire

ABIDJAN (seat of government) 4.288 million; YAMOUSSOUKRO (capital) 966,000 (2011)

Djibouti

  • DJIBOUTI (capital) 496,000 (2011)

Egypt

  • CAIRO (capital) 11.169 million; Alexandria 4.494 million (2011)

Equatorial Guinea

  • MALABO (capital) 137,000 (2011)

Eritrea

  • ASMARA (capital) 712,000 (2011)

Swaziland now Eswatini

  • MBABANE (capital) 66,000 (2011)

Ethiopia

  • ADDIS ABABA (capital) 2.979 million (2011)

Gabon

  • LIBREVILLE (capital) 686,000 (2011)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

  • BANJUL (capital) 506,000 (2011)

Ghana

  • ACCRA (capital) 2.573 million; Kumasi 2.019 million (2011)

Guinea

  • CONAKRY (capital) 1.786 million (2011)

Guinea-Bissau

  • BISSAU (capital) 423,000 (2011)

Kenya

  • NAIROBI (capital) 3.363 million; Mombassa 972,000 (2011)

Lesotho

  • MASERU (capital) 239,000 (2011)

Liberia

  • MONROVIA (capital) 750,000 (2011)

Libya

  • TRIPOLI (capital) 1.127 million (2011)

Madagascar

  • ANTANANARIVO (capital) 1.987 million (2011)

Malawi

  • LILONGWE (capital) 772,000 (2011)

Mali

  • BAMAKO (capital) 2.037 million (2011)

Mauritania

  • NOUAKCHOTT (capital) 786,000 (2011)

Mauritius

  • PORT LOUIS (capital) 151,000 (2011)

Morocco

  • Casablanca 3.046 million;
  • RABAT (capital) 1.843 million;
  • Fes 1.088 million;
  • Marrakech 939,000;
  • Tangier 810,000;
  • Agadir 805,000 (2011)

Mozambique

  • MAPUTO (capital) 1.15 million; Matola 790,000 (2011)

Namibia

  • WINDHOEK (capital) 380,000 (2011)

Niger

  • NIAMEY (capital) 1.297 million (2011)

Nigeria

  • Lagos 11.223 million;
  • Kano 3.375 million;
  • Ibadan 2.949 million;
  • ABUJA (capital) 2.153 million;
  • Port Harcourt 1.894 million;
  • Kaduna 1.524 million (2011)

Rwanda

  • KIGALI (capital) 1.004 million (2011)

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

  • JAMESTOWN (capital) 1,000 (2011)

Sao Tome and Principe

  • SAO TOME (capital) 64,000 (2011)

Senegal

  • DAKAR (capital) 3.035 million (2011)

Seychelles

  • VICTORIA (capital) 27,000 (2011)

Sierra Leone

  • FREETOWN (capital) 941,000 (2011)

Somalia

  • MOGADISHU (capital) 1.554 million (2011)

South Africa

  • Johannesburg 3.844 million;
  • Cape Town (legislative capital) 3.562 million;
  • Ekurhuleni (East Rand) 3.357 million;
  • Durban 3.012 million;
  • PRETORIA (capital) 1.501 million;
  • Vereeniging 1.2 million;
  • Bloemfontein (judicial capital) 468,000 (2011)

South Sudan

  • JUBA (capital) 269,000 (2011)

Sudan

  • KHARTOUM (capital) 4.632 million (2011)

Tanzania

  • DAR ES SALAAM (capital) 3.588 million (2011)

Togo

  • LOME (capital) 1.524 million (2011)

Tunisia

  • TUNIS (capital) 790,000 (2011)

Uganda

  • KAMPALA (capital) 1.659 million (2011)

Western Sahara

  • Laayoune 237,000 (2011)

Zambia

  • LUSAKA (capital) 1.802 million (2011)

Zimbabwe

  • HARARE (capital) 1.542 million (2011)

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

  • NUUK (capital) 16,000 (2011)

Iceland

  • REYKJAVIK (capital) 206,000 (2011)

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

  • KABUL (capital) 3.097 million (2011)

Armenia

  • YEREVAN (capital) 1.116 million (2011)

Azerbaijan

  • BAKU (capital) 2.123 million (2011)

Bangladesh

  • DHAKA (capital) 15.391 million;
  • Chittagong 5.239 million;
  • Khulna 1.781 million;
  • Rajshahi 932,000 (2011)

Bhutan

  • THIMPHU (capital) 99,000 (2011)

China

  • Shanghai 20.208 million;
  • BEIJING (capital) 15.594 million;
  • Guangzhou 10.849 million;
  • Shenzhen 10.63 million;
  • Chongqing 9.977 million;
  • Wuhan 9.158 million (2011)

Georgia

  • TBILISI (capital) 1.121 million (2011)

India

  • NEW DELHI (capital) 22.654 million;
  • Mumbai 19.744 million;
  • Kolkata 14.402 million;
  • Chennai 8.784 million;
  • Bangalore 8.614 million;
  • Hyderabad 7.837 million (2011)

Japan

  • TOKYO (capital) 37.217 million;
  • Osaka-Kobe 11.494 million;
  • Nagoya 3.328 million;
  • Fukuoka-Kitakyushu 2.868 million;
  • Sapporo 2.742 million;
  • Sendai 2.428 million (2011)

Kazakhstan

  • Almaty 1.426 million; ASTANA (capital) 664,000 (2011)

Korea, North now North Korea

  • PYONGYANG (capital) 2.843 million (2011)

Korea, South now South Korea

  • SEOUL (capital) 9.736 million;
  • Busan (Pusan) 3.372 million;
  • Incheon (Inch'on) 2.622 million;
  • Daegu (Taegu) 2.447 million;
  • Daejon (Taejon) 1.538 million;
  • Gwangju (Kwangju) 1.503 million (2011)

Kyrgyzstan

  • BISHKEK (capital) 839,000 (2011)

Maldives

  • MALE (capital) 132,000 (2011)

Mongolia

  • ULAANBAATAR (capital) 1.184 million (2011)

Nepal

  • KATHMANDU (capital) 1.015 million (2011)

Pakistan

  • Karachi 13.876 million;
  • Lahore 7.566 million;
  • Faisalabad 3.038 million;
  • Rawalpindi 2.164 million;
  • Multan 1.775 million;
  • ISLAMABAD (capital) 919,000 (2011)

Russia

  • MOSCOW (capital) 11.621 million;
  • Saint Petersburg 4.866 million;
  • Novosibirsk 1.478 million;
  • Yekaterinburg 1.355 million;
  • Nizhniy Novgorod 1.245 million;
  • Samara 1.166 million (2011)

Sri Lanka

COLOMBO (capital) 693,000; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative capital) 126,000 (2011)

Tajikistan

  • DUSHANBE (capital) 739,000 (2011)

Turkmenistan

  • ASHGABAT (capital) 683,000 (2011)

Uzbekistan

  • TASHKENT (capital) 2.227 million (2011)

Central America and the Caribbean

27 entries

Anguilla

  • THE VALLEY (capital) 2,000 (2011)

Antigua and Barbuda

  • SAINT JOHN'S (capital) 27,000 (2011)

Aruba

  • ORANJESTAD (capital) 37,000 (2011)

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

  • NASSAU (capital) 254,000 (2011)

Barbados

  • BRIDGETOWN (capital) 122,000 (2011)

Belize

  • BELMOPAN (capital) 14,000 (2011)

British Virgin Islands

  • ROAD TOWN (capital) 10,000 (2011)

Cayman Islands

  • GEORGE TOWN (capital) 28,000 (2011)

Costa Rica

  • SAN JOSE (capital) 1.515 million (2011)

Cuba

  • HAVANA (capital) 2.116 million (2011)

Dominica

  • ROSEAU (capital) 14,000 (2011)

Dominican Republic

  • SANTO DOMINGO (capital) 2.191 million (2011)

El Salvador

  • SAN SALVADOR (capital) 1.605 million (2011)

Grenada

  • SAINT GEORGE'S (capital) 41,000 (2011)

Guatemala

  • GUATEMALA CITY (capital) 1.168 million (2011)

Haiti

  • PORT-AU-PRINCE (capital) 2.207 million (2011)

Honduras

  • TEGUCIGALPA (capital) 1.088 million (2011)

Jamaica

  • KINGSTON (capital) 571,000 (2011)

Nicaragua

  • MANAGUA (capital) 970,000 (2011)

Panama

  • PANAMA CITY (capital) 1.426 million (2011)

Puerto Rico

  • SAN JUAN (capital) 2.475 million (2011)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • BASSETERRE (capital) 12,000 (2011)

Saint Lucia

  • CASTRIES (capital) 21,000 (2011)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  • KINGSTOWN (capital) 31,000 (2011)

Trinidad and Tobago

  • PORT-OF-SPAIN (capital) 66,000 (2011)

Turks and Caicos Islands

  • GRAND TURK (capital) 7,000 (2011)

Virgin Islands

  • CHARLOTTE AMALIE (capital) 60,000 (2011)

Europe

41 entries

Albania

  • TIRANA (capital) 419,000 (2011)

Andorra

  • ANDORRA LA VELLA (capital) 23,000 (2011)

Austria

  • VIENNA (capital) 1.72 million (2011)

Belarus

  • MINSK (capital) 1.861 million (2011)

Belgium

  • BRUSSELS (capital) 1.949 million; Antwerp 959,000 (2011)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • SARAJEVO (capital) 389,000 (2011)

Bulgaria

  • SOFIA (capital) 1.174 million (2011)

Croatia

  • ZAGREB (capital) 686,000 (2011)

Czech Republic now Czechia

  • PRAGUE (capital) 1.276 million (2011)

Denmark

  • COPENHAGEN (capital) 1.206 million (2011)

Estonia

  • TALLINN (capital) 400,000 (2011)

Faroe Islands

  • TORSHAVN (capital) 20,000 (2011)

Finland

  • HELSINKI (capital) 1.134 million (2011)

France

  • PARIS (capital) 10.62 million;
  • Marseille-Aix-en-Provence 14,890,100;
  • Lyon 1.488 million;
  • Lille 1.042 million;
  • Nice-Cannes 991,000;
  • Toulouse 933,000 (2011)

Germany

  • BERLIN (capital) 3.462 million;
  • Hamburg 1.796 million;
  • Munich 1.364 million;
  • Cologne 1.006 million (2011)

Greece

  • ATHENS (capital) 3.414 million; Thessaloniki 883,000 (2011)

Hungary

  • BUDAPEST (capital) 1.737 million (2011)

Ireland

  • DUBLIN (capital) 1.121 million (2011)

Isle of Man

  • DOUGLAS (capital) 27,000 (2011)

Italy

  • ROME (capital) 3.298 million;
  • Milan 2.909 million;
  • Naples 2.373 million;
  • Turin 1.613 million;
  • Palermo 915,000;
  • Bergamo 784,000 (2011)

Latvia

  • RIGA (capital) 701,000 (2011)

Liechtenstein

  • VADUZ (capital) 5,000 (2011)

Lithuania

  • VILNIUS (capital) 546,000 (2011)

Luxembourg

  • LUXEMBOURG (capital) 94,000 (2011)

Malta

  • VALLETTA (capital) 198,000 (2011)

Moldova

  • CHISINAU (capital) 677,000 (2011)

Montenegro

  • PODGORICA (capital) 156,000 (2011)

Netherlands

  • AMSTERDAM (capital) 1.056 million;
  • Rotterdam 1.014 million;
  • The Hague (seat of government) 635,000 (2011)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

  • SKOPJE (capital) 499,000 (2011)

Norway

  • OSLO (capital) 915,000 (2011)

Poland

  • WARSAW (capital) 1.723 million; Krakow 756,000 (2011)

Portugal

  • LISBON (capital) 2.843 million; Porto 1.367 million (2011)

Romania

  • BUCHAREST (capital) 1.937 million (2011)

Serbia

  • BELGRADE (capital) 1.135 million (2011)

Slovakia

  • BRATISLAVA (capital) 434,000 (2011)

Slovenia

  • LJUBLJANA (capital) 273,000 (2011)

Spain

  • MADRID (capital) 6.574 million; Barcelona 5.57 million; Valencia 797,000 (2011)

Sweden

  • STOCKHOLM (capital) 1.385 million (2011)

Switzerland

  • Zurich 1.194 million; BERN (capital) 353,000 (2011)

Ukraine

  • KYIV (capital) 2.829 million;
  • Kharkiv 1.451 million;
  • Dnipropetrovsk 994,000;
  • Odesa 1.01 million;
  • Donetsk 959,000;
  • Zaporizhzhya 771,000 (2011)

United Kingdom

  • LONDON (capital) 9.005 million;
  • Birmingham 2.272 million;
  • Manchester 2.213 million;
  • West Yorkshire 1.625 million;
  • Glasgow 1.137 million;
  • Newcastle upon Tyne 874,000 (2011)

Middle East

15 entries

Bahrain

  • MANAMA (capital) 262,000 (2011)

Cyprus

  • NICOSIA (capital) 253,000 (2011)

Iran

  • TEHRAN (capital) 7.304 million;
  • Mashhad 2.713 million;
  • Esfahan 1.781 million;
  • Karaj 1.635 million;
  • Tabriz 1.509 million;
  • Shiraz 1.321 million (2011)

Iraq

  • BAGHDAD (capital) 6.036 million;
  • Mosul 1.494 million;
  • Erbil 1.039 million;
  • Basra 942,000;
  • As Sulaymaniyah 867,000;
  • Najaf 779,000 (2011)

Israel

  • Tel Aviv-Yafo 3.381 million;
  • Haifa 1.054 million;
  • JERUSALEM (capital) 791,000 (2009)

Jordan

  • AMMAN (capital) 1.179 million (2011)

Kuwait

  • KUWAIT (capital) 2.406 million (2011)

Lebanon

  • BEIRUT (capital) 2.022 million (2011)

Oman

  • MUSCAT (capital) 743,000 (2011)

Qatar

  • DOHA (capital) 567,000 (2011)

Saudi Arabia

  • RIYADH (capital) 5.451 million;
  • Jeddah 3.578 million;
  • Mecca 1.591 million;
  • Medina 1.142 million;
  • Ad Dammam 941,000 (2011)

Syria

  • Aleppo 3.164 million;
  • DAMASCUS (capital) 2.65 million;
  • Hims 1.369 million;
  • Hamah 933,000 (2011)

Turkey now Turkiye

  • Istanbul 11.253 million;
  • ANKARA (capital) 4.194 million;
  • Izmir 2.927 million;
  • Bursa 1.713 million;
  • Adana 1.468 million;
  • Gaziantep 1.198 million (2011)

United Arab Emirates

  • ABU DHABI (capital) 942,000; Dubai 1.978 million; Sharjah 983,000 (2011)

Yemen

  • SANAA (capital) 2.419 million; Aden 784,000 (2011)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

  • HAMILTON (capital) 11,000 (2011)

Canada

  • Toronto 5.573 million;
  • Montreal 3.856 million;
  • Vancouver 2.267 million;
  • Calgary 1.216 million;
  • OTTAWA (capital) 1.208 million;
  • Edmonton 1.142 million (2011)

Mexico

  • MEXICO CITY (capital) 20.446 million;
  • Guadalajara 4.525 million;
  • Monterrey 4.213 million;
  • Puebla 2.335 million;
  • Tijuana 1.82 million;
  • Toluca de Lerdo 1.748 million (2011)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  • SAINT-PIERRE (capital) 5,000 (2011)

United States

  • New York-Newark 20.352 million;
  • Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana 13.395 million;
  • Chicago 9.676 million;
  • Miami 6.061 million;
  • Philadelphia 5.927 million;
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) 4.705 million (2011)

Oceania

19 entries

American Samoa

  • PAGO PAGO (capital) 64,000 (2011)

Australia

  • Sydney 4.543 million;
  • Melbourne 3.961 million;
  • Brisbane 2.039 million;
  • Perth 1.649 million;
  • Adelaide 1.198 million;
  • CANBERRA (capital) 399,000 (2011)

Fiji

  • SUVA (capital) 177,000 (2011)

French Polynesia

  • PAPEETE (capital) 137,000 (2011)

Guam

  • HAGATNA (capital) 169,000 (2011)

Kiribati

  • TARAWA (capital) 44,000 (2011)

Marshall Islands

  • MAJURO (capital) 31,000 (2011)

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

  • PALIKIR (capital) 7,000 (2011)

New Caledonia

  • NOUMEA (capital) 157,000 (2011)

New Zealand

  • Auckland 1.452 million; WELLINGTON (capital) 410,000 (2011)

Northern Mariana Islands

  • SAIPAN (capital) 56,000 (2011)

Palau

  • MELEKEOK (capital) 1,000 (2011)

Papua New Guinea

  • PORT MORESBY (capital) 343,000 (2011)

Samoa

  • APIA (capital) 37,000 (2011)

Solomon Islands

  • HONIARA (capital) 68,000 (2011)

Tonga

  • NUKU'ALOFA 25,000 (2011)

Tuvalu

  • FUNAFUTI (capital) 5,000 (2011)

Vanuatu

  • PORT-VILA (capital) 47,000 (2011)

Wallis and Futuna

  • MATA-UTU (capital) 1,000 (2011)

South America

13 entries

Argentina

  • BUENOS AIRES (capital) 13.528 million;
  • Cordoba 1.556 million;
  • Rosario 1.283 million;
  • Mendoza 957,000;
  • San Miguel de Tucuman 868,000;
  • La Plata 759,000 (2011)

Bolivia

  • Santa Cruz 1.719 million;
  • LA PAZ (capital) 1.715 million;
  • Sucre (constitutional capital) 307,000 (2011)

Brazil

  • Sao Paulo 19.924 million;
  • Rio de Janeiro 11.96 million;
  • Belo Horizonte 5.487 million;
  • Porto Alegre 3.933 million;
  • Recife 3.733 million;
  • BRASILIA (capital) 3.813 million (2011)

Chile

  • SANTIAGO (capital) 6.034 million; Valparaiso 883,000; Concepcion 770,000 (2011)

Colombia

  • BOGOTA (capital) 8.743 million;
  • Medellin 3.694 million;
  • Cali 2.453 million;
  • Barranquilla 1.9 million;
  • Bucaramanga 1.12 million;
  • Cartagena 988,000 (2011)

Ecuador

  • Guayaquil 2.287 million; QUITO (capital) 1.622 million (2011)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

  • STANLEY (capital) 2,000 (2011)

Guyana

  • GEORGETOWN (capital) 127,000 (2011)

Paraguay

  • ASUNCION (capital) 2.139 million (2011)

Peru

  • LIMA (capital) 9.13 million; Arequipa 804,000 (2011)

Suriname

  • PARAMARIBO (capital) 278,000 (2011)

Uruguay

  • MONTEVIDEO (capital) 1.672 million (2011)

Venezuela

  • CARACAS (capital) 3.242 million;
  • Maracaibo 2.31 million;
  • Valencia 1.866 million;
  • Barquisimeto 1.245 million;
  • Maracay 1.115 million;
  • Ciudad Guayana 799,000 (2011)

Southeast Asia

10 entries

Brunei

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (capital) 241,000

note: the boundaries of the capital city were expanded in 2007, greatly increasing the city area; the population of the capital increased tenfold (2011)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

  • RANGOON (capital) 4.457 million;
  • Mandalay 1.063 million;
  • Nay Pyi Taw 1.06 million (2011)

Cambodia

  • PHNOM PENH (capital) 1.55 million (2011)

Indonesia

  • JAKARTA (capital) 9.769 million;
  • Surabaya 2.787 million;
  • Bandung 2.429 million;
  • Medan 2.118 million;
  • Semarang 1.573 million;
  • Palembang 1.455 million (2011)

Laos

  • VIENTIANE (capital) 810,000 (2011)

Malaysia

  • KUALA LUMPUR (capital) 1.556 million;
  • Klang 1.19 million;
  • Johor Bahru 1.045 million (2011)

Philippines

  • MANILA (capital) 11.862 million;
  • Davao 1.565 million;
  • Cebu City 855,000;
  • Zamboanga 884,000 (2011)

Thailand

  • BANGKOK (capital) 8.426 million; Samut Prakan 1.212 million (2011)

Timor-Leste

  • DILI (capital) 180,000 (2011)

Vietnam

  • Ho Chi Minh City 6.405 million;
  • HANOI (capital) 2.955 million;
  • Haiphong 925,000;
  • Da Nang 834,000 (2011)

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2014, “Major urban areas - population”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/major-urban-areas-population/2014.

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